JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Though any competent manufacturer, especially when talking about laptops, would still have the application key under FN (as is shown in that example image), and give the ability for users to select which one is the default function in the BIOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When was the last time you on purpose used the application key on your keyboard to open the right-click context menu so you could navigate it using the arrow keys? Because that is the key it replaced - Microsoft has demanded for the last 32 years that the two spaces CTRL and ALT on Windows compatible keyboards are used for the Windows key, and the Application Key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  They (Microsoft) did actually also originally implement it, the application key was added to Microsoft keyboards in 1994 along with the Windows key. It’s a key meant to give compatibility to the Windows user interface when your PC had a mouse with only one button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  We also partly ended up with the 5k 5090 because it’s just the TITAN RTX of the 50xx generation - the absolute top of the line a card where you pay 200% extra for that last +10% performance.
  nVidia just realized few generations back that naming those cards the xx90 gets a bunch of more people to buy them, because they always desperately need to have the shiniest newest xx90 cards, no matter the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This legendary Nokia phone is being brought back to life in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.

  Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly. The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it’s searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that’s why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.

  So the tool itself isn’t defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is trying to log off U.S. tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think the few global AWS and Cloudflare outages would have worked as a warning, but most people just went from “nah it couldn’t ever happen” to “well, it did happen, but surely it wouldn’t ever last all too long”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is trying to log off U.S. tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have over 200, but most of them are to forums that have been dead for a decade.

  The internet used to be quite a different place back in the day, people had separated communities and everything wasn’t just on a handful of massive platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Many did. One common thing is to store some important data on a dongle. A game called DJ Max Trilogy stores your entire save data on it, so even if you bypass the dongle check to get the game to boot, you have to rewrite the entire save/load system too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Come run it in Finland during the summer months, we have too much wind generation and electricity is often free or even goes negative every once in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Spring assisted switchblades are illegal in quite a few countries, so I imagine they are in Italy as well. Still completely ridiculous, as they are plastic toy replicas, and not actual knives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is still the same installation method, directly installing the .apk file, from way back when the term for Android usage was defined.
  So, kinda?

  Android doesn’t use ROMs any more either, because the filesystems are now writable. But Lineage etc are still called custom ROMs, because the process hasn’t changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a “bullshit new term”, it’s three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.

  The most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .app on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.
  Sideloading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Artists I follow post mostly either on X or Instagram, which I don’t find to be any better. All that have mastodon or bluesky accounts I’ve switched over, but many do not.

  But I haven’t actually tweeted anything for something over a decade now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, such nostalgia. I used a complex password until they forced monthly resets on us and I forgot mine a few times. After that, “FuckingPassword1”, “FuckingPassword2”, FuckingPassword3" etc with a mysterious post-it note on my table with a single number. Very memorable, still remember it well after a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Traditionally, convection ovens have a fan at the back that pushes air over the food and around the oven, while air friers have a fan on top that draws the air through the food from the bottom. But for majority of the use cases, the results are very similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open any wikipedia article about “x nm process” and one of the first paragraphs will be something like this:

  The term “2 nanometer”, or alternatively “20 angstrom” (a term used by Intel), has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a “2.1 nm node range label” is expected to have a contacted gate pitch of 45 nanometers and a tightest metal pitch of 20 nanometers.[1]

  It used to be that the “60nm process” was called that simply because the transistor gate was 60nm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it isn’t? I’m comparing it to other hubless designs, stuff like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Top tip, buy a used enterprise laptop. You can get one hell of a deal when big companies throw their entire lineup out after a few years and flood the market. Some have a few scuffs here and there, but others are mint after sitting plugged to a dock for the last three years in a row.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electric motorcycles with solid-state batteries seem to be coming soon.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it being a fully integrated hub(less) motor makes it a much more sensible of a solution than many other tries with all kinds of belt drives and gears and cogs and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home electricity bills are skyrocketing. For data centers, not so much.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Partly because doing so risks that they might decide to invest in their own production instead, and therefore not buy any electricity from you at all which would result in loss of demand and a reduction in overall electricity cost. Like how rising a bus ticket fare by 10% means you will lose some customers because they decide to walk instead, so your profit increase will be lower than that 10%. Raise it too much, and almost everyone walks, and you sell no tickets.

  And it’s a lot harder to build your solar farm if you are a single person living in an apartment building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t, that’s the point.
  If a Raspi going from $25 to $145, an increase of 5.8x is fine, and a Zero from a decade back being twice the price today, then surely when you go from $10/GB of DDR4 to new shiny modern DDR5, that increase of 5.8x is all fine too. And from looking at DIMMprice, it’s still “only” around $25/GB, that’s a pure bargain right?

  Obviously neither of them are fine and both situations are utterly outrageous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve kinda come to expect in the last three decades I’ve been following this stuff that hardware has the tendency to both get better and cheaper as time goes on.
  Like, RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either if you think selling an 8GB stick of DDR4 for $160 today fine, as that is also 10 year old hardware at double the launch price.

  So it’s not that I expect being able to buy an old Raspi model for $25 or $5, I expect to be able to the buy a newer without having to pay up to six times as much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pis are cheaper than Mini PCs again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepperridge farm remembers when a Raspi was $25.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resin printing in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your temperatures are too low even for the datasheet specified storage conditions of the resin (15-35C), trying to print with it that cold is simply a fools errand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If the image is moving it gets really trivial to uncensor.

  Here’s a quick three-minute video about it from Level 2 Jeff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC there’s still like 700TB of low popularity music missing, but it is only something like 0.4% of listens.
  And they need a more storage overall because they have to set up datecenters around the world - doesn’t make sense to stream tens of millions of connections across the ocean. But that also gives all the backups one would need for “free”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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  No no is clearly the thinnest iPhone ever, just look at it, can’t see anything wrong calling it that. So thin. Amazing, how can apple do such a marvel of engineering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use an Intel CPU and you’ll understand, as they seem to invent a new incompatible CPU socket every five minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How AI broke the smart home in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mumbling “Hey google, turn the lights off” from bed and the entire house going dark is pretty nice though.