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by ddingus 3y ago
Nope. There are bad condition scenarios that would require far more compensation than filling the position delivers value. "Not worth it" is a very real thing.
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by ddingus 3y ago
No they won't. They will say stuff. And don't get me wrong here -they will say a lot of useful, high value stuff. As they should As will many others. Those of us who believe in the scientific method, peer review, etc... will watc
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by ddingus 3y ago
Sort of. Having run high 3nd X CAD modeling applications on SGI, for example, browser stuff seems clunky and anything really performant seems to load executables locally. That said, yes! Browsers act a lot like X servers do. What I am gett
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by ddingus 3y ago
I have the same machine the author shows in the picture. Agree completely. Also have a really old T60p. Might be close to 15 years old now. It has a bad fan. What I did was put the machine into passive cooling and spin the fan up at boot
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by ddingus 3y ago
Multi-user graphical computing seems to forever sit just outside the more common use case lexicon. Being able to ask another machine to run something and display it where you are is a seriously great feature. These days I have largely given
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by ddingus 3y ago
That is all a matter of public record. Anyone who doesn't want that can file a motion to have it concealed.
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by ddingus 3y ago
You can find that in London right now.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Using it as a dev environment for e-paper at the moment. Once I have a Pi setup for a task, it stays that way. That is nice and I do not need speed.
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by ddingus 3y ago
I like to set up the dev environment on the Pi. For a lot of reasons, my primary laptop runs Windows 10. It has a lot going on. Sometimes a setup on the pi is easy. When that is true, I just leave things on the Pi.
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by ddingus 3y ago
If doing that means more well supported, useful and fun computers, that is fine with me. I have few complaints and fins the devices useful, affordable and fun.
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by ddingus 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about that. Personally, I found the mini HDMI ports themselves a downgrade. One is forever looking for adapters. However, having two displays is nice! It boils down to whether someone is using the device like a compu
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by ddingus 3y ago
I have mixed feelings about that. Personally, I found the mini HDMI ports themselves a downgrade. One is forever looking for adapters. However, having two displays is nice! It boils down to whether someone is using the device like a compu
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by ddingus 3y ago
I was surprised at how much I dislike these things! When I find them, I pretty much avoid that establishment from then on. One would think the brightly colored labels on the products is advertising enough!
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by ddingus 3y ago
Many would say, myself included, that is not a poor choice. It was the better of two possibilities.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Yeah, I am laughing over here. Perfect.
646.
by ddingus 3y ago
Same. For many of my purchases, they came DRM free.
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by ddingus 3y ago
None are useless. They are right about that. It is about coverage and opportunity in our lives. The more skills one picks up, the greater the chance any one of them will make a big difference. Here is a crazy example: Paper tape. In the l
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by ddingus 3y ago
Doing that is illegal in the US. Right of first sale applies here.
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by ddingus 3y ago
They can't really do that in the US at least. Right of first sale doctrine applies.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Don't. The person who owned it died. Nobody knew the passwords. It took me a while to arrive at the terminal in recovery mode.
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by ddingus 3y ago
One could also say the user did high risk travel without securing the device properly too. In any case, Apple can't be blamed here. Apple does not know what really happened. Here is a great example of why Apple takes the position they
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by ddingus 3y ago
Actually, it is not broken. It is working as designed. He simply does not have control of it.
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by ddingus 3y ago
Any number of things could have happened. Fact is, he let someone else take control of the machine. Apple really should explain this to people. It is a scenario nobody wants to be in.
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by ddingus 3y ago
All they need do is go into recovery, wipe the machine and setup fresh. I have done exactly that on an M1 Air I purchased, and that the person who sold it to me bought it new.
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by ddingus 3y ago
From Apples point of view, he may not actually be the owner. That's where understanding what one bought into matters. The great security model comes with costs and risks same as anything else does.
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by ddingus 3y ago
People accept it because they believe in the security model. For a lot of those people, the security model just works. Same for their online activities and apps. There are at least these scenarios: They have been helped by the model. Yay
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by ddingus 3y ago
I believe the thing we are looking for is legal infringement. Rights holder would rather not have something happen, but it is allowed to happen anyway, despite technically being infringing.
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by ddingus 3y ago
CRT displays are still being made. These are small for specialized uses. They are still being refurbished too. To me, a good plasma display offers a lot of what people like about the CRT. Phosphorus glowing in tubes are fast and high con
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by ddingus 3y ago
The trails can be fun. Playing monochrome bitmap or vector games like ASTEROIDS, in the dark on a CRT with contrast up, brightness down to black, looks and feels, plays amazing!
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by ddingus 3y ago
It is often that, so fair on your part too. What I have seen happen is people basically get going on Raspian and start to like it. Myself, I have used UNIX flavors since SGI IRIX and I find Raspian simple, well supported and easy to use. A

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