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by bityard 2mo ago
The non-zero chance of a BIOS update bricking my computer is why I NEVER do them to a machine that's out of warranty, unless I'm experiencing some problem that a BIOS update is _well documented_ to actually fix.
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by bityard 2mo ago
A couple years ago, my personal laptop died and that was all the excuse I needed to finally get one of these Framework laptops that everyone was raving about. I was all set to part with roughly $1700. Pulled my credit card out of my wallet
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by bityard 2mo ago
You didn't mention what the problem was, but Dell laptops are so ubiquitous that buying replacement parts on eBay is both very easy and highly affordable. This is one of the reasons I'm partial to Dell, even in the face of all the
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by bityard 2mo ago
TFA is mostly just a bunch of twitter screenshots. From people on social media who forgot that the rest of the web still exists. (Original site: https://www.cookingforengineers.com ) Also, clickbait headline: There is no dissent
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by bityard 2mo ago
I did exactly this thing when I was a broke teenager. The files in my ID1 directory that I shuffle around from computer to computer to this day came from that disc 30 years ago. (I still have the disc, but not the case.) I did, however, pur
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by bityard 2mo ago
The medical establishment that I have familiarity with (in the US) pretty much only ever treats symptoms, not causes. Don't believe me? Next time you go to see your primary care physician, ask them what you should be doing to lower you
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by bityard 2mo ago
It's less about malicious intent and more about predictability. When I install software on my computer with apt, I trust that all the files will go to the right place and install scripts are going to do sane things relative to the rest
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by bityard 2mo ago
> movie rental shops Libraries have stepped in to full this gap. Most have very decent selections of blu-ray and DVDs as long as you aren't looking for a very recent release. Although it's hard to say how much longer physical d
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by bityard 2mo ago
https://reader.inkfeed.xyz/ seems to be returning "Error loading feed: Fetch failed: 0" for every feed
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by bityard 2mo ago
To be somewhat fair, Iron Mountain is just a storage facility. OSS were likely the consultants who worked out how to get the archival data from the station's tapes into Iron Mountain and then get the data back out when needed. So they
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by bityard 2mo ago
I can pretty clearly remember hearing about the "3-2-1 backup rule" by name 10 or 15 years ago on the Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. So it is _at least_ that old, but probably even older. The concept of having multiple ba
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by bityard 2mo ago
Same, but it looks legit enough to me. Here is the git repo for the site with a link back to llama.app: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.pages (I still deeply distrust curlpipes in general though.)
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by bityard 2mo ago
In recent years, I've written two! I wrote my own wiki to use as a personal knowledge base to replace Dokuwiki because I wanted a simpler Markdown-based solution written in Python. I started it during the pandemic times and all of the
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by bityard 2mo ago
A web browser is one of the most complex pieces of software developed by human civilization, there should be no need to ship one with each and every trivial to semi-trivial app.
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by bityard 2mo ago
Everyone is different. I'm in my 40s and throughout my while life have found that caffeine only has two effects on me: 1) If I have any later than afternoon, I can't fall asleep when I want to, 2) If I have too much at once (like
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by bityard 2mo ago
You seem to be beating around some kind of bush by intentionally neglecting to define your definition of "high quality" in this context. Are you saying that 1mg of melatonin from Walmart or Amazon do not actually contain 1mg of me
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by bityard 2mo ago
> NixOS is dying I won't believe that until Netcraft confirms it.
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by bityard 2mo ago
If framework did as you suggest, they would have no way to validate warranty status and recalls. Motherboard died after 3 months? Tough luck, they have no record of you being a customer. Battery tends to catch fire? I guess they should jus
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by bityard 2mo ago
All of the things you mentioned still exist, they are just not mainstream. And maybe that's for the best. Small friendly communities keep them alive, not companies that need to keep messing with a working thing in order to justify a mo
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by bityard 2mo ago
Weird, I've been running instances for many years and never had an issue spinning a new one up. Did you have a trial account or PAYG account? (There is a difference, trial account instances are harder to get and are subject to terminat
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by bityard 2mo ago
If by "just," you mean a couple of weeks ago, yes. I noticed the change to their documentation about two weeks ago. A couple days later, I checked my own account for something unrelated. My main instance (using 12 GB of RAM) was s
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by bityard 2mo ago
Not surprised, Kobos are the best value in e-readers right now. (Plus relatively open and hackable.)
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by bityard 2mo ago
Right? I have always just used whichever terminal came with the Linux desktop I was using at the time. If anything, the terminal is already the smallest and fastest gui app I have open. I ask this question often in the comments when a new &
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by bityard 2mo ago
As someone who has maintained an open source project, I much prefer written bug reports and feature requests to drive-by PRs. (I almost don't even care if they are LLM-written.)
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by bityard 2mo ago
Hm. If "AI averages," then why doesn't it create an average amount to deal with, instead of more?
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by bityard 2mo ago
Fine, you've nerd-sniped me. I tinkered with Dish Network descrambling 20 years ago. Not because I wanted to just watch a bunch of free TV (I hardly watched any TV anyway, we mostly watched DVDs from the video store and Netflix). More
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by bityard 2mo ago
Nits: It's a Unix convention (not just Linux), and Unix traditionally ran on minicomputers (not mainframes). Mainframes had their own specialized OSes, although some could run Unix in a partition or virtual machine.
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by bityard 2mo ago
It would not surprise me if this was a law in Germany, for example.
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by bityard 2mo ago
20% seems high enough that if it was really _that_ effective, the companies making the panels would be tripping over themselves to buy this coating to apply it to the panels right in their factories. (And charge a premium for it.)
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by bityard 2mo ago
Roof-mounted solar panels are a necessity in urban situations but they are a maintenance nightmare compared to a ground-mounted array. That has to be accepted as "the cost of doing solar" when there is no other alternative.

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