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Comment Re: Hahaha (Score 1) 261

APIs are often buggy. Sometimes, you really need to use them for your project. If you choose not to call those APIs, and there is no suitable replacement, your project will also not get done. You may lose your job as well as a result. There is no good choice.

Good luck getting the OS fixed if Microsoft is the vendor. And if they do, they may break many other apps that are distributed in binary form, that had to work around the API bugs previously.

Oftentimes, when binary compatibility is a concern, the compromise is for the OS to introduce a new API with fixed and better documented semantics, and leave the broken API alone.

Comment Re: Desktop Linux needs to stop sucking is all (Score 1) 224

Suspend/resume has been broken on my Skylake/Z170 since Ubuntu 24. I reached out to the community and could not resolve it.

I was forced to roll back to Ubuntu 22. I'm not confident the regression will be fixed in time before the 5 years of LTS support end.

This is for a NAS that is rather power intensive and noisy. For this reason, it doesn't run 24/7. I wake it up with WOL as needed. That's why the suspend/resume is a hard requirement.

Windows is not an option as the CPU is too old. I wouldn't trust ZFS on Windows either.

Maybe it is time I try FreeBSD. I have no idea if suspend/resume will work or not.

Comment Re: Bad example (Score 2) 126

Many clocks can synchronize their time through radio signals. I own multiple Marathon clocks with large displays, placed near areas such as showers, where I don't normally use my phone. They are not alarm clocks, though, but there is no reason they couldn't be if the manufacturer chose to do so. Most importantly, these clocks don't need time to put together, or ongoing software updates, network connectivity, etc.

Comment 108 nits ought to be enough for anybody (Score 1) 55

That's what Dolby Cinema theaters achieve, and those are amazing.

I believe my home theater with an Optoma UHD65 projector and 106" screen achieves about the same nits, but it doesn't look nearly as good as Dolby Cinema in terms of black level and colors. Certainly, the HDR on it is nothing to write home about. There is more to a good quality picture than just nits.

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