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by rincebrain 5mo ago
In contrast, I have never owned a USB-C to HDMI cable, and I don't know of any device except perhaps my phone that might be able to make use of one.
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
They say pretty directly in the post that they didn't want to deal with the hassles around dongles and uncommon ports for using this as a Linux PC in their pocket.
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
They do appear to be trying to build something a bit more bespoke than that, where they want something like Fedora Silverblue or what systemd seems to want to present, in terms of contained overlays for snapshotting when you make changes an
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
They mention in the comments intending to have modes that solely run on the microcontroller, so I imagine that might help somewhat. This also feels like the target market is people who said they dangled this off an RPi-alike to do something
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
From my understanding, the problem is volume. You want to land a substantial amount of, ahem, shit in there, since don't just want it to colonize one portion of the gut, and it's got quite a lot of competition. So you would be tal
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
Yes, I've had a number of these. One of the most annoying ones combined these two properties, so depending on various internal races, typing a four letter word would either open one program, the folder that program was installed in (!?
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
I think what drives me mad is its nondeterminism. If I hit Winkey and type a string, it should not be the case that I get different results from doing that 6 times in a row because it depends whether some background task which changes the r
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
I must say, for a library advertising handling of streams of data, the absence of a stream utility to [input] | fc | fc -d surprised me. I understand this is more the primitive that you would build such a thing on top of, just that the firs
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
There's pretty noticable differences in ability to self-regulate between people who had unfiltered access to computers and smartphones when growing up and not, beyond simply generational shifts. I think the parent's assumption is
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
I've met a lot of people in the US who assume they cannot afford to fly anywhere, much less to another country, without having ever priced any part of it, they simply Knew from cultural osmosis they were not The Kind Of People Who Coul
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
I don't think I said I agreed with them, or that the position had no flaws, I just said I thought their stance was sincerely held. People can earnestly believe illogical or inconsistent things. Arguably those are even easier to get stu
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
One would hope. I have never personally owned one, but I have been told that some Alienware and similar flavored devices have had issues like this when you closed their bespoke Alienware management software because it was the thing driving
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
Not the main focus but, FYI, a number of pieces of hardware will default to full tilt fans unless you have their tooling running to manage things. NVIDIA GPUs were infamous for doing this with nouveau on less ideally supported cards, for ex
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
My mental model remains that the Windows team is mostly governed by designers on Macs who want to see a user-visible change to get their promo and never use Windows.
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by rincebrain 5mo ago
I think it's an extension of the premise that you should just be taking the whole stable tree with all its patches constantly, whether they're labeled as security fixes or not, because you can never really know for sure some bugs
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
As an addendum to anyone who finds this. After an extended back and forth and them temporarily marking my account as active so they could look around and try things, linking the accounts by logging into Amazon and One Medical in Chrome work
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
The part where lots of people have historically trusted LLM responses without verification, more than trying to sort through the dross on Google or Bing search results is, I think, the point.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
No, if you have a dual-homed stack right now, and they only expose IPv4, you connect over IPv4, you don't attempt to connect over IPv6 and get connection denied. That's rather the problem - there's no trivial way to mimic tha
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
You may enjoy this[1] article about its history and where the dev wound up. [1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180329033107/https://motherboa...
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
If you slapped a pixel font in, you'd really want to rework the whole UI to not look jarring with the aliased font you'd most likely use to evoke the nostalgia, and that's a substantial rabbit hole, but also not one you neces
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Kind of? Accuracy is valuable, but as illustrated by the early days of people using buggy emulators for SNES games on phones and the DS/3DS, people will tolerate buggy but running on their hardware over correct but unplayable.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Not really. I've loopback mounted disk images over network filesystems for many years without any recurring issues outside of macOS. It's not rocket science, particularly if you have a reliable network connection. I'm aware t
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Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare
31 points by rincebrain 6mo ago|6 comments
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
My only annoyance with "Green Ethernet" things is that often they seem to work poorly. The dedicated machine I still keep around for Windows things has two onboard 2.5GbE ports. It will apparently sometimes, even with all power sa
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
My question would be, I suppose, how well do they work for extended intervals (e.g. 30+ minutes of saturated traffic)? I've tried buying several USB3 2.5/5/10GbE copper adapters, apparently mostly Aquantia under the hood, and
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
It might be true that that's how most of the money gets made on them now, but famously for many years they refused to try to make such a thing officially, so I doubt that was the nominal reason to start them. I wonder what makes bottin
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
In general, "you are never allowed to use our products again" is a horrible idea in any industry where all the focus is around trying to get _more_ people to try them. It's part of why a lot of places might ban your account b
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
> You are moving the goalpost. I'm not the one moving the goalpost; my argument was that Apple's incentives are not in favor of them permitting even the appearance that they might allow that kind of compromise, your argument wi
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Truly incredible. You paid people how much money to pick a name that is going to get thrown out in the next 12 months as everyone keeps thinking you said Thunderbird.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
None of those articles are inconsistent with the claim that Apple cares about security, though? "We can be legally compelled to give up data we have" and "we thought letting people have custom kernel modules was a bigger thre

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