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1. 511.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   Yes, Los Angeles. I have to stand in a certain spot, facing a certain direction, and hold my phone above my head to get speeds faster than 4G. I've got wifi at home for my phone, and can't get 5G there to get rid of the wifi. 5G m
2. 512.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   I've had a 5G phone for over a year, and have been ON 5G for maybe 45 seconds. Said it before: Switched carriers to make the new one pay off my phone, then switched back because they didn't have 5G either, and their signal was wor
3. 513.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   I know at least one person who put OS X Server 1.2 on a G3 266 laptop, that was supposed to be running 8.6 for the business that cut the paychecks. I've still got the installer in a shoebox somewhere.
4. 514.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   I heard from someone in Apple that Siri, as least at the time, was on Oracle databases on Dell Blade servers.
5. 515.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   You took the words out of my mouth.
6. 516.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   I got the same call, but it really was my bank! Hey, wait a second.
7. 517.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   I'm not sure even Google has abandoned something so quickly. Impressive. The end of this sort of "news" is near, I believe.
8. 518.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   Should something go wrong this weekend, we might have two more planes crashing in California. https://abcnews.go.com/US/pilot-cousins-attempt-1st-plane-sw...
9. 519.▲
   by smm11 5y ago

   Everything in that article can be done with Excel believe it or not.
10. 520.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    As someone who is routinely out-and-about in wilderness areas of California (and other states), I'm offended some asshat can just chuck a ton or so of heavy metal into the ground there at a high rate of speed.
11. 521.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    I'm a sample of one, but the home machine that was Ubuntu from 2006 until two or three years ago is now BSD.
12. 522.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    We got Netflix long ago to see movies we never caught in theaters. Now, it's nearly entirely Netflix productions, and we're not into that. So long.
13. 523.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Salt isn't bad. Sugar is.
14. 524.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    PAYING to do your taxes is another scam we allow upon ourselves.
15. 525.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Sysadmin
16. 526.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Same, for The Man.
17. 527.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Still staying away.
18. 528.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Not that the XPS 13 is the best ever made, but.
19. 529.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Then why is a Gallium that's out-of-date be an issue? If you have an older Chrombook, from the time when Gallium was maintained, and if Linux indeed "updates forever," go with Gallium.
20. 530.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Winter much? You had a valuable post, too bad you had to maghat it. Here's my plug for a nice rails-trail, even in a "Red" state: https://bikecowboytrail.com/
21. 531.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Right about the time Nautilus was Eazle, something like that, some other effort had Navigator as your desktop/browser/file manager. But I can't recall much else. Anyone?
22. 532.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Has there ever been a company or industry that absorbs material costs, rather than passing it down to the consumer? This is the ONLY trickle-down that is actually a thing.
23. 533.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    OpenStep a lot of the time. Browsing via X, but yeah.
24. 534.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Browser, text editor, terminal. Seems to me old ChromeOS can do that.
25. 535.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    Not related, but CA has banned gas-powered lawn equipment (mowers, weed destroyers, blowers). Sort of the "small airplane" thing first.
26. 536.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    I turned a photo gallery thing into an ecommerce site, tied to Paypal, on a Mac maybe 20 years ago. Lot of PHP mucking-about, with little idea what I was doing. No harm or foul, though, other than I could have picked a different gallery app
27. 537.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    The realclear group seems to have a certain slant. And given that California has Silicon Valley, and also the Central Valley that's full of farm-oriented immigrants, of course you're going to have this gigantic disparity in wages.
28. 538.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    I must be dreaming, but could swear back in the day DHL would pick up your Apple product, fix it, and deliver it back to you.
29. 539.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    There's a ton of businesses with mail servers, ERP systems, workstations, industrial equipment, web sites, and hardware to support salespersons, events, and visitors. Keeps me busy, and automating as much as I can, before I ride off in
30. 540.▲
    by smm11 5y ago

    I recall using this 30 years ago on System 7. Can I retire yet?