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fhcbix commented on Wired headphone sales are exploding bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat

adzm · 3 days ago

And latency!! Anything that needs to be real time is impossible without wired headphones. Even the lowest latency wireless is noticeable.

fhcbix · 3 days ago

Not trying to argue against your point, but most of the Bluetooth latency comes from the codec, not from it being wireless. Bluetooth LE Audio comes with LC3 which supports a codec latency of as little as 2.5 ms.

fhcbix commented on Show HN: Look Ma, No Linux: Shell, App Installer, Vi, Cc on ESP32-S3 / BreezyBox github.com/valdanylchuk/b... · Posted by u/isitcontent

nabilt · a month ago

Very cool project. Congrats. I will be trying this out.

Two other project I saw that are somewhat related for those interested:

1. reddit community (r/xteinkereader) building an OS like ebook reader app for a small chinese ereader based on esp32-s3

2. Linux port for the esp32-s3. Interestingly, the S3 has an MMU but I don't think it was used in this project.

https://github.com/ESP32DE/Boot-Linux-ESP32S3-Playground?tab...

fhcbix · a month ago

XTEink isn't using ESP32-S3 but C3. That S3 dev board from OP also comes with 8MB PSRAM (xteink/C3: 384kB RAM only) which IIUC makes quite the difference when it comes to building an embedded OS.

fhcbix commented on Android’s desktop interface leaks 9to5google.com/2026/01/27... · Posted by u/thunderbong

batrat · 2 months ago

Samsung should not give up DEX, is mature and works exceptionally well with applications that are supported (wireless DEX with my samsung tv works great). Knowing Google, they will give up after 5 iterations or updates will be very slow. It is good for the ecosystem, I hope it will become more mainstream.

fhcbix · 2 months ago

Dex and Android desktop mode are not a single new thing, but multiple features that partially have been in Android for years, like external screens, resizable windows and the (currently rather limited) external screen drawer.

fhcbix commented on When a video codec wins an Emmy blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

albert_e · 3 months ago

I recently learnt that one can download WOFF files from any website that uses them, and convert them into TTF files (using an online tool like CloudConvert) if we wanted to use them in say a MS Word or Powerpoint slide deck.

This allowed me to create a custom powerpoint theme / template that captures the essence of a particular brand.

fhcbix · 3 months ago

Worth noting that web fonts are often split up across multiple files for sets of codepoints and font weights/styles, so depending on the language you're writing in a single WOFF file might be missing a few letters.

fhcbix commented on Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK board.fun/... · Posted by u/nicoles

whitehexagon · 5 months ago

This looks like a perfect match for the music synth ReacTable, something that never ported well to ipad because of the lack of physical pieces.

But my concern would be that this becomes just another Ad platform, but targeted at kids.

For me a board-game is offline time. So I would picture this with no WiFi and SD card based games. Which could still be profitable via an other-device app store. But would also avoid temptation for developers to add these more addictive online/networked games.

fhcbix · 5 months ago

> For me a board-game is offline time.

That's fair but not universal. Plenty of communities exist around playing board games online and often that's the only way to meet players of equal strength or run large tournaments.

fhcbix commented on Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots abstractboardgames.com/... · Posted by u/abstractbg

robobro · 5 months ago

Reminds me of boardspace, though the UI is much cleaner.

You should try to add the Gipf games at some point, they are very wonderful!

fhcbix · 5 months ago

I was just going to recommend boardspace.net here! It also somewhat recently went open source: https://github.com/ddyer0/boardspace.net

It clearly is stuck in the Java Applet era where it started but Dave eventually made an Android port and modern Java has no issues running it!

fhcbix commented on Typst: A Possible LaTeX Replacement lwn.net/Articles/1037577/... · Posted by u/pykello

fhcbix · 6 months ago

For me Tectonic[1] solved many of the issues I had with LaTeX, so that's what I'd recommend if you still depend on LaTeX as a language. Make sure to use the V2 CLI (`tectonic -X`) which comes with convenient features like watch mode. With vim and evince (or any PDF viewer that auto refreshes) open I get a similar real-time experience to popular online editors like Overleaf, but in the comfort of my own editor.

[1] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/

fhcbix commented on FLX1s phone is launched furilabs.com/flx1s-is-lau... · Posted by u/slau

BLKNSLVR · 6 months ago

I asked this question as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45318229

Answer: no, but they're working on wireless display support.

fhcbix · 6 months ago

"USB-C 2.0" in the specs reveals that. DisplayPort Alt Mode requires at least USB 3.0, the PinePhone Pro would be a Linux phone supporting that.

On another note, I've successfully connected to wireless displays (Miracast) on Linux using https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-network-displays

fhcbix commented on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers lwn.net/SubscriberLink/10... · Posted by u/pabs3

yonatan8070 · 7 months ago

I noticed this happening through KDE connect, where passwords copied on Linux show up in Android's clipboard history, is there a way to block passwords from being transported around like that without completely disabling clipboard sharing altogether?

fhcbix · 7 months ago

KDE connect lets you disable/configure individual plugins, just disable the "Clipboard sync". I don't think it can by itself figure out that you're copying a password, at least across UI toolkits. FWIW most toolkits and browsers don't actually copy from a password input anyway.

fhcbix commented on Consider using Zstandard and/or LZ4 instead of Deflate github.com/w3c/png/issues... · Posted by u/marklit

arp242 · 7 months ago

The difference is barely noticeable in real-world cases, in terms of performance or battery. Decoding images is a small part of loading an entire webpage from the internet. And transferring data isn't free either, so any benefits need to be offset against the larger file size and increased network usage.

fhcbix · 7 months ago

When you talk about images over HTTP, you need to consider most web servers and browsers already support zstd compression on the transport, so the potential bandwidth win provided by zstd is already being made use of today.

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