TopHat

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TopHat,

Does anyone have any suitable “alternatives” in podcasts which are similar to the WAN Show in atmosphere? (As in: longer conversations about tech-adjecent topics) I don’t feel comfortable wanting to go near LMG’s content (my only consistent watching was the WAN Show to be frank) after these discoveries.

TopHat,

His comment didn’t address two key issues for me:

  • The “crunch”/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
  • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

I’ve been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising “We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.”, is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can’t rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

Not to mention, it’s worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is “most likely to remain the same”, which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

TopHat,

Since I got those from Ikea, I just want devices to go back to those types of batteries instead of internal battery packs. Still got to appreciate the Xbox controllers sticking to that principle (for now).

TopHat,

If it was so easy to replace them, with each Li-Ion battery being different for every type of device.

TopHat,

Don’t get me wrong - I think an included battery that’s rechargeable through USB is fantastic. Less customer inconvenience. But they should either go with a standard that’s easily reproducible or go with regular rechargeable batteries.

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TopHat,

Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

As far as I’m aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that’s arguably not enough.

TopHat,

Try Obtainium, helps if an app isn’t on F-Droid or Google Play Store.

TopHat,

I used to have this issue, but 0.0.8 is now out. Obtanium pulls in that release just fine!

TopHat,

Do you refer to a player+burner combination for a PC, or a regular player for TV’s?

TopHat,

A player burner combo would require a PC and special software to be able to play commercial Blu-Rays to begin with.

I’m sadly not as up-to-date on Blu-Ray players as I’d like to be, but Sony has a small one although that misses 4K Ultra HD support (it upscales DVDs and regular Blu-Rays to 4K, which isn’t the same as 4K UHD releases on their own). If you already own a “modern” video game console, starting with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One they got Blu-Ray player support, if you’re also into video games. The PS4 Pro and Xbox One S and later got 4K UHD support as well.

TopHat,

You’re welcome! Keep in mind that the base “VCR”-sized Xbox One (not the S or the X variant) only accepts 1080p Blu-Rays, not 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs.

TopHat,

Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven’t been able to find any to this date.

TopHat,

The Prevue channel definitely wow’d me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

TopHat,

any game with a story

Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory, Rimworld, Starbound…

TopHat,

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one’s not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

TopHat,

I’m honestly a bigger fan of the classic DOOM I/II (199X) soundtracks. Despite being obvious parodies of existing rock/metal songs, they had a certain appeal. Especially when someone makes a very good cover.

I get why people like 2016’s DOOM’s more “metal” approach, but for me nothing beats an adrenaline-rush song when ripping and tearing those damned demons.

TopHat,

Spotting Super Mario RPG in there, you might appreciate knowing some people actually recreated some songs with the original synths used by Yoko Shimomura herself.

TopHat,

Thanks for letting us know! Here’s the code repository, for those wanting to self host it: github.com/rystaf/mlmym

I showed this to my friend (an instance owner) and he immediately went “Let’s self host this”. Really looks great. If someone could make it work somehow with RES, then it would be a total replacement.

TopHat,

I’m honestly disappointed at the hardware:

  • 8 GB RAM for a SKU is definitely fine by me
  • Android 13 from the get-go is good, though I do wonder how fast 14 and up will come, and how many system upgrades it’ll get.
  • The Snapdragon 782G is simply the worst of this phone. It is a decent improvement over the 4’s Snapdragon, but it’s worrying to see a Fairphone being sold at mid to early-premium pricing while budget phones got the same power for much less. I am aware of the Degoogling and Fair Trade Gold and the repairability parts of Fairphone. But I don’t see why they can not try and match some actual mid-performance phones nowadays.
  • Haven’t heard anything about the display, but I would not be surprised if it will remain stuck at 60Hz - another pain point but this is arguably less of an issue and more of a wish I would had loved to see.

As long as other phones will have removeable storage (microSD slot) and are cheaper while beating FP’s performance, I’d rather stick with them. Really a shame, hoped to see a much better phone this time around. But there’ll be even more fierce competition with the EU law on replaceable batteries forcing others (including Apple even) to change to a better repairability model.

TopHat,

Any specific recommendations, by any chance?

Also out of curiosity, how did you grab all the foreign pricing from Fanatical?

TopHat,

Out of curiosity, what’s the purpose of the authoritative DNS servers?

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