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[billyswong]

Wait, Scintilla is a text-edit / code-edit component. I think text-encoding switching should be independent of that? (Now I am considering if I shall...

[billyswong]

Hey, the next version of HarfBuzz after 2.7 (i.e. 2.8) was published in March 2021. It's just one year. We don't need 8 years of non-maintenance....

[billyswong]

Dunno. In Windows machine in office, I use notepad++. No matter Gedit, Pluma, Xed, or this new Gnome Text Editor, none of them support a switch of text...

[billyswong]

Their ethernet expansion card is finally there! But... why "clear housing"? It is strange as all other expansion cards from them didn't do ...

[billyswong]

oiaohm When you said RHEL or Canonical can do the driver back-port, it only shows they are developer friendly. That doesn't count as user friendly. in...

[billyswong]

I don't think a "back-port system" for inline kernel driver can ever be user friendly, as you are talking about recompiling a kernel here....

[billyswong]

On the surface, the inline-ness of Linux driver is bad design. But paradoxically, it is such design that push many drivers in Linux to go open source,...

[billyswong]

In theory I think GPU designers *could* put all the DRM media related decoding into a TPM-like module independent of the major firmware. Then only signed...

[billyswong]

One use case I can think of is taking cinematic screenshot or recording of gameplay. Another use case is using the real time 3d graphic engine for offline...

[billyswong]

While Firefox is a distant fork of Netscape and Chrome is distant fork of Konqueror, you have to understand that right now it is Firefox team and Chrome(ium)...

[billyswong]

Such nightmare is no good for both the patent owners and end users. Patent fee not paid and end users avoid patented codec at the end....

[billyswong]

I think those that push CSD and GNOME 3 / 4 UI are the same group of people who also remove compact mode in Firefox and also more recently, the file download...

[billyswong]

Hmm, maybe for mobile GPU that want to conserve battery? Lower refresh rate means less work to do. Or just because the first badge is advertising itself...

[billyswong]

According to adaptivesync.org there are requirements in MediaSync that are tighter than AdaptiveSync ...

[billyswong]

Upon your word, I tried to read the patch a little bit. There doesn't seem any talk of how to know if the firmware update succeed or fail. So... you are...

[billyswong]

That's a crazy legal trap! There ought to be a legislation fix, such that only the hardware vendors or software developers are liable to patent lawsuit,...

[billyswong]

I thought patent fee issue has been paid for when one purchase the hardware? Pure software decoders may be a patent concern but driver for hardware decoders...

[billyswong]

Okay coder you win. Let's see if anyone actually do a more rigorous comparison of "do jxl converted from jpg output exactly the same image"...

[billyswong]

I think you overcomplicated things. When a conversion is reversible, it is by definition lossless. When one (at least for myself) convert an archive of...

[billyswong]

I stay with Firefox mostly because of habit, and partially because there are only 3 browser engines left that websites may support actively. I don't want...