btgeekboy

If your clips are only 10-20 seconds, do you really need a Vimeo/etc? What do you need that a basic file CDN can't get you?

Hey, look at the upside - “unplugging” your car from the Internet may make it more secure.

You're probably on the Outposts rack section; you want to be on the Outposts servers section:

https://aws.amazon.com/outposts/servers/pricing/?nc=sn&loc=3

I basically don’t, at least not at the device level. Photos get synced to my home server using PhotoSync every once in a while (manually, but eh, it works). Texts are backed up on my laptop technically, but I pretty much consider them ephemeral. I don’t really care about bookmarks, and everything else on that list is cloud-first.

I’ve got an HP thunderbolt dock on my desk that will reliably panic a 2019/16”/Intel MBP running 11.6.1 when the dock is unplugged.

The M1 laptop models introduced in 2020 (Air, 13" MBP) only support 1 external monitor. The Mini supports two, basically because it doesn't have one of its own.

The Pro and Max models (14/16") support more.

It’s worth remembering that the M1s of last year aren’t a previous generation. They’re the same M1 chips with just fewer CPU and GPU cores. The external monitor limitation is the only thing holding me back from changing my final-gen Intel Air for an M1-based system.

Airparks are a bit more common around the country than you’d think. Some are nicer than others.

A pilot and homebuilder (of aircraft) myself, it’s basically my dream.

Add How to Win Friends and Influence People to the list. It's easily distilled down to a few notecards at most.

That said, I tried an experiment - I read half the book, and read a summary of the second half. After all, it was getting repetitive. I remember the first half of the book, but not the second. (I should probably go back and read it at some point now.) That repetition, the stories and examples, really helped drive the points home, even if they felt excessive at the time.

I have a pair of 13aH Anker batteries I use, rather than dealing with the lighter plug. The electrical isolation is a feature.

Other than the loading/unloading of stuff, the rest of these can be handled with some code. Consider the tech stack of the average Tesla, including how they're always connected to the internet already. Tie the settings to your key in the cloud, and then create a UI to move key 123 from car 456 to car 789.

If I had one of these machines, I would not be using that port at my desk.

However, I would be using it in every conference room I use, multiple times daily. It’s the difference between plugging in the cable vs. finding the right dongle that’s security-cabled to the presenter cable, and connecting it in the middle.

Your view is the pedant’s view. Of course there are servers. There always will be, to some degree. They’re just not your servers to manage (e.g. update, scale) or pay for. You don’t own them, or even rent them, so you can eliminate the hardware details from your thought process.

Engineering isn’t about building the perfect widget. (Otherwise, the Juicero would have done better.) It’s about building things that meet requirements, given a set of inputs. A credit card is certainly one of those inputs, and perfectly precise scaling may not be one of those requirements.

There is far more to TikTok than a lot of the garbage you hear about online. It’s kinda like the Reddit in that regard - the default content sucks, but there’s some decent deep stuff.

Not sure if you realize which ISP you picked, but Verizon and Netflix actually had peering disputes in 2014 which gave me quite the headache at my then-current employer.

It's the "router on a stick" method. You use a VLAN-capable switch, and connect the upstream connection (cable modem, ONT, etc) to a port on one VLAN, while the rest of your network is on another VLAN.

Why bother with a key?

> To lock all doors, with the driver door closed, press and hold 7•8 and 9•0 at the same time. You do not need to enter the keypad code first.

https://www.ford.com/support/how-tos/keys-and-locks/securico...

Yes - it’s been a few years since I lived there, but this was effectively the process we used in my California county. I’ve come to admire the simplicity of Scantron-esque ballots vs. many of these overengineered touch screen systems.

Definitely. The only time I grab one of the steel bars is when it’s in a particular shape that I don’t have in Tungsten.

It’s only a “farce on borrowed time” because you have the benefit of hindsight.

> Some cheap cables may not have all the connections needed

Well yeah, that's pretty important. A 2m cable that supports 40gbps from a reputable vendor is $59 (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084Z65YJQ/), and that's one of the better prices I've seen. There's a bunch of no-name ones for around $50, but I'm not sure I'd trust them.

At least one airport I know of - KAWO - used to have it, but no longer does. Wonder what the story is there.

Sounds like they’ll be able to leverage that legislation to encourage grid improvements.

Here's a few of my reasons:

* Patching/attack surface. I don't want to maintain a full Linux OS, and I expect (hope) that the network stack on something like an Arduino or ESP is both secure by obscurity (I know...) and by lack of functionality.

* Some things are much easier on a simpler chip as well, like bit-banging access to a NeoPixel, due to the lack of a multitasking OS.

* Bootup times on simpler chips are mostly imperceptible. They power up and begin running your code. (Arduino includes a short pause you can remove, or you can bypass the Arduino boot loader entirely and program the AVR directly.) Even the slimmest of Linux distros can't beat it.

The last of the Intel macs have real Esc keys too (eg the 16” Pro)

It’s a terrible protocol not built for the modern internet. It’s been a while since I’ve seen a URL containing “ftp” that isn’t prefixed by http://

Of course. I wanted to move off of pfSense, but I wanted to roll my own. I tried to build something similar with NixOS but learning all the ins and outs of Nix got a bit overwhelming for a device whose config changes rarely. I ended up just grabbing OPNsense, installing it, copying my configs over, and it’s been a solid 48 hours since.

Luckily, OPNsense is practically a drop-in replacement.

I'm not sure I'd subscribe to that theory. The port forwarding issue is a few clicks; actually getting a site to host is another issue entirely. Even if it was some application you ran on your desktop 24/7 that holds your hand through the process, NAT + DHCP aren't insurmountable.