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I would love to have blanks for every unused socket/port to keep dust out.

I'm just too cheap to pay for them though...


For the same spec it's likely to be a different chip count rather than density. In theory two sticks could have higher bom... not that consumers would see such savings given the price segmentation where the appetite for higher capacities has deeper pockets.

Have recent boards/cpus fixed the instability problems people had with 4 sticks of DDR5 yet?

I was shocked when I saw folk saying you can't use 4 slots. It would mean that a one stick build would have an upgrade path but if you started with 2, you'd have to replace them.


> gpodder.net

Not sure quite what's going on with that project but when I looked - gpodder.net was a subscription service and the foss project was somewhat hidden and renamed as mygpo. Felt a bit suss and abandoned although I guess an rss server could just be "done".

There is also opodsync that seems to be a bit more alive and popular and says it's gpodder compatible. Not tried it though.

My enthusiasm to self-host my podcast/rss feed was killed dead when I gave nextcloud another go since it can apparently do this. Every few years I set it up having forgotten that the last time I did, I swore to never touch it again. I can't believe it's still such a bad experience.


They were still selling butterfly keyboards in 2020.

Beef Wellington could be spherical if you so chose.

I suspect that deep-fried-battered haggis might exist which could be very spherical.


It's my preference too. What do you use?

I used to use "GTK Title Bar" gnome extension which was abandoned a few versions ago so had to write my own and it's X11 specific. The one drawback is that when windows are reopened, they are offset by the title bar height i.e. it messes up whatever is tracking the size/offset/location.

Anyone have other ways to do this in gnome and do they work on wayland too?


I'm on Fedora KDE so won't be much help to you, but there is a "Windows Rules" section in the system settings where I've added a rule that applies to all windows with the property "No titlebar and frame". Actually I'd quite like frame just with no titlebar, but that's not an option.


> The Chemical Brothers (a), The Dust Brothers (b)

I had a couple of Dust Brothers (a) cassettes before they changed their name after getting a call from the other Dust Brothers (b).

Still can't believe they knowingly copied another band's name "because it sounded cool". Isn't coming up with a shit name half the fun? "I need a handle man".


I love termux. I can run my normal terminal environment - tmux, fish, just, git, zoxide, yazi etc. and build rust apps. With decent auto-complete/fuzzy-search, it's very ergonomic for only needing a couple of key presses to get things done. I'm impressed that TUI apps like yazi/nnn respond to touch. It's a very viable app platform for those inclined.

Out of curiosity, is there an equivalent on ios with that level of support?


In iOS we can only use something like ish.app which emulates x86 and runs full Linux distro instead, with predictably much lower performance than Termux (due to JIT being banned in iOS apps), but without any restrictions Android has on the executables


iSH is great as an ssh client. It has a good font out of the box, so it displays tmux and neovim properly.

a-Shell should be faster than iSH for local stuff since the tools are compiled natively, but nothing on iOS, as far as I know, compares to Termux on Android.


a-Shell looks amazing, thanks for mentioning it


Why does Apple ban JIT? It clearly doesn't ban emulation inherently, so why is emulation OK but not JIT?


I believe it's a ban on executing any runtime-generated or downloaded machine code, not just JIT in particular.


Then how is iSH allowed on the app store?


Elsewhere in this thread, someone mentioned that ISH is a full PC emulator running Alpine. You wouldn't necessarily need JIT or native execution for a software VM.


Probably ban on any unsigned code tbh


I don't have an iPhone, but wouldn't UTM be better for that use case?


UTM can't be installed from the App Store unfortunately, and without a developer license you are limited to 7 days for each successful on-device reinstall


Apple somewhat lifted the emulator restrictions on the App Store which means you can install UTM from here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/utm-se-retro-pc-emulator/id156...


Nice, I must've missed that. Downloading it right away :)

Edit: well, it's also very slow unfortunately. I believe iPhone CPUs either don't support virtualisation or they don't expose it (edit #2: it's the latter). Either way, QEMU is struggling quite a bit, and due to it being a GUI it's even slower than what iSH could do


As far as I can see, 4k Thinkpad IPS are DCI-P3. There are Yogas with 3.2k Adobe RGB tandem OLEDs.


> Steam game updates are mandatory and you can't downgrade the game to a previous version either.

For Crusader Kings III, the old versions are listed as betas (cog -> properties -> betas) so you downgrade by "signing up to a beta".

I don't know if it's a common practice but pretty damn necessary for paradox games. A single game might take months and their attitude to backwards compatibility is "new versions will corrupt your game files in ways that only subtly reveal themselves like noticing the King of England owns a county in Mongolia before reaching a game year that will always crash".


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