[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 4 months ago

It was an embedded system. The user wouldn't be able to download and install stuff, they just turn the thing on.

As someone who likes to actually own and customise all my devices, devs like you are the bane of my existence. Read up on software licensing, and pay special attention to the history of its enforcement and what it enabled us. Then please reconsider your user hostile stance.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

It's worth noting that this is a new line of ThinkPad, there's a bunch of existing lines that will all keep the classic look. Though I feel like the name X9 isn't great, but whatever.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

I wish people would remember that after 8 years of explaining.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Sir, permission to leave the station?
For what purpose Master Chief?
To give the Covenant back their bomb...

Haven't seen this one mentioned yet.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah, it seems the sensor costs as much as a decent used camera.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Games are already horifically inefficient

That's so far from the truth, it hurts me to read it. Games are one of the most optimised programs you can run on your computer. Just think about it, it's a application rendering an entire imaginary world every dozen milliseconds. Compare it to anything else you run, like say slack or teams, which makes your CPU sweat just to notify you about a new message.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

You can catch a glimpse of what the websites were like using the web archive. A good starting point would be a popular web directory, like for example the Google directory from 2004.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

There are two ways you can do this on Android currently, but they're not as quick. You can try to unlock with the wrong finger 5 times and it will stop allowing fingerprint unlocks. Or, you can hold down the power button for 10 seconds and the phone will reboot and also disable fingerprint unlocking.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Microsoft didn't get nearly enough flak for the amount of environmental damage they will cause with that decision. A literal mountain of computers being unnecessarily replaced worldwide.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah OpenCASCADE is amazing because it's the only real geometry kernel that's open source. There's a few smaller ones like solvespace, but they're really more like toys. It's like the Linux of the CAD world.

Writing a geometry kernel is a monumental task, not unlike writing a real os kernel or a modern web engine. I've seen people just lay the basic foundations of a kernel as their PhD thesis. Most of the commercial ones were written decades ago and are still being worked on - the big ones are Parasolid ACIS, ShapeManager, CGM. The last one would maybe be considered a newcomer cause it's only 15-20 years old.

[-] UnityDevice@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

My hp printer has worked perfectly and reliably with CUPS for years now. Just turn it on and print, works every time.
Open source print drivers, baby! I still hate CUPS though.

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