kalleboo

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by kalleboo 1y ago
I had 3+ fixed disks somewhere around 1997, but that was on a Mac (so built-in SCSI), and the drives were all hand-me-downs that I got for free, that I could just plug and play to add a few more hundred megs of storage.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
When I used DDG, the results were worse than Google, and I kept going back to Google when I couldn't find something, always second-guessing the results. And it seems every time someone recommends DDG the first thing they point out is &
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by kalleboo 1y ago
If you're going on a trip, just avoid signing a contract that looks like this https://media.defense.gov/2024/Oct/22/2003569244/-1/-1/0/CG-... > The experimental submersible vessel
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Thanks, it was kind of crazy, and played out over a few hours as for some of the steps it took a random idea popping up in my head after first giving up...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The only Ubiquiti gear I use are their APs, and have cheaper solutions for routing/switching, so being able to run the controller for the APs as a container on an existing machine is a nice.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Yeah when I got 10 Gbit internet at home, all the options for a router looked really expensive so I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny for $80 + $20 for the riser+NIC, and installed OpenWRT on it. Runs like a charm, power draw is a the same a
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by kalleboo 1y ago
They pay enough to not become the product
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by kalleboo 1y ago
All of the tech giants have really broken account recovery flows. They've all been glomming on recovery options, single sign-on, 2FA, etc features and none of it is coherent, with lots of dead ends where the optional recovery option it
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Door locks are dumb toys. Please stop pushing them on everyone.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I think the italics are because it's so weird that most people have more pixels on the 6" display in their pocket than on the 24" display on their desk.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
My 8yo has a hand-me-down iPhone, but she only gets it when we go out to festivals/camping/a big park or something so she can wander off and do her own thing and then we regroup later. It's locked down into the basic "As
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by kalleboo 1y ago
If you limit your smartphone usage to the capabilities of a 2003 Nokia (turn off data and wifi, only use calls and SMS) the battery will last 2 weeks and never crash or reset. Before I got a phone with dual SIM capability I used to bring an
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by kalleboo 1y ago
While that experience is horrible, the fact that you were actually able to talk to support and that support was actually able to solve the problem puts it above the experience with pretty much any other tech giant. The bar is so low these d
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Hasn't Apple had AI image descriptions in VoiceOver for 5 years now? https://www.idropnews.com/ios-14/ios-14-adds-ai-based-voiceo...
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The problem with USB NICs is now you have two flaky failure points - the chipset driving the USB port and the chipset driving the USB network interface. I had a reliability issues using a Realtek 2.5 Gbps USB network interface. Kept locking
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by kalleboo 1y ago
SMS is limited to 140 characters, but there has been a standard to send multiple messages in a row and have the receiving phone concatenate them automatically since about the year 2000. For older devices that that don't support it, the
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I love how even in their own screenshot, their app only has a 1 star rating on the App Store.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Twitter was a whole media company. They had staff in every country writing news summaries for trending hash tags, etc.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I mean the question is why limit it? I'm paying under $40/mo for 10 gigabit, bandwidth shouldn't be expensive, the expensive part is digging the last mile.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I'm paying under $40/mo for 10g symmetric here in southern Japan, that's including the extra charge for a public static IPv4 address (standard is a /56 IPv6 and tunneled CGNAT IPv4)
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by kalleboo 1y ago
The component that does the PPPoE and VoIP VLAN is typically just referred to as a router (or a "residential gateway" for companies that want to sound less technical), I've never heard as it referred to as a modem, usually th
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I just had this happen to me in Gmail last week. The last time it showed the nag screen was probably a year or so ago when I turned it off, so it seems they flipped it back on to boost some quarterly KPIs.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Ignoring MVNOs, are there are any other countries that have more than 4 nationwide mobile networks? I think the US has (had?) a handful of regional carriers that survived on domestic roaming but everywhere else I've visited typically h
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Another lost opportunity was that the Mac was supposed to have BASIC, but Microsoft killed it https://folklore.org/MacBasic.html We later got HyperCard which was fantastic, but the impression of the Mac as an appliance that
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Elon has described Grok 3's behavior as a bug that needs to be fixed, complaining that it is "parroting legacy media", and telling it things like "only a very dumb AI would believe Media Matters and Rolling Stone",
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Adobe is an example where a yearly discounted subscription is billed monthly
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by kalleboo 1y ago
So you were able to report it, and action was taken. When the US sends you a NSL, what do you do?
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by kalleboo 1y ago
macOS still supports turning any file into a template, a feature first introduced in System 7 back in 1991. Just Get Info on any file in the Finder, then check the "Stationary pad" box.
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by kalleboo 1y ago
I've been hosting my side projects on a Synology NAS I bought back in 2018. I would have the NAS anyway to backup my laptop etc, so the hardware is effectively free for hosting. Power draw is low so it's on a basic consumer UPS wh
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by kalleboo 1y ago
Tefal literally sells a rice cooker that boasts "AI Smart Cooking Technology" while not even containing a microcontroller and just being controlled by the time-honored technology of "a magnet that gets hot". They also ha

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