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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I use interactive rebases to clean up the history of messy branches so they can be reviewed commit by commit, with each commit representing one logical unit or type of change.

    Mind you, getting those wrong is a quick way to making commits disappear into nothingness. Still useful if you’re careful. (Or you can just create a second temporary branch you can fall back onto of you need up your first once.)



  • I actually went back to a light gray theme for my new Linux machine after I’ve been stuck with Windows’s options of “flat pure black with hairlines” and “flat bright white with hairlines” for too long.

    I don’t actually need dark mode that much (except for coding) if a bright mode theme is easy enough on the eyes. Windows 10 is just so ugly that only the dark mode is halfway palatable.

    If only the old themexp.dll hacks still worked I could have a decent looking desktop on all of my machines…



  • I’m the spirit of fairness I will nitpick you.

    Firstly, porting apps over between Android devices works seamlessly only if those apps come from the Play Store. Android has no provisions for auto-transferring e.g. F-Droid and its apps. So it’s no wonder you can’t transfer your iOS apps (which might not even have Android versions). But it is true that auto-transfers of Play Store apps between different Android spins is seamless.

    Secondly, whether and how easily you can modify or replace your Android is dependent on the phone’s manufacturer. A Pixel is a very different beast from an Xperia in that regard. Still, Google do provide AOSP and are very mod-friendly on their own devices. Apple very much aren’t.



  • CUDA was there first and has established itself as the standard for GPGPU (“general purpose GPU” aka calculating non-graphics stuff on a graphics card). There are many software packages out there that only support CUDA, especially in the lucrative high-performance computing market.

    Most software vendors have no intention of supporting more than one API since CUDA works and the market isn’t competitive enough for someone to need to distinguish themselves though better API support.

    Thus Nvidia have a lock on a market that regularly needs to buy expensive high-margin hardware and they don’t want to share. So they made up a rule that nobody else is allowed to write out use something that makes CUDA software work with non-Nvidia GPUs.

    That’s anticompetitive but it remains to be seen if it’s anticompetitive enough for the EU to step in.








  • Meine Panasonic EW-DE92 leistet mir seit sicher bald zehn Jahren treue Dienste. Die Bürste ist schon eine Weile nicht mehr am Markt, aber die Bürstenköpfe kriege ich immer noch problemlos auf Amazon.

    Ich würde empfehlen, einen renommierten Hersteller zu nehmen, für den man für Erfahrungsberichte im Netz finden kann. Idealerweise ein Modell, das sehr viele Leute kaufen, damit es auch auch für den Hersteller lohnt, nachzuliefern. Das mag zwar vielleicht etwas teurer sein, aber dafür hat man dann nicht solchen Unfug wie mit dem Lidl-Teil.

    Panasonic macht meines Wissens nach gute Schallzahnbürsten. Ich glaube, Oral-B sind auch nicht schlecht und sehr weit verbreitet. Meine Freundin schwört auf Happybrush, aber ansonsten weiß ich nicht viel über die Firma.