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by koyote 3y ago
That does ring a bell but I don't _think_ Win98 accepted Win3.11 floppies as valid media (or at least did not accept mine, which I am not sure were 'originals') and my Win95 disc was also an upgrade version. I do remember pla
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by koyote 3y ago
I used to only own 'upgrade' versions of Windows (cheaper). Whenever I had to reinstall Windows (which was frequent back in Win98 days), I had to first install DOS from floppy, then Win 3.11 from floppy, then a CD-ROM driver, then
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by koyote 3y ago
> Thusly video game manufacturers should avoid making being online a necessity to play the game - but that's unlikely to get better either. This is the biggest issue and I wonder what can be done to fix this, short of government reg
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by koyote 3y ago
Great, now you've got me checking our HDMI cables :) Is there an easy way to check what an HDMI cable supports? I guess the same question stands for USB cables. I remember looking into that a while ago but did not find anything concl
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by koyote 3y ago
I like the toaster comparison! You can definitely toast bread using a pan but you'll find it difficult to get the same consistency and it's also more hassle and cleaning. That being said, is there really much difference between a
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by koyote 3y ago
I don't think so (but I am a bit tired today, so maybe something I wrote makes no sense :)). Homelab is physically connected to the router whereas the laptop is connected via Wifi. It was the cable from the Wifi AP to the router that w
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by koyote 3y ago
One of my most recent 'weird internet issues' was when I upgraded our 50mbit internet connection to 100Mbit and my laptop never really reached 100Mbit whereas my homelab easily got 100Mbit on speed tests. It took me a while to rea
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by koyote 3y ago
I thought the same, although I probably would not have immediately gone to the Wifi transmitter. After a couple decades of debugging various internet issues the first thing I now do is check the 'source' works (i.e. plug a laptop
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by koyote 3y ago
Those desks do have hydraulics: https://www.ikea.com/au/en/p/bekant-desk-sit-stand-white-s09... Ikea's goods usually come in different price ranges with the most expensive often not being 'cheap&#x
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by koyote 3y ago
> then committing 10 of them to move to a foreign country to immerse myself in a new language feels very different than when I've got 60 years left Could you elaborate on that? As someone who is younger I have noticed that many (b
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by koyote 3y ago
As someone who grows their own jalapenos: My plants produce extremely mild peppers... So either the seeds I got were already bred to be mild or maybe there's something else going on there :) My habaneros are spicy as ever though, so it
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by koyote 3y ago
I read that but could not work out which of my two statements are true. Might just be bad reading comprehension on my side...
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by koyote 3y ago
So were the bolts missing because the Spirit team did not know they had to be put back (i.e. it was not recorded as a task that needed to be done) or was that simply just another mistake in the long line of mistakes they've made? Readi
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by koyote 3y ago
There's this article about a Boeing quality manager that raised very similar safety and QA issues (and general culture issues) during the 787 development: https://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/news/200/john-b
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by koyote 3y ago
Not all Airports do, this incident at JFK happened not long ago and could have been a massive disaster: https://onemileatatime.com/news/american-777-delta-737-nearl...
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by koyote 3y ago
It's the same thing as the OP isn't it? Try buying the LV tote online. You can't. You have to call to be put on an artificial waitlist to spend $2000 on a bag.
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by koyote 3y ago
There have been two major incidents around landing at SFO in the last decade, one involving fatalities. Prioritising safety by requesting to land using ILS after a 12 hour flight should not be seen as 'punishing' everyone else.
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by koyote 3y ago
There's also this crash that happened while ILS was broken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asiana_Airlines_Flight_214 This was ultimately pilot error but also due to the fact that the pilots were not as accustome
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by koyote 3y ago
Might be good to mention that Qatar Airways are the same airline being sued by multiple women after being subjected to invasive body searches: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/21/austr.
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by koyote 3y ago
I've been using it for the last 5 or so years with no real issues (Linux, Windows and Android). I'd say the Android one is probably the weakest link but still usable and of course having ad-block on mobile is a huge quality of lif
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by koyote 3y ago
It only has 3.9 on Google's store, but maybe that version is even worse?
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by koyote 3y ago
> I was just using this same number with SMS on dumb phones... why would I switch? We did use SMS extensively in the early 2000s. But many people also used things like Google Talk (and MSN Messenger on the PC) early on as it allowed you
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by koyote 3y ago
I wonder how correct those numbers are. Looking at the Philippines, it says they have 91.9 million active users. That's for a population of 113.9 million people (estimate, their latest 2020 census only had 109 million). That means 80%
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by koyote 3y ago
You're right, it's always been awful, but it's actually gotten worse which is something I did not think was possible (Facebook quality 'news' feed, constant awful captchas and popups to name a few). I only look at i
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by koyote 3y ago
> I can't help but wonder if tooling could at least help check the degree of difference between previous releases and the current release. Or run the translated text through Google Translate (or similar) and have someone do a quick
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by koyote 3y ago
I've recently changed my home network to ensure all IoT devices are on their own VLAN where they can't talk to each-other and only have access to the internet. I see my paranoia was not unwarranted. That being said, if I had a net
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by koyote 3y ago
It's four times larger than Singapore!
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by koyote 3y ago
Sounds like we pretty much had the same Linux story! I started with SuSE 7 (purchased it!), then Mandrake, then Fedora, then Ubuntu, then Arch and now reluctantly back on Xubuntu because I can't get my laptop to sleep properly on Arch.
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by koyote 3y ago
Which is why the Sydney desalination plant is entirely (I believe) powered by renewables.
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by koyote 3y ago
That's interesting, I've been running a Nano Gen1 for over a year now with no issues whatsoever (running both Linux and Windows). What I have had happen is my work Dell machine (Windows) shutting off if it overheats. I have to mak

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