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by qz2 6y ago
They've always been like that. I had the misfortune of having to integrate with some of their stuff they'd thrown on to ruby on rails back when it was teetering on the top of hype mountain. Realistically 99% of their back end at t
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by qz2 6y ago
They still sell a big chunk of original HP parts as well. I got a couple of bits for a 25 year old power supply a few months back.
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by qz2 6y ago
Well fortunately she fucked that up before she got anywhere!
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by qz2 6y ago
It's a shame really. Their new calculators are crap made by the lowest bidder (Kinpo Electronics) who make TI and Casio stuff too.
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by qz2 6y ago
HP ejected the three major "old HP" concerns you mentioned in 1999 into a company called Agilent and proceeded to make a complete universal fuck up of everything that was left.
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by qz2 6y ago
This. It was buy a new iMac time earlier this year for me and I ended up with a Ryzen custom build. The crate itself, a 3700X w/ 64GB of RAM, 1TiB NVMe, 1660 GTX didn't cost much more than the 64GB of RAM for the iMac was going to
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by qz2 6y ago
1080p and bittorrent. That's it. I honestly don't have the eyesight or a large enough screen that 4k makes a difference for me.
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by qz2 6y ago
Comparing it cable is unfair. At least cable worked properly with my television unlike the HDCP infested upgrade nightmare that streaming turned into. I started just pirating the content I was subscribed to because it was easier. Then they
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by qz2 6y ago
HDCP is why I steal most of my content. None of the streaming devices will talk to the buggy HDCP implementation on my Samsung TV.
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by qz2 6y ago
Interesting read, however: London has almost no specific fish and chip traditions of its own . That will be because it's mostly chicken down here :)
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by qz2 6y ago
Yes. I already know what I'm looking for. I posted a picture of it yesterday: https://imgur.com/yjPMYaX (M600, sort of a NUC)
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by qz2 6y ago
I was considering posting that. I'm glad you did :)
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by qz2 6y ago
Not at all. Some people, me included, look at hardware and it falls to bits. Really they're not particularly durable machines. Apple could do a lot better. Thinkpads are ok though. I haven't murdered one of them. Yet. I've tr
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by qz2 6y ago
I think I got 18 months out of my last two MacBooks before they gave out. Moved to windows desktops now. Much better value propositions, especially now as we don’t have to go out any more! :)
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by qz2 6y ago
As a British person we tend to tell everyone we do that and people believe it. However it’s not necessarily true. We produced a ridiculously large amount of crap to the point we nearly killed our manufacturing industry. If there’s anything
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by qz2 6y ago
Yeah see my original comment about USB power problems :)
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by qz2 6y ago
vomit . There's PCI lanes coming out of the CPU right? Even a bottom end Intel unit these days has one for an NVMe slot, not 5 devices down the bus.
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by qz2 6y ago
No all GCSE so 14+ students. The issue is usually that they freeze or crash under "desktop use" all the time and people pull the power out and back in again to reset them. This flexes the HDMI and USB connectors which eventually b
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by qz2 6y ago
School computers take a beating. That's why the two are incompatible.
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by qz2 6y ago
Rubbish. They do. My daughter's school has a pile of knackered Pi's that the teachers don't have the time and budget to fix. Broken connectors, duff microSDs, bricks. They don't use them now, preferring python on windows
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by qz2 6y ago
Schools don't want to be debugging microSD and USB issues.
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by qz2 6y ago
Can we please have a Pi without a crappy storage interface. It's either a microSD card or something dangling off USB. An M2 SATA or NVMe would make this credible but 99% of the problems I've had with the Pi platform is storage rel
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by qz2 6y ago
Completely. I’ve actually written a mostly working terminal gopher client in Go which is reminiscent of such browsers :) Source: https://pastebin.com/B7KqsDRg (no dependencies, no license) Screenshot: https://img
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by qz2 6y ago
Been 15 years since I did this myself. Got fed up with trying to get people to pay their bills. Trick is to keep your costs as low as possible and charge them as much as possible for the privilege. I'd probably throw it all at AWS, pro
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by qz2 6y ago
This can be done with modern tech. A lot of the time I use a Debian box for my personal stuff with keyboard and cheap 1080p display. It does not run X at all. It's literally just framebuffer console, tmux and terminals. I don't
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by qz2 6y ago
I think they sound terrible so it’s definitely subjective :)
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by qz2 6y ago
Honestly the bit that kills me is being thoroughly buggered for cash. And that is being forced down your neck even more regularly these days, particularly on the back of failures. When it came to upgrade time this year I skipped buying a mi
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by qz2 6y ago
Someone did this a few years ago but I can’t find the link. It would pass in a double blind test but I suspect if someone realised it was a DSP then it would instantly be unpopular. Most of the tube sound actually comes from the terrible pe
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by qz2 6y ago
Annoyingly people seem to rob them out of other equipment destroying it in the process.
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by qz2 6y ago
Yeah. I like to watch them on my phone in bed though. So I use youtube-dl and VLC.

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