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by jasomill 1y ago
You might be surprised. Just the other day I put an 8 TB drive in an old USB 2.0 SATA enclosure and it presented as a 1.1 TB drive, suggesting that the bridge chip is limited to 31-bit (?!?) LBAs.
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by jasomill 1y ago
I just replaced my 2013 Mac Pro's 256 GB factory SSD and an external SSD array with a 4 TB Samsung 990 Pro with one of these in an old Thunderbolt 2 PCIe 2.0 enclosure I had sitting on the shelf, and it works perfectly. It's obvio
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by jasomill 1y ago
Or just use Rufus[1] to create a bootable USB installer from the ISO. Another trick that should still work, though I haven't tested it with newer Windows 11 builds: to create Windows 11 install media that will install and boot via BIOS
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by jasomill 1y ago
As a Disney+ subscriber, I occasionally pirate content because the Web app acts up and refuses to play content I'm entitled to, even at degraded resolution. I do this even though my desktop display is a smart TV that's perfectly c
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by jasomill 1y ago
Same here: I paid about twice as much for my 2013 Mac Pro that I’ll probably keep using until I replace it with an M5 Mac Studio at some point next year, which I’ll then plan to use for at least 5 years. As for camera lenses, I expect my co
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by jasomill 1y ago
Microsoft officially supports Windows 10 22H2 on every CPU supported by previous versions of Windows 10; Windows "Supported Processor" lists are for OEMs building new PCs, not end users updating existing systems. According to the
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by jasomill 1y ago
XSLT as an alternative to CSS sounds like a nightmare, though to be fair, I felt the same way about XSLT as an alternative to DSSSL, which to me felt more like a satirical response to the "XML everywhere" zeitgeist in the spirit o
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by jasomill 1y ago
I still have my 2011 17" MacBook Pro, built to order with pretty much every available option available at the time, including the matte screen. While it serves a useful purpose by diffusing unavoidable point light sources in uncontroll
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by jasomill 1y ago
“iwantacoldbeernow” Sorry, your password does not meet complexity requirements because it does not contain at least one of each of the following: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numeric digits, nonalphanumeric symbols. “I want 1 col
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by jasomill 1y ago
IANAA, but AFAIK income from bartering is taxable on the basis of the fair market value of the goods or services bartered at the time of exchange.
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by jasomill 1y ago
I tend to look at technology prices in terms of cost per unit time of useful life. If Apple continues to supply updates for six-year-old phones, iPhone 17 prices range from $11/month (base model iPhone 17) to $28/month (iPhone 17
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by jasomill 1y ago
I understand the sentiment, but I don't see how devices with proprietary firmware stored in ROM or NVRAM are any more free or open than devices that require proprietary firmware loaded at boot. And it looks like Linux-Libre also oppose
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by jasomill 1y ago
So don't turn off secure boot. Replace the target machine with an identical decoy machine set up to capture whatever credentials are required to log in to the machine once BitLocker auto-unlocks, then use these to log in to Windows on
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by jasomill 1y ago
The 24 Nuremburg defendents all held high level leadership positions and were hardly representative of the rank and file "just doing their jobs".
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by jasomill 1y ago
Sort of a special case, but the (current) Dalai Lama?
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by jasomill 1y ago
Build ↂↂↁↀⅭ.ↀↁⅬⅩⅠ
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by jasomill 2y ago
While it's true that mechanisms like TRIM can in many cases improve performance and extend drive lifespan, the only thing that's required for SSD garbage collection is for the SSD to be aware of which internal blocks map to logica
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by jasomill 2y ago
I don't expect third-party desktop application developers to continue supporting Windows 10 until 2034, given that the IoT Enterprise license agreement prohibits desktop use. Which is not to say most applications won't continue to
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by jasomill 2y ago
You can create server-side rules via “Settings → Mail → Rules” in Outlook Web. While more limited than Outlook for Windows client-side rules, they're fine for simple "move emails from x to folder y "-type rules, and are pa
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by jasomill 2y ago
Assume words don't contain numbers and numbers don't contain words, then provide a convenient UI for selecting alternatives? For fielded input matching known patterns, recognition can also be constrained by pattern matching and ge
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by jasomill 2y ago
Want to make a bet? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/fcc-admits-defea...
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by jasomill 2y ago
Reminds me of a one-sided bet eight-year-old me made with my dad in 1986; he reluctantly agreed to buy me an Atari 1040ST (to complement the 8-bit Atari and PC/AT clone I already had at the time) if the Indianapolis Colts won the Super
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by jasomill 2y ago
Customers are typically unhappy when Microsoft refuses to fix critical bugs that only arise when running Windows on older hardware. To the average user, "Windows installs without error and hardware appears to work" = "Microso
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by jasomill 2y ago
While I have no idea how (or even if) it's being used, League of Legends requires TPM 2.0 to be present and enabled on Windows 11 PCs: https://support-leagueoflegends.riotgames.com/hc/en-us/artic...
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by jasomill 2y ago
About 1.9% ($4.706 billion) of Microsoft's FY 2024 revenue was from devices "including Surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories" (and not including Xbox hardware). About 9.5% ($23.244 billion) was from Windows "including Wi
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by jasomill 2y ago
For more general algorithms along these lines, see exercises 25–28 in section 1.2.2 of Knuth[1] (and note that the printed solution to exercise 28 in early printings has an error[2]). [1] D.E. Knuth, The art of computer programming. Vol.
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by jasomill 2y ago
The 50g screen has only slightly (131×80 vs 131×64) higher resolution than the 48G series, but it has vastly better contrast, and, thanks to improved fonts and other UI improvements, the built-in software on the 50g also makes significantly
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by jasomill 2y ago
I say sure, let private citizens own nuclear weapons, provided they comply with all pertinent laws, regulations, and treaty obligations, and are willing to foot the bill for all construction, maintenance, handling, and compliance costs. In
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by jasomill 2y ago
The Visual C++ .NET 2002 runtime shipped with Windows 95? To be fair, I've seen plenty of commercial Windows software ship over the years without runtime components required on the original supported OS (or with required redistributabl
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by jasomill 2y ago
You can just ignore the DMCA claims, but your service providers cannot, at least not without the risk of assuming legal liability themselves. Also, cynical as it may sound, I assume the rise of a popular, successful peer-to-peer YouTube a

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