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Emotional connection.

Those who experience trauma together often form a strong emotional bond.


> In which case that's kinda on you.

What if I turned it off because it makes my machine more stable? Why do I have to choose between crashing and jank?


What on earth are you running that has such a bad GPU driver that it can't handle chrome/firefox, yet also is so niche that they don't have driver workarounds for it?

> What on earth are you running that has such a bad GPU driver that it can't handle chrome/firefox, yet also is so niche that they don't have driver workarounds for it?

Fun fact, for the longest time ever on Windows 10 the Intel Arc drivers for A580 and B580 would crash in Edge if you played some videos on YouTube, it did seem that switching the ANGLE backend or whatever it was called would help, though I got similar issues with VLC when it was using the DirectX based renderer whereas OpenGL renderer didn't have that issue but would make the mouse disappear when in the video window.

A lot of it feels like it was solved after moving to Windows 11, though it's still possible to make the PC freeze by either doing encodes in AV1 in DaVinci Resolve (QuickTime H264 or maybe H265 doesn't seem to have the issue) or through Handbrake, if the GPU is at 100% for prolonged periods of time, whereas recording with OBS or playing pretty much any game doesn't have that sort of an issue.

Might be a bad media chip or something else, go figure - definitely there's at least two people in the world who might benefit from disabling hardware acceleration in some cases, though. My RX 580 doesn't seem to have the issue, so that's the joys of being an early adopter.


I don't know. It says ThinkPad on top. It was provided by my employer.

Edit: Not directly related, but I turned off DRM support for similar reasons. Web sites keep turning one of my monitors off when that's enabled. Even though I'm not intentionally or perceptibly playing any media. The (well, another) weird thing is the other monitor stays on. They're the same brand and model, using the same cable.

Fancy hardware stuff seems to make browsers unstable, and in my experience this has been true for over a decade. I don't care enough about to try to find a root cause. I don't need DRM support or hardware acceleration for anything I intended to do, so I just turn off anything like that.


I didn't know these were intended for anything. I thought they were provided to users as a swiss-army knife of reasonably expressive icons for use however they saw fit.

At least that's how I used them.


Some people have significant positions on CPU manufacturers, so there will always be at least a few.

> The cookie spec RFC 6265 section 5.1.2 defines the host name in a way that makes it ignore trailing dots. Cookies set for a domain with a dot are valid for the same domain without one and vice versa.

Well... that's not what the browsers do. If you're logged in to HN, try it now. Add a dot to the host name. Cookie is gone. Remove the dot. It's back.


That wouldn't be the first time web browsers do something that's contrary to spec (and sanity).

Also, I think the section that was intended to be referenced was section 5.1.3.


Rooms don't need to decompress.

Right, but its still impossible for any meetings to be back to back (and by extension for any person to be in back to back meetings) if the rooms holding them can't be booked back to back.

Some people don't have empathy for students regarding this particular subject.

> we have no interest in creating a walled garden or locking you into 1Password.

They have no interest... in collecting subscription fees? I'm a satisfied 1Password customer, but it's hard to take this claim seriously. What does it mean? They literally get paid. Isn't that the definition of an interest?


Maybe they can get more customers by being based.

I think you're thinking of incentive not interest. Like how you can have incentives to steal from the supermarket, but still have no interest.

I'm thinking of another definition of "interest". e.g. "have an interest in"

> I really don't get all the hate for Passkeys on HN...

It feels like the first step in a vendor lock-in strategy. Basically boils down to that. That's essentially my issue anyway.


I love being able to use my Yubikey instead of a password. And I don't feel I'm locked in then...

That introduces new friction to setting up a new device, which is worse than the case with passwords.

You can use the same passkey for multiple devices (for example with keepassxc as authenticator that handles them), but it reduces security same as for example with using ssh private key that's not unique per device.

And if you don't use the same passkey, then you have to create more passkeys.

You should be able to revoke needed passkeys then. I.e. let's say you lost device A. May be revoke access for associated passkey for all places where you used it, but the rest of them would remain OK. Not sure how sites handle that (if at all).

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