longislandguido

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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Halon apparently, which is ineffective against lithium battery fires. I'd rather not test this theory because of your cavalier attitude while I'm in a chair 40,000 ft over the ocean.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Phone batteries are typically smaller (less energy which can be violently dissipated) than most power banks. Naturally you will ask, what about tablets and laptops? They are prohibited from checked luggage for this reason. Power banks howev
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Power banks were a mistake. It's akin to carrying fireworks in your bag. Ban them all from air travel. Every one I have owned has been recalled for being a fire hazard. EVERY SINGLE ONE. I stopped buying them as a result. We're ta
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Considering 95% of spam that hits my inbox originates from compromised Gmail accounts, I'd say it's a few. Because Google is too big to fail, all Gmail traffic is essentially whitelisted and they can't be bothered to do anyth
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Did you write the software that allowed him to get hacked in the first place?
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Will you be adding the Neo to the pile in your closet? Because that's where it belongs with 8GB of RAM.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
> Not sure how Apple does it. They do it by prematurely wearing down the soldered SSD just in time for you to buy a new laptop.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
https://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=117579116031296&w=2
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
~20 years ago, the Linux camp accused OpenBSD of importing GPL'd code (a wireless driver IIRC) and cried foul. The code was removed. Fast forward to 2026, Theo says no to vibe-coded slop, prove to me your magic oracle LLM didn't i
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
I forgot about magical Mac memory. Just keep it under one browser tab, bro.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Literally two comments above mine in this discussion: > The Neo is probably the best laptop for typical people. I rest my case.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
I'm seeing a lot of "8GB ought to be enough for anybody" here over the last week....
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
The Neo costs $200 more than a comparable Windows laptop, but with half the RAM and storage as said comparable Windows laptop. They're fighting to seize the very specific market segment of "I don't like Windows and don't
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Sadly, Portland is a backwater logging outpost and no one outside the PNW gives a shit about Portland or could place it on a map. I'm sorry, it's true.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
> but approximately everyone else in the low-end laptop market will This is delusion. The retail price point right now for comparable PC laptops is $429 and they ship with DOUBLE the RAM and storage (16GB, 512GB). For the same specs as t
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Here's an interesting fact, one of the more famous and fanatical fanboy Mac Pro users was late radio host Rush Limbaugh (he owned four of them), who dedicated an entire segment to the topic on his normally all-politics show when Apple
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Do you think it's more likely a government influence operation, or a single dipshit lazily pasting LLM slop?
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
I'm reminded of that episode of Portlandia where the mayor was obsessed with thinking the city was bigger and more important than it actually is.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Are you suggesting there is a government conspiracy to influence this dusty corner dive bar of the Internet?
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
That's when they stopped designing computers for the pro market and started selling mid-century Danish furniture that can also edit videos. I knew it was all over when third party companies had to develop the necessarily-awkward rack
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
By "great" do you mean 8GB of non-upgradable soldered RAM in 2026?
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Apple betrayed their pro customers years ago—right around the time they went to version X of the Pro apps—it's all been a slow death by a thousand paper cuts since then. The money's all in selling phones to teen girls now, and tak
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Software people tend to overestimate their knowledge of other disciplines, writing it off as "easy" or work beneath them. Being overpaid compared to your peers certainly doesn't help dispel this feeling. Some people have buil
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/2020-election-most-secu... https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-... https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Fortunately your doctor has medication for this.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Remind me why I'm supposed to care who the maintainer is for a piece of software that runs for a few seconds then gets tf out of the way.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
systemd-boot is only similar to systemd in name; it started as another project and was renamed.
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Have they replaced it with grub-rs yet? On a more serious note, grub is ancient bloatware, it is way overcomplicated for what it does, it's asking to be replaced by systemd-boot distro-wide. Look at Apple and Microsoft's bootloade
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
Everyone is stomping their feet saying the answer should be more than the number which has not yet been disclosed, so we don't know, but yet everyone also refuses to provide a definite number. So tell me, for an airport that only has t
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by longislandguido 7mo ago
> If a member of this administration said he wasn’t working alone, that’s solid evidence he was. This is deranged. Seek help.

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