I can sort of understand people who own their own businesses or otherwise have jobs where the amount they put in is directly related to how much they get back putting in tons of hours and basically centering their life around their work, but I can't quite figure out regular salaried employee workaholics.
Man I used one of those forever, I think I finally threw it out once 100Mb switch and G wifi wasn't quite enough. Tomato was probably my favorite firmware for it. I remember bricking it with a bad update one time and having to jumper two pins with a paper clip to put it in tftp mode in order to load working firmware.
Nice. I mostly use DOSBox for my DOS games and ones that work with Windows 3.1(Civ 2, Sim City 2000, and Solitaire mostly), but it'll be nice to be able to do Window 9x stuff with 3D acceleration without having to break out the old Pentium II box.
Hopefully the password is better that it used to be on Panasas devices(HPC storage appliances essentially). Back when I worked in HPC, I had a Panasas fail hard and it required one of their techs to login with the super special root password. Normally they would do it remotely, but this was at a DoD facility and we couldn't make an allowance for that. So instead of sending a tech on site, the support person I was working with gave me the root password and made it very clear I shouldn't share their super secret password that allowed (remote) root access. I don't remember it exactly, but the password is something very similar to P@nA$as!.
> I was using just regular desktop grade disks so that happened every 18 months or so.
That seems unusually bad. Up until earlier this month my old raid array has been mostly desktop drives(just upgraded it to IronWolf NAS drives though). I did finally do the upgrade to new drives because one died, but that drive was manufactured in 2011, and the rest of the drives are from 2010, 2013, and 2015. To be fair I've not gone five years with out a failure, I think the 2015 drive was added about 3 years ago(being my actual desktop drive before that), but otherwise have had good luck. In fact, I think my most recent failure may have been accelerated by my server being put into a temporary case with poor air flow.
I get why people are mad that something that exists is changing, though at this point I've stopped being surprised when something that was free either stops being free or has the free offering diminished. This particularly was a very weird setup where if you didn't want a share of ad revenue, you got to use the service completely for free. While Google offers ad free YouTube to users, it'd be nice if they offered a way for creators to pay for YouTube hosting so they can continue to offer their channels ad free, with maybe a small discount based on the percentage of your user base with YouTube Premium.
The cards have a very first gen Ryzen feel. There's nothing they just clearly do better than the competition(except having more memory, which is kind of indirectly is analogous with Ryzen generally having more cores than the Intel chips in the same price tier), and still somethings they do a bit poorly in, but AMD is no longer embarrassingly behind. Of course this may not pan out the same way as Nvidia isn't up against the same kind of wall Intel was in the CPU market, so AMD might have a tougher time keeping up, but I'm hopeful that competition is back in the GPU market and will stick around.
Yeah, I was excited to try to daily drive a Pinephone expecting it to be "a bit buggier" that a regular phone, but it's still a long way to go once I got it.
The Mac Mini and MacBook Pro have fans where the MacBook Air is fanless, so I assume there are some differences in at least boost clock and probably core clock too. I wouldn't be surprised if we see higher core count M1X chips next for the larger MacBook Pros and iMacs, and maybe even the Mac Pro.
It may be a minor quibble, but but the irrelevant "From McDonald's" is pretty tiring clickbait. Many of us that now work in the tech industry, whether black, white, etc, have worked these shitty food service and retail jobs, but unless you worked your way up through McD's tech statk from the grill, it just doesn't matter. Of course Mr. Hightower here is just reusing the title of the article, so this isn't a slight against him, but journalist should try harder, even in this clickbait world we live in. I'd hate to think my time working at Hardee's, McDonald's and Walmart has any bearing on my current career.
I use my Kindle Paperwhite completely offline. I factory reset it and haven't connected it to WiFi since and just side load what I need(I did have to strip the DRM from my Kindle books to side load them on the unregistered device). I never really used the online features when it was registered previously and kept it in airplane mode to help with batter life. Another bonus is that if a freshly reset Kindle never connects to the internet, you never get the ads.
Nice, I had thought about an HDMI capture device but plugged it in, played with it for about 5 minutes trying to tune out the latency(I'm not exactly and ffmpeg pro) and didn't make much head way. I was also using either a pi 2 or 3, so that maybe have been part of the problem too. I'm glad someone actually had the time to see it through and put together a solution. Having one of these would have been super useful the past few days when I was having kernel panics due to a failing root disk on my home server, but I had any spare monitors stored away because I'm in the middle of moving. I'll have to give this a look once I get all settled in again.
I work remotely for a company based in California. I pay no California taxes. We also have offices in other cites around the US and the world and have had remote people as a permanent feature for a while.
Reading the title I thought this was going to be repairing a failure of the keyboard itself and thought that maybe all keyboards on these "portable" computers. I've got a Compaq Portable 1 and and Osborne 1, both with bad keyboards when I got them. The Compaq was as simple as replacing the foam touch pads while the Osborne looks like it'll be a bit more work.
I used Kroger's clicklist when it first started, and it was find but got worse. It wouldn't have been so bad if I got the occasional piece of produce or meat I would normally give a pass too, but as time when on, it started to seem like they were actively starting to dump their worst meats and produce on clicklist shoppers.
I also found myself having to go inside the store almost every time to go get the items that were allegedly unavailable. In the end if I'm going to go inside anyway I might as well not pay the extra fee and not get the worst the meat and produce departments have to offer.
My biggest take away here is that old MS-DOS has been made free software. I had a Compaq Portable that I’m restoring, and I gave half a though to combining my love of retro hardware with free software and running FreeDOS even if it is a bit of a resource hog. But I think this machine(its the original version of the Compaq Portable) came with DOS 2.something, so the now open source DOS 2.0 might work without the performance hit of FreeDOS. Neat.
Oddly one of the few things I actually kept is Google search itself after noticed that I basically add !g to every DDG search, and I've tried to firewall it off as much as I can.
>However, with Snap, everybody in the world can publish any old rubbish in the Snap Store, including packages that typosquat the names of others.
This is why I don't bother installing snaps unless the developer themselves are actually providing(or at least promoting) the snap. There's been a couple of occasions where I went to install the snap and it turned out to either be an old or broken version of the software.
I don't have too many technical quibbles with snaps, it's just the way Ubuntu has the ecosystem setup now.
I used to have a big fascination with small form factor and power efficient PCs. Other than having Mac mini for a while, I didn't actually implement to much on homebuilt PC side, mostly due to cost. I've had a fairly small mATX case and used lower watt CPUs. For projects like HTPC, the tradeoffs made sense, but I don't have one of those any more and for my desktop, I'm back to a full size case and full powered components and large heat sink to go with it.
I don't have a lot of of super current AAA titles, so most of my games that didn't already work on Linux(most of what I buy) already worked on Wine. But with the Proton integration, I do appreciate that I don't have to run a separate Wine instance of steam and instead running my Windows games is far more transparent. I guess the only minor downside is that since the whole process is so transparent it makes it a bit more jarring when I do come across a game that doesn't work.
I don't have an iPad Pro, but instead the current gen iPad with keyboard cover, pencil and a bluetooth mouse. There's a lot to like about the iPad as a day to day computing device(web browsing, email, light word processing, etc) and it's even to the point where I use is as the main adjutant to my desktop in place of my laptop for most casual tasks. For non-casual work loads, most of my issues are less due to the iPad itself(especially with mouse support being official) and more to do with the app ecosystem needing to catch up, but part of the problem with the app ecosystem with the iPad as a laptop replacement is on Apple's shoulders. I don't expect do be able to do much development work an an iPad anytime soon without using the iPad a just a dumb terminal back to my desktop(which I do occasionally).
Yeah, I've the problem that I can afford what ever I want, though I think I've done a pretty good of keeping the majority of it painted. Probably got about 20,000 points of Age of Sigmar painted. Oddly I think my time spent painting has gone down since I started working from home a year and a half ago. Probably because I now work at the same desk where I hobby, so I don't want to sit there after work.
I noticed my Amazon orders earlier today were scheduled way out(I've been practically next day on everything Amazon Prime recently) and it didn't even occur to me that it was tied the panic buying.
Everybody imagine going back 15 years and tell yourself that you're using a web browser made by the parent company of DoubleClick. Your 15 year ago self would think you're a moron (assuming that 15 years ago you were old enough to know what DoubleClick was).
Microsoft and antivirus vendors have very different goals. Microsoft wants to quietly protect your computer without making a big deal out of viruses, while antivirus vendors always want to let you know that they're hard at work protecting you and that the world is a dangerous place so keep giving them money(or in the case of free versions, keep it installed so they can keep vacuuming that data).
My delivery status with Amazon is frequently something along the lines of "left in the mail room". I live in a free standing single family home in a neighborhood where every one has their own mail boxes.