@wumpf @aras Firefox recently added HEVC support btw. FF134 supports it on Windows (might need the Microsoft store h265 codec pack though), 136 mac, and 137 should add Linux support.

@antimnguyen Sony XZ1 compact was peak phone design. Durable plastic back and a slightly raised metal bezel on top and bottom meant you could drop it on concrete without a case without breaking anything. Plus it had a microsd slot, headphone jack, good battery life, and is tiny compared to modern "small" phones like the S24 or Zenfone 9.

@dave https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_devices_with_video_output_over_USB-C#Smartphones

Another thing to note is that (at least on Android phones from what I've seen) 5Gbps ports won't be able to output 4k60 if you're using a dock with multiple ports. You'd need a dock that only does display out and power in, and doesn't have extra USB ports/multiple display ports/ethernet/etc.

@lritter @irve No need for that, just read what Nvidia's open source driver does: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/blob/main/src/nvidia-modeset/src/nvkms-hdmi.c

**(There's a chance that there's some fancy secret stuff happening in firmware, but skimming through that as a non driver dev idk)

@antimnguyen make all the animators jealous of how smooth your animations are by maxing out interpolation on the TV when you're showing them off

@TomF The downside of not buying a kindle is that amazon essentially owns the ebook market, and some books are only distributed on amazon, and they've made stripping the DRM a lot harder in the past year.

@TomF my 8 year old kindle paperwhite still works surprisingly well (browsing through books is laggy, but actually reading them is fine). If your parent is outside the US then I'd probably get a cheap Kobo with a builtin light because Kindles only support Overdrive (what most libraries use for ebooks) in the US.

@knickish @yosh

I heavily disagree on the kensington orbit being great. The sensor it uses can't track the ball at anything above a slow roll, which makes moving the cursor across a 4k monitor immensely frustrating. Combine that with the awful software that changes your windows pointer speed instead of the trackball's DPI makes it unusable.

I do love the scroll ring though.

@feld @briankrebs
Sony doesn't make any of the OLED panels they use in their TVs, they buy them from LG and Samsung like everyone else.

@zeux I wonder if the mac build is using Apple's fancy new linker?

Might be worth testing how long the Linux builds are when using mold?

@aras I managed to brush *half* of my dog.

@psykose @mdx

Something using a modern Intel Atom CPU (Odroid h3/h3+/AliExpress Mini PCs/etc, using Jasper Lake and newer should be able to handle gigabit SQM) will cost a bit more, but will be way less of a headache, especially for router use. Just use Openwrt and configure SQM and you're pretty much set.

@kate As someone who's partially colourblind, please consider removing or reworking the yellow -> green transition colour, as it blends with both of its neighbouring colours too much.