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721.
by swiley 5y ago
I wasn't running any hardware accelerated stuff except for video games. That would (I guess unintuitively) take up more memory.
722.
by swiley 5y ago
It's probably one of the easier things to recover from eg used PCBs. It's not like plastic resins which decompose into carbon when you do something wrong. Also manufactures probably throw a ton of copper (chloride?) out which they
723.
by swiley 5y ago
Meh. Tracing over drawings isn't that bad.
724.
by swiley 5y ago
Wow that doesn't open at all in my copy of Firefox. I wonder where the breakage is.
725.
by swiley 5y ago
IMO: schematics are fine. You're unlikely to use the same CAD software they did anyway. This feels a bit like complaining about some company publishing the source for their MSVC++ win32 app.
726.
by swiley 5y ago
This. Mozilla has the power to make a bittorant client instantly available to tons of web users which would make self hosting video trivial and make YouTube's recommendation algorithm mostly irrelevant.
727.
by swiley 5y ago
At this point I'm pretty convinced large organizations cannot build good proprietary software.
728.
by swiley 5y ago
I could imagine them saying something similar about self hosting compilers.
729.
by swiley 5y ago
The feedback loop the recommendation algorithm generates is really powerful. I personally have to treat youtube cautiously the way I treat any addictive drug otherwise I end up watching it long after I would have liked to.
730.
by swiley 5y ago
> with 1.5gb memory. Even with the lightest weight Linux I could load on it, it wouldn't load most web pages. That's a bit odd. I used a raspi (1GiB aarch64 sbc with WiFi and SD card) as a desktop in college and while it was un
731.
by swiley 5y ago
I can fit on an 8mb (doesn't matter) machine no problem. ssh->tmux on my VPS, no need to change a single thing. Much more interesting would be an old computer disconnected from the internet. 512mb is enough to get away with it if
732.
by swiley 5y ago
If YT ever suggests something you don't like then you have to not ever watch it for a long time to make it go away. Unless it's television news, something seems to artificially inject that into the feed.
733.
by swiley 5y ago
Saying no to smartphones is certainly impressive but IMO you don't have to go that far, just say no to apps and web services that act like apps.
734.
by swiley 5y ago
Alternatively set your status to "email me" and just never go to facebook again. That worked for me but that was 5 years ago.
735.
by swiley 5y ago
The best thing you can do, not just for yourself but for those around you: Say no to smartphone apps.
736.
by swiley 5y ago
Ye olde price=utility.
737.
by swiley 5y ago
But remember, poor Apple shouldn't be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit over this.
738.
by swiley 5y ago
They're also trying to break their old no-longer-economical contracts.
739.
by swiley 5y ago
>but cash is also near useless for me. Did your bank/ATM stop accepting it? Do you never settle debts with your friends?
740.
by swiley 5y ago
You may not be aware but an iPhone isn't required to participate in group chats: MMS and XMPP still exist, there are even bridges between them.
741.
by swiley 5y ago
Eventually the market pressure causes construction or artificially constraining housing creates social and humanitarian crises like what you see in SF which will bring the market back to equilibrium in other ways.
742.
by swiley 5y ago
If housing hadn't exploded over the last 30 years I don't think stagnant wage growth would have been an issue. I've always felt like housing is the biggest indicator of inflation.
743.
by swiley 5y ago
I grew up in a town like this and left. The only thing I miss is being close to my parents.
744.
by swiley 5y ago
>In a DoD facility? Do they not have computers in DoD facilities? Do they never run RHEL? Don't the installer disks have QEMU on them already?
745.
by swiley 5y ago
That's a long way to say that Ketchum, Idaho has no jobs because the market can't afford workers.
746.
by swiley 5y ago
On other OSes the people maintaining/updating legacy stuff are paid consultants. On Windows only Microsoft is allowed to do this so it isn't done.
747.
by swiley 5y ago
Online anonymity.
748.
by swiley 5y ago
Most other states don't house the only two relevant mobile OS vendors either.
749.
by swiley 5y ago
Most things are, in fact, files. It's just a massive pain to do anything with them.
750.
by swiley 5y ago
If I had a kid they would not be allowed to use Apps or have a Google account. Sure I'd give them a laptop, I would even probably give them unsupervised access to the web after they seemed ready, but Apps are no good even for most adul

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