morganvachon

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by morganvachon 5y ago
Agreed, which sucks because no other service out there is better at their prices. And I have everything important tied to that address. I have never been to Australia and don't ever plan to, but the fact that any government can leg
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by morganvachon 5y ago
You can get a Raspberry Pi 4 for $35, add a $5 Micro SD card, a $5 cellphone charger, and a $10 keyboard/mouse combo, and you have a full fledged modern computer running a modern OS (Linux kernel 5.10) for $55. That is more in line wit
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Phenomenal work by Alyssa, she and her contemporaries are making excellent progress on this project!
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> ...if the query mentioned Earth instead of Mars Did you mean to say "the Moon instead of Mars"?
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Actually, Apple chose option #1, and when their ass was handed to them by the judge in the case, they opted for #3 to get out from under it. No matter how they handled it though, the fact remains that they are providing lip service to the p
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I don’t feel that I was aggressive at all in my direct reply to you, maybe a little in my reply to the other commenter, but obviously you took it that way and I’m genuinely sorry. It’s not an excuse, but I just get so tired of people making
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I wasn't trying to dismantle an argument, just pointing out that the parent had no clue what they were talking about, and a little research would make for a stronger position to argue from (and save some embarrassment). I actually pref
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> Dell, HP, Lenovo, even Fujitsu-Siemens have been making thin laptops with upgradable RAM for years now (XPS, X1 Carbon ... You're just throwing names out there without even knowing what you're talking about. The very first g
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Please note this is the process where I worked but it is different depending on where you are and which level of government you're dealing with (municipal, county, state, federal, etc.) Also I am not a legal expert, this is simply my e
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Those most critical of the system tend to be former employees, and some lose their jobs because they speak up. I wasn't that brave, I kept my mouth shut while I worked there but that in turn led to me hating the job, and myself, even
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by morganvachon 5y ago
I worked as technical support staff in law enforcement for many years before transitioning to knowledge work, and I assure you this very scenario (even without facial recognition oopsies) happens all the time, especially to people of color.
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by morganvachon 5y ago
He said "grew up" as you quoted, then you said "it was born on Windows" which is untrue, and renders your entire point invalid. While I agree that Microsoft worked hard to hold back innovation on the Web in its early d
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by morganvachon 5y ago
You're moving the goalposts. The original statement was that just as any car can travel any road, any computer can execute any software. Both statements are incorrect, for different reasons. I get the point of the comment as a whole an
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> The thing is, just like a car can travel on any road... I don't disagree with your comment as a whole, but this stood out to me as a classic example of why car::computer analogies always suck. No, not every car can travel on eve
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by morganvachon 5y ago
A bit off topic but that article -- as well as the rest of the site -- is absolutely gorgeous. The smart use of context-specific text colors such as green for section headers, red for emphasis, white-on-blue for code blocks, and (my favori
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by morganvachon 5y ago
Mine was the first gen Shield, and I never could figure out why it stopped working properly with my (self hosted, local network) Emby server. Even after a factory reset and trying a different Google account it never worked right. No issues
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by morganvachon 5y ago
> Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube. We have Rokus (a 4K Ultra in the living room and a TCL Roku TV in the bedroom), as well as a 4K Chromecast, and until we got the Roku Ultra we had a Nvid
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by morganvachon 6y ago
When FileZilla started doing the adware thing years ago, I switched to WinSCP on Windows and never looked back. I was so pissed at FileZilla that I stopped using it on Linux even though their Linux builds didn't have any adware. gFTP i
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by morganvachon 6y ago
One of the biggest and most overlooked issues with privacy on any cellphone, "open hardware" or otherwise, is the phone part. The baseband processor (BBP) will be a proprietary black box until at least one of the carriers decides
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by morganvachon 6y ago
> I found OpenBSD to be a slower than Linux, but on modern hardware, that might not be as much of an issue as on my crappy old laptop. In my experience over the years, this is a bit of a reverse bell curve. For very very old hardware (
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by morganvachon 6y ago
You should try a nightly build, there is pretty good USB WiFi support at this time: https://dev.haiku-os.org/wiki/HardwareInfo#USBwlan
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by morganvachon 6y ago
There is no hardware 3D acceleration at all, but most GPUs supported by FreeBSD and Linux work fine for everyday use. Sleep and suspend are still a work in progress. WiFi and Ethernet support is heavily dependent on FreeBSD drivers, as such
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by morganvachon 6y ago
Yeah that caught my eye as well. My home media server is a repurposed Dell tower server with redundant PSUs, if I can swing that for non-critical movies and TV shows, surely a large scale cloud provider will have not only redundant PSUs on
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by morganvachon 6y ago
You just dredged up memories of trying to run Thief: The Dark Project on Win2k and the installer failing, until I found an obscure forum post saying I should just run the installer with the "-lgntforce" flag. Dear god, the stabi
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by morganvachon 6y ago
> My parents had corrective eye surgery in the last decade (corrected their myopia), and they claim the eye surgery damaged their "reading vision." I'm -7.00 / -7.25 and this happens to me if I wear contacts instead
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by morganvachon 6y ago
It's hit or miss in my experience. My first Baofeng was well behaved as far as RF interference, but it was so shoddily built that it literally fell apart on me a couple of years into ownership (the battery latch, belt clip, and TX butt
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by morganvachon 6y ago
So I'm not a programmer by trade or hobby, I'm a hardware hacking and sysadmin type. I've dabbled with programming over the years just to try to get my feet wet, with "simple"/"easy" languages like Py
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by morganvachon 6y ago
> Can you point us to any evidence of actual election fraud? I certainly can. There is an audio recording of a sitting president asking, then begging, then threatening a Secretary of State to create illegitimate votes to overturn a sta
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by morganvachon 6y ago
I like this one, a little more expensive but makes the Pi into a NUC style SFFPC: https://www.waveshare.com/pi4-case-argon-one.htm Edit to add the fan is optional, so it can run fanless with no throttling.
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by morganvachon 6y ago
Interesting take, and who would the seller complain to about the modified review? Amazon? "Yes Amazon, we paid this customer $20 for a five star review against your policy, and they changed the review to be more honest after they got o

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