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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh, axis was the wrong term. I was thinking degrees of freedom.
  However, I misunderstood the concept.

  The extra dimensions are basically optical manipulation, like the other comment says with the red and blue lenses.

  I thought it was more about the crystals attitude. So in addition to x, y and z, you also have alpha, beta, gamma.
  Which would be 3 dimensions/axis with 6 degrees of freedom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems more like 5 axis than 5 dimensions.
  Sounds like a slice through the crystal that can be moved up and down and rotated through 2 angles (eg roll and pitch)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh, I’ve looked at a bunch over the years. None have that DVR ability that windows Media Center Edition had.
  I feel like I should build up an arr stack, go down that rabbit hole, spend my streaming subscription money on a VPN and a private tracker (or whatever is required).
  I just haven’t yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows MCE, that was it! Not HTPC.
  I knew a guy that built a career using xbmc in a professional environment, scripted out the wazoo to make it not look like xbmc.
  I think I even tried running it on an actual Xbox, and being impressed with it. But MCE on a spare laptop was better. I eventually built an HTPC to run MCE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back when netflix was new, windows had a Home Theatre edition of windows.
  Beautiful 10ft UI, worked with tuners, could record from them, had no issues dealing with auto-ripped DVDs and had a native netflix integration.
  Then netflix pulled out, but windows HTPC was still pretty decent.
  Nowadays, it’s basically “you have to pay for everything” with a smart TV or a set top android box, maybe lucky enough to have a tuner in it.
  Or it’s high seas.
  I don’t think there is really a middle ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that runs servers, having an immutable os (oe one that “wipes” on updates) is awesome.
  The issue is that you are not in control of the config.

  Learning to script over it might be worthwhile. Update, apply customisation script, back to normal.
  It’s good to learn declarative configuration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  UK gov can seriously cut back on their IT budget since mandating manufacturers make devices secure-by-default.

  Joking aside, this seems a sensible law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most devices have a “restore factory default” button in their UI, or a physical “reset” button that you hold down for 5s or hold down while power cycling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft: Copilot ‘app’ on Windows Server mistakenly added by Edge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have FF set as default browser. Teams opens any link in edge.

  Microsoft has fully gone off the deep end of batshit crazy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing user-controlled RAM limits for Microsoft Edge browser⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like… Old edge from 2015? Or, like chromium new edge from 2020?
  Or did microsoft shoehorn in some crazy IE compatibility to new edge?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the title/summary is a truncated title followed by the title again.
  Read from the 2nd Amazon, and it makes more sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Goes Hard: Steam Deck OLED Review & Benchmarks vs. ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, Deck LCD⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The testing was primarily focussed around OLED vs LCD models of the steam deck.
  The Asus was only included to give some context of the competition.

  It also talks about improved thermals between oled and lcd, the improved redesign

  The AI summary completely misses this, and assumes its all a direct comparison between 2 competitors, and lists only the sections relevant to this