Very annoyed by the fact that modern UI/HMI designs have a tendency to disregard well-researched and established solutions and replace them with shitty ones either because it's cheaper or because it's trendy. Flat UI is objectively harder to use. Replacing physical controls with a huge touchscreen in cars is dangerous. Replacing buttons and forms with a chat bot is fucking annoying. There is no need to make your checkboxes round like a special little snowflake. Fuck your dark patterns and especially "maybe later".
polish numerals still confuse me and now I learned there are weird special forms for different things a little similar to the clusterfuck of counters in Japanese.
okay fedi I need help here
the EliteDesk 800 G5 only supports 2666Mhz memory. I should go for the 2666Mhz CL19 memory over the 3200Mhz CL22 memory, right?
This is the cute tool which comes with @frameworkcomputer laptops. It includes a reversible Torx T5 and Philips PH0 bit, and a small plastic wedge. This is all you need to work on a Framework laptop.
… which would be awesome, except I lost mine within an hour of receiving my laptop back in February, and only just now found it again.
@Doomed_Daniel@jasonkoebler I mean, I don't rememver ever having a phone repair shop ask me for such information.
Maybe because all the shops I've been to only only third-party parts. Or don't repair Samsung. I don't know.
@LinuxAndYarn@jasonkoebler
weird, I would expect a repair shop to be like "we'll call you when it's done, if you don't come pick it up it's your problem".
Here are the much anticipated 10 images taken by the Euclid "Dark Matter Hunter" space telescope.
The images and accompanying papers were presented today at a gathering by the Euclid Consortium. We have seen the first image before.
These are part of the Euclid Early Release Observation program. The first results from Euclid’s wide and deep main surveys will take until fall, first cosmology papers at least until late 2025.
ATX is such an outdated standard. the power connectors are chonky. the data connectors are chonky. it's so fucking 90s. everything is bigger than it needs to be. yet, there's a charm to it, and not just that, it's actually a good standard in so many ways, and i'm really sad because we will likely never have a standard that's so commonplace and so consumer-friendly as ATX again.
like, everything about it is modular, whether it's the PSU, the CPU, the cooling, the GPU, the front panel connectors, the case, the storage... you can buy a dell desktop and put in an ASUS GPU and HP RAM and samsung SSD and move it into a thermaltake case and it will be very happy to have received its new and improved hardware. every connector, whether data or power, is specially keyed so it is literally impossible for you to fuck up unless you are using adapters. even the 2x5 connectors are keyed! you can't put the USB 2.0 plug in the audio socket! the motherboard won't let you! and these are durable and flexible connectors -- not rigid and bespoke as most ribbon cables are. it's so user-friendly and modular and repairable it's beautiful. we are never going to get anything as good as this ever again.
yes, it is theoretically more efficient to put memory and storage and compute on the same chip. but that doesn't fucking matter if you're running 8 different versions of chrome. congrats you're now running for 4 hours instead of 3. manufacturers don't integrate everything onto one chip in the name of performance, they do it in the name of vendor lock-in. still, this seems to be the way everything is going, and it's sad that this era of being able to swap parts out in your PC so easily is likely to be over in a decade or two.
@astrid I think as long as desktop computera exist, ATX will survive. Many companies have a stake in it staying a standard, because they don't want their competitors to do a vendor lock-in.