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chalupa-man commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken   kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina
hemant6488 · 10 months ago
I revived my old kindle pw7 using this a week or so ago. If you have an old kindle lying around, you can use it as an e-ink weather dashboard (or anything else for that matter, as long as you can convert it into a 8bit greyscale image).

https://terminalbytes.com/reviving-kindle-paperwhite-7th-gen...

chalupa-man · 10 months ago
Unfortunately your Kindle needs to be registered to do this, and it's often a phenomenal pain in the ass to get old Kindles to register, if it's possible at all. I've got two old Paperwhites and I can't get either of them to register despite trying for hours and hours with every troubleshooting step I've found.
chalupa-man commented on FFmpeg 7.0   ffmpeg.org//index.html#pr... · Posted by u/gyan
bharathyes · 2 years ago
why AV1 in 720p ? is it just for watcking in smaller devices or for archiving too? isnt AV1 encoders still very slow compared to h265 ?
chalupa-man · 2 years ago
The preferred AV1 encoder that ships with ffmpeg, SVT-AV1, is faster than any software H.265 encoder now. You can encode 1080p video in real time at preset 6 (the equivalent of 'medium' -- presets are on a scale from 0 to 13) on a $120 desktop CPU.
chalupa-man commented on Sony Android TVs waste 25W in standby due to built-in Google Chromecast   avsforum.com/threads/sony... · Posted by u/eisa01
eternityforest · 3 years ago
How is that even possible? A tablet at full power doesn't use that much. That's way above and beyond what you'd expect even a laptop(Or at least one I've owned recently) to do.

I don't even think something like a RasPi 4 physically can pull that much.

Is this chip shortage related and they just couldn't find some regulator or something and used linear?

chalupa-man · 3 years ago
It's not chip shortage related, the TV models being discussed are from 2015-16.
chalupa-man commented on Chrome allows websites to write to the clipboard without the user’s permission    · Posted by u/zagrebian
ndriscoll · 3 years ago
> Don't you hate when news sites add a "- from XYZ" to your clipboard? That shouldn't be possible.

I opened a bug with chromium when I first encountered that behavior ~10 years ago since it was an obvious security and privacy concern to me. Needless to say, the chromium devs didn't think it's an issue.

You would think browsers would ask permission for sites to do things like modify your clipboard, see when you copy/paste, track your mouse movements and text selections, etc. but google obviously isn't going to care about protecting the user from such things.

chalupa-man · 3 years ago
You don't need to modify the clipboard to do that, news sites were doing it long before the clipboard API existed. It's usually done with CSS, abusing display properties, positioning, font size, etc to make attributions a non-visible but still copied part of the text.
chalupa-man commented on We're improving search results when you use quotes   blog.google/products/sear... · Posted by u/Kortaggio
hbn · 3 years ago
I dread the day reddit stops letting you opt out of the redesign. It's absolutely unusable and hasn't improved at all since launch.
chalupa-man · 3 years ago
Check out an alternate web client, like https://github.com/spikecodes/libreddit. Even compared to the old design it's much more lightweight and clean, and compared to the redesign it makes 1/4 as many HTTP requests, uses 1/20th the CPU, 1/4 the memory, and 1/2 the bandwidth, doesn't require an account to subscribe to subs, can work as pure static HTML, and doesn't track anything. I have poor Internet and the difference is night and day.
chalupa-man commented on “Magic links” can end up in Bing search results, rendering them useless   medium.com/@ryanbadger/ma... · Posted by u/rsbadger
asdfqwertzxcv · 3 years ago
This. You'd be amazed how many users just do a password reset each time to login instead of remembering their login info.
chalupa-man · 3 years ago
My father has insisted on doing this for over 20 years, but he doesn't know how to do it himself. I expect a password-reset phone call from him every 2 or 3 days and have done since 1998. Just recently he had someone from his bank's IT department call him directly about resetting his password over 500 times.
chalupa-man commented on hiccupFX.js   hiccupfx.telnet.asia/... · Posted by u/rvieira
forgetfulness · 4 years ago
I used to run without an ad blocker to support the websites I visited, but then too many would rev up my CPU and freeze my browser just because of all the ads they loaded. The experience of clicking a link started to become unbearable, and I went back to blocking ads.

I know that circa 2018 the ad industry suffered a shock as major players started measuring more precisely what value ads brought, and CPC went down, I think things just got worse at this point because websites crammed more ads in response.

chalupa-man · 4 years ago
Reddit and Medium are awful for this. I don't know what they're doing, but every page has a small chance of infinitely looping to max out a CPU core forever, unless you block their ads. I'll feel my laptop heating up and know that some Reddit thread somewhere is to blame.
chalupa-man commented on Switching from macOS to Pop_OS   support.system76.com/arti... · Posted by u/zathan
ByteJockey · 4 years ago
Gaming was always the one thing that kept the more tech-savvy on windows boxes. I know it kept me there for a long time as a teenager.

If that can be broken, I don't think 10% is infeasible. Though I think Microsoft would have to really screw up to lose their status as the "default" OS.

chalupa-man · 4 years ago
Valve's new Steam Deck device runs Linux. If it proves popular, that will be a big incentive for developers to improve Linux support for their games, and help jump that hurdle.
chalupa-man commented on Switching from macOS to Pop_OS   support.system76.com/arti... · Posted by u/zathan
bscphil · 4 years ago
> All of the major operating systems are good enough or can be made good enough by installing a few packages.

And that's exactly the problem - macOS and Windows don't have "packages" in the sense that they do in Linux distributions. You can install software on both, of course, but it's relatively speaking a mess and Homebrew / Chocolately don't really suffice to make the experience anywhere nearly as clean and consistent as it is on literally any Linux distribution.

Other than that, I would agree, though for computer experts I would argue that Linux gives you the ability to fully understand how your system functions and control it at every level, and that this can be valuable. It's also a lot easier to use primarily open-source software on Linux. On the other hand, Linux can't run a lot of proprietary programs that are readily available on other systems.

chalupa-man · 4 years ago
How do you feel about the Windows official package manager, winget? I find it a lot more polished and usable than Chocolatey was, and didn't notice much difference compared to apt or dnf, but admittedly my experience is limited and I haven't done much complex with any of the four.
chalupa-man commented on Entire website in a single HTML file   css-tricks.com/a-whole-we... · Posted by u/jaytaylor
jraph · 4 years ago
Please, don't make me run React to read your document, and don't make my device parse Markdown and generate HTML on each visit. This is wasteful. I and the planet should not suffer because you decided to author your book using Markdown (which is a fine format, but my browser does not understand it natively). A virtual book is best served as plain old static HTML pages. Shareable links is indeed an impressive feature, but it has been a given on the Web since 1991, I think we don't need to be impressed by it in 2021.

You can add some JS here and there for the few really interactive elements of the document but my browser already has all the features to render documents and links perfectly fine. People have been able to "click around" since 1991 and we never needed to download, parse and execute 2MB of JS for this.

Your book is probably big, and I'm probably not reading it in one go, so if it includes images and videos, downloading it all is probably unnecessary and the book is probably best split in several HTML pages. If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download.

Sorry for the rant, but I'm a bit fed up by having to download run megabytes of Javascript I can't control (and even read, because yay, bundles!!) to browse the web, just because.

chalupa-man · 4 years ago
> If you want to allow me to consult it offline, that's very kind and noble. Just put a zip file somewhere I can download.

To play devil's advocate: a majority of web traffic is on phones and tablets now, especially for long-form content where you will frequently see people request a page on a desktop, then request it two minutes later from a phone or tablet where they can read it more comfortably. 99% of mobile users will be happier when a text-heavy site is a PWA that caches itself, rather than a static HTML site that asks them to download a zip file, install an app to work with zip files on their device, unzip it to a folder of hopefully-relevantly-named HTML files, and then browse those, in the process breaking link sharing, link navigation (depending on OS), cross-device reading and referencing of highlights/notes, site search, and so on. Not to mention the limitations imposed on file:/// URIs, like browser extensions not working on them by default, which is a real problem for users relying on them for accessibility (e.g. dyslexia compensation, screen reader integration, stylesheet overrides). A lot of times that won't even be possible on a dedicated reading devices; my ereader will cache PWAs but will not download arbitrary files, if you make your site a PWA I can read it during my commute, if you make it static HTML with a zip file I can't. These are features most users appreciate a lot more than not having to load a 60k JS bundle (current size of React gzipped).

u/chalupa-man

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