In case you're not familiar with Framework Laptop, they allow you to easily open and change things. I thought their original 13.5" screen was too small. They now have a 16" version. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't ship where I live...
Riz Thon
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More things you might do with ChatGPT 4I've watched [https://learn.deeplearning.ai/chatgpt-prompt-eng\](https://learn.deeplearning.ai/chatgpt-prompt-eng) that shows how to properly tell ChatGPT what to do. There was at least one example where it answered incorrectly and a different prompt was needed to get the correct answer. My biggest issue for now is to make sure that the AI indeed writes code that does exactly what I tried to properly tell it what to do. Do you review the entire code that is generated? I've also been bitten by Intellisense in VisualStudio, that detects that I refactored some code and proposes to refactor other things, but refactors it incorrectly...
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Windows is becoming adwareThat has to be one of the very first things I install on a new Windows...
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I'm starting to really dislike Windows as a development platformI did try clang on VS some time ago when I need to compile a specific library: Clang/LLVM Support in Visual Studio | C++ Team Blog[^] . Maybe that could help.
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My plea to all DevelopersQuote:
write-it-as-you-speak-it
What about the 4th of July? Were Americans saying dd/mm/yyyy before but switched at some point, but "the 4th of July" stayed as is? Also it doesn't really make sense to me to start with month, then day, then year. Either go from less specific to more or the other way around, but don't mix them up. What time is it? It's 7 minutes, 35 seconds, 4 hours.
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Keyboard questionsBut "Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate Mechanical Keyboard" unfortunately doesn't come with backlighting :doh:
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UPS: uninterruptible power supplyI had several APC over the years. As others have stated, the batteries die after several years. Also I find they don't allow for prolonged used without electricity (the ~USD100 ones can give you power for 15 minutes). What I've been wondering for my own setup here is whether it would be possible to have some battery powered modems and routers: you would avoid useless conversions (your UPS's battery converted to AC 100/240V then converted back to DC around 5 to 12V).
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Your preferred Git UI (if any)?Same here. I added Control TortoiseGit from within Visual Studio[^] to access it fast.
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WTF Visual Studio updateAs for me after downloading and installing the update, I open Visual Studio and it's still the same version as before. So I have to again download and install, this time it tells me I have to restart my computer. I've had issues like that on 2 different computers, where I download and install VS and still it's not updated. What I would usually do is redownload the installer.
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who leaves there machine in sleep mode over night?True, I've had those issues quite often after several OS updates. I had to check several times what was waking the laptop in the middle of the night (also, why wasn't it going back to sleep as it should after 30 minutes?) but couldn't find anything useful. Eventually I changed a setting to disallow the computer to wake up for updates, and now it's fine (until the next update that messes it up).
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Docker for WindowsI haven't use Docker much but to me the idea of docker is that everyone running you container has the same environment. It's like running a Virtual Machine, but with less overhead as it's using things from the currently installed Linux kernel. Here you're on Windows, and you use a Windows Nano server image, meaning that your container will at least be of that size I guess. So to me it sounds more like as if you were just using a Virtual Machine.
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Just published : BASIC on Commodore bookThe thing to remember is that nowadays kids are used to playing amazing games on smartphones, so making them work hard to just move a few pixels on the screen may be difficult.
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For those of you that are bilingual...The translated translation actually sounds cool, doesn't it ;)
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Converting DVDs/BDs to MPEG4 - WITH subtitlesI also used Handbrake when I still had disks. It's open source and allows you to select the audio track(s) and subtitle(s). You can also give it a shot.
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Who else is sick of the false syntax errors in the VS2017 text editor?I've had that with WinForm recently, but only when changing branch in Git. It doesn't always happen, but sometimes everything would compile and run, but I would see errors in the error window. Stopping VS, removing the .suo file(s) and starting VS again would fix the issue.
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Other than being able to be kept in a pocket, why would anyone want a $1K iPhone instead of a notebook & pad?You need a high end laptop, some would prefer having a high end smartphone instead of having a computer and/or laptop and/or tablet. Where I live only few people have computers, everyone has a smartphone. As for 1000USD, if you're rich then the price doesn't matter, else, well, bragging rights of course. Personally I'd never buy an iPhone, just too pricey, just like I'd never buy a fancy car
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Xamarin FormsIndeed the easiest is to install Xamaring with Visual Studio, it may just take time to download everything. I remembered thinking that it wasn't working, but it's just because I didn't have the Android Emulator installed.