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emma wrote
Reply to KolourPaint is a free, libre, and unabashed MS Paint (Windows 95, 98, XP) clone :) by twovests
unfortunately, it's pretty bad on macos with dark mode activated. i'll have to keep running windows 95 in 86box whenever i hold a business presentation.
twovests wrote
Hey these are the FlipperZero people! The GALL of the 🫸! 🫳. 🅱️USY
video.
anethum wrote
Reply to comment by nitori in Understanding Garlic: A New Paradigm for Tasty Croutons by Futuretech
ah yeah, that could be a little bit confusing: the feature on your phone, while having the same acronym, actually stands for Near Field Crouton. as the name suggests, your crouton needs to be harvested in the same second-level administrative division as your location
Moonside wrote
I was not prepared for how utterly over engineered it was, but I kind of want to build a cheap knock off version myself. I have this feeling deep in my bones that I could build the actually useful parts in prettier packaging. Make it look like it was designed in 20's or 50's and shit.
nitori wrote
Reply to comment by voxpoplar in Understanding Garlic: A New Paradigm for Tasty Croutons by Futuretech
My phone has NFC capability and I'm putting it near a crouton, but nothing is happening. What am I doing wrong?
hollyhoppet wrote
hacking it to show a middle finger when i'm busy
cowloom wrote
imagine spending all of that money instead of grabbing a piece of printer paper and writing "DO NOT DISTURB" on it
voxpoplar wrote
Non-Fungible Croutons (NFCs) have emerged as a groundbreaking development within dining, redefining cronch in your salad. Unlike traditional dietary assets, NFCs represent being crunchy, granting diners the ability to monch. This creation of cromch offers fans a new way to engage with their favourite salad, allowing them to have a tasty meal :). Cooks can sell food with croutons, ensuring ongoing revenue streams. As interest in NFCs grows, restaurants exploring innovative use cases, from exclusive salad releases to unique soups, establishing a new culture of monching that cronch.
neku wrote
brother it is april 2025 it is time to move on from nfts
hollyhoppet wrote
Reply to "I bought this before you knew Elon was evil" sticker on my Hitachi Magic Wand. But I knew Elon Musk was evil when I bought it. Not that it was related at all. by twovests
honestly i stopped getting magic wands after my second one broke because they're a pain to clean but i do miss having one just as a back massager tbh....
hollyhoppet wrote
i don't have any advice on specific keyboards but they're called "scissor switch" keyboards if you want to shop around more
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
i mean, the chain here is still "AI" so it's not linked to anything real
devtesla wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
I wouldn't link a stock price to anything real tbh
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
Even if AMD would still sell all the GPUs they make, I still think the "invest in AMD and make it worth more by improving its libraries" is still an easy path to make a profit, right? If AMD GPUs could suddenly run all the models that Nvidia GPUs could do, then AMD stock would just be worth more?
This would fuck the buyer even more (making the GPU shortage even worse, I think) but I do like the idea of having a Linux machine with an AMD GPU in the next 10 years.
devtesla wrote
Reply to Why doesn't a VC just invest in AMD and pay a dozen software engineers to improve AMD libraries? by twovests
So at the moment AMD is selling through as many graphics cards as they can make, so they don't specifically need this business. On a deeper level, for AMD all the silicon that goes into a consumer GPU is silicon that could have gone into a more profitable product. This is also true of nvidia tbh, but for AMD it's specifically their mobile products, consumer CPUs and enterprise CPUs.
So why does AMD make graphics cards at all? Shiping a high performance graphics architecture pays off down the product line, and eventually makes it into laptops, handhelds, and game consoles. I suspect this is why Intel is making graphics cards now, like I'd be shocked if there's any profit for them there at all but it could pay off in other products.
But yeah the bottom line is that the buyer is fucked. There's not a good reason for AMD to match nvidia on this type of spend (and it's gigantic, AMD does spend a lot and can barely handle gaming Lol. It's more than a dozen engineers!), so nvidia can charge what they want and screw over their partners as much as possible. I'm gonna hang onto my current parts for dear life.
flabberghaster OP wrote
Reply to comment by cowloom in File systems should detect when a file contains only alphanumeric text and reencode it so it takes less space on disk. (This post brought to you by the C en_US locale) by flabberghaster
Not if it's part of the filesystem spec; in that case, the other OS's driver should transparently en/decode it. That's why I said filesystems, not having this as a userspace conversion.
cowloom wrote
Reply to File systems should detect when a file contains only alphanumeric text and reencode it so it takes less space on disk. (This post brought to you by the C en_US locale) by flabberghaster
Could cause issues if the compressed text file has to be read by another operating system, like in a dual boot situation, or if it gets copied to a flash drive and plugged into a Winblows/Mac PC.
twovests wrote
On Steam, you're better off playing with Proton than with the native Linux version because of how stable Win32's API is.
I'm not surprised their solution starts at "statically link almost everything". (It's the big thing that makes projects written in Rust or Go, which statically link in compile time, so ezpz to use.) I really appreciated this post :D
nitori wrote
Reply to comment by flabberghaster in Should Jstpst add a chatbot? Should the chatbot throb and wiggle until you open it? Should it open itself anyways? Should it reappear when you close it? I think we should add sound effects. It should take 600MB RAM and 99% CPU utilization I think. Does anyone want this? by twovests
DAU? Is this an Ethereum token I have not heard of yet? /sarc
twovests OP wrote
Reply to comment by Dogmantra in Should Jstpst add a chatbot? Should the chatbot throb and wiggle until you open it? Should it open itself anyways? Should it reappear when you close it? I think we should add sound effects. It should take 600MB RAM and 99% CPU utilization I think. Does anyone want this? by twovests
I'd be happy to "Freaky Friday" our roles if you'd like to be the chatbot! While I can't literally become a human in our conversation (or puppy, for legal reasons in the State of California) we can certainly role-play this scenario.
Would you like me to ask you questions as if you were the chatbot? Or perhaps you'd prefer to put me down "ethical style"? Let me know what you have in mind, and I'm ALWAYS happy to play along.
flabberghaster wrote
Reply to comment by devtesla in Should Jstpst add a chatbot? Should the chatbot throb and wiggle until you open it? Should it open itself anyways? Should it reappear when you close it? I think we should add sound effects. It should take 600MB RAM and 99% CPU utilization I think. Does anyone want this? by twovests
I can't follow you on this one chief. jstpst.net NEEDS a slop factory if we ever hope to keep our DAUs up.
Dogmantra wrote
Reply to comment by oolong in Should Jstpst add a chatbot? Should the chatbot throb and wiggle until you open it? Should it open itself anyways? Should it reappear when you close it? I think we should add sound effects. It should take 600MB RAM and 99% CPU utilization I think. Does anyone want this? by twovests
Dogmantra wrote
Reply to comment by twovests in Should Jstpst add a chatbot? Should the chatbot throb and wiggle until you open it? Should it open itself anyways? Should it reappear when you close it? I think we should add sound effects. It should take 600MB RAM and 99% CPU utilization I think. Does anyone want this? by twovests
uh can it be someone else's turn to be the chatbot now
cowloom wrote
Reply to KolourPaint is a free, libre, and unabashed MS Paint (Windows 95, 98, XP) clone :) by twovests
this certainly is one of the softwares of all time