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I was going to comment on the Mac exclusivity too which might be a bad idea now that Linux is on the rise. But you're right, there's a Linux beta too now. Thanks for the pointer.

Depends on your workload of course, but my upgrade from 3700X to 9950X3D gave a massive boost and I should have upgraded to 16-core a lot earlier.

That smells of bad team practices. Put a practical limit on PRs sizes as the first step, around 500 lines max is a good rule of thumb in my experience. Larger than that, and the expectation then is a number of small PRs to a feature branch.

I rarely see a PR that should pass without comments. Your team is being sloppy.


> Your team is being sloppy.

I'm talking about a running joke in the industry, not my team.


The delivery fees are a good thing. I end up with less impulse purchases when I have to bookmark my wants until I have a pooled enough for free delivery. Turns out I don't need that many things after all.

They indeed have the worst apps of the streaming services, at least the Android and Chromecast. They look nice but perform very poorly.

And now they simultaneously added ads and raised prices. I haven't dropped the subscription yet but am sure thinking about it.


It wasn't the same, but I had both and really loved the N9. My all-time favourite phone.

> I'm also aware of NATO expansion

This is the Russian way of putting it. Guess what, NATO doesn't "expand". Each and every NATO member had to apply for membership themselves, after a national decision to do so. Any guesses why all Russian neighbours want to be NATO members?


Keep on ignoring Western intelligence influence on color revolutions and political instability at your own peril. I'm out.


Of course you're "out" when an inconvenient question lands in your lap.

I'll ask you again.

For how long has NATO been on russia's border?

I know you've seen this comment. I know you've downvoted it and ignored it because it's at odds with your sympathy towards terrorists.

And all this from a guy who has never actually even been to russia.

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Bit hard to paint Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain as Russia's neighbours. All enthusiastic NATO members.


You may have to read my comment again, I was not reinventing geography.


I didn't say you were. I live in a NATO member myself which is nowhere near Russia and yet keeps baiting Russia and using it as an easy scapegoat for its issues... Now and then it's true. Thankfully I haven't been accused of being a Russian bot for a while. :)


So now Soviet Union was "pushed" to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and to attack independent countries? I'm sure modern Russia was also "pushed" to attack Ukraine and Georgia?

There's no need for antirussian propaganda. The Russian actions speak for themselves, have always done so, and will continue to do so.


> I'm sure modern Russia was also "pushed" to attack Ukraine and Georgia?

Well yeah, that is indeed what the Russian argument is: America/NATO forced us to attack Ukraine. There was no choice!


For your next desktop, get a motherboard with an optical audio output. Or add a soundcard with that for your current computer, those are still made.


Optical is a great suggestion! Never used it after 1998~ on my minidisc.


Quite a flashback. I switched to optical TOSLINK maybe about 20 years ago, which solved all those issues obviously. It's a bit weird how rare optical outs are on motherboards even today -- clearly less than half have them -- when it is such a useful interface.

Just ordered a hat for my Raspberry Pi with optical out, with a plan to make that my main music streamer. Excited to see if that works out!


I wish Mini-TOSLINK[1] had been more successful. It's allows you to put an optical and electrical audio output on the same 3.5mm connector (i.e. headphone port), which is helpful for saving space on crowded panels.

The trick is that your 3.5mm connector only needs to connect on the sides, so the end of the jack can be open for light to be transmitted.

This was seen pretty frequently on laptops for a while, but I think two things doomed it. One, most people just don't use optical. Two, there's nothing to advertise its existence. If you do have one of these ports, you probably don't even know you could plug an optical connector in there.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOSLINK#Mini-TOSLINK


I remember when all MacBooks had it. "What is this red light for?" used to be a common post on forums.


Ditto. It’s is hard to find non-wifi motherboards with toslink.

All the cheap boards have neither. Most of the high end boards have both


I updated my computer this year, and didn't find anything without wifi either. So it seems it's a small tax you just have to pay now.


I've at least found that the wifi+Bluetooth chips seem to be significantly more robust than the standalone bt ones.


I don't foresee any Bluetooth need either for my desktop setup. But yeah I do see that many buyers would want that for headphones if nothing else, so it makes sense to include the chip.


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