1 Hz display option: like an e-Ink display?

(it says 120Hz in the article)

Students who think they are chatting privately among friends often do not realize they are under constant surveillance

This is the problem

There's a 1920 x 1200 non-touch display option, which will surely get you better battery life than OLED. But what's most interesting about it is the 1-120 Hz variable refresh rate, which Dell says is a first to for this model. That extremely low refresh should help save power when static images or text is on the screen.

Ah yeah, I should have read the rest of the article. I didn't know about that feature though, that's cool

I just want a self-hostable open-source alternative to the shitty closed-source IM systems I'm forced to use

I'm sticking with Matrix for now, hopefully some of the issues I've had will get ironed out

Feels like a variation on this old quote:

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
origin unknown

They missed out the firmware in the WiFi adapter

If there's one way to make people care about cybersecurity...

Misread as Pelletburo, now sad there's no pet feeder called that

They need a cow bell

EU vs US population

EU ~450 million, US ~350 million

Be careful who you trust with your data! And back it up

The brain cells presumably have a life span... if this technology ever gets used in consumer devices, I'd like to know how people will try and squeeze extra life out of a failing component.
Take it out and warm it in their hands like an alkaline battery?
Give it a shake?
Sing to it?
Some kind of stimulant drug?

I'm really grateful for the introduction to deceptive patterns here.
I was not aware of it, and I think it's important to have language that can describe specifically how tech companies are trying to coerce people.

Hmm... How many significant figures of pi was it made to?

I think "sludge" would be a good alternative

a platform that enables designers to relatively easily contribute to open source projects without learning git

Reading this made me a bit sad.
On the one hand, I understand how tools like this could be a hurdle for someone who isn't heavily invested in their use. And on the other, as someone who has tinkered with open source projects, I know that as hurdles go, git is the first of very many hurdles that must be cleared when contributing to a large, mature GUI program like this, and it's a pretty low one at that.

It would be great if more people could contribute to and help develop open-source versions of tools they themselves use, but I can certainly see how tough it can be starting out

Keep a bishop hidden behind the toilet until your opponent forgets about it

No-one suspected Bruce Wayne's "free WiFi for Gotham City" initiative

I find that if I really like a product, I don't want to have to go to the trouble of finding a new one in future if I lose/break the first one. Often, even if it's something that you wouldn't realistically expect to break, I'll buy a few of it just in case, like clipboards, or document cases.

Another is consumables. For example, I bought an unusual eraser holder that has replaceable inserts for it. I really like it, so of course I had to buy 20 years' worth of inserts because I can almost guarantee they'll stop making inserts before I'm finished using the product.

For bulk food prep, it's often easier to work in batches. For example, I might make 5 days' worth of breakfasts at once, and store them in the fridge. In that case, I need 5 * <number of people> worth of containers. I also need to account for contingencies: what if a guest stays over? I don't strictly need that many identical containers, but it makes for a good system

I love the flat earther energy in this