avhception

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by avhception 2mo ago
In 2023, spent multiple hours setting up a Microsoft account for my GF just so she could play Minecraft. The process involved HTTP 4xx, 5xx, missing emails, activation codes that were "expired" even though they were less than 30 s
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by avhception 2mo ago
That's what I thought as well, I manage a small (50-ish) fleet of Linux Desktops using Ansible. Not perfect, but good enough that it mostly gets the job done.
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by avhception 2mo ago
Haha, I'm trying to figure out how to get in!
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by avhception 2mo ago
I wanted to read it, the topic is super fascinating. But it's almost time for work, and I will have to sift through a lot of Claude's jabbering for the better part of the day. I just couldn't stand it, I found myself starting
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by avhception 2mo ago
Demeter is full of superstitious quackery.
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by avhception 3mo ago
It definitely resonated with me as a kid, and I've had this fascination for the Unices of yore ever since!
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by avhception 3mo ago
"Ah, that's Rev. B, yeah, known problem..." Like I could somehow buy by PCB rev. Sometimes they even swap entire controllers within the same Rev.
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by avhception 3mo ago
This is my favorite version of this dynamic, intentionally buying the crap because they cheaped out on the antifeatures.
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by avhception 3mo ago
Well, of course there is the "buy cheap, get trash, duh!" talking point. But if I pay more, who's to say I'll get a better product? The OEM or some middleman or whoever might just pocket the difference and push crap anyw
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by avhception 3mo ago
A friend of mine recently moved to a modern apartment, built only a few years ago to a very high isolation standard (Germany). I stayed over night and slept on his couch, the air got really really dry and stuffy. It was really uncomfortable
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by avhception 3mo ago
While the article does have its shortcomings, it drives me crazy that we'd have to build 3 or 4 fiber lines to each house individually here in Germany. Imagine we'd have done it that way with water or electricity. It's comple
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by avhception 3mo ago
It's also just a ginormous hunk of metal. Which also makes the long range kinda moot, strapping a bigger battery will of course result in a bigger range. I'm guessing the car doesn't make any improvements on the efficiency?
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by avhception 3mo ago
To be fair, it's also much easier to start a company in Germany if you choose a simpler legal form. It's probably still easier in the Netherlands or Sweden, but the authors pain is at least partially self-inflicted.
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by avhception 4mo ago
Well, I totally get the benefits that made those people choose Kubernetes. It's just that those benefits could be had w/o running a massively complicated piece of machinery that is mostly engineered to solve problems I don't
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by avhception 4mo ago
Long term funding for the Linux desktop, especially those areas that don't lend themselves very well to the bazaar model.
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by avhception 4mo ago
We have a lot of old pi3 stock at $work. We keep using them. The pi3 was the newest model when we imagined and built the applications we're using them for. It was perfectly capable back then. Why would that have changed? The applicatio
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by avhception 4mo ago
This could be mostly due to the fact that China has been on the rise, economically. So people mostly see the system working, and mostly in their favor. We'll see the real oppression once that changes.
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by avhception 4mo ago
My family operated a business on exactly these razor thin margins. You always live on the razors edge. You're unable to invest into the future, unable to improve your processes, and god forbid there is even a minor disruption. I don&#x
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by avhception 4mo ago
To add a bit of context: I'm not even romanticizing the actual implementations, which may or may not have had horrible bugs and errata. Rather, it's the abstract concept, the ability to have a reasonable expectation that, for exam
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by avhception 4mo ago
I want to be able to buy ARM boards like I'm buying ITX PC boards. I don't want a special build of Linux from the SBC OEM, I don't want weird bootloaders, firmware and other embedded-like stuff. I just want an ARM-based PC bo
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by avhception 4mo ago
While individual implementations may or may not have had horrible bugs or consisted entirely of hacks, I think just carrying forward the expectation of having a proper, all-powerful text prompt into the firmware that can easily be made acce
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by avhception 4mo ago
As someone who mostly gets my retrocomputing kick from running modern software on old RISC hardware, I'll try to explain why that's my thing. Typically, these venerable beasts come from a more "civilized" era of computin
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by avhception 5mo ago
I agree with you that "enshittification" has a more specific meaning than just "make worse". Yet, the enshittification of Windows doesn't really follow the mold you described, even though I'd also call it enshi
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by avhception 5mo ago
> Are you actually going to wear this to your graduation? > Heck no. What? That would have been so much fun!
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by avhception 5mo ago
> I'm sure that other countries also have plenty of similar services for ID and age verification laughs in Bundesdruckerei
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by avhception 6mo ago
I've only ever read about VMS in an historic context, like Wikipedia articles and blog posts. DEC and VMS are not well known. That's a shame, considering how much influence they had, especially on WinNT.
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by avhception 6mo ago
Ha, that's very close to my story as well. I had a 166Mhz Pentium and it was all PCI cards and 100mbit by then. That was essentially the start of my career.
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by avhception 7mo ago
From a CPU / GPU standpoint? Yes. From a "I need to constantly replace SD cards or netboot the weird firmware" standpoint? I'd rather not.
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by avhception 7mo ago
At work, we needed a PC for a Linux-based Webkiosk the other day. The computer proposed by the colleague who actually orders stuff comes with a Windows license. I said we don't need that. A fruitless, lame effort was made to locate a s
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by avhception 7mo ago
Many of them offer that option, so there is a grey zone. But you're right - should have been more clear about that.

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