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Aside, I’m really excited to move to a newer JDK: https://openjdk.org/jeps/358

We're already approaching that point. Most modern cars phone home, and my partner's CPAP machine also has a modem that reports usage info back home, including to their insurance provider.

That doesn’t seem to contradict what the parent comment suggests.

It’s still around - https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/

Personally, I’m using Tailscale + VS Code with the Remote-SSH plug-in, accessing my home server.

We weren’t well off either, but my dad was able to get a decent deal when our neighbor upgraded. It was put into my room for lack of space - and the rest is history.

Because I, an Apple user, would like to securely communicate with my Android-using family member. Security benefits both sides of the conversation. But since Apple doesn’t support it, I have to use a completely different service.

Same. My peers were going crazy trying to get ready for university. Once my plan was to do community college and transfer, the last two years of high school became really easy. Tuition was something like $11/unit, and textbooks were actually a bigger expense.

I have a 4 year degree from a state school now, and even though I missed out on some of the dorm shenanigans/networking/etc, I’m doing just fine now. And I never had any student loans to worry about. (Admittedly, my parents did help pay for my degree, but $2500/semester at a state university is very, very reasonable.)

They have every opportunity to be an HBO. But they’ve got great tech combined with a collection of content missteps and excessive price hikes. When was the last time HBO’s price went up?

Remember when someone famously said 640kb of memory ought to be enough for anybody?

Imagine if video games' audio/video just stopped improving past the SNES. Imagine if we decided that 56k dialup was good enough. Imagine if we stopped improving cell phone cameras past the iPhone 3G. These things seem pretty low quality now because we've incrementally built so many better things in the interim. The unleaded gasoline of today is going to be as absurd as the leaded gasoline of yesterday within many our lifetimes. But we can't make big leaps without the interim nudges forward - the N64, the DOCSIS cable modem, modern phone cameras, hybrid vehicles. To do those, we need better microchips.

We also need more of them. Just because the richest areas of the world have theirs doesn't mean the less-well-off areas need to be shut out because they didn't get in on time.

While I do agree that e-waste is a real problem, it’s not like we can just sit with old tech and say “nah, that’s good enough.” We need both more and better fabs, and better waste handling / recycling.

That’s not as great as a typical x16 slot you’d find for a native graphics card, and comes with all of the usual TB baggage. But it’s definitely an option for some other types of cards.

This announcement's quite neat on its own. But if the board had an exposed PCIe connector, they'd be fantastic to build a SFF PC around.

This whole debacle is Exhibit A.

They’re lucky they have a sound backup strategy in place, and that the amount of data lost is appearing to be minimal.

Supposedly they’re having to basically restore everyone from backups because a system designed to delete old data was a bit more efficient than it should have been: https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/u14qqq/_/i4a0mk8/?con...

As soon as they add support for putting wireless networks on VLANs, I'm buying.

Pandora is still around. They were acquired by SiriusXM, and a lot of the Pandora functionality was brought into the SXM app. Though I believe the standalone app is still available and working.

The Chinese firewall is a government run censorship apparatus. The American one you refer to is standard network security (or CGNAT out of necessity) on networks you don't 100% control, but I'd hardly call it a "great firewall."

Those aren't really comparable. What does "reliability" mean in this context?

Same. I'd love a therapist and sleep study. But alas.

Anyone a Mastodon expert here? Is it even possible that the expected/desired userbase would all fit into what I understand is a single instance?

That was discontinued over 6 years ago. In 2022, it isn't a great monitor, either.

I mostly agree with this, but not necessarily the part about the Ethernet connection. If you do a significant number of meetings with video conferencing, you'll be much better off with a wired connection where the latency and jitter are both lower than over the typical WiFi. It's one of the easiest things you can do to improve how your face and voice appear to your colleagues.

FoundationDB is an Apple thing, isn’t it? Might explain why. It feels kinda like they’ve put it out there and it just hasn’t had anyone with a marketing budget to push it along.

It’s a nice, if overly simplistic sentiment.

It’d be nice if my 1099s were electronically filed with the cost basis. But they’re not. So the IRS, every year, thinks I’m going to owe way more than I do.

The IRS also has zero idea about the $4000+ of sales tax deductions I’m filing for this year.

And finally, if you do get it wrong, you don’t go to jail. They send you a CP2000 letter. (Remember those 1099s? I forgot one one year.) You fix the problem or show them their error. They’ll even waive the penalties the first time. It’s a somewhat easy process.

I just tried searching Netflix, HBO, and Prime for Bruce Willis; all showed me his movies. Is that not the filtering you’re expecting?

> I hear they run PPPoE over fiber around here too

Yeah, the old CenturyLink fiber installs have PPPoE. New installs under the Quantum brand are plain DHCP, but still on VLAN 201. (Perhaps to discourage people from accidentally plugging in their router wrong? Not sure.)

FR24 allows aircraft owners to pay to block historical data and tracking.

I’m trying to make a 32” 4K work for me, and Windows’ 125% scaling is hot garbage. Macos is slightly better, but it’s still obvious it’s not an integer multiple of native.

Are you aware of any trustworthy, free VyOS builds? I'd be interested in trying it out at home, but I'm not interested in paying $6k/year or using an unstable nightly. I tried building it myself once but didn't have time to get it working locally.

Living in Seattle, having lights that turn on in the morning really help wake me up in the winter months. I use an Alexa routine which turns on NPR and turns the nightstand lights to ~50% so they’re providing light but not harshly so.

If your alert is going off at 5:00 am and self-resolving at 5:01, and it happens more than once, the prudent course would be to fix the underlying problem or modify the alarming configuration. Nobody benefits from alarms that don’t require action.