Notes

PC vendors every year: here's our new boring laptops that are 0.01% thinner with fewer ports and battery and worse keebs but cost more sorry about the Intel

ASUS: here's 8 new gaming laptops that are weird but we're trying new stuff sorry about the RGBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o-D-bgXAKM

Pirating one less piece of software now

When your keyboard needs palm-rejection

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Vintage-TellerVision-Keyboard-Model-DCK101-Ver-1-0-Untested-/174569089296

Am I the only one that really likes stickers but is afraid to commit to putting the rare ones on something permanently? I never keep laptops long enough to cover the lid with them and I don't know what else to put them on.

Octothorpe inclu-day
https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1337853904428675076

512x342 @ 55"

A new @SusanKare@twitter.com print for the office

Unboxing software from 27 years ago: PacerTerm

My wife still insists on hanging the @lobsters@twitter.com ornament on our tree

Tired: Making an app that achieves critical mass
Wired: Making a SaaS that is useful to like three people in the whole world

ReStuff extracts StuffIt 5 archives and re-archives them in StuffIt 3 so they can be opened in System 6

http://restuff.jcs.org/

I previously mentioned using the Creative BT-W2 for Bluetooth audio on OpenBSD, but there's a new USB-C model that has hardware volume control

https://jcs.org/2020/11/18/openbsd_btaudio

The M1 Air is silently encoding a video with ffmpeg compiled for x86_64 (under Rosetta) at 1.8x while the Intel Air is doing the same with a native binary at only ~1x (with its fan screaming)

I wonder how fast a natively compiled/optimized ffmpeg would run...