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by nikau 3y ago
> The last Thinkpad I used didn't have working wifi drivers out of the box! Given its a one time setup and you use the laptop for 1-2 years at a minimum, I find it a weird hill to die on.
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by nikau 3y ago
> Windows Terminal which is rather excellent. I'd go more with buggy but functional once you know its limitations. Copy and paste is broken, tab naming and management is broken, its still pretty rough around the edges.
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by nikau 3y ago
Yes, the most important spec is a material for a case that cant absorb impact.
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by nikau 3y ago
> why industrial control systems had such abysmal security for as long as they did. Bold of you to use past tense there
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by nikau 3y ago
We are at the point of diminishing returns now technology wise - displays are 4K pixel perfect, audio is better than any human can hear, disks are crazy fast, cpus and gpus are fast - so there's no longer the thrills of pushing boundar
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by nikau 3y ago
I did a similar thing in the 90s with a big box of faulty ethernet cards - they caused Windows 95 to lock up and the vendor had shipped us replacements telling us to throw out the old ones. I was curious and put a card into a Linux box whic
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by nikau 3y ago
I was referring to the reliability and weight claims. And 72km is still higher than the average US trip distance, and it will kick over to petrol to augment any occasions when you go over that. Its literally the best of both worlds - plug i
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by nikau 3y ago
That's cool in Gartner research theory land, but Prius and hybrid Camrys confirm its nonsense.
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by nikau 3y ago
> benefits of an EV but can fall back to your gasoline car for trips. Why not just get a pehv
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by nikau 4y ago
> This is way better than an average university education in all but a few majors like computer science. Quality of life is way lower however, most tradies bodies are in pain once in their 40s
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by nikau 4y ago
They are. I have some clone Makita batteries and tools that are fine. Your average tradie would rather just do a cash in hand extra job vs spending that time researching and waiting for some clone tools from China.
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by nikau 4y ago
Meetings are called by people being lazy because they are highly visible and low effort. The fix for that is to require an agenda up front and action items afterwards - that way its less effort to just do it via an email and meetings are on
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by nikau 4y ago
This is why ex-lease vehicles are the ones to go for, at least in Australia. They are typically driven by older people who want the latest shiny thing after the lease expires after 3-4 years vs being dumped due to issues.
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by nikau 4y ago
They do save to a folder for a while: "%LocalAppData%\Packages\MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS_cw5n1h2txyewy\TempState\ScreenClip" I have a WSL2 cronjob that does an rsync to the Pictures folder, but its ridiculous how dogshit it is,
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by nikau 4y ago
Great, now add an option to autosave the screen captures to a folder vs the temporary one that I have to make a script to rsync them out of now before they are expired.
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by nikau 4y ago
Yes I meant to reply to the parent comment mentioning Tavarish and Samcrac.
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by nikau 4y ago
And if to want to see an actual professional, diagnose dan
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by nikau 4y ago
Most cheap multimeters have an ir or similar data port you can use for that. Just need to hold a button when turning on the meter to disable the auto power of timer, then you run software on a laptop to log the data to csv
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by nikau 4y ago
Finally I can not watch 3D movies with out requiring special glasses.
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by nikau 4y ago
> convenience of not having to write all the stuff Its the difference of not paying for the stuff. In the past you would pay a vendor and they would give you libraries and provide bug fixes and vulnerability patches.
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by nikau 4y ago
Browse car sale sites looking for a petrol car that refuels in a few minutes? :P
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by nikau 4y ago
> - Do not 'set -o pipefail' by default. It will only waste your time when your scripts start failing because some command in the middle of a pipe returned non-zero while still outputting the result you wanted, and you spend 3
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by nikau 4y ago
> He typed the following prompt into ChatGPT: “Write an interactive Emacs Lisp function that pops to a new buffer, prints out the first paragraph of A Tale of Two Cities, and changes all words with ‘i’ in them red. Just print the code wi
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by nikau 4y ago
Using a bluetooth headset is a good start, on every call there is always someone with shitty airpods or some bluetooth headset with terrible audio.
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by nikau 4y ago
Gotta love the teams mute button that is unresponsive for 5-10 seconds if your disk is under high IO.
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by nikau 4y ago
I would expect them to read the terms of their contract in regards to how their data is backed up, can it be restored if deleted, how long its retained, etc. If they just go "derp derp put it in cloud" they are negligent.
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by nikau 4y ago
Like anything it depends on your scale. People say the same thing about Microsoft with their generic "reinstall the OS" solution for small userbases - once you get past a certain size you get decent support with an account rep, SL
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by nikau 4y ago
Sounds like having the option of listening to voicemails or reading a text - personally I'd prefer a text history to skim through.
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by nikau 4y ago
Investment banking area. We had a bunch of DECpc XL dual Pentiums a few years before that too. I'm pretty sure it was on nt3.51 at that stage with exceed for remote X windows apps and a bunch of bespoke win32 stuff.
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by nikau 4y ago
Free WiFi equivalent exists when you call 112 emergency services. No sim required, any cell tower from any carrier will allow the call.

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