refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They actually do. To quote a major FOSS developer, "popularity is not a project goal."

Reminds me of early punk rockers that get upset when their tiny little nobody band that fits in their back pocket, gets too big to fit in their pocket anymore. Some might call it "selling out."

[–] refalo@programming.dev 85 points 1 month ago

About four years ago, Linus Torvalds rebuked him for spreading anti-vaxxer misinformation on the Linux Kernel Mailing List

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

ceramic heat plates (or ceramic PCBs) can be used for very hot applications

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I thought distance was limited to the diameter of the antenna?

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

If you want to get technical, the heatsink/fins helping to move heat away from the chip (regardless of any fans) can also be considered "cooling".

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I still have no idea what this thing is. They claim it's not really just additional language bindings, but that's exactly what it looks like to me.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Got a non-captcha-looped source? I gave up after ten rounds of clicking bicycles.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

They probably used AI to help write it.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Other mainstream distros cannot even be installed by blind users because screen readers are broken on wayland

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

almost a non-issue

tl;dr there's still burn-in but it's supposedly not very noticeable until you use the device for > 5 years

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Been using Ubuntu since 2008... looks like this will be the last year for me.

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