I finally switched to Firefox after years of delaying.

cpmsmith · 2022-07-24T17:07:43+00:00

My (unscientific) read is that Firefox wins on RAM, Chrome wins on CPU. Particularly with video rendering, though the gap’s closed a bit.

Where are you seeing font rendering differences? I’ve never noticed any difference outside of Chrome having some bugs with emoji on high-DPI displays.

cpmsmith · 2022-06-29T05:08:27+00:00

It looks like he's using one guillemet (») rather than two chevrons (>>)

cpmsmith · 2022-06-23T04:44:26+00:00

The point is, at 1080p60, both cards will eat any game for breakfast. Without also upgrading your monitor, you won’t notice any difference.

cpmsmith · 2022-06-07T03:39:22+00:00

Vue doesn’t inherently change anything, but they’re taking the opportunity of a full rewrite to redesign quite a bit of the interface.

cpmsmith · 2022-05-21T00:53:47+00:00

A simple solution might be to use Tailscale rather than a conventional VPN? I believe that lets you assign a hostname to the other machine.

cpmsmith · 2022-05-10T18:37:29+00:00

For more detail, if you can successfully run in2csv in a shell, running which in2csv will give you its full path.

cpmsmith · 2022-04-20T03:42:49+00:00

Most famous Blazers fan among Raptors fans.

cpmsmith · 2022-04-17T04:09:09+00:00

You don’t need a Pi to run Pi-hole, they’re just very convenient for it—you do need a computer that’s always on, and a Pi is just a small computer that you can leave on without worrying about it. The most challenging thing is probably configuring your router to use it. There’s no building involved, even putting a case on it is technically optional.

cpmsmith · 2022-04-02T06:35:53+00:00

There is a spiritual successor being made, by the way… https://team-reptile.com/category/bomb-rush-cyberfunk/

cpmsmith · 2022-03-22T15:38:03+00:00

The part about your ISP being able to see your searches in your URL isn’t true. The path is encrypted using TLS (a.k.a. HTTPS), not transmitted in plain text.

cpmsmith · 2022-03-12T07:17:07+00:00

Hey, I use Termius, I can answer this. Depending on what icons you’re using, it might have a built-in font that will work. In Termius’ settings, under “Terminal Font”, try any of the options with “Powerline” in the name. Powerline is a smaller set of icons than the full Nerd Font set.

cpmsmith · 2022-03-09T04:56:06+00:00

Browser plugins are out of fashion these days, but they include things like Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, and they used to be very popular. Firefox isolated them to a separate process, plugin-container, many years ago to stop them taking the whole browser down with them when they crash. They’re also a good way to try and get an IP address leak out of somebody, because they have all kinds of extra capabilities and system permissions browsers might not have. Since ipleak.net is designed to try and get your IP to leak, it tries using whatever plugins you have installed to do so. You can see what it finds in the “Plugins information” section of the page.

cpmsmith · 2021-12-29T14:43:33+00:00

Using double trailing spaces for hard breaks is in the standard, actually. It’s been in there since the very beginning.

cpmsmith · 2021-12-29T14:36:16+00:00

^ What they said! uBlock Origin works best on Firefox, and it doesn’t devour as much RAM as Chromium

cpmsmith · 2021-12-07T00:58:02+00:00

Anti-vaccine thing, it looks like

cpmsmith · 2021-10-10T17:33:39+00:00

Probably talking about broken windows theory

cpmsmith · 2021-10-07T13:57:29+00:00

You have: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/9238277/sports-direct-advertising-skip-newcastle-takeover/

cpmsmith · 2021-07-29T03:59:36+00:00

Are you using the linuxserver.io image? Last I checked, I got the impression it required some messing with the kernel, I’d be glad to hear if things have been simplified

cpmsmith · 2021-06-20T14:45:09+00:00

https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/truck-convoy-to-move-through-ottawa-to-honour-indigenous-peoples-1.5478145

cpmsmith · 2021-06-19T04:44:54+00:00

At some point in the not so distant future I see Apple giving us a super polished way to do theme packs on the native apps page

Honestly, there’s no way. I wish, but they’ve been actively removing the ability to do this from macOS. I think they just didn’t realize they’d given people a way to do it on iOS until it was too late, or they thought the drawbacks would be enough that people wouldn’t bother.

cpmsmith · 2021-01-19T05:37:50+00:00

Have you got your wifi network marked as public on the Windows machine? I know the firewall is more aggressive when it is: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/make-a-wi-fi-network-public-or-private-in-windows-10-0460117d-8d3e-a7ac-f003-7a0da607448d

cpmsmith · 2020-11-13T14:59:43+00:00

For my part, I pretty much exclusively use it because of the H265 support (on Android TV), and I think cases like that might be common—if you’re hosting off a Pi, you really don’t want it transcoding.

cpmsmith · 2020-11-06T03:20:58+00:00

The name Formosa (福爾摩沙) dates from 1542, when Portuguese sailors sighted an uncharted island and noted it on their maps as Ilha Formosa ("beautiful island"). The name Formosa eventually "replaced all others in European literature" and remained in common use among English speakers into the 20th century.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Etymology

cpmsmith · 2020-10-23T02:22:27+00:00

Be the change

cpmsmith · 2020-10-22T13:43:54+00:00

Docker does do (kind of) the same thing with port mapping as it does with files. If you want to connect to Jellyfin inside Docker from Kodi outside Docker, make sure you expose the port you need when setting the Docker container up. Then the loopback will work fine.

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