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deranger

@ deranger @sh.itjust.works

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  • Apropos the American Standard

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  • I got some Kohler quiet / slow close toilet seats and they’re pretty nice. Not to be one of those hail corporate types but it has no fucked up weird ass bracket like yours do there, just a couple plastic bolts that hold it on there. The lid is fairly heavy feeing and you can’t slam it. Pretty nice for a shitter lid if you ask me. I also threw a cheap bidet on there and it’s a proper toilet now for like $40 worth of upgrades.

  • "Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.

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  • This comment made me reach semantic satiation of the word “Hitler” and it’s kinda nice. A word so associated with disgust has ceased to even register as a word in my brain.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • Yeah, that could very well be a PC. You could take the guts out, put it in a generic box, attach a monitor and peripherals, and have a Linux PC that drastically outperforms PCs of a couple decades ago, with similar functionality. Those were PCs then, why would the definition change?

    Regarding the exploit definition, yeah, that’s the good one IMO. The other one is more akin to “life hacks” or “food hacks” and I think it’s silly. Using a butter knife as a screwdriver isn’t a “tool hack.” Putting Doom on a toothbrush isn’t hacking, provided no exploits were necessary. Putting Linux on a MacBook isn’t hacking just because it lacks documentation and the Asahi devs have to figure some things out before it works.

    I would be curious to hear your definition of hacking, though. To me it seems if you’re calling Linux on Mac hacking, then there’s a million other things that are hacking and the word loses its meaning.

    If Apple locks the bootloader then I’ll completely agree with you. And while I do agree it appears they’re heading in that direction and it sucks, a MacBook is far more “computer” than a console, even if poorly documented and thus difficult to develop for.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • That’s not hacking, that’s development. They’re not bypassing locked bootloaders. If Apple pushes for making it impossible to run another operating system that’s another downgrade for sure, but you can still run whatever code you want on them, ergo, it’s a computer. It’s got a terminal, you can write and run your own code, you can download unsigned binaries, you can delete stuff and break the OS, that’s a computer.

    Try running anything on an Xbox Series S/X or PS5. Locked bootloader means you’re fucked from the start, and getting past that is hacking.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • You don’t make me mad by being wrong. You don’t have to “hack the OS” to dual boot a MacBook.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • I’m not really following your response. Steam Machine’s feature set doesn’t make the Xbox Series X/S or PlayStation 5 into computers. Yes, they’re x86, but they’re so proprietary and locked down they’re not computers in the colloquial sense.

    If the Steam Machine can dual boot Linux, which I bet it can, that’s much more a general purpose computer than either of those consoles.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • You can still dual boot operating systems. The fact Asahi isn’t complete yet doesn’t matter. If ARM Windows was worth a damn you could dual boot that too.

    They’re computers.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • Wrong. MacBooks can dual boot Linux (windows too on the Intel MacBooks), and you can download code from wherever and run it. There’s a terminal you can run commands in. If you want, you can completely fuck it up. macOS is worlds apart from iOS, and MacBooks are more a proper computer than probably even the Steam machine we’re discussing here.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • No, it isn’t, in practice. Xbox and PS5 have more in common with my iPhone than my desktop PC or NAS when it comes to being able to do what I want with it.

    It will be interesting to see how proprietary the Steam machine is. That’s how I’d end up classifying it as console or miniPC.

  • Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders

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  • What do you think the Xbox and Playstations are?

    Consoles.

    What is it that xbox and playstation customers are looking for that this small computer isn’t?

    I have a hard time even figuring out what you’re trying to ask here.

  • Is Baofeng flagrantly lying to the FCC and endangering users? A deep dive

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  • Has anyone received an RF burn from one of these HTs? I’ve never heard of it happening, personally.

  • Hulkamania is Dead: The Most Intense Two Minutes Ever Captured on Video

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  • Man, what I’d do for a ball of that good Macho Man cocaine. The cream of the crop…

  • Is it true that letting your phone charge to 100% is bad?

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  • This is what I do. I allow it to go to 100% for traveling. I don’t need 100% charge when I’m around the house or at work with access to a charger.

  • MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On

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    1. The "No Plex Shares Needed" Share

    Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media. They install MPV. They can now browse and play your media library like it's local. No Plex accounts, no streaming limits, no transcoding quality loss.

    Yeah, that’s not tenable for anyone but the nerdiest users. None of my users know what an SMB share is. They know Plex is the icon they click on to watch the movies I get them.

    I’m glad this exists but the Netflix-like experience Plex offers is key to adoption by normal people. Aside from the yt-dlp integration, it sounds like DLNA sharing via PMS or XBMC from way back.

  • Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race

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  • By the sheer amount of accumulated wealth.

  • Opinion: Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

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  • I get a prompt to allow this when I set up a new app. I don’t have to dive into control panel settings, and I’m glad they give me the option to allow or deny a specific app local network privileges. This is a good thing.

  • Opinion: Tahoe’s Terrible Icons

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  • Like by default you need to go into security settings to allow browser access to the local network. Whacky.

    Huh? I never have needed to do this.

  • What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?

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  • Easily one of my favorite appliances, up there with dishwasher and washing machine. My floors are always insanely clean because that thing drives around every day.

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    [Technology Connections] I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it [41:26]

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  • Ever since Alec posted the dishwasher video, I switched to the powder detergent and always add the pre-wash. Amazing results. I felt I’ve been lied to my whole life about dishwashers.