Smart meters automatically send usage data to the utility company (electricity, gas, water, etc) so they don’t have to come and read it manually themselves. Are you interest in any particular detail about them?

I agree, but unfortunately it’s a reality of a capitalist society that large private companies have a lot of the wealth, and so people set themselves up for retirement by owning a very tiny part of those companies.

I was going to say that I use Hoarder and like it, but it looks like it’s been renamed to Karakeep. I like the AI-powered tagging functionality.

I can’t see the link you posted. It goes to a Twitter login page.

Haven’t they owned Reddit for 20 years now?

I wonder if it’ll end up like the Wii vs the Wii U.

My wife totally skipped the “lol so random” phase of absurdist internet memes since she didn’t use the internet at the time, so she doesn’t appreciate things like Badger Badger Badger, Charlie the unicorn, the Llama song, animutations, etc.

It’s useful sometimes though, because sometimes I show her a meme that she ends up loving, and I get to see someone experiencing it for the first time.

A lot of people don’t realise that around 40% of the value of the S&P 500, and the majority of the Nasdaq 100 (i.e. QQQM) is big tech companies.

You could always build a portfolio that excludes companies you feel are unethical (for example, exclude oil and gas companies, exclude big tech, etc), but if you were to exclude all companies that have done something unethical then you’d probably end up with the S&P 0 (an empty list)

As much as I hate Facebook, they at least pay people to do moderation there, and regularly update their site

Facebook pays content creators too (https://creators.facebook.com/earn-money ), including for things other than videos (like photo/image posts). Platforms like YouTube do too, but as far as I know, Reddit doesn’t.

I’ll try it out when I get time. I’m pretty sure Chrome can pause and resume downloads but I’m not sure if their state is preserved if you close and reopen the browser. Haven’t tested in Firefox.

But what if your browser restarts?

It should be able to resume where it left off. The HTTP Range header lets a client specify which part of a file they want. For a partially downloaded file, it can skip the part that has already been downloaded. If you’re downloading a 1000MB file and 700MB of it was already downloaded, you’d only need the last 300MB.

This is also how multithreaded downloaders work - each thread is requesting a different piece of the file.

I think wget may support resumable downloads but I’m not 100% sure.

I’m confused about #2… Resuming downloads over HTTP has been solved since the late 90s / early 2000s. Apache added support for HTTP range requests in version 1.1 (1997) and it took a few years for everyone to upgrade their servers and browsers/downloaders to versions that support it.

AFAIK both Chrome and Firefox support it, but if your browser doesn’t support it then GetRight still exists!

Is Trump actually following what the courts say though?

Do those code snippets on the Stackoverflow post allow you to capture the entire screen regardless of which app is open, or do they only allow you to capture the app the code is running in?

Capturing the app itself makes sense (for things like bug reports) but does Android really let any app capture whatever is on the screen?

The one time I do connect the TV to the internet is when there’s a firmware update that fixes an issue I’m encountering. That’s rare though.

I still have it on my network so I can control it using Home Assistant (eg have a backlight come on and dim the main lights when the TV is turned on) but it’s on an isolated VLAN.

This is why my TV is on a separate VLAN (with no internet access) and I use an Nvidia Shield for streaming. I haven’t seen any indication that the Shield does anything like this.

I was going to say “that article mostly just seems to debunk the ‘my phone is always listening to me’ conspiracy theory” but then I got to the part about over 50% of analyzed Android apps having permission to take screenshots :/

Wow I didn’t expect that it’d be possible to get 60fps on Steam Deck.

I’ve played through the Xbox Series X version of Cyberpunk 2077 twice and it ran well, but I’ve been interested in getting the PC version to try some mods. My desktop PC is quite old, since I don’t really do any PC gaming any more and it’s sufficient for everything else that I do (mainly coding). I’ve got a Steam Deck though!

tl;dr

• DLSS
• Faster storage - MicroSD Express which is ~4-9x faster than regular MicroSD (max ~985MB/s read and ~950MB/s write)
• 30fps cap in quality mode, or 40fps in performance mode (at 720p on the console or 1080p when docked and using a TV with 120Hz refresh rate).

I considered it for https://dnstools.ws/, but it was very new and not mature enough when I was rebuilding the site back in 2020 or so. Only Blazor WebAssembly was available at the time; server-side / hybrid Blazor didn’t exist yet. I ended up using React + SignalR for the frontend instead, and gRPC on the backend to communicate with the worker nodes.