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wcfields
·há 2 meses·discuss
It's only Coca-Cola if it comes from the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée of Atlanta, otherwise it's only a sparking cola beverage.
wcfields
·há 3 meses·discuss
It's a catch-22: I already gambled the coin I was going to use for the heads-or-tails bet.
wcfields
·há 4 meses·discuss
If anyone from Ford reads HN: What's keeping me from a Ford Maverick truck is waiting for the PHEV version.
wcfields
·há 5 meses·discuss
Just take a look at the photos of his residences, it's filled with big black redaction squares of the "artwork" and photos on his walls and the little bits that can be seen lend a huge credence to his prior conviction.

Absolutely bonkers to say he's a "somewhat flawed person" when there's gigs of PDFs of some of the most heinous things imaginable.
wcfields
·há 5 meses·discuss
Insane thing to write when the "purity test" is not supporting/investing in a defense contractor with a CEO who begged Epstein to go to the island.
wcfields
·há 6 meses·discuss
Zip was fairly defacto RW media between ~1997-2004.

I was in College around that time and the blue Mac G3's in most computer labs had Zip drives, and many PC's in the labs had Zip drives too.
wcfields
·há 6 meses·discuss
Can speak for someone who managed a racked [1] Mac Mini racked as a server in 2015~2018:

* Profile Manager / MDM * Caching server for OS updates * Thunderbolt connection to a PCIe RAID HBA for a JBOD for NAS file sharing

All these things/use cases now are depreciated, MDM via JAMF in the cloud, internet is fast enough that caching OS updates isn't necessary, and NAS's are much better suited.

[1] https://www.sonnettech.com/product/legacyproducts/xmacminise...
wcfields
·há 6 meses·discuss
Anecdotally on how this affects the day to day user experience: I just deployed T-Mobile 5G Business Internet to a temporary pop-up art space (it's only active for a few months) and I'd say twice daily I get a CAPTCHA challenge on Google search.
wcfields
·há 9 meses·discuss
On the used market you'll find absolutely cooked (literally) Leafs whose first life was in Arizona and barely have enough range to back out of the driveway.
wcfields
·ano passado·discuss
More food:

- Brussels Sprouts taste much better now: https://www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/
wcfields
·há 2 anos·discuss
Same, but it’s been tanking the past year with the huge amount of bloat Amazon keeps shoveling onto it.

As a side note, my Insignia TV (best buy store brand) with fire tv built in is basically unusable.

Echoing a previous comment I made too, about “smart tvs” and the “streaming sticks”:

Hey, have you ever thought of why even the $149 Black Friday loss-leader no-name-brand TVs all have Amazon Fire, Roku, or are now "Smart" in some way? Certainly isn't because they need to incentivise you to connect it to the internet so it acts as a Nielsen-esq measurement device of all media you view on the screen via digital fingerprints that exist in all commercial media and advertisements. [1][2] [1] https://www.ispot.tv/ [2] https://www.samba.tv/
wcfields
·há 5 anos·discuss
A 1920's stucco bungalow with chicken-wire in the walls pretty much acts like a faraday cage in every single room.
wcfields
·há 6 anos·discuss
Tl;dr from my memory. Numbers are estimates.

Van Halen, at the time, were doing the largest stadium stage show ever. Most tours were 2 semi-trucks of speakers and lighting, VH were ~10+. Due to the never before done scale of the show rigging weight limits are critical. Not following it could lead to a stage collapse.

VH put the brown M&M’s in the middle of the weight requirement rider. This way the production crew could easily see if the local producer actually read the rider by seeing a bowl of brown M&M’s.
wcfields
·há 7 anos·discuss
Wait until 5G rolls out into mass adoption where an IoT modem is built into every TV for “diagnostics”
wcfields
·há 8 anos·discuss
Think of all the grandparents that have Win Vista / XP machines with IE defaulted to Yahoo.

Also, all the spyware/malware/adware seems to be wrappers around a Yahoo search for some reason.