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Brybry commented on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent ssp.sh/blog/macbook-to-ar... · Posted by u/articsputnik

goyagoji · 4 days ago

I'm not really sure that's remarkable, maybe compared to the netbook level machines. Now that HDs are gone the only cause of failure I see from my coworkers is extended vacations and remote work in tropical climates.

Brybry · 3 days ago

I threw a 15" Dell laptop from the early aughts into a wall (for reasons I am not proud of), hard enough to put a hole in the sheet rock, and the laptop still worked fine.

Cracked the plastic case a bit but that was it. The most amazing part to me was not the HDD surviving but the LCD backlight. This back was when they still used those super fragile thin CCFLs.

Brybry commented on XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites github.com/whatwg/html/is... · Posted by u/colejohnson66

otterley · 5 days ago

The response says that for every provided XML document URL, there is an existing equivalent HTML document URL that accomplishes the same outcome for the end user and that is strongly emphasized by the site's UX. The fact that humans rarely access the XML documents via common browsers is also evident from the available usage metrics.

The question of abstract efficiency via reuse is academic. If the XML documents were the ones that users accessed most of the time, or were the only documents available, that might change the analysis. But that isn't the case.

Brybry · 4 days ago

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617 isn't really a comparable link to https://www.congress.gov/117/bills/hr3617/BILLS-117hr3617ih....

But I think that was maybe just a mistake? Maybe he meant https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3617...

Brybry commented on SK hynix dethrones Samsung as world’s top DRAM maker koreajoongangdaily.joins.... · Posted by u/ksec

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 · 6 days ago

Thanks, 35.15% on 32GB as well, getting there

Brybry · 6 days ago

I believe most consumer CPUs only have 2 memory channels w/ 1 memory controller so unless they're using 64GB UDIMMs (which I believe do exist as of this year) then gamers seem limited to 64GB total ram (2x32GB) unless they want to drop their ram frequency.

For example a 9950x3d officially supports 2 sticks at DDR5-5600 but 4 sticks at only DDR5-3600. [1]

I had a friend run into this issue on AM5 when he was trying to use 4x32GB DDR5 on his gaming PC.

[1] https://www.amd.com/en/products/processors/desktops/ryzen/90...

Brybry commented on Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook marinecorpstimes.com/news... · Posted by u/Gaishan

echoangle · 21 days ago

I don’t know how you would actually defend but there is probably some selection bias too. The videos are published by the drone operators, they probably have an interest in publishing videos of successful strikes.

Brybry · 21 days ago

Small arms fire can take out small drones.

I believe both Russia and Ukraine train some soldiers via shooting target/dummy drones and skeet.[1]

And there are videos out there of Ukrainians and Russians successfully shooting down fpv drones. [2][3][4]

(Content warning: war videos but there shouldn't be any gore in them)

[1] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1948675201983553864

[2] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1920365175766483080

[3] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1936508342622437560

[4] https://xcancel.com/RALee85/status/1923488508015956341

Brybry commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian

thinkingtoilet · a month ago

We require people to verify their age in person to access pornography, it doesn't seem like that far a stretch to require it online. You can't even by a ticket to an R-rated movie without age verification. That seems reasonable to me. I see I'm in the minority here. I understand the slippery slope argument but if we succumb to that then nothing could be done anywhere ever. I understand this could be abused, but it's up to us to make sure it isn't. I think that's why people don't like it, it requires diligence and effort to keep things sane. Much easier to just allow children to view content they absolutely shouldn't then be politically active and make sure our laws are sensible and our representatives are held accountable.

Brybry · a month ago

These laws aren't just about porn sites though. They affect sites like Wikipedia. [1]

You don't need to verify your age to enter a bookstore or a library.

And if you really want to control who can access porn then the only way to do that is with a whitelist filter on the device being used. These laws are onerous without being effective.

I do think a standardized requirement for commercial websites to have content rating meta tags (like the existing content=adult and content=RTA-5042-1996-1400-1577-RTA) would be a good thing though, just to make more lenient filtering easier.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65388255

Brybry commented on AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair victorwynne.com/airpods-s... · Posted by u/victorwynne

kfarr · a month ago

I don't agree at all. I love the product but I have to buy a new pair of airpods every few years very consistently. It's either battery capacity loss, or crackling audio issues, or both to the point of not being usable. The Apple Genius always comes up with a story like "well it's out of warranty and the cost of repair is about the same as just buying new ones so you make the call dear customer."

Brybry · a month ago

It'll be interesting to see how the EU Battery regulation that requires user-replaceable batteries impacts this when it comes into force in 2027. [1][2]

[1] https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-law-more-sustainab...

[2] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/1542/oj#:~:text=Artic...

Brybry commented on Mistral Releases Deep Research, Voice, Projects in Le Chat mistral.ai/news/le-chat-d... · Posted by u/pember

ChuckMcM · a month ago

This is gonna kill Craigslist :-). You see these pictures of a really nice car and get there and find it has a crushed left fender, rust holes in the hood and a broken headlight.

We had a realtor list a property in our area and they had used generative AI to "re-imagine" the property because the original owner who had bought it in 1950 and died in it in 2023 had done zero maintenance and upgrades. People who showed up to see it were really super pissed. The realtor argued this was just the next step after staging, but it certainly didn't work here. They took it off the market and a bunch of people showed up to fix it up (presumably from the family but one never knows).

Brybry · a month ago

Would lying really lead to more used car sales and thus cause pressure for other to attempt this kind of fraud? And wouldn't people get in trouble for fraud (or at least false advertising?)

When I last bought a used car I found it in a classified newspaper ad: there was no picture.

I looked at every car I considered in-person.

When I found one I liked I paid for an independent pre-purchase inspection, discovered a crack in the radiator, and negotiated the price down to cover my post-sale expense fixing it.

Brybry commented on OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D kbkg.com/feature/house-pa... · Posted by u/tareqak

beebmam · 2 months ago

Extra $250 fee for visa applications: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif...

3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US: https://www.globalimmigrationblog.com/2025/06/what-are-the-i...

Also (in above source), no ACA subsidies for H-1B visa holders (and others), which likely means employers they will have to pay more for health care if they want to cover their immigrant workers

Brybry · 2 months ago

The House's[1] SEC. 112104. EXCISE TAX ON REMITTANCE TRANSFERS. 3.5% tax became 1% in the Senate's[2] SEC. 70604. EXCISE TAX ON CERTAIN REMITTANCE TRANSFERS and a lot of the language changed.

The Senate made a lot of changes (Byrd rule also nuked a lot of stuff) so old articles are of limited use to the final bill.

I don't even know if [2] is the actual final text as there is neither an enrolled or public law version on congress.gov yet.

It's super annoying how often we can't read the final text of a bill before Congress votes on it.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1/te...

Brybry commented on Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down apnews.com/article/climat... · Posted by u/geox

billfor · 2 months ago

Cold still kills at least 2x the number of people in the same region. 363,800 deaths are attributed to cold exposure.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/aug/21/heat...

Brybry · 2 months ago

Couldn't they push heat pump units that cool and heat (with a bonus of not being reliant on wood or natural gas)?

Or do the regions that matter the most get too cold for heat pumps?