theodric
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- theodricThere are weirdos out there. I am looking for a bulkier and more hackable laptop! I bought a ThinkPad P14s Gen5 AMD which has turned out to be a flimsy, plastic (not magnesium like the Intel units), disappointing piece of shit with frequent (but known) GPU crash issues, which I bought because I had a certain moment when I needed a computer and the Framework 16 was still on last-gen hardware, which felt silly to buy so close to an inevitable upgrade. I wish I had, though. Not much difference between an 8840HS and a 7840HS, but a huge difference between even a fairly upgradable ThinkPad like the P14s and a Framework.
- Having been briefly regionally known when I was a kid, I can tell you that it gets fucking annoying having to deal with your adoring public after the novelty of it wears off. Sometimes you're just in line for the toilet and really need to piss.
- I'd love to try this, but (tangential) have they fixed their screen issues? I sent back three Kobo Elipsa 2E units in a row before just getting my money back due to bright point spots on the lit-up screen, which are reportedly caused by dust caught between layers during assembly. It's a bit disappointing to spend over €400 on a device several times and discover that the manufacturer apparently can't even bother assembling them in a clean room to avoid messing up the primary feature of the device.
- That's nothing. I just bought four buns yesterday!
- This tool has no future. We have that in common with it, I fear.
What we really need to do is build an AI tool to filter out the AI automatically. Anybody want to help me found this company?
- It's always been that way. Even when I had a maxed out current-gen Mac Pro in 2008, it still launched and ran faster in Windows than MacOS.
I have seen people suggesting that it's because of app signature checks choking on Internet slowness, but 1. those are cached, so the second run should be faster, and in non-networked instances the speed is unchanged, and 2. I don't believe those were even implemented back in 2002 when I got my iMac G4, and it was likewise far quicker in Linux than in OS X.
At the time (2002), I joked that it was because the computer was running two operating systems at once: NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD.
- I enjoyed how quick it was on my G4 iMac (Mac OS X 10.1/10.2 was a total dog) but it was never stable enough for my liking. Forced to choose between fast and unstable (OS9) or slow and steady (OS X), I chose to install Yellow Dog Linux instead (reject the premise).
- I use runpodctl (https://github.com/runpod/runpodctl) to send files between hosts totally unrelated to runpod because it consistently pushes more Mbps than magic-wormhole, but is conceptually similar. I have made no effort to understand why it's faster.
- I sure hope they manage to sort out an interface (or even an off switch) for the compiled-in touchpad gestures in KDE Plasma-Wayland that even override Touchegg, not to mention the font rendering that has been glitchy for literally years. Those are the two main things keeping me on KDE Plasma-X11, and which will see me leave KDE for something else (XFCE? NsCDE? IDFK.) if they remain unresolved after the X11 session is removed.
- 95% is 100% free
- Yes, local nginx http server in a Debian container on a Raspberry Pi, and Cloudflare DNS and argo tunnel providing public IP and SSL.
- I guess drivers are important, which is a good reason for choosing FreeBSD :)
It's a shame that OpenDarwin didn't continue. PureDarwin seems to exist, but progress is understandably slow.
- They don't call this "the rip-off republic" without reason
- I'm behind Starlink, which is NAT'd to a shared public IP address, and I refuse to pay for hosting, so Cloudflare is how https://potateaux.com is on the Web. Of course nobody looks at it because there's very little there besides a cool landing page and a couple of JavaScript gags, so one outage per lifetime is a perfectly acceptable cadence in exchange for $0 in Cloudflare service costs :)
- I'm glad I cancelled and refunded the three watches I ordered. I don't need another smartwatch from another dead company. I hope he can work this out.
- Things are still often priced in €xx.99 in Ireland, but since the 1 and 2 Eurocent coins are all MIA, if you pay in cash, you'll be paying the full €xy.00. Most of my transactions are by card, though, and thus not subject to rounding.
So why? Maybe the vendors reckon it will work out in their favor this way.
- What? Upgrade it yourself! Swapping the RAM in a mini 2012 doesn't even require tools. Both SoDIMMs are right under the bottom cover.
The SSD is a bit more fiddly, but can also be done at home. Check iFixit.
https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Mac+mini+Late+2012+Hard+Drive+R...
- Who are you yelling at? Do you think the Trump administration reads Hacker News? What do you expect the average American taxpayer to do to fix a government shutdown?
- There isn't anything here, not even sample code. This isn't a product, it's just a concept sketch. Ideas are cheap. Execution of such a radical plan requires Google-scale investment for several years or decades of volunteer work. See: Haiku, ReactOS, SerenityOS, Hurd.
In short: cool story, bro. Now show me the money.
- whomst among us