theodric

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   by theodric 2y ago

   I'm not convinced it is a realistic goal to attract more new desktop users, given that what would get /me/ to consider moving is if FreeBSD offered a better UX than the big 2, Linux and macOS. As it is, it doesn't: per
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   by theodric 2y ago

   In my former industry, and my former line of work, we would never trust the integrity of an OS image on an SSD delivered from the manufacturer by standard courier (not e2e receipted CoC) without some means of verifying it on the receiving e
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   by theodric 2y ago

   E-ink maybe isn't it, anyway. A few years ago I built an e-ink clock/gimmick that refreshed every few seconds with some different text on a given part of the screen, and within 1.5 years the sides unto about 2cm in - but not the p
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   by theodric 2y ago

   You wouldn't agree that GP did what they said, or what do you mean?
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   by theodric 2y ago

   With 40%+ Germanic vocabulary (per Braudel), is French rather a Germanic creole?
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   by theodric 2y ago

   I assembled a fanless all-flash NAS in a Jobsbo N1 last year, and it's still working pretty well https://github.com/theodric/NASty
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   by theodric 2y ago

   This is an example of the broken window fallacy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window )
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   by theodric 2y ago

   I don't, really. I have a text file on GitHub explaining how I set them up, and occasionally I'll grab a tarball of /etc on the more complicated ones. Data worth preserving doesn't live on the VM-- that's what NFS i
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   by theodric 2y ago

   I have this general feeling based my 21 years bouncing around Europe that subtitle countries have better English than dub countries, although I'm not proposing that the link is causative
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    by theodric 2y ago

    > Requires explicit buttons I had a ThinkPad i1300 back in 2003 which allowed, in Windows anyway, a thump on the trackpoint to serve as a click. That functionality seems to have been abandoned during the couple of decades I was mainly
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I use the random Google Earth image extension for my new tabs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/earth-view-fr...
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I didn't buy the MNT Reform because it simply didn't have enough RAM to be useful to me. Now this new one has enough RAM, but it dispenses with the trackball - which was the thing that initially drew my eye to the Reform - in favo
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Journalists who need to be excited about having something to review to pay their bills are excited. I don't know any non-tuner-obsessives who are upgrading much more often than about once per decade. I personally went from (work Macs a
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    by theodric 2y ago

    This is so accurate that it really can only be compared to photography. I'd ask 'why,' but I know the answer already. Much respect to the artist.
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Look at what's happening in the UK right now to see how illiberal Western democracies can be when up against the wall. Don't forget that it was only about 2-3 years ago that there were temporary going-outside-without-a-good-reason
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    by theodric 2y ago

    'Uncensorable' yes, but still vulnerable to novel government regulation, jamming, rubber hose attack, etc. Folks using Meshtastic in Ukraine rapidly found out that they were advertising their positions, as well, resulting in being
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I adore my Kaypro II (such a simple and well-designed system!), but the software for CP/M is generally quite boring. Business, productivity-- all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Sure, there's ADVENT and a Gorillas-type gam
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Mid-tier gaming GPU performance, but (potentially) access to gobs of memory (if running on a host with gobs of memory) owing to the unified memory design. For certain use cases which require loading huge datasets but don't necessarily
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Not OP, but when I last checked a couple months ago, the answer was 'meh' (some parts not supported, difficulty with sleep/wake, etc.) It seems to still be meh. https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/status-of-ub
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I don't buy that COL is significantly higher unless you're firehosing money everywhere for the hell of it. You can spend scads of money, but you're not obligated to. I lived there for five years, and left in December. My gr
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    by theodric 2y ago

    You can use a fresnel magnifier to accomplish this, but it will not manufacture more photons, so the bigger you make the magnified image, the dimmer it will appear.
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I rather think "anyone" includes all comers, not just corporations
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Me. 25 years on Debian, but couldn't get it to cooperate for my VFIO passthrough multi-workstation. Arch worked great until one day, a few days before I had to leave home for a couple months, I unwisely performed updates which broke ev
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    by theodric 2y ago

    What's the benefit to a traditional consumer application of opening ports these days, besides maybe for local network data exchange (which, I assume, is what Steam does since I know it will sync game updates between machines on the sam
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I can read the numbers upside down, I just don't want to and I find it silly that these manufacturers took several years to notice and decide to fix a basic fit-and-finish issue that probably affected 90% of their customer base. Li
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    by theodric 2y ago

    It's slow to the point of being outpaced by an ARM SBC from 2016, and it's not even current with today's RISC-V spec. This is a curiosity, nothing more, but it will still be far and away the nicest (but not the only!) RISC-V
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    by theodric 2y ago

    Nuance lost while attempting to approach the topic from GP's perspective. I don't personally adhere to cancel mob culture. My point is: they're likely all some variety of cartoon villain, given (my experience of) the sort o
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I'll grant that Spanish people are on a bit less than the Irish, but please don't be misled by GDP Per Capita numbers. Irish people are hurting , especially in the parts of the country beyond greater Dublin. Dublin is well-served
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    by theodric 2y ago

    You're suggesting I plug it in upside down so I can't read it, or plug it in on the right side of my machines which have no ports on the right side?
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    by theodric 2y ago

    I mean, a LaserJet 4L is still quite a decent printer today. Just don't buy an HP printer that was made in the last 25 years, and you should be fine!