hughrr

60 ms·

661.
by hughrr 5y ago
While I believe there is genuine good intent behind this I can’t support apparatus that can be repurposed and can be used to cut me off from my entire digital life due to an arbitrary review process. Not only that I do not consent to using
662.
by hughrr 5y ago
Ah I’m done now. That’s one step too far. When something overreaches into my data and risks integrity and privacy problems it’s game over. So which Linux desktop sucks the least at the moment?
663.
by hughrr 5y ago
I'm going to leave it at that I used to treat my stuff like shit and blamed the manufacturer, mostly IBM and Lenovo back then, when it broke. Then I grew up. Life got easier and cheaper.
664.
by hughrr 5y ago
We've got a box of fucked up Dell chargers in the office and a box of fucked up Dells as well. Oh and some HP ones. That does not hold.
665.
by hughrr 5y ago
The old mantra holds: treat it nice or pay twice.
666.
by hughrr 5y ago
The bulge is where the cable has been repeatedly knocked or compressed into an extreme angle. Of course that will happen at the strain relief. It happens on Amazon Basics lightning cables, Lenovo laptop power supplies, anything if you excee
667.
by hughrr 5y ago
Litz wire doesn't increase the durability as such, merely reduces skin effect in RF applications. Sennheiser used to sell steel cables for their professional headphones. Now those are durable. I ran over mine with my chair about 50 t
668.
by hughrr 5y ago
Oh yes exactly - my ex wife could fuck up a cable or some earpods in about 3 months. I lost count of the amount of earpods that went down the toilet.
669.
by hughrr 5y ago
I'm using the cable that came with my 6s on my 12. There was an intermediate XR as well. The only unarguable thing is the disparity between what we're doing.
670.
by hughrr 5y ago
Not joking but this is entirely user related. In the 15 years I’ve been using the things I haven’t killed a single cable. Not one. The strain relief is not great but if you’re careful it’s absolutely fine and it’s no worse than the other ca
671.
by hughrr 5y ago
My mother’s house is full of wrong clocks. Imagine that terror!
672.
by hughrr 5y ago
I do carry bottom end etrex 10 with me but that’s for tracking route later and updating OSM. I’ve never used it for navigation.
673.
by hughrr 5y ago
I feel for you. It’s embarrassing, manipulative and soul crushing.
674.
by hughrr 5y ago
I should have been more explicit but it does indeed depend on the context. If I’m in the middle of something I will acknowledge the person and defer the question until I’m done politely. But I won’t drop everything and context for ad-hoc st
675.
by hughrr 5y ago
Gah I was looking into this sort of stuff. I'm sticking to Excel and manual reconciliation like I've been doing for 20 years now. Thanks for the heads up.
676.
by hughrr 5y ago
My ex wife was like that. One reason she's an ex wife. I lost a job due to her once because she phoned the office after I didn't respond to an SMS while I was in a very tough meeting with a client. I now have my phone on do not di
677.
by hughrr 5y ago
Good luck with that one. When you’re a unix guy with a Dell slapped in front of you running windows that you can’t do anything useful in then you know you’ve reached peak enterprise IT!
678.
by hughrr 5y ago
I’ve run out of fucks when it comes to software licensing. I’ve cracked at least three things I paid for in the past when the activation or licensing system no longer worked.
679.
by hughrr 5y ago
Oh yes we had one of them. It was a leading vendor in security analysis. We pointed their product at itself and it kicked out a ton of CVEs and lead to a very embarrassing Zoom call for them :)
680.
by hughrr 5y ago
Yes each one has an elaborate story and a pile of cash behind it.
681.
by hughrr 5y ago
I will buy a paper copy of any books which I like and continue to read or use as reference. But until they have earned that status then it’s Kindle and PDF I’m afraid. Books have a storage burden which is not to be underestimated. My curren
682.
by hughrr 5y ago
This is actually spot on. I was offered a promotion into this space which I sensibly declined as money is a poor motivator for me. This was a surprise to the company. The poor guy who did get promoted is stuck with exactly This situation.
683.
by hughrr 5y ago
Have you seen the average VPS box. That analogy holds.
684.
by hughrr 5y ago
Unix is more like a shotgun than a hole hawg. It solves all problems, not necessarily correctly but quickly enough and reliably enough to go home and do something else. Sometimes it hurts you when you fire it and sometimes you lose a couple
685.
by hughrr 5y ago
Shame most of the content is moderated to an epic level of uselessness.
686.
by hughrr 5y ago
I only have two cameras and have never confused the moon with traffic lights.
687.
by hughrr 5y ago
This comment makes me proud to be a curmudgeon without any of those things :)
688.
by hughrr 5y ago
Nah they immediately freed themselves from the shackles of the mainframe and woke up the next morning in bed with Bezos grinning at them.
689.
by hughrr 5y ago
I came here after reading the headline hoping for the replies they invited and was not disappointed. Thank you.
690.
by hughrr 5y ago
My back garden gets flooded due to that all the time. The neighbour puts their food down the sink so it blocks up under the ground. You end up with peas in the grass the day after. The birds seem to make short work of it and the grass grows

More ›