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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Maybe Apple should have focused more time onto the software and hardware and stopped trying so hard to be a media studio. Nobody asked for Ted Lasso , but a lot of us asked for Siri to do a little more than set a damn timer.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Damn Small was my first ‘home’ distro if only because it took roughly four hours to download the ISO on dialup. Those were some… painful times.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Speaking of travel, that's why I go for them. If I'm going for a multi-day stay somewhere and I don't want to deal with annoying mini bottles of hotel soap, I'll just pop into a Dollar Whatsit for a small bottle of somet
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
The truck driver "shortage" didn't help when the FMCSA kicked tens of thousands of drivers out of the industry for smoking a single joint. The "drug clearinghouse" system is a load of shit when it comes to pot. I
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
And they'll bill it as security for the end user, of course, to make sure only an authorized user has the keys in their hand... Gotta scare it up with some stock photos of a bad guy with a balaclava on trying to push the button on your
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
That's the end result that's happened; Third Reality is now selling you a box to push the button on your own garage door opener. https://3reality.com/product/smartgarage-door-opener/ I find it absolutely
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
I would love to couple one of these mini-engines to an electric motor and... build a cursed USB-C "generator"... ;)
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
sometimes you'll also get an email from hn as well letting you know you got a second chance submission ;) SUBJECT "Your submission <name> will be re-upped"
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/kvm/NanoKVM/introduction... Probably an older NanoKVM. "NanoKVM-Cube hardware is built on the LicheeRV Nano platform. To coordinate production and maintain consis
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
My breach compensation will be my choice of 3 Flock Cameras from any location in the US with a pole saw.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Pay a thousand bucks to a Montana agent to register you an pseudoanonymous LLC and put an old 90s Corolla into an LLC with a permanent registration plate (since anything 15+ years old can have a 'perm' plate on it. Then never thin
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Why is it eye medication seems to be the market with the slimier moves? Sudden memories to when Allegran sold the patents for Restasis to the Awkwesasne-Mohawks to try to protect it with soverign immunity. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Nah, that's more "we can't get ad injection working on the old Chromecast client" because it still works on early Chromecasts for ad-free plans.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
.... I also didn't add the rest of my environmental conditions like the fact I'm in an absolute rust belt in the winter. NYS DOT does some good work with the salt and sand up here, heavy on the salt. Mother Earth has some high blo
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Oh cool, knock-on price hikes across not just the streaming industry, but all the other industries that decided they needed to bundle streaming subscriptions with their products. Can't wait to pay even more for my cell bill because t
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Service intervals. Other OEMs will prompt a service interval at X thousand miles/km to go pop in and have it looked at by a dealer, probably swap out your cabin air filter, upsell you on some new wiper blades, etc. ICE vehicles would n
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
German TUV thinks Teslas are horrible because apparently nobody is servicing their brakes on a regular enough interval so every time Teslas get pulled in for their 2 year inspections after 3 years of ownership they keep failing out on brake
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
If you can unlock the bootloader you can generally also reflash the firmware at will on the baseband, so you can replace it or modify it to remove any subsidy/carrier locking on the baseband side. Unlocking the bootloader will also of
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Oh. I’m not allowed to own a home computer to try to further my own learning and education and knowledge then. Guess I’ll go fuck myself now then.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
I mean, as a frontline underpaid rural IT employee with no way to move outward from where I currently live, show me where I’m gonna put $5k a year into this budget out of my barren $55k/year salary. (And, mind you - this apparently is
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Wired covered the story twelve years ago of an Epic implementation failure that led to a child’s overdose (and recovery), of note: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/how-technology-led-a-hospital-... https:/&#x
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Every user I’ve heard coming from a Cerner facility has said that Cerner is an unmitigated disaster. It almost makes sense that the only way to get a customer was to essentially lobby and force your way into a government contract for it, an
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
This makes sense. The Windows Insiders are so glazed over they probably don’t even use passwords to log in — they’re too lost in the “free QA for Microsoft” sauce.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
M1’s already dead, A18 Pro’s where it’s at for that.
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
“Intel-manufactured Apple Silicon could return to Apple’s computers in 2027”
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
former hospital IT; also agreeing major generalizations with "everyone hates <the EMR>". Everything comes down to the implementation at the end of the day. We've had people come into our Meditech 6.x shop from other sho
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Ah, no -- the "watchdog" here is basically a system hardware watchdog. The OS 'feeds' the watchdog in the BIOS every X amount of time, if the dog isn't 'fed' in Y time, the computer will fully reboot itsel
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
> My approach / suggestion - Understand what type are you in relation to any given technology vs what is the author's perspective. Similarly what I was once told when looking at private planes was "What's your mission
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
As a DXP2800 owner with TrueNAS: TrueNAS is so nice on the 2800 for my needs. It's even relatively straightforward: start it up with a keyboard and video attached, enter the BIOS, and turn off the watchdog settings. I'd also recom
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by kotaKat 11mo ago
Give me back the Saab Night Panel. All I want is my speedo. https://i0.wp.com/saabblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Ni...

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