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by heywire 10y ago
Yep, I bought a Westinghouse late last year that has no network connectivity.
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by heywire 10y ago
I'm willing to bet many employers really don't like their employees putting personal config files on a production server...
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by heywire 10y ago
We were recently converted from Time Warner to Spectrum. It was all handled over the phone, and at no point did the customer service rep mention anything about my docsis 2.0 modem not supporting the "up to 60Mbit" they were advert
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by heywire 10y ago
Are you able to do that if the user is connected to a VPN? I frequently connect to a work VPN on my laptop using my phone as a hotspot.
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by heywire 10y ago
Definitely. Just this week actually I'm writing an interface to a _new_ RS232 device for work.
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by heywire 10y ago
The LG sets did this.
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by heywire 10y ago
We did, up until my son accidentally chucked the Wii remote into it :(. Ours was an LG set with passive 3D. It was great for the kids' animated movies. I didn't really find any non-animated movies for it. By the time we had to
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by heywire 10y ago
I don't remember having that issue specifically, but I do know that on a fresh install the touchpad is not very responsive. I'm currently running arch with the following as /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.co
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by heywire 10y ago
This is the exact laptop that my employer provides me. While it is not thin or light, it is a pleasant machine to use. I have no problems using it on my lap on the couch or at a coffee shop. My machine is configured as an i5-3340 with 16
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by heywire 10y ago
Is this a first/business class thing? I've never been on a plane with USB power outlets (though it has been about 6 months since I few last).
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Extortionists Wipe Thousands of MongoDB Databases, Victims Who Pay Get Stiffed(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by heywire 10y ago
...grumble grumble...Skype for Business...OneDrive for Business... (hate it when companies do this)
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by heywire 10y ago
I run arch on one of my laptops because I like to tinker (and have the latest of everything), but I certainly wouldn't recommend it to someone who wants to get work done. I run Ubuntu LTS on the laptop I rely on. Just last month a kern
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by heywire 10y ago
I love all of this smart home stuff, but the software developer in me cringes at the thought of some message queue connection getting messed up somewhere and my garage door going up and down 3 hours later as I lay in bed...
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by heywire 10y ago
As someone who recently got an Echo Dot for Christmas, it seems like some apps do have this capability. For example, I paired my Sensi Thermostat, and I only need to say, "Alexa, set thermostat to 70 degrees".
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by heywire 10y ago
I've always read ternary statements to myself as a question. some_condition ? this : that some_condition? then this, otherwise that Typing this, I realize how hard it is to explain without speaking it :)
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by heywire 10y ago
I think the category of "wearables" does a better job of describing them, but you're right, I'm not sure I have a better name. Honestly, I don't think I'd really care if mine didn't even tell the time. The
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by heywire 10y ago
> It does all that. Sure, I didn't mean to imply that it doesn't. I was simply illustrating how different people have different use cases for these wearable devices. While we may see some more convergence, I think that multiple
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by heywire 10y ago
While I see you are being punished for the way in which you said it, I do agree with the sentiment of your comment. This site in particular looks like it was designed by an elementary school student playing with powerpoint.
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by heywire 10y ago
And that is exactly why I think the industry messed up by calling them smart watches. Telling the time is probably one of the least important things these devices do. If all you need is a way to tell the time, one of these devices would be
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by heywire 10y ago
And for me, it is completely the opposite. Text messages are for when I can't or don't want to speak on the phone (sometimes because I don't want the whole room to hear my conversation). So I have no need to send text message
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by heywire 10y ago
Now you've got me curious, do you happen to have a screenshot? And is this a terminal emulator that you've written for existing operating systems, or part of your own?
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by heywire 10y ago
I've had a HackRF on my wishlist ever since discovering Mike's awesome SDR video series. That said, I wouldn't want to dedicate the device to the meter reading (hence my trying to pare down to the bare essentials). Funny you
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by heywire 10y ago
Well, I was more talking about a general device to assist in reverse engineering various RF protocols (and that was before I found the price for this device :) ). Now knowing the price, it puts it up with the YardStick One, which is probabl
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by heywire 10y ago
This is perfect timing for me, as I've been experimenting with the Texas Instruments CC110L attached to an ESP8266 running the Arduino stack. I started on this after having written an SDR receiver application to receive my electric and
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by heywire 10y ago
Yeah, every once in a while when my wife calls me, we get what I'm assuming is an LTE voice call and the audio is great (AT&T HD voice, I believe). Outside of that, it is amazing how bad the call quality can be. You really notice
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by heywire 10y ago
I have to say, I owned a Samsung ARM chromebook (which I promptly wiped and installed Linux on), and it was great. Fanless, and the battery outlasted me. Performance left a bit to be desired, however, but this was an older ARM chip too.
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by heywire 10y ago
I found that modgod used to cause my battery life to suffer. Completely idle, it hovered around .5 - 1.0% CPU. Looking at the issue [1], it seems that they solved the issue this summer (I haven't been doing anything with mongo lately,
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by heywire 10y ago
You must not live somewhere that gets a lot of snow :) For those of us that do, sometimes driving conditions are much less than ideal, even unsafe. Several times per winter I have to drive home from work on unplowed roads. As you put it, I
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by heywire 10y ago
On days like today, when there are several inches of snow on the ground and more to come, I always wonder how autonomous vehicles will handle such situations. What happens when snow (or mud, etc) accumulates on the camera or sensors? I don

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