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Are there colors that are less taxing for the graphics card to display compared to others? Example - I'm guessing a 3D art wallpaper is going to need more resources than a simple solid gray background but is there a difference between displaying a particular solid color over another?
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>>54507722
yes, solid black with an alpha of 0
>>54507753
Thanks for playing
Should browser makers agree on a standard default media controls?
/ which do you like best, why?
>>54507638
Who made these icons and how did they do such a bad job?
>>54507638
Yes I think we need standards in modern browsers, for today's web. I think you'll find the controls which ship in Google Chrome to have, objectively speaking, the best aesthetics and ease-of-use: the kind of familiarity people have come to expect from the modern web of today.
Based on these facts I see no other choice but to standardize on Chrome's modern UI for HTML5 media element controls, if we're to push the web forward.
(Disclaimer: I am not employed by Google, Inc.)
>>54507638
Chrome
It's payday guys and my acer aspire is due for an upgrade the thing still werks but I want something that doesnt weigh 5 kilograms and have a shit screen. Whats the best looking laptop out there for under a grand (little over is fine) looking at macbook air atm
old laptop for scale
The only MacBook worth their weight in salt is the rMBP. The rest are seriously overpriced trash.
Depending on your taste:
>MacBook air
>xps 13/15
>any thinkpad
The rest are shit.
Hi /g/ I just got a new phone with Android Lollipop installed
What do I do now, this is babby's first Android phone
Apps to install, hacks, etc
update to marshmallow
>>54507707
Can't do that yet
Just rooted it
What next?
>>54507761
Titanium backup
F-droid
>you can even run graphical applications through Ubuntu on Windows 10
https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/WinCoder/XMING--Bash-on-Ubuntu-on-Windows--X11-Window-System-Running-from-Windows10-Subsystem-for-Linux
*nix neets on fucking suicide watch
>>54507401
desu im just looking forward to having wget and scp without special shit
>>54507404
And yet you won't use them when you do get them, If you had a need for them you would have learnt the built-in Windows equivalents.
>>54507646
there is built-in windows scp equivalent?
Why are you still using Dickbreeze 10?
>>54507255
free as in free beer
up to date
no screen tearing
annoying advertising in Win 7
>>54507255
Just works, video gaymes and actual software.
the best browser became even better, lads
now with power saving mode
>We are the first major browser to include a dedicated power saving mode, designed to extend your laptop battery life by up to 50% compared with, for example, Google Chrome. Depending on your type of hardware, it can mean several hours more browsing before you need to recharge your laptop.
>The results from testing the power saving feature in this developer release show very promising results. In our test, designed to reflect the way people use browsers in real life, the latest Opera developer version was able to run 50% longer than browsers like Google Chrome on a laptop running Windows 10, 64-bit.
>>54507129
Pajeet, 5 rupees were deposited into your shilling account.
They will fail to compete against safari in osx and edge in windows, chrome is know for it's power hungry outside of chromeos, nothing new here, sadly. Testing methodology is also dumb, ad blocking enabled only in power saving mode (in their tests). So on one hand you have both opera and chrome without ad blocking loading all unnecessarily stuff and on other you have opera with ad blocking on in powersaving mode.
I currently have a mentally handicapped friend stuck in hospital for the last month, and I've been trying to find something to make his life suck just a little less than it does right now. I've managed to get hold of an old laptop running xp, and I've flushed out most of the crap, with the intention of having it for him to watch dvds on due to it having a reasonably sized screen. I also figure I can dump some vids on there via usb each time I visit to give him some new stuff to watch.
His mental handicap isn't extreme (he can hold a conversation) but...
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Create a babby account for him and lock him out of the admin account
I just did a Google search for "windows XP" & "media centre" to see if there have been any third-party shells or something, and lo and behold there's a first-party shell! Maybe look into that:
http://startxp.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/transform-windows-xp-to-windows-xp_25.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NMvdbLn4oY
>>54507132
I'm not sure this will be enough, because I don't think xp account features can go as far as locking down the ability to move/delete files and other basic stuff...
I want to be respected as a programmer.
Which programming language should I pick?
C or C++?
>>54506937
you need to make flame animation in ASM
>>54506937
Learn php
>>54506937
Programmers don't get respect, period.
You can get *recognition* by creating highly visible software. The guy who makes the flashy front-end animation showing arrows moving across a globe representing network requests will be lauded by management. The backend guy who made it all possible is just overhead.
>Exam question
>Who invented linux
>Richard Stallman is one answer
>Linus Fuckvald is another
>Pick the obvious choice
>Get it back
>Correct answer was Linus
FUCKING SHITS STEALING THE FAME AND GLORY FROM THE ONE TRUE CREATOR
linux is a kernel
guess who wrote it
>>54506745
FUCK
YOU
>>54506724
Linus wrote linux, you stupid freetard.
Say someone was looking to learn a new language at the moment. What would be the most worthwhile to learn and have to longest lifespan?
COBOL.
It will never die and you will always have a job with it.
>prove me wrong
Top of my list are Python, Javascript and Ruby (least enthusiastic about this one, but it seems fairly popular).
Unix
Answer honestly: would you buy an iPhone/Mac if the price range were Redmeme/PC-tier?
I don't like iOS or macOS at all.
I also dislike how the latest macbooks are so thin and that their keyboards have no depth, their hinges feel fragile as fuck, and their CPUs have no cooling so they throttle to 800MHz when watching youtube.
You literally couldn't pay me to use apple shit.
Apple products are reasonably priced for what you get, a cheaper product would require inferior components and defeat the whole purpose.
>>54506707
t. mac shill
Should I learn Java as a starter language if my main goal is to develop Android apps.
No
Start with C & ASM
>>54506661
wish someone has told me that before. java on android sucks, C is super easy
>>54506679
>>54506661
Wait what. Java-primary CS student here, I thought Android was going to be easy to dev for with my main language, this not the case?
I always use a microfiber towel and if that isn't working I add some cheap glass cleaner.
>but anon, you have to use the TFT cleaner product or you will ruin your precious displays!!!11
Doing this for years and never had a problem.
Toilet paper and vodka.
>>54506599
>I add some cheap glass cleaner
Same here, but I do a "breathe at the display to add some moisture to the microbfiber" step first.
But I am still terribly worried that I will ruin my precious display.
that is the one benefit glossy CRTs had over matte TFTs. Glass is chemically very stable and also hard to scratch.
But other than that, matte > glossy every single time.
Salty milk and coins
If you had sex with a male bodied android, would that make you gay? I mean, technically they don't have genders.
no, but wanting to do so does
if you don't think it counts, then neither should fapping to gay porn, as the porn itself also has no gender, it's just text/image(s)
Yes, you will become gay if you have sex with a robot. You can try to exploit an overflow but I doubt your ass could handle it. 1.8E19 times is just too much even for an experienced cocksucker.
>>54506573
If you have sex with vagina module orfice on a male android it doesn't make you gay.
Femmine dicks on other hand, do make you gay.
