It's still on my to-be-read list, but anyone exploring the Russian/Tolkien rabbit hole might also like The Last Ringbearer, which is a retelling from the other side's perspective. The English translation was never officially published but is on archive.org and probably other less reputable sites.
Readit Newskej commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
>You can copy an SQLite database file
Completely off topic, but I think it's a fun quirk of English that sometimes the choice of a/an will tell you how a person pronounces a word. You can spot whether someone has an American or British/Australian accent by whether they write "a historian" or "an historian", for example, even if you've never heard them speak.
kej commented on Exploiting zero days in abandoned hardware blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/ingve
Why would I care if I have already been compromised? It's like I was murdered and the prosecutor leaves a "got em!" note on my grave after a conviction. I don't think I'm going to care very much.
It would matter quite a bit to the next person on the murderer's hit list, just like it matters to people whose devices haven't been compromised yet.
> Too many niche references that only an educated early 20th century Irish citizen would understand.
Presumably there are dozens of companion references to explain those. Can anyone recommend some?
I have this site [0] bookmarked in case I ever get around to reading it again. I like the use of hypertext so that you can follow the explanations you want and ignore others, and the inclusion of pictures and videos reminds me of the breathless anticipation of new multimedia experiences back when CD-ROMs started becoming common.
> Is it unreasonable to think Framework should be able to make a laptop competitive with the 5 years old MacBook Air M1?
Kind of unreasonable. I mean which Intel or AMD cpu can be run fanless and perform well?
On the topic of displays, my understanding is that they "kind of use what they can get". That's how there can be a 13 display with rounded corners in a straight edge case.
What you're asking are the things I'm looking for, though still every time I go into their forum I see enough thermal, fan noise issues and AMD firmware bugs, that I'm still on the fence on buying one.
I wish them luck with the 12, for me sounds like a model for "true believers" because it doesn't seem to compete well enough with run of the mill chromebooks (or an Air) that are more established in the students segment.
> thermal, fan noise issues
Anecdotal, obviously, but disabling Turbo-Core [0] on my AMD Framework 13 stopped all of my fan noise and heat complaints, with no noticeable performance impacts. It went from being so loud that my wife on the other side of the room would ask if my computer was okay to quieter than my ThinkPad, and from noticeably hot to just slightly warm.
Kind of ridiculous that it takes messing with an obscure system file to resolve it, but not any more ridiculous than issues I've had with other brands.
[0] It's `echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/boost` or something like that, and `echo 1` to turn it back on when you want that extra performance.
If most laptops = HP then yes. However my Lenovo has Fn | Ctrl...
Lenovo seems to be joining the rest of the world with Ctrl | Fn, based on the new ThinkPad I was issued at work a few weeks ago. I know the older Fn | Ctrl systems had a BIOS option to swap them, but I'm not sure if the new ones still have that.
kej commented on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps github.com/FossifyOrg... · Posted by u/jalict
kej commented on Fossify – A suite of open-source, ad-free apps github.com/FossifyOrg... · Posted by u/jalict
To save the next person a few clicks, these are Android apps forked from the Simple Mobile Tools collection when that was sold to ZipoApps.