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[-] ffolkes 14 points 2 months ago

I'm not Swedish, but I'm proud of them, too!

[-] ffolkes 2 points 3 months ago

These are just the primaries, not the general election. Primaries are for each party, to choose which candidate from that party will run in the general election in November.

[-] ffolkes 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I just got some J. Herbin "Emerald of Chivor" ink for my Lamy Safari and I love it!

[-] ffolkes 14 points 8 months ago

I like how they count "Nothing", "No response", and "Other" as being separate religions so that the chart looks nore intimidating.

[-] ffolkes 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The amount of creativity Adobe products unleashed upon the world is staggering. Decades ago they were groundbreaking. Just about any piece of media you have ever seen from the past 35+ years has been touched by them in some way.

The Adobe we know now was not the Adobe of back then. Just like the Apple of 1985 is not anything like the Apple we have today. Back then it was about actually developing useful technology, and not just coming up with innovative ways to squeeze every last dollar from every possible customer for the same bloated and tired piece of software.

Back then you had a problem (eg. people wanted to create artistic stuff), and then you had a solution (powerful software to help you). Now software like that is everywhere, so the only way for companies to "compete" is by adding bloat and jacking up the price. Hence the Adobe we see today, full of pointless crap and complex licensing schemes.

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[-] ffolkes 2 points 9 months ago

I agree, and did not mean to imply they had any good intentions. Just that it wasn't pure malicious, evil on their part. They should have been transparent, and offered better solutions to users. They certainly could afford to do so.

[-] ffolkes 2 points 9 months ago

Thank you for appreciating my contribution. :) And to answer your question, because it happens too fast. Everything powers on, the voltage drops below a critical point, the CPU forgets who it is or where it is, and the reboot begins. I'm sure nowadays they make efforts to anticipate this. But back then, the industry was busy cramming increasingly powerful hardware into devices, and no one had really given any thought to how the batteries would react after years of use. Then environmental factors could make everything worse - coldness can suck dozens of percent off even a healthy battery.

[-] ffolkes 28 points 9 months ago

Sadly, very few people seem to understand this. I'm all for seeing a big company have to take responsibility, but the way people just blindly follow this is very disheartening. You can't have true accountability without accuracy. They hear "throttling old phones" and assume the rest. The supreme irony is, throttling was the only way to keep older devices running longer. When I was doing kernel development on the Note2 and Note4, people constantly reported sudden reboots or otherwise rapidly depleting battery while using the camera. The old batteries just couldn't handle the sudden spike in demand for near 100% CPU/GPU utilization + full display brightness + camera hardware powered on + heavy RAM/IO use, all at once. So the voltage would drop, even for just a few milliseconds, then the CPU would starve, and the device would reboot. Just like pressing the reset button on a PC. Limiting the CPU was the easiest solution for everyone. Do I think they should have done it silently? No. Do I think they did it to avoid being thrust into the spotlight when more and more of their users were reporting reboots? Yes. I think modern devices handle this much better because they learned from the past. Manufacturers didn't realize back then what the degradation curve would be years into the future against acute spikes in battery demands.

[-] ffolkes 2 points 9 months ago

The true benefits of a Costco membership.

[-] ffolkes 10 points 9 months ago

Don't trust me? Fine, then weigh it. See? The scale says 3 tons, just like I said.

[-] ffolkes 29 points 9 months ago

To be fair, Spotify might suck for artists, but for users it's a good value in my opinion, and the price was $9.99 for like 10 years. I don't begrudge them a small increase. In fact, I wish all the price increases we've seen lately would be so modest.

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Brazilian artist Cesar Alexandre had several pseudonyms, one of which was Lindshaven Virtual Plaza. Tragically, he passed away in 2021 from Covid-19. In my opinion, he was not just one of the best ambient artists of all time, but one of the best artists, period. His music has the innate ability to teleport the listener to a distant and soothing land. Overlapping drones, tones, and nature sounds create some of the most ethereal music I have ever heard. May we all be so lucky as to bring such beauty into this world.

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submitted 9 months ago by ffolkes to c/fanexus

The upgrade to Lemmy 0.18.4 has been completed. There were no problems, and no further downtime is expected. 👍

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ffolkes to c/fanexus

Another popular frontend, Alexandrite, is now running locally. Head over to alexandrite.fanexus.com to see it!

[-] ffolkes 29 points 9 months ago

The thing is, there's nothing wrong with sharing knowledge or pointing out best practices. What sucks is people replying JUST to point out the flaws and then gloat, without even fully comprehending what happened in the article. But this behavior has been around way longer than reddit.

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submitted 9 months ago by ffolkes to c/fanexus

As of this morning, fanexus.com has been transitioned over to a faster server. After many hours of effort, everything should be working now. 🥳

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ffolkes to c/fanexus

Yet another popular frontend, Photon, is now running locally. Head over to photon.fanexus.com to see it!

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ffolkes to c/fanexus

Another popular frontend, Voyager (formerly known as Wefwef), is now running locally. Head over to m.fanexus.com to check it out!

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ffolkes to c/fanexus

A frontend called mlmym has been gaining popularity lately, and what it does is recreate a similar look to old.reddit.com. As of today, we are happy to have old.fanexus.com up and running with the latest version of mlmym. If you want to try it out, all you have to do is add "old." to any fanexus.com URL.

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