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  • Vlyn@lemmy.ziptoGames@lemmy.worldElden Ring – Patch Notes Version 1.12
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    10 days ago

    No ultrawide support, no DLSS, no removed fps cap, no precompiled shaders to remove the stutter, …

    From makes good games, but when it comes to technology they either suck or are just lazy as hell.

    The biggest joke is that ultrawide already renders the full screen width, they just put black bars on top to not give the player an advantage, lol.


  • Well, there’s modern C++ and it looks reasonable, so you start to think: This isn’t so bad, I can work with that.

    Then you join a company and you find out: They do have modern C++ code, but also half a million lines of older code that’s not in the same style. So there’s 5 different ways to do things and just getting a simple string suddenly has you casting classes and calling functions you have no clue about. And there’s a ton of different ways to shoot your foot off without warning.

    After going to C# I haven’t looked back.


  • No, it’s not. Most people, even in the US, can easily use the range. You don’t go to a cross country roadtrip every day.

    You drive to work, go grocery shopping, drive home and that’s usually it. A range of 400km+ with new EVs is easily enough. Or do you drive to the gas station every 2 days with your current car?

    And even if you go on a roadtrip, after driving for 4 hours you might want to take a break anyway.

    You do realize there is no data available for the future? We aren’t there yet.


  • You do realize most people charge at home? It doesn’t matter how long it takes when the car is just sitting there (you’ll even save time compared to driving to the gas station).

    Manufacturers also give 7+ years warranty on batteries by now, but even after 10 years a battery doesn’t just break, you only lose a few percent of range (if this wasn’t already calculated into the buffer, depends on the car).

    You do know EV sales stall because of that, right?

    In what fantasy world are you living? EVs just hit an all-times sales record last year. This is for the US, but it’s similar all over the world:




  • I mean I didn’t check how long it actually takes, it’s not 500ms.

    It opens quick, but I can’t find the default value (you can change the behavior via registry), but it’s definitely less than half a second. Especially when you’re already hovering down there it appears near instant for me.

    And let’s be honest: The only reason why multiple icons worked back in the day was because the name of the open workbook was next to it. So you had “(Excel) My Workbook 123.xlsx” in your taskbar. Which ended up as a mess when you had several programs open. Now you have one Excel icon, you hover over it and you see all your open workbooks as a preview so you select the one you want. It’s definitely cleaner.



  • Of course, but it’s mostly for reading. The color will probably be used for notes and the occasional image, for which it’s easily good enough. When I read it’s usually a foot away, while I keep my monitor at 2 feet.

    Black and white content (text) has 300 dpi atleast, so for that it’s perfect.

    E-Ink is fantastic for lots of reading and battery life, for everything else an actual screen is leagues ahead. The response time is awful too.


  • Vlyn@lemmy.ziptoTechnology@lemmy.mlKobo announces its first color e-readers
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    3 months ago

    Both use E Ink’s latest Kaleido color screen technology, which has subtle, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale resolution to 150ppi when you view content in color.

    I had to check just how bad 150ppi would be when dropping down the resolution for color.

    A 24" Full HD monitor has a PPI of 92. So it’s actually okay.

    I’m still using my old Kobo Aura HD (now roughly 11 years old) and the battery still lasts over a month. The screen was already decent back then, but a bit sluggish. I just checked, the old one has 265 ppi. Maybe it’s not time for an upgrade yet :)


  • Vlyn@lemmy.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.worldI'm tired boss
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    3 months ago

    Yeah, it’s tough. Cleaning itself doesn’t take very long and is easy, but starting with it is the difficult part. And no matter how often you do it, it always needs to be done again!

    Add on top that there’s no direct punishment as long as nobody comes over (besides my own annoyance and things being dirty) and it’s procrastination city :-/








  • Vlyn@lemmy.ziptolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldHere we go
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    5 months ago

    Be sure to unplug the windows drive before installing Mint to the other drive.

    Why would you do that? Totally unnecessary. When Windows is already installed any Linux installation respects it without issues. The problem is the other way around, if you install Linux first and then install Windows afterwards on a second partition/drive it nukes your Linux bootloader.

    Especially in times of M.2 drives (which are often behind the GPU) you only annoy people by telling them to unplug their Windows drive first. And they might want to use a second partition on that drive if it’s bigger.