eyerony

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1. 31.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   I trialed a 2GB memory, dual-core-no-hyperthreading low-clocked Celeron ("hacked") Asus Chromebox as a workstation a couple weeks ago. As long as you can avoid running electron or other webshit and don't mind doing some thing
2. 32.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   > I wish I knew how to fix public schools. It certainly not with more money. IIRC "busing" is the most effective thing we've tried—wildly more successful than anything else—but approximately everyone (including a lot of pe
3. 33.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   I've had some success in agile-style places pushing for separate story pointing of special-snowflake bullshit design. Like: "This feature's a 3 if we just do it with native elements or and/or existing UI guidelines, but
4. 34.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   > especially ChromeOS, good lord is that a usability nightmare My dad recently got one of these to have something simpler since all he really needs is a web browser, and damn, you aren't kidding. Like, the OS isn't even that &q
5. 35.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   Every other vendor (and OS) takes my time instead of my money. If I'm not forcing myself to be aware of it I can be fooled into thinking some of this time is work, but it's not—it's pure wasted time. Apple products do sometim
6. 36.▲
   by eyerony 6y ago

   I'm such a bad chess player I barely count as an amateur, but it's definitely possible to know simple jerkass bidding systems in bridge and just enough about some of the "standard" systems to screw with people and ofte