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by theodric 2y ago
These power meter cables have been out for a couple years, but it's only recently that manufacturers have caught on that previously the display would be upside down for most(?) people (or 100% of people who are me, anyway) when plugged
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by theodric 2y ago
€50 in Ireland, down from €65 in the last year, down from €99 in 2022. Because they know where you are, and how much money your average target customer in a country has, and how saturated their satellites in that country are, they can be ve
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by theodric 2y ago
Tesla and SpaceX collectively employ 113,000 people, and I really think the story should be more about them than the guy who has the keys to the nicest office in the building. Gwynne Shotwell is a hell of an administrator. Without Starlink,
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by theodric 2y ago
good, it'll be more likely to sink when we all collectively chuck it in the lake
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by theodric 2y ago
I'm sorry to disagree so bluntly, but: you are incorrect; they did, and they still do cut whole subregions out. Example: Google has a Google (web)Store in 17 European countries [1] (including the UK and Switzerland), thus 15 of 27 EU c
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by theodric 2y ago
And that isn't just some remote possibility, it's a likely outcome, because it's already a crapshoot with hardware/service availability across Europe. It was the case that for many years - might still be? - you couldn&#x
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by theodric 2y ago
I have some Dansk (which is Finnish, because logic is for Vulcans) flatware from the 1970s which instead of having forks has threeks. Still stabs food pretty well.
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by theodric 2y ago
Granted, but what about this would suggest that code or math should necessarily activate the language center?
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by theodric 2y ago
At the risk of just being flippant, duh . Language is a means for expressing thoughts, feelings, emotions, and data. Code is a means for instructing a machine how to behave. One encapsulates as much of the experience of being a human as we
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by theodric 2y ago
Dragnet surveillance meets fishing operation. I do not find it so reasonable.
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by theodric 2y ago
Walkers are one thing; it's when people stay overnight and can't be asked to pack away everything they hauled in that a layer really begins to accumulate: plastic wrappings, bottles, butts, wads of beshitted toilet paper, and so o
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by theodric 2y ago
Self-reply: they have now uploaded the code. Please disregard my earlier whining until the next time. http://files.serialport.org/archie/archie-3.5-beta/
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by theodric 2y ago
Well here's something that will be taken as an inflammatory comment, which I nevertheless believe with absolute certainty and will hold to despite the inevitable loss of karma/banning: Anglosphere countries cannot be trusted with
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by theodric 2y ago
Since the code hasn't been made public, it's not really meaningfully more 'rescued' than it was before. One hard drive crash, guy getting bored and shutting the server down because of no hits in X days, or similar and it
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by theodric 2y ago
Well, nevertheless
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by theodric 2y ago
You could try Fedora. I find it to be less buggy than Ubuntu.
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by theodric 3y ago
The tedious sort of people who like to make it their mission in life to quote the rulebook as often as possible, frequently incorrectly, in an effort to assert their authority and dominance. I want nothing to do with them.
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by theodric 3y ago
Hams still have and use them.[1] I'm not a ham, because I don't want to hang out with self-appointed cops, so I got a new Chinese pager made up with a center frequency of 433.5MHz (ISM, unlicensed), then configured it to work w
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by theodric 3y ago
Here's my €0.02: In 1998, I liked the active matrix LCD on my Gateway laptop a lot more than the GDM-17E11 Trinitron on my SGI because the Trinitron had these 2 fucking wires across the picture, which annoyed me, and also the RGB conve
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by theodric 3y ago
Forsaken. Similar enough that I'd call it a ripoff. I got the boxed version with the girly calendar.
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by theodric 3y ago
Yeah, I had grand plans. I even did one issue, and OCR'd it as well, but then COVID happened and work got busy and now you can fast-forward four years when I've moved countries again, hopefully for the last time. I know where they
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by theodric 3y ago
You might well have had a terminal on your desk, because that had been an increasingly common thing for over a decade by 1981. But probably nothing fun on it in a government/military setting.
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by theodric 3y ago
"During the eighties, a nameless Cold Warrior grew frustrated in his job" And now we know he got his period on the 15th, as well. Did the author not read each cell systematically?
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by theodric 3y ago
> What is this obsession with the past and the early days of computing The machine that defined our era, and did it so quickly that we realized what was happening and actually had a chance to interview some of the people who kicked it of
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by theodric 3y ago
I may have the only omnibus of PET Benelux Exchange magazines out there, which seem to be entirely unavailable online. There are exceptions.
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by theodric 3y ago
^correct As a Car Guy, when they said 'battery flagship', I immediately understood that to mean the F150 Lightning: the top-of-the range version of their most popular vehicle, which also (now) runs on batteries. (The Lightning use
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by theodric 3y ago
Assuming the SSD is still functional, yes, but otherwise it's probably functionally E-waste at that point unless BGA rework becomes accessible and commonplace. Even then, Asahi Linux is a niche solution to a mass-market problem. Surfdu
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by theodric 3y ago
RDP is excellent, but xrdp[1] works pretty well (although most of the time I stick to SSH sessions and don't bother with remote GUI) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrdp
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by theodric 3y ago
"Sort of" is doing Atlas levels of heavy lifting here given the atrocious performance of x86 PC games on ARM Macs
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by theodric 3y ago
macOS ARM is not a solution for getting more than 10 years out of a computer. 9-10 is about the max lifecycle of a Mac, including the trailing security updates following 6-7 years of support.

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