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Kobo does drm-free ebooks when the publisher allows it, so it’s on a case-by-case basis but I have got a lot of them drm free

Great keyboard, what switches are you using? Their browns are my fav switch

I’ve seen your name enough to recognize it and I have you at +40 votes so clearly that’s a good thing lol

One thing I see a lot in phones with multiple cameras is blotches of light that look a lot like that showing up when the lenses are pointed towards something bright (like the sun or a sunset). I usually assume any light flares in a picture are just a result of that, if it was taken by a phone lol.

I only ever lurked on reddit and didn’t spend long when I did - I only started commenting (or rarely posting) because I believe in the fediverse and want to help it succeed. So yeah, way more time spent here and infinitely more engagement.

The post isn’t saying people are too mean to AI, if anything it’s saying people aren’t mean enough to memes. OP’s pointing out a logical inconsistency that’s probably most relevant here (very anti-AI and pro-memes space), not defending anything (let alone AI).

Also calling soda “pop”, although I think parts of the US do this too

Honestly I’m basing this more on the fact amd is STILL out here releasing new am4 cpus than on their stated timelines, they just don’t know when to give up on a socket no matter what they claim (not complaining tho)

One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention yet is upgrade potential - on the intel system, you could move to an i7 or i9 from the same generation but you can’t get anything newer without replacing the motherboard as well. The amd one is AM5 and you’ll be able to pop a new CPU in for like the next six years - odds are good you’d want to upgrade the cpu by then anyway, so expect the amd option to save you the cost of a motherboard down the road. It also gives you a 750W psu rather than a 650, so there’s a higher chance you won’t have to replace that too on your next upgrade.

In terms of performance between the two, i’d actually expect the intel to be a marginally faster cpu and have better connectivity (AMD’s 8000 series is a bit weird compared to their 7000 or 9000 series options, and lack some pcie lanes compared to a standard gaming cpu). This isn’t a super relevant difference for gaming, but still worth knowing for comparing the computers. On the GPU front, which is the most important part for games, the 9070 is way better and this is probably where the price difference comes from. I’d expect the amd system to be noticeably better for gaming, though honestly the price to performance between the two computers probably tracks pretty well.

The other option worth considering is building a pc, which will let you pick a better cpu, MUCH better ram, a faster + more reliable ssd, and your choice of case vs either of these two pcs. I don’t know what the price of that would look like in your market, so maybe not worthwhile, but I’d def recommend checking out the option at least because both of these prebuilts are skimping a little on ram and probably on the mobo/psu/cooling as well.

GitHub and all the other sites like it are a bit odd from a UI perspective cuz they’re catering to both regular users (including the “where exe” crowd) and devs, who need to access the million options git gives and all the extras it doesn’t (automated build and testing systems, for example). Going to a project and downloading prebuilt binaries is kinda a tertiary purpose for them, so the UI is more focused on the project’s source code + build instructions and the tooling to work with those instead.

I think they might have meant the identity of the voter, not just the specific number, but this one’s a great feature as well

Yeah exactly what I mean, any good UI will have to distinguish between things that are actually different in relevant ways. I’m less of a fan of this UI personally, cuz if both are using sms for a bit you probably lose your visual reminder of the difference, but people focusing on the visual indicator existing at all are missing the point imo.

This is definitely one reason for their design, and Apple is shit for that, but the primary reason and the one that many iphone haters miss or trivialize is that SMS/MMS are absolutely fucking trash. There has to be a distinction because if you’re using imessage and relying on all your messages being e2e encrypted and your photos/videos not being compressed to shit, it’s important to get a blatant visual indicator when that’s not actually the case.

I’m not trying to downplay apple’s bullshit social engineering about this, that really is fucked up, but this gets misconstrued all the time as irrational users being upset by green bubbles when to (many of) those users it’s actually a huge downgrade in security and functionality that they’re reacting to.

Great, this is all the infinite information sucking machine was missing: MY information. Can’t wait for hiring companies to try to force me to use this /s

Little talks - of monsters and men
It sounds very chill and upbeat but it’s about the loss of a loved one

GenAI is short for generative AI in this context

Nightcall by kavinsky isn’t exactly what OP is looking for imo but absolutely worth a listen anyway

[email protected] for a link to the instance

(The exclamation mark makes it not read as an email)

My phone can go two days if I make it stretch, but once it dies and I lose access to music I’d probably just drown myself

I watched someone vibe code a curl request with grok and it spat out an api key in the configuration completely unprompted. It wasn’t an active one unfortunately (that would’ve been so funny) but I could totally see this happening