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Comment That's really good news for me (Score 1) 114

Windows 10 has being slowly enshittified, but Windows 11 is a turd on fire since the beginning.
So even being a die hard Windows user, I'm very tempted in switching to Linux.
But there are some reasons that stops me. Many games I play that can't run on Linux. And I have a NVidia GPU (RTX 3060), which has poor support on Linux (AFAIK).
Another reason is analysis paralysis. I just can't make my mind on what distro I get. See, people here on /. and some other places says things like Wayland sucks, SystemD is cancer, Gnome is bloat, Flatpack bad, etc. At the same time, distro X is amazing, distro Y is perfect, distro Z is sexy, etc. And often these same distros has all that bad stuff you Linux nerds despise.
And there's Valve and their SteamOS. Valve recently opened it for anyone to use, but it's mainly compatible with AMD GPUs. but Valve says they're working with NVidia to "improve compatibility", but that'd not happen until 2027.
So, Windows 10 extended support for one more year did fit like a glove. It bought me time to wait and let Valve cook. Fingers crossed!

Comment Re:Clickbait (Score 1) 55

Helicopters require training, but don't require flight plans and permits for every flight.
Drones are much more comparable to them than to fixed wing aircraft.
I can agree with requiring training and permission/registration to fly a drone, at least the big ones, which can cause serious accidents.
But permits for every single flight is stupid.

Comment Re:[Movie trailer voice] (Score 1) 98

In a World where electrical tape and black markers don't exist ...

RTFA, or in this case, WTFV.
If you block the recording light with tape or a similar solution, the gadget can identify it and prevent it to start recording.
But somehow if you drill a hole just enough to damage the LED, apply some resin to it and let it dry, it records video normally without the light.
Maybe there's a light detector behind that LED that just detects if there's enough exterior light coming in... if you damage just the LED but not the light detector, it doesn't block the recording function.

Comment Does it support token certificates? (Score 1) 71

Because it's the first thing that comes to my mind: much easier support for client-side digital document signatures using token certificates (like thumbdrive or smartcard devices) plugged in the client machine.
This has been a pain in both my previous and current job. Both provided SaaS products that worked with digitally-signed XML files. But when the client opted for using tokens/smartcards, we had no other choice than make the client install a client-side software to do it locally and send it back to the SaaS servers.
No problem when it was one or two users, the problem begins when it's entire organizations with hundreds of users, each one with their smart cards...
Maybe with Web Serial API we can do it in-browser, it'd be great.

Comment Re:Not Constitutional (Score 1) 58

What's next, Microsoft has to continue to support Windows XP?

It's not what the law means, but... it would not be a bad idea... Stop Killing Windows anyone?
But by the law MS would be required to at least let you activate the product, being by activation servers or phone, releasing a "forever key" or a patch.
Honestly, no biggie for them.

Comment Re:Delphi (Score 2) 34

There are still a few cases where Delphi/Lazarus/OP is a solid choice, like native desktop applications and lightweight and high performance microservices.
In my previous job we used Delphi to make a set of multi-language, multi-platform libraries for electronic tax documentation.

Comment Subtitles are bad but (Score 1) 100

Closed Captions are even worse. It's in many news outlet Youtube channel.
It's like it was translated to some other language and back to English with a 90's translator, with lot of missing words, in all capital letters and with a 15 seconds delay.
Mind you, are the authors that provides the content of these hateful CC's.
They're supposed to be at least decent, because they're (supposedly) human-made and directed to hearing impaired people.
Oh and Youtube don't let you fallback to regular automatic subtitles. It's those atrocious CC or nothing.

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