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by theodric 5y ago
I think we've arrived at the point where all the town squares are owned by a private corporation who can - so I am told - do whatever they want on their property. I guess this was always the terminal destination of American society: st
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by theodric 5y ago
I don't. I haven't finished a book in years. I keep buying them, though. Such is life.
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by theodric 5y ago
My Indigo 2 R4400SC couldn't run 64-bit IRIX. For that I had to swap the motherboard and CPU for an R10000.
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by theodric 5y ago
Crap, my LTE credit expired overnight! Fixed now.
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by theodric 5y ago
https://potateaux.com Be gentle, it's hosted over LTE on a Raspberry Pi. It's not meant to do anything, just sit there and look pretty, a bit like me :)
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by theodric 5y ago
I hesitated to install it because of the telemetry reported by other HN users. I eventually installed it because of curiosity, but blocked its connections, and it refused to work, so I relented and unblocked them because of curiosity. I del
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by theodric 5y ago
That's what Homebrew does
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by theodric 5y ago
Infuriating that they decide I shouldn't be allowed to view the page on my phone, even when I switch to desktop view. My power's out and I'm not going to hunt down and tether a laptop. Guess I don't care about whatever t
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by theodric 5y ago
Fresh art all the time Don't have to print and change the artwork manually No backlight - looks just like real art No cord, battery-powered, lasts a long time
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by theodric 5y ago
Fink and MacPorts, for a given definition of "better." They at least don't abandon older OS releases as quickly.
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by theodric 5y ago
Thoreau, Walden - simplicity, rejection of societal expectations. The chapter on economy is delightfully technical. Toffler, Future Shock - the danger to societal cohesion and human wellness caused by constant, rapid, paradigm-breaking chan
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by theodric 5y ago
My 23-year-old V12 7 series has electrically heated catalytic converters for this very reason. Thanks to those, according to German regs it qualifies as a ULEV! I think it still stinks at first start. Also, the cats cost two grand each to r
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by theodric 5y ago
Hi, Pete! I loved the work you did in South Bend. Do you have a lead on a used electric car that will seat four people and our dog? Budget is 12k. Thanks!
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by theodric 5y ago
We'll be long dead before that, but it's a cool thought experiment
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by theodric 5y ago
The price alone is turning me back into a Linux user after 20 years. I simply cannot justify 6800 Swiss Francs (neighborhood of 7000 Euros or USD) for the max CPU/RAM and a 2TB SSD, and I cannot justify getting any less because it&#x27
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by theodric 5y ago
Very important & underappreciated skill. Anyone who wants to climb needs to be part politician. I once saw someone's Senior Manager promotion announcement/congrats from the department VP include the justification "I see y
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by theodric 5y ago
Once they finish convincing sheeple that they need 8k or 16k or 128k TVs to perpetuate the endless cycle of obsolescence, perhaps.
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by theodric 5y ago
Meanwhile, my employer: "The hell you say."
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by theodric 5y ago
iPad Pro. Get the big one. Near-full-size A4 and extremely fast page rendering. Don't waste time and money on Android tablets, ePaper readers, and the like-- learn from the thousands I've squandered and just buy the iPad.
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by theodric 5y ago
Most of the classic Palms have 68k CPUs in them, and feel more like a handheld Classic Mac than a modern smartphone. I am also a vintage snob with a low cutoff (anything after 1985 puts me to sleep) but I will give Palms and other such prim
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by theodric 5y ago
I love that I got downvoted for this comment :-D
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by theodric 5y ago
Going by her father's quote in the article, once her parents realized how much money she could make, they found a way to make peace with the risk of injury and death. Remember Judy Garland and what she had to go through to get autonomy
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by theodric 5y ago
Everyone's a risk manager until they have to do it every day, and then they find themselves constrained by last week's fears to the extent that they can no longer leave the house without a haz-mat suit, armed bodyguard, and one-wa
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by theodric 5y ago
Social media didn't enforce real name policies, Facebook dot com did. Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr, the right-wing sites-- none of those (nominally) require you to divulge PII to open an account (although try opening a Twitter ac
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by theodric 5y ago
Hacker News is an argument
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by theodric 5y ago
I read the parent comment as a joke
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by theodric 5y ago
Counterpoint: it locks all functionality behind a single point of failure, rendering all cabin controls useless simultaneously in the event of a failure of the screen or the upstream chain to the computer driving it (to say nothing of the d
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by theodric 5y ago
Small LCD screens embedded behind double glass in the rear-view mirror are common in the aftermarket backup camera sets. Any sufficiently-motivated car manufacturer could design something similar to meet regs without moving their controls t
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by theodric 5y ago
The author's list of demands describe my 2011 Renault Kangoo II, a model they only stopped producing in 2021, very well. Knobs, analog gauges, but also a factory-installed reverse parking sensor. It's down-market and inexpensive,
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by theodric 5y ago
There's a big difference in service criticality between your business website and your NAS full of pirated tentacle hentai. Cases like the latter can accept extended outages, and are very cost-effectively served by home-based infra.

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