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scq commented on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears   telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pera
e2021 · 3 days ago
Metaverse was a flop maybe, but meta makes something like $1 billion a week from its mobile apps, it'd be crazy to say that is not successful.

The fact that it was so successful, and that zuck picked mobile to be the next big thing before many of his peers and against what managers in the company wanted to do is probably what has made him now overconfident that he can do it again

scq · 3 days ago
By "pivot into mobile" I suspect the other poster is referring to Facebook Home, an ill-fated Android skin and line of smartphones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Home

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scq commented on What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?   lumafield.com/article/wha... · Posted by u/walterbell
yegle · a month ago
FWIW this has caused a big storm in China. The root of the issue is known to be caused by the battery cell vendor Amprius changing the battery design w/o notifying the power bank manufacturers. AFAIKT Amprius lost the 3C certification (a certification in China) because of this incident.

This is one of the Chinese reports on the issue: https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_31048287

Excerpt from the report above (translated using Google):

> The Paper learned from an insider that Anker Innovations' battery cell supplier is already a leading battery cell supplier in the industry, and did not inform customers after it changed materials. In addition to Anker Innovations, the supplier also cooperates with leading power bank brands, so the impact is huge. Although Anker Innovations did not name the supplier, an insider pointed out that the supplier was Amprius.

UPDATE:

There's an exclusive interview by 36kr with one of Anker's VPs:

https://m.36kr.com/p/3365435892680709

scq · a month ago
Amprius has released a statement:

> Amprius Technologies, Inc. has never developed or manufactured batteries for power banks. For accuracy, please attribute the certification issue to Apex (Wuxi), not Amprius. Recent reports have incorrectly linked Amprius Technologies, Inc. to a battery certification issue. The company involved is Apex (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., formerly known as Amprius (Wuxi) Co., Ltd., a Chinese lithium battery manufacturer based in Wuxi, China.

> Apex (Wuxi) was once a subsidiary of Amprius Inc. but was never part of Amprius Technologies, Inc. In early 2022, Apex was spun off, renamed, and has operated independently since, with no ties or relationships to Amprius Technologies, Inc.

(source: https://www.gizchina.com/2025/07/14/anker-baseus-romoss-amon...)

scq commented on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites   bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckg3r... · Posted by u/mattcollins
riffraff · 2 months ago
Can you think of a regime that was bombed by foreigners and quickly fell?

I cannot. Ground occupation, yes. But afaict bombing just reinforces the regime.

scq · 2 months ago
Yugoslavia.
scq commented on Mesa3D Drivers for Windows   github.com/pal1000/mesa-d... · Posted by u/XzetaU8
sylware · 3 months ago
Last time I had a quick look, zink did seem far from being finished, I mean very far away.

The main issues for xwayland+zink are the middle ground applications: those which are x11/vulkan3D without wayland support, if I am not mistaken, like shadow of the tombraider, metro exodus games, etc (even though I would not play anymore those games).

ohohoh... I am going to ask if valheim has a working/tested wayland backend while I am thinking about it.

scq · 3 months ago
You probably haven't looked at it for a while. It's a conformant OpenGL implementation. Zink is now the default for Nvidia GPUs in Mesa, replacing Nouveau.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/good...

scq commented on I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)   github.com/Efeckc17/simpl... · Posted by u/toxi360
Dwedit · 3 months ago
Example of setting DPI awareness: https://github.com/Dwedit/GameStretcher/blob/master/Stretche...

This code dynamically checks for and calls one of the following: user32:SetProcessDpiAwarenessContext, shcore:SetProcessDpiAwareness, then user32:SetProcessDPIAware. If the Windows version is extremely old and doesn't implement any of those (Windows XP or earlier), it won't call anything.

scq · 3 months ago
You can also set it in the application manifest, which is recommended over setting it programmatically: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/hidpi/settin...

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scq commented on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup   pcworld.com/article/26517... · Posted by u/airstrike
rafaelmn · 4 months ago
It's just general polish. Like I was daily driving fedora last year and :

- fractional scaling did not work in Gnome with Wayland for X11 Apps

- I still cannot use my LG C4 as a monitor in full capacity because AMD on Linux does not support HDMI 2.1

- Screen sharing was very buggy - in Slack especially - it would constantly crash the slack app during calls, ditto for camera, but even in Google meet and Chrome I've had desktop crashes

- When I switched to KDE/Plasma 5 to get fractional scaling it was extremely unstable

- Right now I upgraded my GPU to 9070XT - I'm still not sure if that would work on Linux yet because of driver support delay

- Guitar Amp simulator software I use does not support Linux, neither does Ableton (which supposedly can run on proton but with many glitches)

- The audio DAW situation was way too complicated and buggy

- I spent days to get the distro functional and usable with Ardour and it would still crash constantly - I just wanted to run some amp sims :(

It's just the little things and rough edges, but for example the fractional scaling stuff already improved because more apps that I use added Wayland support. And the emulation is getting better, with more users I could see larger DAWs supporting Linux as well. Not sure about the audio progress - JACK was a complete mess.

scq · 4 months ago
- Fractional scaling: That's because X11 itself does not support it. Many older Windows apps also have problems with fractional scaling.

- HDMI 2.1: The HDMI Forum blocked it, as they don't want the details of HDMI 2.1 publically available. If you can, use DisplayPort, which is an actual open standard, and is better anyway. Nvidia works because they implemented it in closed-source firmware instead. https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

scq commented on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds   wsj.com/tech/apple-violat... · Posted by u/shayneo
2OEH8eoCRo0 · 4 months ago
Get ready to answer why an iPhone is different than an xbox
scq · 4 months ago
Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch should be forced to open up as well.

Closed ecosystems only benefit the corporations that control them.

u/scq

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