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by duffyjp 4y ago
Is that a from-the-wall number or just the CPU?
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I have an i7-2600 (32nm) still in service and it's shocking how well it keeps up with modern tasks. The cheapest current Ryzen you can buy would destroy it benchmarks but you'd never notice day-to-day.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
w3m is my go to console browser. It does a better job displaying a site in a coherent way than lynx (IMO). I should add a lynx/w3m useragent test to my site and display images in AAlib for text browsers, that'd be a funny easter-
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by duffyjp 4y ago
In my workplace folks are begging for MacBooks.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Reminds me of the hilarious Energizer Phone. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14045/energizer-power-max-p18...
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by duffyjp 4y ago
That's what I'm thinking too, unless José has a secret Elixir branch. Might be a brand new tool.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I thought about running `stress -d` on it and letting it go for an hour/day but decided I'd rather just label the drive "BAD" and keep it in my junk drawer. Sometimes tasks don't require reliability and I'd ra
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by duffyjp 4y ago
It really should be. I posted a little anecdote* about KDE doing just that after using the same drive in Windows for years without a peep. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33866560
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Over the summer I had this idea I wanted a full linux install on a USB stick I could move from machine to machine. Years ago I had splurged on a really nice Sandisk Extreme 64GB (200MB/s+) and so I installed to that. After installin
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I've been carrying a Sony TX100V in my work bag for I suppose 11 years now. I'm on my second one. It has staggeringly good macro capabilities. I've had two 8x10 prints done this year and they're amazing. It's a 2
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I'm 41 and my boys are 4 and 8. It's wild to even consider I could have been a grandfather by now if my life choices had been different. Wouldn't be such a bad thing though, at 40 you're still pretty young so I could&#
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by duffyjp 4y ago
We print out worksheets for the kids almost daily so we need a printer. I bought the cheapest HP laserjet that had an internal paper tray and it's been fine. I'm pretty sure I bought it in 2018 and we're still on the starte
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I ordered a replacement toner cartridge for our HP laser printer in 2019 when it reported it was low. We print a few pages a day on average and the new one is still in the box... I haven't even had to take it out and shake it.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Anecdotal, but I've been hosting four sites with Digital Ocean since 2014 and have never had unplanned downtime. Once or twice they've migrated my droplets to new hardware in the middle of the night, but that's always with t
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by duffyjp 4y ago
We only buy physical movies on DVD because that's what our minivan can play and that's the only time we need a physical disc. I thing the general reason is just cost though, I'm not going to spend $25 on a disc I'm only
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by duffyjp 4y ago
April fools joke from 8 years ago? Ugh.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I use QuickTime screen recording and then after trimming the video as needed run it through GIF Brewery. My team had been on GitHub for a decade and at least when we used it GIF was the only way to embed video. We've switched to GitL
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I used to be on Google Fi and my wife still is due to their excellent international roaming. Her monthly bills are far higher than mine on Visible though and I have much better reception and unlimited data where she's paying $10/g
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I made my PC basically silent by swapping out the included Corsair case fans with Noctuas. I can only hear it if the CPU or GPU crank up to full load.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I've had my eye on these 1 liter PCs to replace my aging Haswell Xeon based server (Dell PowerEdge T20). My system still works great and is completely silent but it's very old and a second one I had died recently. I use external
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Probably lazy loading the images/content blocks when you get near to save bandwidth but not having same-sized placeholders. I see that a lot.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
This is actually the feature I upgraded for this morning. I always use a USB webcam on a stand in front of my 43" display. The laptop positioned usefully would block a huge part of my view. Now one less cable cluttering my desk and
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I still have the Pentium box I used to run it on. Was that really 20+ years ago? How did that happen... I should boot it up and see how well frogfind.com works.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I have the MagSafe battery and if your iPhone is hot it won't charge wirelessly at all. It was frustrating to come prepared with a 100% phone and 100% battery pack, and leave an event with a dead phone and 60% still in the battery pack
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Almost nothing to be honest. I just added a battery percentage display to the other info I show when starting a new terminal and it worked out of the box. Same for architecture which I added to make sure I knew if I was in an arm64 termina
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by duffyjp 4y ago
As the parent of two boys I completely agree, however the burden of childcare and/or one parent not being able to work is huge. Free childcare for all, and start kids in school when they're ready would be my platform.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
I have a PowerPC G4 Powerbook with 3+ years of uptime. https://old.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/vhk4xy/12_pow... I test all my shell scripts on it to ensure the maximum of cross compatibility. You
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Consider yourself lucky. During the GPU apocalypse I managed a Newegg Shuffle for a GPU that included this motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-b550m-ds3h/p/N82E16813145210 Fast-forward a bit and I used i
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by duffyjp 4y ago
A phone I never have to charge would be rad.
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by duffyjp 4y ago
Teams for Mac refused to let me upload a file this morning, and I learned you can't use the Teams webapp from Safari unless you globally turn off "Prevent cross-site tracking." Yeah, no thanks. https://support.mic

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