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New comment by teawrecks in "Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam"

teawrecks — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 01:32:59 +0000

This is like asking, "why do you need a touch screen or internet on a phone in the first place? Neither are needed to make phone calls. Isn't a phone just fine as a standalone thing?"

It's not 2005 anymore, a phone has all the computing power that most people need. In fact, most laptops are just phone boards these days. It's completely reasonable to ask that your hardware not be artificially limited by the software it's running so they can sell you a separate device that does the rest of what you need.

In a perfect world, my phone is a supercomputer capable of doing everything I'll ever want in a fraction of a second. And the thing standing between my current phone and a perfect phone shouldn't be my insistence on having a separate giant desktop taking up more space than is necessary.

New comment by teawrecks in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

teawrecks — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:44:40 +0000

Almost all the games I play are these random multiplayer games with friends. In my experience, proton is only a blocker around 5% of the time. I still have a windows partition for those times (and I always laugh when I boot it and am "welcomed" by their "Let's take a moment to configure windows" garbage).

Just saying, if you have the HDD space, I'd say give dual booting a shot. you'll probably be surprised how usable Linux is for gaming these days.

New comment by teawrecks in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

teawrecks — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 00:40:00 +0000

That was my position 5 years ago. For the last 3ish years I've been gaming on Linux with very few issues.

I'll be the first to say it's not perfect, but it's 100x better than it was 5 years ago. I'd say at least 70% of steam games just work when you hit play, 25% require a bit of configuring to get working, and only around 5% refuse to work at all.

New comment by teawrecks in "Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:13:27 +0000

Also, afaik, there's no reason for hobbyists to not always use lead-free solder. But of course that doesn't mean something you're taking apart used lead free.

New comment by teawrecks in "Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:34:04 +0000

I think when you say "why do you need to ____?" you think you're saying "what are you trying to do, and maybe there's another way to accomplish that", but what everyone hears is "you're right".

And for the record, "because it's their device, not Google's" should be as good a reason as any.

New comment by teawrecks in "Android 14 adds support for using your smartphone as a webcam"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 22:30:10 +0000

As someone who has been running de-googled android for years, I don't identify with any of your complaints.

Good luck leaving that walled garden by going to apple.

New comment by teawrecks in "Lead poisoning causes more death, IQ loss than thought: study"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 21:04:52 +0000

what I'm hearing is that if I already have 5μg/dL, then I might as well get all 20.

New comment by teawrecks in "Matrix 2.0: The Future of Matrix"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 19:40:02 +0000

I'm curious if someone could build a discord replacement on top of matrix, most importantly with voice chat and video streaming functionality. Discord is clearly focused on monetization at this point, the only changes happening now are ones that make your experience objectively worse. I've also been on Linux for a few years now and discord still doesn't support streaming game audio.

And before someone suggests it, I tried Revolt, and it's not there yet. The latest client (as of a few months ago) couldn't find my audio devices at all, and came with a big warning about how their audio backend was being completely rewritten, and what I was using was now legacy.

New comment by teawrecks in "Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV"

teawrecks — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 16:15:45 +0000

Waiting for them to train an AI on Miyazaki's art/writing style and pump out a bunch of junk.

New comment by teawrecks in "Unity is offering a runtime fee waiver if you switch to LevelPlay"

teawrecks — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:38:08 +0000

RIP Unity.

New comment by teawrecks in "Cannabis use disorder and subsequent risk of depression and bipolar disorder"

teawrecks — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:32:20 +0000

What activity are you referring to? Because this paper doesn't say that "cannabis use" is such an activity.

New comment by teawrecks in "Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users"

teawrecks — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 02:51:11 +0000

Not ever experiencing this stuff anymore on linux is the best feeling.

New comment by teawrecks in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

teawrecks — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 21:41:49 +0000

Interesting how your response makes it seem like the person you're responding to mentioned android at all.

New comment by teawrecks in "UK drops 'spy clause' for scanning encrypted messages, admits not 'feasible'"

teawrecks — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 20:30:48 +0000

The headline literally says the "spy clause" was dropped. It sounds like that's it true at all, nothing was dropped.

New comment by teawrecks in "Wayland Isn't Going to Save the Linux Desktop (2022)"

teawrecks — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:01:40 +0000

it's not clear to me whether you're saying Wayland devs are out of touch, or Wayland critics are out of touch.

New comment by teawrecks in "All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped"

teawrecks — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:36:56 +0000

If it was anything like the Purism refund situation featured on Rossman's yt channel, their wording was actually that, "you can request a refund once we reach your position in the shipping queue", and not that they would actually grant the refund.

New comment by teawrecks in "All Librem 5 smartphones have shipped"

teawrecks — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:33:20 +0000

That's the price of a device that isn't subsidized by your data, is built using sustainable means, and is not yet scaled up for mass market.

New comment by teawrecks in "Photogrammetry on commercial flights (2021)"

teawrecks — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:52:46 +0000

pshh, Big Globe has been using photogrammetry for it's "window" displays for decades.

New comment by teawrecks in "Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID"

teawrecks — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:45:21 +0000

We don't know that though. The fact that it presumably works everywhere except Linux makes me think there's still a bug in that `edid-decode` path.

And as far as I can tell from the article, OP just assumed the display supported 60hz because it happened to show an image when they set it to that.

New comment by teawrecks in "Illegal shooting along power lines a leading cause of death for bald eagles"

teawrecks — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:33:07 +0000

yeah, that's probably why people are shooting them off power lines.