lizknope

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by lizknope 6mo ago
I'm on Fedora 43 and tried to hack myself with the python script. It didn't work on kernel 6.19.12-200.fc43.x86_64 which has a build date of April 12, 2026
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by lizknope 6mo ago
I first saw it when I was 10 in 1985 and it changed my life. I never knew that "cartoons" could be so serious. Lisa Hayes was such an incredible character. I didn't really know what anime was until I went to college and th
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by lizknope 6mo ago
Yeah, I waste more time now because of AI generated slop. I see a headline on reddit and click on the article. I spend 3 minutes reading it and the article says nothing new and doesn't even have a point. Then I go to the comments and
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by lizknope 6mo ago
Back around 1999 I tested some patches from Linux kernel hacker Jens Axboe that added packet writing support. This enabled DVD+RW discs to look like normal drives and you didn't have to make an ISO image and burn it. https:/&#x2
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by lizknope 6mo ago
Every PC gamer / hardware tech review forum is full of anti-AI hatred. People want to buy a new GPU, add RAM, a new SSD, or hard drive. All of these have doubled or quadrupled in price in just a few months. Then there are reddit threa
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by lizknope 6mo ago
I knew a bunch of Mac graphic design people that used Zip disks into the 2000's because they had to transfer huge files and the Zip discs were rewritable unlike CD-R. Rewriting a CD-RW is clunky compared to a Zip disk. I actually boug
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by lizknope 6mo ago
The semiconductor industry has been a boom and bust industry for over 50 years. https://imgur.com/a/cDLoeZm I've been in the industry for 30 years and I've worked at companies with fabs were demand was high a
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by lizknope 6mo ago
TL ; DR Floppy disks were tiny and slow Zip drives in 1995 were around $200 and 100MB disk for about $20 CD-R burners in 1995 were $1000 and blank CD-R were about $15 each By 1999 CD-R burners were around $125 and blank discs were around $1
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by lizknope 6mo ago
My school couldn't afford typewriters in the 1980's and early 1990's. We wrote assignments by hand using a pencil or pen. Is that really complicated? When I got to college and everything had to be typed I still wrote everythi
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by lizknope 6mo ago
The cheapest is a computer at a relative or friend's house. I have my backup server at my parents house. We both have gigabit fiber so it works well.
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by lizknope 6mo ago
Most people never bother to look at a map. It takes 2 seconds to look at google satellite view of the area and see lots of desert with strips of green https://maps.app.goo.gl/R8HuWBi66548Jq5BA Of course you already know thi
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Yeah, I thought I was on a sports site. Cam thinks CTE isn't real and is "all in your head." Technically correct about the all in your head part.
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by lizknope 7mo ago
> The IPs of these bots here actually do not come from datacenters or VPNs most of the time; the overwhelming majority come from residential and mobile networks. So I started searching for what these residential proxy networks actually a
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by lizknope 7mo ago
I first used xv in the early 1990's, maybe 1992. It was the first time I had used software that could edit an image. It was fun going into the color editor and adjusting the green channel or clicking "RevVid" and getting a
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by lizknope 7mo ago
ARM already had tons of DV engineers. No company would license the RTL or any IP unless it has already been run through millions of simulations in DV.
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Softbank still owns 90% of ARM and they finished their acquisition of Ampere only a few months ago in November 2025. I'm a chip designer and a chip this complicated takes about 3 years from start to actual silicon so it would have star
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Do whatever you want that makes you happy. I take thousands of photos a year with my phone and less than 1% of them get edited. I take thousands of photos with my Nikon in RAW / NEF format. I have over 50 large photos printed in my ho
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by lizknope 7mo ago
I see people saying the opposite and saying MS should sell windows Enterprise or LTSC (Long-Term Servicing Channel) version to consumers. These have less of the bloatware and forced features that most people are complaining about. I have 1
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by lizknope 7mo ago
> The Macbook Neo seems likely to be a a huge seller. I It already is. > MacBook Neo Just Broke an Apple Sales Record, Shipping Delays Continue > The laptop is a record-breaking release for sales to first-time Mac owners, according
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by lizknope 7mo ago
I bought my first x86 PC in 1994 to install Linux on. I wanted a Sun workstation but couldn't afford it. I know people run an operating system to run programs on so it isn't easy to switch but so many windows users make it sound
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by lizknope 7mo ago
The local subreddit for my area always has tons of negative comments about any new housing development. Some people complain it is "luxury" or even just normal and not "affordable." If it is single family housing then pe
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by lizknope 7mo ago
My comment from a thread last week We saw how much less pollution there was during the pandemic https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/8110190 ... I worked from home but a few times I n
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by lizknope 7mo ago
My company went back to 5 days in office in May 2025. Since then 8 people out of 100 in my office have retired. They were in the 55-65 age range and 3 of them directly told me that they would have stayed working if we stayed hybrid 3 days
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Yeah, I have been doing online banking since around 1998. I have refused to install the bank app on my phone because I see no point in it and just downsides in case I get mugged (bad experience in my teenage years) The 1 check I get a year
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by lizknope 7mo ago
The last few manufacturer rebates I have gotten come in the form of a pre loaded Visa card
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Wells Fargo so big its suing itself July 10, 2009 https://www.denverpost.com/2009/07/10/lewis-wells-fargo-so-b... My normal bank was acquired by Wells Fargo in 2008 and they also owned my mortgage. When I wen
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by lizknope 7mo ago
We saw how much less pollution there was during the pandemic https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/04/8110190... I worked from home but a few times I needed to go to my parents house dur
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by lizknope 7mo ago
I've never heard the term private credit so I googled it. > Private credit refers to loans provided to businesses by non-bank institutions—such as private equity firms, hedge funds, and alternative asset managers—rather than traditi
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Many PC hardware enthusiasts say they want a RISC-V or ARM CPU but then when these system exist they don't actually want them. Why? Because they want something like a $300 CPU and $150 motherboard using standard DDR4/5 DIMMs tha
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by lizknope 7mo ago
Yeah, they could but then what is the market? Qualcomm wants to sell smartphone chips and Android can run on RISC-V and most Android Java apps could in theory run. But if you look at the Intel x86 smartphone chips from about 10 years ago t

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