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Stumbled upon it in ~2023 while I was away from my PC, nothing on my phone, and borrowing the family TV and their Netflix. A real hidden gem.

Unfortunately seems to be an oversight in the implementation of new software locks and their requirements, and is fully patchable. Xiaomi has seemingly already released patches in China as per the article, so this is moderately disappointing for anyone who wants a cutting edge, bootloader-unlocked device.

I think the point is it would have been truly ironic if the AI itself was the authoritative fact checker instead of merely being a tool that built another tool.

If Claude was the fact checking tool instead of the ISBN validator, that's the real irony.

If in a messed up future, only an AI could catch a fellow AI, what's stopping the AI collective from returning false negatives? Who watches the watchers?

Think you're taking this too seriously.

To the average Joe, yeah, Windows is easier to install than ever. But to anyone with a passing interest in the OS has needed to do more and more work just to keep the OS recognizably sane vs the mess it has become.

Contrast that to Linux, which has stayed recognizably sane or even getting better.

Looked for the first post that mentions this new Firefox version. It's funny, my Work Profile installation appears to be enrolled in an A/B test for a newer design, while my main profile has the old layout.

Have to say, I seriously disagree with the new layout. The amount of padding and size of every menu item, the misuse of my phone screen, is just absurd. I can't tell if this is supposed to be the normal OoB experience or if my installation suddenly had accessibility accommodations for myopia turned on and set to maximum. I can't share screenshots for comparison, but it's rough.

I don't work on uBlock or even webdev but it doesn't take much of a stretch to think YouTube's servers will refuse to immediately transmit a video stream after the webpage is requested; probably waiting for a typical user to skip 2 30-sec ads.

It would be in the Downloads section of the Microsoft Store.

I was referring to the niche served by small brands like AYA NEO and GPD. They made (imo) zany but ambitious Windows handhelds before AMD had their mobile APUs / SoCs ready and before Valve's Proton & SteamOS endeavors were production-ready.

So they ran Intel SoCs (slow, pricey, and hot) on a basically vanilla Windows 10 image, sometimes with a proprietary interface that let you kinda use the device without touch and/or without a wireless kb+m. Hmm, getting deja vu with ASUS, MSI, and Lenovo right now 🤪

This article talks about how it used to be that gaming was split into two markets. There was consoles, dominated by three corps (Nintendo, MS, Sony) and PC.

This article talks about how the markets are becoming less and less distinct and how Valve is seizing an emerging opportunity to dominate all forms of gaming with Valve's Steam Deck and SteamOS.

The Deck basically validated the handheld industry that was previously very niche, underpowered, and kinda jank with a first-party, fully supported system with robust hardware under the hood. It also gave Valve a predictable hardware platform to build SteamOS as a replacement for Windows as a low level OS. The only problem being that SteamOS was still very dependent on being run on Deck hardware. Now though, they're taking the first steps to letting it work anywhere, starting with other handhelds.

By pushing SteamOS adoption on handhelds, it targets Nintendo's hardware niche. Nintendo is somewhat secure though since their first party titles are what move their systems.

By slowly replacing Windows, it erodes Microsoft's OS monopoly, which threatens the Windows Store as an alternative marketplace. At a time when Microsoft is already a decade into a dying Xbox brand, and one that is also constantly on the back foot (only company without a handheld and very dodgy support for existing handhelds) And a Microsoft that acquires studios, only to shut them down.

Sony is the least affected since PS5 is the winner of the 9th gen of consoles + they already sell some of their games on Steam. And also, Sony is Japanese, so Sony gets all the japanese titles, once again, unlike Xbox.

I might be behind on the Tech News, but did Qualcomm really win the license dispute with ARM that quickly? Over the Nuvia/Oryon IP?

I wish I had a source but AFAIK it was planned, but MediaTek might be reconsidering, since Qualcomm's X Elites haven't exactly sold very well. Adoption is too slow.

I wish they put out Mini ITX boards or NUCs. I'd love to mess around with these SoCs in Linux.

There probably isn't an automated solution for this, but you could just get the SHA checksum of your BIOS dumps and compare them to others' checksums on the internet.

As for how, well, you can use the shasum command in the terminal on linux. for windows, powershell has get-filehash. and 7zip for windows has a checksumming function as well.