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by nikau 4y ago
I can think of a lot of laptops that support more than 24gb ram, hell a thinkpad p15 can do over 5 times an macbook.
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by nikau 4y ago
Yeah missing those Adam Sandler flicks...
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by nikau 4y ago
There were Android forks in the past that were security focused, I had one years ago on a HTC phone that would offer fake contacts/camera/gps to apps and you could deny network access per app on mobile and/or wifi. I haven&#x
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by nikau 4y ago
Things were simpler back then - nokia phones saved the sim pin into memory and had watch dog timers that would just reboot the phone if it locked up and use the in memory pin to unlock the sim. If you didnt happen to be watching the display
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by nikau 4y ago
Likewise buy a business variant of a Windows laptop and also don't have junk installed.
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by nikau 4y ago
Transformers repurposed as planter boxes, I hope the PCB oil was cleaned out thoroughly...
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by nikau 4y ago
Funny, my Dell Inspiron 9300 had wuxga (1920x1200) in 2005. The best mac laptop at the time was 1680x1050 and almost double the price. Like everything Apple, they don't invent it or be the first, but they know how to market it to the a
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by nikau 4y ago
Your sector != average person. Average person hears on the news that company X or cloud Y had an outage, at most they have some anger towards the company for a day or so until the next thing in the news cycle comes along.
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by nikau 4y ago
Same - thankfully I have windows admin access so can download and install manually. https://store.rg-adguard.net/ lets you find the download link for appstore junk.
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by nikau 4y ago
Your average person doesn't listen to twitter, they listen to the mainstream news. And mainstream news will be either "company X offline for hours" if its just you, or "Amazon cloud outage takes multiple companies off li
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by nikau 4y ago
> Using source control tools as part of the deploy process really is a valuable innovation. It's not an "old fad". Its only innovative in an 'Apple released it and now everyone is on the bandwagon' way. I've
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by nikau 4y ago
Erg, the taxman remix sounds fucking awful, the tambourine just sounds like mp3 artifacting: https://variety.com/2022/music/news/beatles-revolver-deluxe-... They need to give the original master tapes to the
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by nikau 4y ago
As a contractor WSL2 is a boon if you have to use a firm supplied laptop - just install WSL2 and windows terminal, both of which are from Microsoft so its all kosher from a security theatre point of view. You then have a standard terminal a
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by nikau 4y ago
At least in the PC realm, most stuff has reached a peak: Audio? Anything in the last 20 years can do CD quality sound. Video? 4K display makes pixels impossible to see, IPS and OLED panels have great colour depth and contrast. Storage? even
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by nikau 4y ago
Plus that lazy category of people who seek help without even trying can be ignored for a few hours, and when you reply its usually "oh yeah i figured it out"
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by nikau 4y ago
What a train wreck of rambling. > you can’t even mount an USB stick to it yes, yes you can. mount -t drvfs x: /mnt/x Or you can run usbip if you need to have low level access to a usb device for some reason.
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by nikau 4y ago
Or Musk had a search run on all the tweets posted by each employee and wants to sack the twitter staff who said mean things about him.
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by nikau 4y ago
ergh, this reminds me of the days when an ISP here didn't allow Linux as part of their TOS as it allowed people to share the link between multiple devices. They ended up detecting people using IP masquerading as the default TTL differe
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by nikau 4y ago
It needs to be on a multi cloud redundant kubernetes cluster at least.
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by nikau 4y ago
That's a pretty fucking good milkshake. I don't know if it's worth five dollars but it's pretty fucking good.
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by nikau 4y ago
stuff that runs on a server.
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by nikau 4y ago
well they could do the same with your video if you dont mind frames being skipped. At the end of the day there are limits to how much data you can pump through a cable, and as seen with thunderbolt cables it gets expensive quick. 99.9% of u
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by nikau 4y ago
Running lots of screens at high res requires bandwidth, and the usb-c connector only has 4 lanes. Displayport 2 is 80Gbps which is a lot of data per second...
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by nikau 4y ago
I think silkworm was the game that used DMA to load graphics tiles on the fly from the floppy disk, was pretty impressive for the time.
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by nikau 4y ago
Yeah spending some time to set up a tool you will probably use for the next 30+ years is outrageous.
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by nikau 4y ago
If your app has a vulnerability someone can exploit it and gain access to your home server. Best pragmatic approach I found when I needed to expose a service from home was to configure port knocking - the port would appear closed until I se
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by nikau 4y ago
life lesson - if its important, pay for a service with support and SLA. Otherwise, mitigate risk by exporting your communications into your own managed storage.
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by nikau 4y ago
Just install a reddit app. Redditisfun is great for android, and only a few bucks to get lifetime ad free.
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by nikau 4y ago
I really wish there was a "no bullshit guide to cloud" that describes how it works behind the scenes - stuff like what a "serverless VPC connector" really is behind the scenes. Sadly the only people who could write such
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by nikau 4y ago
That's why you have junior and senior devops staff. Juniors do the stuff as it should work, seniors troubleshoot it when stuff doesn't work as advertised. Interested juniors learn from seniors and become seniors themselves, uninte

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