kalleboo

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by kalleboo 7mo ago
In the low salary countries, everyone is doing everything on phones, not PCs
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
kernel_task using 100% is the system thermally throttling and the OS spamming NOPs to cool the CPU down
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
His review of it is out for Patrons already (including a comparison to the noname version), so should be up on his channel soon
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
The longer quote seems to be "In the situation of the U.S., where you have huge amount of resources, huge amount of land to produce electricity, offshore wind is not the most affordable way to produce electricity" which sounds lik
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
School computers will always suck, regardless of platform. Along with corporate computers.
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Very cool! Also cool to see inside. It really is directly attached with nothing in between, I honestly wasn't expecting there to be NOTHING in the signal path. > In a sense, it’s a revolutionary way of how to network — it separates
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Making device companion utilities WebUSB means that when the hardware maker goes belly-up and their site goes down, or just decides to stop supporting a device, it's now a brick. When they are native software programs, someone can pres
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
I haven't had reliability issues but I could never get decent performance out of the FreeBSD network stack. Across Intel and Mellanox 10 Gbps NIC, it always ended up capping out at around 5 Gbps. Using TrueNAS CORE and OpnSense. Switch
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by kalleboo 7mo ago
Brother ship mystery meat linux "drivers" that have a PPD that sends your document through Ghostscript I guess to scrub PostScript that the printer doesn't support. I tried just using a generic PPD from openprinting.org but t
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
I bought a pair of Philips headphones with a replaceable cord. Instead the jack became loose. I’ve been using Bluetooth wireless headphones exclusively when I’m portable since 2006 (Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 represent), with only wired use at
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Tax data is government data. Government data is public data. Instead of asking "what's the reason for making something public" the question is "what's the reason for making a carveout for some specific data to make
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Are they the pieces that are colored like Pixar characters? https://jaysbrickblog.com/reviews/review-lego-21357-disney-p...
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
You can run this in an emulator directly in your browser at https://infinitemac.org/1994/System%207.5 There's even a Macintosh Garden popup tab at the bottom of the page to search and load the software directly in
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
This must be what all the sellers on Yahoo Auctions use
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
I have a 2000 22" Cinema Display. The software brightness control even works. https://kalleboo.com/linked/cinema-display.jpg
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Even system apps like Photos have completely given up on state restore. I'm deep in an album comparing a photo to something on the web? Sorry, Safari needs all that RAM, Photos all is kicked out, and Photos can't possibly remember
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Luckily we're not in the spinning HDDs thrashing a working set in and out of 128 MB of primary memory days anymore. We have laptops that ship with SSDs that read/write at 6 GB/s. I was experimenting with some graphics algorit
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
I have several US friends who got European citizenship through ancestry. They found a great grandmother or something from "the old country" and by proving their relation to them could get a passport.
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
It's an interesting debate. One more thing they did was prove there was a market for the idea.
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Getting 6 months, you were lucky! I've heard of kickstarters that were ripped off on AliExpress before they even finished their own product...
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Petrol/Diesel registrations down 25% YoY seems like a much more interesting story. If that was EVs there would be headlines "EVs are over! It was just a fad" but when it happens to ICE cars it's crickets?
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
My point is the vast majority of desktop users do not write much. My experience is not just my own computers but the network of extended family and friends' small businesses I'm the informal tech support for. This includes video e
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
I canceled my Claude subscription (other reasons) and they had an "exit interview" question of why you canceled. They know why.
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Apple stopped showing browsable index files many years ago but someone scraped the wayback machine for URLs and I re-scanned it for more dead links and put up a list of links a while back https://mirrors.kalleboo.com/apples-
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
I've yet to see a desktop SSD wear out from writes. The only dead desktop SSDs I've seen have been due to buggy firmware (early drives or that recent batch of Samsungs) or well before their wear level is down (cheap noname drives
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Yeah AI killed that market just like everything else. I'm sure the supply of used drives has also dried up as the equation of "cost per TB of power and rack space" vs "cost per TB of replacing with newer, denser drives&q
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
And it's funny how at the same time they're still hosting... Apple IIGS OS System 6.0.1 https://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Sof... The whole 19 floppy images of MacOS 7.5.3 https:/&
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by kalleboo 8mo ago
Actually used hard disks have gotten pretty popular in the past few years, with sellers like ServerPartDeals building up a reputation by selling drives that are properly tested and recertified. As long as you have redundancy and backups by
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
When I grew up in Sweden, soda was sold in standardized glass bottles. All brands used the same bottles and they just put paper labels on. You'd return the glass bottles for a deposit, they'd take them in, remove the label, wash t
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by kalleboo 9mo ago
There are also actual studies that show the difference https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-66968-2_...

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