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  1. Re:Proprietary Wireless on Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    i've used the bluetooth drivers on windows and linux, they're both terrible, if you use the scpserver xinput wrapper on windows it's marginally better than the linux one

  2. Re:Proprietary Wireless on Microsoft Announces Customizable Xbox Elite Wireless Controller · · Score: 1

    cool, name another controller that provides an open source driver, every single controller is only supported at all because someone (most likely unpaid) bothered to write one. there's no difference between a proprietary wired controller and a proprietary wireless controller. i know from experience the bluetooth driver for ps3 controllers is a pain in the arse.

  3. Re: Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    from one of the other replies i got apparently newer routers can handle it since it was caused by a buggy or non-existant implementation of upnp alternate port requests on most routers

  4. Re: Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    they both require the same forwarded ports

  5. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You think people understand NAT now? people will just buy ipv6 routers with pre-configured firewalls instead of ipv4 routers with pre-configured NATs and the world will go on exactly the same

  6. Re: Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    you're ignoring gamers and people using skype or other direct message programs just to begin with, because of NAT you can't have 2 xboxes online on the same internet connection. NAT is a fucking cancer that needs to be cut out.

  7. Re:phillistines... on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    yeah, lock the screen and turn off the monitor, the screensaver is mostly just a waste of power

  8. Re: phillistines... on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    you run screensavers on your phone? you have an oled monitor?

  9. Re:phillistines... on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 1

    what? no they're not, a google search points to zero articles even suggesting this is a thing

  10. Re:phillistines... on Cinnamon 2.6: a Massive Update Loaded With Performance Improvements · · Score: 2

    to be fair there's no real reason to run a screensaver in this day and age

  11. Re:Seems to Be a Pattern of Behavior on SourceForge and GIMP [Updated] · · Score: 1

    they had years to do this shit and failed at it. they did this kind of half hearted upgrade of the site and it's better but ultimately only a little bit better. kind of like sourceforge.

  12. Re:Funny, that spin... on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    you'd think that elon would come out and say that paypal was an evil ai then?

    naw...

  13. Re:Funny, that spin... on What AI Experts Think About the Existential Risk of AI · · Score: 1

    no i don't forgive you, it's a retarded idea that because someone is really really good in one field that they must know all about every other one.

    Physics is not AI
    Business is not AI
    Electric cars are only tangentially related to AI.

    would you get bill gates to fix your car? i mean he's a really good businessman so he must be a great mechanic! hell if you need open heart surgery i'm sure Elon would be a great choice!

  14. meh, i wouldn't write it off, i'm sure someone you know will buy one so you can give it a fair crack before you commit

  15. the idea that it's not a solvable problem is ridiculous, that article even says they're not sure if the guys complaining are using the dk1 or 2. ultimately we don't get sick from viewing 3d shit in real life, it's just a question of how realistic it has to be to get rid of the motion sickness and if how cheaply that level of realism is achievable

  16. Re:using the OpenCL APIs is *noisy* on GPU Malware Can Also Affect Windows PCs, Possibly Macs · · Score: 1

    the amount of people who would be able to tell if they're gpu is being used if they're not using it is probably below half a percent. hell before this article i'd probably have chalked it up to some poorly coded program i'd installed on purpose or just dust buildup on the heat sink

  17. Re:No biggie on Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme · · Score: 1
  18. Re:No biggie on Australian Government Outlines Website-Blocking Scheme · · Score: 3, Insightful

    vpn is indistinguishable from other encrypted traffic if you change the handshake/other markers as that's all deep packet inspection is going on, china can't block it and you could say they're "extremely motivated". the only real way to block vpn is to block all encrypted traffic, goodbye https.

  19. Re:Buggy Whip on GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release · · Score: 0, Troll

    now now, lets not get into a buggy whip measuring contest.
    vi is fine if you've got nothing important to do but learn archaic interfaces but some of us have shit to do.

  20. Re:The moan of sour grapes on Reactions to the New MacBook and Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    the screen would have to be replaced every 2 years minimum to start with, after the first 4 years (unless you buy the 10k version) it's going to be cheaper to upgrade than repair

  21. Re:alarmingly vacant? on Changing the Rules of a 15-Year-Old Game: Quake Live Update Causes Controversy · · Score: 1
  22. Re:version control program != the code itself on State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers · · Score: 1

    what's software? is it soft? does it "ware" out. what's a program? am i watching TV? you're just bitching because you don't like the name, it's just as clear as the naming process for a billion other concepts. i hate the idea that you're down on people for hosting their person projects on there, what's your problem with people having a good place to host their stuff? i use projects hosted on there pretty much every day, do you work at sourceforge or something?

  23. Re:antagonistic abstract wacky names on State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers · · Score: 1

    hate to tell you this but all words are just made up

  24. Re:social network / free webhosting on State of the GitHub: Chris Kelly Does the Numbers · · Score: 1

    i have no idea what you're talking about, i download code off of it and use it, it's a hub of git repositories... am i missing something?

  25. Re:Individual Energy Use Is Insignificant on People Who Claim To Worry About Climate Change Don't Cut Energy Use · · Score: 3, Insightful

    while you're correct, *everybody* feeling like they are helping by turning off a light would actually amount to something, a fraction of a fraction though it may be. i don't go out of my way but i do buy energy efficient tech where performance doesn't matter, set up my desktops to go to sleep after an hour or so (they way i use them it doesn't bother me), use a raspberry pi as my server etc. at worst i'm making bugger all effort to make my power bill cheaper.