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by greyhair 5y ago
I no longer work there, but I was glad to see that Qualcomm was not on the list.I worked with a number of people at the Boulder office when I was at Qualcomm, they were a great team of people.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Between uBlock Origin and PiHole, my web experience at home is so different from what I see visiting relatives and friends, it is startling. Yet, I cannot get (most) of them to try either one.
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by greyhair 5y ago
DOT is the 'minimum' requirement. There are certainly better helmets. That said, the DOT requirements came into being in response to the number of junk helmets in the 1960s/1970s. It provided a minimum bar that a rider could
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by greyhair 5y ago
Math is more interesting, purely as math, as I get older. I found the same is true for history as well. The trick is to find good history authors for the particular time you are interested in. Same with math. I graded very well in math thro
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by greyhair 5y ago
I worked professionally as a motorcycle mechanic from mid 1970s through the early 1980s. Honda's service manuals were very good, but my favorites were the early manuals from the late 1960s to mid 1970s, mostly for their Japanese to Eng
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by greyhair 5y ago
Likewise, if the criminal underworld has decided to target you, you are equally fucked.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Bingo!
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by greyhair 5y ago
More than that, github was floundering economically, and Microsoft bought them to ensure continuity, because Microsoft was the single largest user. Don't want to rely on Microsoft for GitHub? The underlying 'git' is open so
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by greyhair 5y ago
A lot of us have long been tired of the "all things must be Linux" mantra. It is nice having options, having other environments.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Commonly called "click bait"
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by greyhair 5y ago
Part of it comes down to signal drive strength. If you design to a socketed DIMM package, you actually have two trace domains, the CPU to the socket, and the socket to the RAM chips. For that to be reliable, you have to adhere to standards
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by greyhair 5y ago
I have used a Yubikey for years. Nothing is perfect, but as you mentioned, the only hacks of them have been with persistent physical access, or somehow getting the end user to hit the activate button tens of thousands of times. On any syste
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by greyhair 5y ago
Or climate change.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Love my HL-L2360DW hanging directly off Ethernet. What a truck! Fast enough, auto duplex printing. Mine never jams. It just doesn't. Cheap cheap cheap to run. I also have a Canon MG6220 for when I need color, which is not often. I ge
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by greyhair 5y ago
I joined Instagram well before Facebook bought it. It has been a downward slide ever since. Slow, but downward none-the-less. I had a Facebook account early on, but as the filtering advanced, my feed turned to shit, so I closed the account
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by greyhair 5y ago
Forking a project is fine. Stealing the name is not. It creates confusion as to which is 'real'. The original is the real NSM, the fork, if they really want to be seen as legitimate, should do a full scale rename. It really is tha
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by greyhair 5y ago
And if they provide attribution?
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by greyhair 5y ago
I think the rational for buying it was they were the single largest user of it, and were concerned about funding stability. Does anyone have the numbers before they bought github, I saw them once, don't remember the values, just rememb
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by greyhair 5y ago
So basically, drive the cost of all products up to the point that only rich people can afford them, and disenfranchise an entire slice of the population. If you want to have the ability to purchase ten year warrantied devices, that is a sep
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by greyhair 5y ago
Fiddly doesn't cover devices that need to be environmentally sealed. People want devices that can survive a drop into water or even devices designed to be submerged. Making a device with environmentally sealed, and having hatches, cove
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by greyhair 5y ago
Which has gotten worse over time, and one of the several reasons why my Prime membership will not renew this year.
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by greyhair 5y ago
One more reason that I am no longer renewing my Amazon Prime this year when it is up. Amazon is on a slow slide to hell. I came to realize this last year. And Prime membership is a large part of the problem. Two issues: 1) It reduces fricti
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by greyhair 5y ago
I live the hybrid life, connected media, with the essential data backed up to disconnected USB drives. Convenience and resilience at the same time. Also, you need at least two different USB drives, that you back up to in A/B fashion. I
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by greyhair 5y ago
This all goes back to the fact that cloud based / cloud connected storage, that is not also backed up on disconnected media, is essentially insecure/unreliable. I have cloud accessible storage that is backed up on two separate 2TB
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by greyhair 5y ago
I know people that had these and later just opened them up and pulled the drives for use in a freenas box. So it isn't completely trash, the drives were still usable even though they were done using it as a MyBookLive device.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Running Windows 10 with Ubuntu 20.04 running within WSL, and that all works pretty sweet. Corporate apps and Linux consoles on the same desktop. And yes, command line consoles are the only thing I interact with within Linux.
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by greyhair 5y ago
The whole Stallman thing was a shit show, and I think he was thrown off the board for all the wrong reasons. I was still glad so see him go, simply because FSF was a better organization without him. But yeah, the railroading that he got was
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by greyhair 5y ago
Those that think Taiwan is not next are fooling themselves.
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by greyhair 5y ago
I am all about compromise the same way Mitch McConnell is all about compromise. As long as you come over 90% of the way to my point of view, I'll give 10%.
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by greyhair 5y ago
Republican voters have been voting against their own self interest for the last forty years because of Reaganism. And this last year, they capped it off with Trumpism. Because both Reagan and Trump (though very different) had such a grasp o

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