The electrons don’t move very quickly either. And it’s current (amps = joules / second) times voltage (electric field potential difference) that delivers power.

Simplifying to a single harmonic (pure sine voltage source and a linear RLC load), you need to know the product of the voltage’s and current’s amplitude (in VA, voltamps) but also their power factor or cos φ, the cosine of phase beetween them. If the cosine is zero, it’s a purely reactive (L/C) load with a phase of ±90° and no power is consumed overall. If the cosine is negative, power is actually being generated by the device you’re measuring (for instance, old elevators and escalators with synchronous motors are actually delivering power into mains when enough people are travelling down).

Double negative in the first row

Or shake the device for a while to make all indents go away. I guess the GPU could do that too if it’s the only thing it’s busy with.

Probably also new enough to have a non-point-focusing Fresnel lens. Which is enough to focus sunlight into a pot and heat it up decently fast, but not to make a sharp death-beam to liquify metal. That’s the most valuable part of a projection TV nowadays, and although you could get a sizeable trapezoidal mirror and some lenses, plus dichroic glass out of LCD ones, those are not nearly as fun.

I think that by removing the mirror, screen and case, a working one could be made into a half-decent projector but very limited in where it can be placed in the room to focus (about 1 diagonal away from the screen and dead center because of no keystone) plus you’d have to make a fire-resistant electrically safe case for the unshapely thing that blocks any light from the lamp/CRTs but isn’t too big as to block your view any more than the bare device already does.

Text-based UI can be super clean! Not great for small screens though

Eww, the examples… There’s Copilot twice but no FOSS apps I recognize (perhaps there’s open source ones that come with AOSP in the System section…)

Of course. You need about 1 hair per 2x2 pixels on a 1080p screen and 4x4 on a 4K screen. That totals about 10,000 hairs per icon in the simulation, which can be precomputed into animations. Third-party icons will be 2D (or 2.5D if the FG/BG layer of the icon is handled separately, doubling the animation data). Now it’s “just” a matter of drawing 10,000-20,000 lines with precomputed shading and textures from the icon’s 100x100 bitmap render.

Also, the GPU is only used by apps while they’re in the foreground, so the launcher might be able to use all of its power. And it could cache animations for existing icons (who cares if the system uses 32 GB of storage? Buy the higher option, peasant!)

Fluffiger Yaerno

Are you living in 2010? Nope, full hair simulation. Gotta optomize the impressions of people trying demo units at the store, multitasking be damned. The base model has 4 GB of RAM btw.

What’s the right photo?

Link to the Tumblr post if that helps

With a hair simulation running, applying force every time you interuact. They have to justify the GPU and the best ROI is to maximize first impressions. Yes, it will make the launcher RAM-hungry and super unresponsive when multitasking but usability is secondary.

Their username checks out

I don’t know, I’m asking for a friend

And yes, Nyarch’s customizations (like catgirl-downloader) are available as a script, this is probably preferrable than nixifying another distro

you’re over your catboy phase

Is there a UwUntu- or Nyarch-like NixOS fork to smoothen or eliminate the transition from catboy?

Another has a rotated eye

Being FOSS is not a prerequisite of E2EE but a prerequisite of knowing it’s E2EE for sure. Like, I can give you a black box that prints PGP key pairs and says “includes RPGP, MIT-licensed PGP library” but you can’t trust that the machine doesn’t use modified, low-entropy RNG or exfiltrate the results. The communication you do with these PGP keys is technically E2EE − a third party server relaying your messages will not be able to read them, unless I provide them with the potentially not-so-secret “random” data my box generated.

But you’re right: if my black boxes are also used to encrypt/decrypt the messages with “your” keys (made by them) and I run a non-transparent ssrvice that delivers the messages, there is a case for not calling it E2EE.

“Uh… Let’s forget the leader thing then”

jorymo’s previous alien bikini jumpscare was even scarier: turns out her spacesuit is a tesseract (bigger on the inside!)

To be fair, we don’t have any pics of exoplanets. Technically, we could measure their surface temperature and basic chemistry through spectroscoopy but I don’t think they reflect enough photons for our equipment. They are usually identified by dimming their star slightly when passing in front of it. This can give an estimated size and distance from their star. And maybe atmosphere composition if it refracts! So they’re not naming this kind of picture but a bunch of data with big error bars.

My phone can’t decode YouTube’s WebM above 90 fps at 480p and 60 fps at 720p without a huge framedrop. The audio works fine though.