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Whenever you compile them, they play the Imperial March

I remember taking off from there a few times, always got a good chuckle at the sign. I think I even have a few photos of it saved from over a decade ago!

It’s a do it once thing, though… ESPHome essentially keeps everything updated and secure.

“no smart home crap” except smart home “crap” can be quite secure today… but please go on.

(80% of my smart home “crap” runs firmware I compiled, communicates only with a local server and have no internet access)

Oh shoot. Somehow I read that as a video adapter component 🤦‍♂️

While DP ports can output HDMI signal, HDMI ports can’t receive DP signal.

Meaning you would buy an adapter that is active, which means it needs to pay HDMI royalties.

Basically, you’d be paying double to the HDMI Forum, to get around their shittiness.

That’s kinda… Counterproductive. Don’t you think?

If your laptop has USB-C it most likely already has DP out.

Your TV? message the manufacturer. tell your friends to message the manufacturer. Demand DisplayPort on TVs. Be the change you want to see in the world.

The mighty DisplayPort: “what is this peasant behaviour I’m too royal(ty-free) to understand?”

Uh, that’s a bit off to be fair.

Our computers are 15x faster than they were about 15-20 years ago, sure…

But 1, the speed is noticeable and 2, not all the new performance is utilised 100%.

Sure, operating systems have started utilising the extra hardware to deliver the same 60-120fps base experience with some extra fancy (transparency with blur, for example, instead of regular transparency), but overall computer UX has plateaued a good decade and half ago.

The bottleneck is not the hardware or bad software but simply the idea of “why go faster when going this speed is fine, and we now don’t need to use 15-30% of the hardware to do it but just 1-2%”.

Oh and the other bottleneck is stupidity, like letting long running tasks onto the main/UI thread, fucking up the experience. Unfortunately, you can’t help stupid.

At this point I’m not even above buying a PC/laptop from Amazon, pulling the RAM then returning the whole thing…

And if that doesn’t work, try folding and unfolding.

And then he morged all over the place!

Cleaning up the morge conflicts took us a whole freaking week…

More like to have another patch…

Bad news then: almost all software engineers will be using various forms of genAI for their work, let that be LLMs for coding or image generation for quickly visualising things.

4chan is a relatively sequestered part of the internet, and doing this required a level of skill.

There’s a reason people freaked out when deepfakes - first photos then videos - started appearing as it lowered the level of entry for creeps. No longer did you need to learn to use a tool through hundreds of hours of not well documented features to achieve nudes, but even the dumbest dipshit with minimal tech skills and money could download the right models, and either rent or buy the right hardware and get lifelike deepfakes, photos or videos, within minutes or hours…

That quickly passed fortunately, but then came the combined agentic models that could use input images, LLMs, and other generative AI to replace the previously lengthy processes with a much quicker approach through cloud hardware.

Aka grok. Which, let’s be honest, is an even more idiot-proof solution as all it requires is a Twitter account and marginal prompt engineering skills (which is quite well documented already), so even the worst trolls can easily get going (and here by worst I mean the wannabe trolls who aren’t even good enough to be basic trolls).

Yet again the level of entrance was lowered significantly.

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