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Nope, I've been using that auto-refreshing bookmarks thingy. For 117 feeds, as of right now. Mostly webcomics, couple blogs. Takes me ten to thirty minutes to read most days.
The thing I don't like about literally every other feed reader I've tried is that they primarily focus on displaying the content within the feed itself, but what I want is to just follow the link. Live Bookmarks literally did nothing with the "item description" field, it just showed the title and made it a link. I'm tweaking that slightly but the same basic premise of "follow the link to the main page, don't just display the tiny chunk in the item description" is still there.
The thing I like about a proper reader is that it displays unread items in a chronological order, I can't imagine going through 117 feeds one by one every day. FYI the one I linked also allows you to choose between the full content view or titles only. Not to mention it has an easy way to mark items as read or dismiss them. IMO it's way more convenient to use than using the live bookmarks feature.
https://i.imgur.com/lhXax8L.png
I have an old macbook air that I would like to run Linux on. Unfortunately the display messes up when the Intel driver is loaded. The same thing also happens on Windows.
So I thought I might be able to find someone with a macbook who knew something about it. So I jumped on freenode #apple and asked there. The responce was something along the lines of:
Them: "The Macbook(TM) Air(TM) is only made to run MacOS(TM) or Windows with Apple(R) certified driver packs."
Me: ... But It also happens on Windows WITH the official driver packs...
Them: Then your logic board is broken.
Me: But it works fine in MacOS.
Them: Well it is an old model anyways so it has to be broken.
Gee thanks for the help. Almost as helpfull as the local Mac repair store where they could not give me an estimate on the time OR price for troubleshooting the macbook. All they could do was to "send it in" for an indeterminate time.
Figure you guys might enjoy this. They literally could have had GCHQ check over their security, but no...
Official Tory conference app has literally no security, you can ..
No experience whatsoever with mac hardware but does blacklisting the intel module or disabling KMS let you boot?.
It boots fine with or without the Intel driver. The image on the display just gets corrupted in short bursts. Blacklisting the intel module makes the problem go away, but makes the computer pretty useless since I loose GPU acceleration. I just don't know how to troubleshoot this since I get the same symptoms on Linux and Windows but none on MacOS. I also don't see anything in any logs I have checked on either OS. ie Event log on Windows, dmesg/journalctl on Linux.
This is what it looks like:
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109944/23f0980d-e442-468e-b6b3-26ff62eb0cac/input.mp4
Video doesn't load more than a few secs for my slow connection, but from what I can see it seems to be a problem that happens in the display/output and not related to gpu core or mem. If you run anything that use acceleration do textures get corrupted or the driver restart?. Would a custom video mode stop it from doing that (xrandr/CRU)?
Just use Pale Moon. It's based on Firefox 20something and live bookmarks aren't going anywhere.
I thought about it but I also quite like having Sync work with my phone, and there's no Android version of Pale Moon AFAIK.
Plus now that I've started working on it, I've realized how much better I can make my RSS reader. Shit is going to be perfect.
Would something like Thunderbird not work for your purposes?
It would probably "work" but it wouldn't work the way I like it to work.
Why are people so dead-set against me writing my own RSS reader? I have a very particular way I would like it to work, and oh hey, I'm a programmer, I can just make the computer do what I want it to do. It's a fun weekend project and by far one of the more useful ways I've wasted a weekend.
Once you get it working be sure to post it up here so we can take a look at it. I've used RSS readers in the past and I can't find any that I like.
I'm thinking about replacing my (perfectly working) Logitech G203 with a G305. Exact same shape and shell, but with Logitech Lightspeed wireless and the Hero sensor. Are there any other differences I should be aware of, like button switches? I'm hooked on the G Pro/G203 shape so I'm really hesitant to change that.
On the topic of emulation accuracy; I feel that CRT shaders aren't really that great and just end up blurring things without recreating
the important/useful characteristics.
For one scanlines may be overrated and little attention is being brought to the fact that pixels aren't really squares. Though how exactly they behave eludes me: On both my CRT monitors, emulating at 1x size looks rather nice, better than the same pic/scale on a LCD; The round pixels make text look good and colors blend yet they're not blurry as they're in the shaders.
I have tried replicating how that works but I just end up blurring things worse. I think that it's not really necessary to emulate the phosphor geometry, as all CRTs seem to look just fine despite trinitrons and dot triads being rather different yet still looking good. Simulating the beam shape hitting the screen's subpixels, and having the subpixels simulate the phosphor equivalent may be enough. This video has a very good simulation of phosphor persistence.
While looking for the first link I also found this which somehow I didn't find before, If only I actually knew math/physics; it looks relevant/interesting.
All the old stock CRT's are slowly dying, and it's rather sad imo
Production is practically an artisan craft (iirc the coils have to be precisely handspun) so they're working towards becoming an extremely expensive specialty item
RIP light gun games, we hardly knew ye
I thought light gun games didn't work because of the latency rather than anything else? A low latency OLED may still let those games work. And for emulations there's always motion controls.
Anyways if I had a lot of money to burn I'd just attempt making (the essential parts of ) that fictional CRT I posted about a while ago somewhere:
Quantum Dot Phosphors for covering 100% of the eye's gamut and HDR
Beam Indexed Tube (or trinitron) with horizontal phosphor stripes allowing for 'unlimited' horizontal resolution
Enough vertical resolution to be atleast 300 DPI
I still don't know, if when the electron gun grazes a phosphor dot it lights the whole thing or just the parts that get hit by the electrons. If the latter is how it works then what you think may not produce an accurate recreation. I hypothesize that it's actually the later because I can increase my monitor's (pixel) resolution way past the dot pitch yet still mantain positional accuracy albeit with poor (optical) resolution.
Depends on the system. As I understand it, NES light-gun games simply flashed a hitbox on screen for one frame and checked if the light gun saw anything at all during that frame*, but SNES games actually check if the photodiode registers a hit while the correct pixel is being output. So a very fast OLED might work for NES games but unless you do some crazy stuff with like a 5MHz refresh rate you're not going to get SNES games working on anything but a CRT.
And I don't know how other consoles worked. I'd assume 8-bit consoles generally fell into the NES pattern, while later ones probably fell into the SNES pattern, but I don't actually know.
* Most light gun games also do a fully blank frame either before or after, and checked that it didn't register a hit on that frame, so you couldn't just point the gun at a bright light and get a hit every time. But some didn't.
I filed a ticket with my ISP about connection problems and got an email back today.
I'll first translate from Finnish to English, trying to be as exact in translation as possible, and then I'll translate what they actually mean.
Hello,
[ISP]'s copper-based broadband options are unfortunately no longer being maintained. The network will be slowly dismantled and taken out of use.
Would you be interested in switching to a mobile broadband connection? If you wish so, our installer can come and test your reception free of charge.
[Price listings for LTE shit]
What they actually mean:
We have a monopoly over broadband in this city so we don't give a fuck. ADSL is expensive to maintain and your apartment building's owner hasn't given us shitloads of money to connect it to our fiber line, so go fuck yourself. If you want, we can shaft you by reselling a carrier's LTE service, but we don't really care, go fuck yourself.
QD only works with Photon activation ATM.
If you went with electron activation, you may as well skip all those steps and just built a TFT+QD substrate à la current AMOLED screens.
Besides the decay which is dependent on phosphor type, don't forget:
Variable beam width (The NES Megaman games's life/item bars use this to make it look like discs, for example)
Analog characteristics and noise/Interference, from neighboring wires and electronics, the enviroment
Nonlinear distribution of electrons in beam (gaussian/TEM00?)
Nonlinear Voltage -> Brightness of phosphors (gamma)
Type of signal (NTSC/PAL, RGB/YC/Composite)
You're very likely right, though the C64/128 does have a lightpen functionality accurate to, IIRC, a block of 8x1 pixels.
What's the point of that? QD's can only shift the wavelength of light, so you can't get more light out than you put in, so that's not capable of HDR (plus you battle the non-linear voltage/phosphor response_.
microLED and QDLED panels are the long-term future, IMO. OLED is a very acceptable middle-ground until more advanced stuff is producible.
Remember it would be a single electron gun and a single type of phosphor with no shadow mask so the brightness would be higher than what you usually see in already existing monitors.
That said I agree QDLEDs could be the future (not getting my hopes up with new display tech after SED/FED), and if someone (or me in 10 years) ends up making an accurate simulation of CRTs then there's no point in making new ones. They're thinner so they can be used in VR, if HiDPI then rectangular pixels aren't really a problem, and the discrete pixels makes it more feasible to implement several refresh rates on the same screen at the same time.
I hate my job making simple frontend websites that talk to APIs from home. I hate being at home alone all day, I hate working with code for a living, I hate the pay, I hate it all. I just want to drive trucks or something for a living, but I have no prospects and can't afford truck school.
Sorry, I just need to vent.
A conversation on the way out the door:
Me: Fuck Android. Their tools are so fucking spotty, how am I supposed to debug anything if I can't see what's going on? And why do they change their APIs every five minutes? There's gotta be something better.
Other Dev: Yup. We should do it in something else. Is PhoneGap still a thing? Or some other way to write it as basically a web page?
Me: I dunno. Didn't Microsoft have something to let you write an app for all three platforms at once? At this point I'd trust Microsoft to have better tools than Google.
Other Dev: Maybe? I dunno though, that sounds like a bad idea.
Me: Wait. I've got it.
Other Dev: ...?
Me: ...
Other Dev: ???
Me: ...
Other Dev: ?!?!
Me: We write it in UnrealEngine.
Other Dev: ... I'll see you tomorrow.
Could be worse
The new director decided it would be a great idea to fire all of the web developers and gut a large section of the IT department to balance the budget.
So here I am an underpaid systems admin with zero web development experience suddenly becoming the next web developer.
Where do I download the hotfix for stupid?
Insolvency hearings.
Hey man I work in the trucking industry. If it's something you really want to do, contact a company called Prime out of Springfield, Missouri. They'll pay for your schooling in exchange for you working there for a year or two. I can help you out a little bit as well.
Can you hit me up on discord? Trekintosh #5249
wow, sipwicket really does change lives. that’s heartwarming.
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