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That's not what the video insinuates.

I bought about 20 flash drives in 2019 at work to parcel out when needed, once or twice a quarter for users.

I needed one last week, and had to throw most of them away, they had all died from presumably dormancy, even new in the package.

Exactly, this is good news, it'll force them to keep 8gb in mind. It essentially restarts the clock on 8GB machines for the next five to seven years.

If a restaurant runs on a 9% net margin and pays around 3% in card fees, then roughly one-third of its net profit is going toward payment processing.

The Stripe rate is a careful blend. There are many cards that are cheaper to process and there's probably a few that are more expensive to process at that rate, it works out in the wash in favor of Stripe. Also, that 30 cents is a large percentage if you're looking at a $5 transaction, for example (6%!)

See the "raw" rates here: https://www.mastercard.com/content/dam/mccom/us/business/doc...

I don't get it either. I've rolled out well over a hundred of these in a higher education setting and I have never had one have a hardware issue or needed to retire it other than wanton damage. I still have a ton of M1s in circulation and they are great still. I had to just replace a Dell with only 2.5 years of service, they tend to fall apart.

Yeah, I love the original name, but it would have been problematic potentially with copyright. As for breaking the format, sometimes there's good reasons for it. I can tell you that it really flies though, when compared to Borg/Vorta. I can't tell if the speed improvements are from the Rust front end or the back end format changes, but it's a lot faster than Vorta/Borg and certainly way faster than Kopia on restore.

I wish I could say Samba worked properly under Windows. I've been migrating file shares to Teams/OneDrive sync as Samba is not reliable anymore. Too many "Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user" or variations on that theme.

It’s centered around a simple YAML configuration format and includes a desktop GUI and webDAV server for browsing snapshots. Developed by the same team that created Vorta and Borgbase, I’ve been testing it and it’s quite fast and user-friendly.

I have a lot of respect for the actors at the Simpsons, but listen to some clips of their voices now versus when they were in their prime. They can't go on forever.

https://youtu.be/0H2KAtsSI3A?si=n_JI9FpmI2xy92IY&t=518

I switched from Fastmail to Gmail/Workspace a year ago. I think but cannot conclusively prove that Gmail drops Apple transaction emails on occasion ( like receipts ). But I also think Fastmail dropped other emails too.

I was on Google Reader, then Feedly for a long time, until the Feedly iOS client just slowly degraded and got buggy. I'm not opposed to paying for a good RSS set.

I finally switched to NetNewsWire as the front end and FreshRSS on the backend, and could not be happier. NNW being free is just the icing on the cake, it's really great, and FreshRSS was also really easy to install.

What I like about FreshRSS is that it's PHP and will install on any old shared hosting plan and uses Sqlite as the database, super easy.

I think it's probably a little bit harder than you think with all the rules and regulations out there. I would highly encourage anybody who's remotely interested, listen to the Acquired podcast episode regarding Visa. It's actually quite fascinating how it was started. You may balk at the length, but the whole thing had me interested.

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/visa

Linux is good for a lot of things, but the end user has to be comfortable too. They've heard of a Mac, but a Dell with Mint or whatnot is a harder sell.

I work in academia and I've gotten most of my people to switch to Macs and no, Linux is not an option here.

I have about eight Windows PCs against about sixty MacBook Airs and guess which platform causes me the most work? 1:20 issue ratio. Even simple things like SMB in Windows 11 are hopelessly broken.

"Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance" - as misquoted by Jett Reno in Starfleet Academy.

I work in academia and the breadth of knowledge on how to get things done by the older workers in a bureaucracy is just astonishing. Lose them at your peril!

I knew I had seen this before growing up as a child, Popular Science, 1985:

https://books.google.com/books?id=rgAAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA69&dq=t...

It always seems it's a fall that ends it, I wonder if she could have made 100 years on the water if she hadn't fell. What an inspiring life!

If you want a real life simulation of this, just go into the lobby of a local McDonald's near the kitchen. It's a cacophony and the employees have tuned it out.

They are on the way of ending commingling, thankfully.

https://www.geekwire.com/2025/after-years-of-backlash-amazon...

On page 12 there's an ad for the cleanroom, and one of the selling points is that it would allow cigarette smoking!

I'd like to think that some day in the near to mid future microwaving grapes or other spheres will be a way to start a fusion reactor or similar.

They already did : https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/instagram-finally-gave-us-an-...

I miss the insider information. Some Redditors were not nice and they all left Reddit and their insider information stopped flowing, it's a shame, it was cool to see behind the development veil.

One of my tech clients emailed me about a Roku problem and one of the AI suggestions in Gmail was to tell the customer to try unplugging a Roku for a minute and plugging it back in. I pressed that button, proofread the suggested text, and hit send.

In truth it felt both amazing and made me uneasy, for AI was encroaching on my career of telling people to reboot their errant device.

Not all MVNO are the same in this regard, some sell the same quality of service data tier.

I support a couple of retired people on the side, and they are totally addicted to the lowest quality slop on Facebook/Instagram imaginable.

It's so bad that they'll click on a link to see the latest slop, and ostensibly get one of those webpages that says they have 47 viruses and call the number. I politely told them that they shouldn't click on those links anymore.

To which they said, well, if I shut my phone off when that happens, can I keep on doing it?

It's like that Star Trek the Next Generation episode where they all get addicted to that game. It's creepy and sad.

When Windows 8 and the start page came out, I convinced a lot of my end users (most of my 75 end users did over time) to switch as they'd have to learn something new anyway.

Now with Windows 10 going away, they are picking up the stragglers.

Made my life easier.