Don’t they use quantum dots in some OLEDs? Isn’t that what QD-OLED is?

Wikipedia does such a solid, unmitigated GOOD service for the world, especially the English speaking world.

Lol EXCELLENT example of the kind of photo Wikiportraits is trying to replace. It’s hilarious, but not great for the internet’s most reliable resource.

I hate how likely this is. I can’t imagine any scenario where the Trump DOJ does something like this unselfishly, and Google has already kowtowed to the Trump admin. There must be a specific Trump ally they have in mind that would buy that from Google, Musk is just the most likely.

Pi Holes are awesome! Blocking ads at the router level is a great idea. However, I have heard they can be a bit finicky, so not the best solution for all.

Not sure what you are trying to get at?

Welcome to any reddit refugees that might be reading these comments! we are cool beeple, i promise

yeah i mean i know my workarounds like old.reddit and certain third party apps that still work, but most users aren’t doing that. Everytime i accidentally end up on the default reddit experience i am amazed by how messy, ad-riddled, and annoying it is to use. If that was the only way i knew how to use the site, I would simply open the site less.

As a Twin Cities resident, I’m definitely disappointed to hear this news. Everyone I talked to about this was excited about the possible conversion to a Boulevard. People have a lot of feelings about this stretch of 94 because there was a strong historically Black neighborhood (Rondo Saint Paul) that was demolished in the 50s and 60s to make way for this stretch of highway, and the city’s Black community never really recovered from that devastation. Of course, the people that would prefer to keep it a freeway are also the type of people that wouldn’t really pay attention to the news until it was imminently happening.

This was interesting:

MnDOT rejected designs to replace the highway with an at-grade roadway because the agency believes it would negatively impact mobility and create more safety issues by putting more cars on local roadways where crashes are more common. Barnes said MnDOT’s analysis projects that the design would bring more vehicle pollution to residential areas. The Star Tribune first reported that MnDOT ruled out those designs in December.

“We also know this alternative would make air quality worse for more people,” Barnes said.

“where crashes are more common” is interesting to me. Even if crashes are more common on city roads, I would suspect that the crashes that do occur on the freeway are far more deadly. So the boulevard redesign would have probably reduced traffic deaths overall.

However: I94 is the main highway connecting Minneapolis and Saint Paul, particularly in this stretch that was being studied. Currently, if you drive around the cities a lot due to work or whatever, you are almost always including 94 on your route. There are beltway freeways in the north and south of the metro, but those don’t make sense to take unless you’re headed north or south already. When they say that this would have increased travel times for many drivers, they are telling the truth.

Alternatively, we do have a light rail train and multiple bus routes that follow a similar route. But Minnesota is cold and it is hard to convince habitual drivers to wait out in the cold for public transit.

So: I can understand why MNDOT blinked. If they went through with the at-grade option, they would probably face more backlash than appreciation, even if the people that were excited about this were REALLY excited about it. backlash is a very dangerous thing these days. But I still feel pretty strongly that the at-grade option would have been better for the metro overall in the long term.

I think Rose hits this point pretty good:

It’s not that social media is fundamentally evil or bereft of any good qualities. Some of my best post-Twitter moments have been spent goofing around with mutuals on Bluesky, or waxing romantic about the joys of human creativity and art-making in an increasingly AI-infested world. But when it comes to addressing the problems we face, no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing.

so keep doing it to have fun if it’s what you do for fun! just don’t make the mistake of thinking it is a substitute for direct action. Personally, I think good political memes might be one of the few things we can actually do online to change minds. a funny meme that also makes a good point will probably reach way more people than a well-written article that makes the same point!

right there with you. but seeing them scrambling after being so smug about their overpriced product has been nice.

I think it would be hard to find a NUC that costs the same or less and still performs the same as the Steam Deck. You could maybe get there with a custom-built SFFPC, but it would be tricky.

i think we’re getting there. The new ASUS ROG Ally is shipping with Steam OS and official Steam OS support, and I think this is just the beginning. If this partnership goes smoothly, I think Valve will open up the floodgates to other manufacturers doing similar stuff. And I think this will include a new wave of “Steam Machines”.

LTT deliberately fucked over a small boutique water cooling shop. They had a host if other fuckery that needed to be exposed. Why would GN chill out when LTT was doing stuff that directly opposed GN’s pro-consumer and pro-small business values?

What drama has GN stirred up that wasn’t warranted?

Ah sweet, so it’s only 99% fucked! Now I can go back to sharing misleading news stories in peace.

I’m a little lost. Pixelfed is already a decentralized photosharing service, and they already run Pixelfed.social. So what is Loops? An app?

Nothing else to say.

Flashes itself is based on Berlin developer Sebastian Vogelsang’s earlier app, Skeets, his initial foray into creating consumer-facing apps for the growing social network, Bluesky, which now tops 27.5 million users.

While Bluesky offers its own official mobile client, Skeets differentiated itself by focusing on the needs of iPad users as well as customized accessibility features for blind and low-vision users, as that’s one of Vogelsang’s areas of expertise.

Okay so this is coming from someone other than Bluesky the company, which is very promising for Bluesky’s ongoing decentralization.

a mark of a truly open platform. lol