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Strom commented on jQuery 4 blog.jquery.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/OuterVale

troupo · 25 days ago

> Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11.

There are likely millions if not tens of millions of computers still running MSIE11. There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16

Strom · 25 days ago

> There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16

My iPhone X is stuck on iOS 16 with no way to upgrade.

However, the phone is still working well. Despite being in daily use for 8 years it still has 81% battery capacity, has never been dropped, has a great OLED screen, can record 4K@60 video. It is far more responsive than a brand new 2025 $200 Android phone from e.g. Xiaomi. It still gets security patches from Apple. The only real shortcoming compared to a modern iPhone is the low light camera performance. That and some app developers don't support iOS 16 anymore, so e.g. I can't use the ChatGPT app and have to use it via the browser, but the Gemini app works fine.

Strom commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk

hamdingers · 3 months ago

I don't understand why this is a problem for some people.

It doesn't increase the price or impact your buyer experience in any way, so why do you care? If this blog post introduced you to a product you wanted to buy, why should you have a problem with the author getting a finders fee from the seller? Just seems mean-spirited.

Strom · 3 months ago

It impacts the buyer experience.

These two statements have a very different impact:

1. I love product X and I won't get paid if you buy it too.

2. I love product X and I will get paid if you buy it too.

Money motivates people to claim they love a product or that a product is good, even if not true. It's a problem that has plagued the internet for decades.

Strom commented on Nvidia takes $1B stake in Nokia cnbc.com/2025/10/28/nvidi... · Posted by u/kjhughes

phplovesong · 3 months ago

What do you imply with "atleast its a nato country"? Its not like finland have ever been anti-west, if this was your point. Nato alone does not imply pro-west (the US/trump leadership being the prime example)

Strom · 3 months ago

It's not about being anti-west, it's about the likelyhood of being invaded.

Strom commented on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026 riksbank.se/en-gb/press-a... · Posted by u/sebiw

seanalltogether · 4 months ago

How do kids get pocket money in Sweden? I can't imagine grandparents handing over prepaid debit cards to 8 years old to go buy candy at the neighborhood store?

Strom · 4 months ago

Kids have their own debit cards with their own bank accounts. Others can transfer money to the kid's account.

Strom commented on Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP support.google.com/mail/a... · Posted by u/sumanep

comboy · 4 months ago

Does your other account not provide IMAP?

Strom · 4 months ago

The other account may provide IMAP but it won't help you because GMail only supports POP (which is now going away). GMail does NOT support IMAP for 3rd party accounts.

The GMail mobile app does support IMAP, but that is different from GMail as a service supporting it. The mobile app having IMAP support does nothing for people who use a web browser.

Strom commented on The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug github.com/Zephkek/Asus-R... · Posted by u/signa11

CrossVR · 5 months ago

This flaw only happens in Ultimate mode, when the user explicitly tells the mux to switch to the discrete GPU. This is an extra feature only users who primarily use the laptop for gaming with an external display care about.

The laptop works fine in Optimus mode even with external displays, you just lost a bit of performance and you're missing out on some display features like G-Sync. So it is highly likely that most users always use the laptop in Optimus mode. If you primarily use the laptop as a laptop you probably wouldn't even know the mux feature existed.

The problem is Asus shipping extra features in their hardware that are not properly QA tested. It looks like they only thoroughly tested the golden path.

Strom · 5 months ago

Asus doesn't even test basic features, nevermind the extra ones. I have the 2017 Zephyrus GX501, which came with a Nvidia GTX 1080 which introduced HDMI 2.0 support. The Asus Zephyrus marketing material is boasting about HDMI 2.0 capability, the manual talks about HDMI 2.0 etc. However, in reality the device is limited to HDMI 1.4 bandwidth.

The problem isn't limited to some units, there was plenty of discussion online of this issue at the time of release. [1]

Asus never recalled, fixed, or even responded to the issue. Indeed, even the marketing page [2] still talks about how you can use HDMI 2.0 to connect 4K TVs at 60Hz.

It was also an interesting showcase of laptop reviewer incompetence. All the reviews just regurgitated Asus marketing material on how it has HDMI 2.0, but apparently nobody actually tested it.

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[1] https://rog-forum.asus.com/t5/rog-zephyrus-series/gx501-zeph...

[2] https://rog.asus.com/laptops/rog-zephyrus/rog-zephyrus-gx501...

Strom commented on Speeding up Unreal Editor launch by not spawning unused tooltips larstofus.com/2025/09/02/... · Posted by u/samspenc

cheschire · 5 months ago

You mean back in the day when 30 fps at 1024x768 was the norm?

New monitors default to 60hz but folks looking to game are convinced by ads that the only reason they lost that last round was not because of the SBMM algorithm, but because the other player undoubtedly had a 240hz 4K monitor rendering the player coming around the corner a tick faster.

Competitive gaming and Twitch are what pushed the current priorities, and the hardware makers were only too happy to oblige.

Strom · 5 months ago

30 fps was not the norm, at least not with competitive games. Like Counter-Strike in 2000 on a CRT. Yes 1024x768 was common, but at 100 fps. Alternatively you would go to 800x600 to reach 120 fps.

It’s only when LCDs appeared that 60 Hz started being a thing on PCs and 60 fps followed as a consequence, because the display can’t show more anyway.

It’s true that competitive gaming has pushed the priority of performance, but this happened in the 90s already with Quake II. There’s nothing fake about it either. At the time a lot of playing happened at LANs not online. The person with the better PC got better results. Repeatedly reproduced by rotating people around on the available PCs.

Strom commented on We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own hugotunius.se/2025/08/31/... · Posted by u/K0nserv

christina97 · 5 months ago

My apartment, smack bang in the middle of Manhattan, has a single coax cable opened by Spectrum, and is the only option for me to get reliable internet connection. I have no choice but to (1) sign whatever their ToS are, (2) pay whatever they want to charge, and (3) have them do what they want with my metadata. I’ve decided it’s not the hill I want to die on, but no, I don’t have many ISPs to choose from.

Strom · 5 months ago

Doesn’t Manhattan have radio based ISPs like 5G providers? Perhaps not ideal but far from a single ISP provider.

Strom commented on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack... · Posted by u/OlympicMarmoto

foldr · 5 months ago

Reading between the lines, it sounds like he got reported for giving a lot of what might kindly be described as unsolicited advice. The guy left Meta ages ago, but he apparently still can't let this one go.

If you're in the middle of trying to write a new operating system, then it's probably not helpful to have John Carmack standing over you repeatedly telling you that you shouldn't be doing it. In this case Carmack gets the last laugh. Then again, it is easy to get the last laugh by predicting that a project will fail, given that most projects do.

Strom · 5 months ago

> unsolicited advice

He was the CTO of Oculus. Surely it is appropriate for the CTO to give advice on any big technical decisions, if not outright have veto power.

Strom commented on Nvidia DGX Spark nvidia.com/en-us/products... · Posted by u/janandonly

apples_oranges · 5 months ago

Question from a random consumer: Why not more RAM?

Strom · 5 months ago

So they can sell you the next model which upgrades the RAM capacity.