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Damogran6
·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'd like something bigger than 1gb for the LAN port...yeah, most of my stuff is quick from a wifi standpoint, but I don't want the hardwired stuff to be second class citizens.

Looking at one of these when TP-link stops patching my Wifi. https://www.toptonpc.com/product/2x10g-sfp-solid-firewall-mi....
Damogran6
·19 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Add to that, FB is no longer people...it's viewing entertainment...and I turn it off a bunch.

Threads is the new time sink and a lot of times I open it and close it shortly thereafter because it's all the same...someone with a 20 part diatribe, someone repeating the news, someone telling you to be outraged, engagement bait.
Damogran6
·5 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
My keyboard is currently behaving. For once. It's been useless roughly three times since the last major update.

Over the course of each year-long iOS version life, I've become used to it sucking for a bit, either at the beginning (with bug fixes improving things) or towards the end (where, I assume, accumulated learning diverges from clean slate behavior.)

I suspect that the keyboard team is pegged with using new features on the silicon (Neural processing in earlier processors, then Neural Engine with newer processors) and they're doing what they can when tasked with new code.

But man, iOS4 didn't have all that and the keyboard was GREAT.
Damogran6
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Wow...I learned UCSD/Pascal on the Amiga in High School, that takes me back.

Edit: Hmmmm, might have been the Apple II. Not seeing the Amiga in the Wiki...We started on Apples, then migrated to Amigas Junior Year
Damogran6
·6 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I'm assuming you don't have any audit requirements for this application. The stupid pricing for hardware often isn't in the hardware, it's in the compliance.
Damogran6
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Bundling. You get 5 things, one of which makes the other ones worthwhile. Yeah, I get it...

By the same token, all ranges of Mini Cooper now have the B48 turbo 4...the top of the list had a bigger turbo and improved intake...the bottom two I suspect are identical with differing software.

I will happily take advantage of that when the car's out of warranty. (I have the base motor)
Damogran6
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
At the time the code was/is written, I'm betting carplay offered up a square viewport. Apple's since wanted to offer up multi-display solutions to be the AV/GUI for cars...I think Aston Martin took them up on that...but a number of other manufactures are backing off on that (GM) I suspect because they want to distance themselves from a look and feel you could get in other cars.

I'm not a fan of subscriptions, but in this case, the $10 seemed like good value for features. the map is better, and it's much better integrated into the HUD.

It felt like you were getting more, unlike having buttons that don't work unless you pay...weird psycholgical difference between a subscription and being held hostage.
Damogran6
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Having just bought a Mini Cooper, I'm in the initial free-services period of the ownership and honestly, if it's the $10 a month I suspect, I'm okay with it. Primarily for the navigation...it really is superior to the Carplay experience (a square in the middle of the round screen, vs a map that takes up nearly the entirety of the screen...IIRC, traffic, Weather, remote start, and voice control come along for the ride.

I won't pay for 5g (phone does that) or Serius XM (for all the channels, I'm really not jazzed about the offerings)...but $10 for the above features seems reasonable.
Damogran6
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I also got notification on my apple watch, while being away from the house, that the homepod mini heard our fire alarm going off.

A call home let us know that our son had set it off learning to reverse-sear his steak.
Damogran6
·7 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
In general, your dollar buys a _Crazy_ amount of compute...but over the last 30 years or so, RAM has spiked several times (Taiwan plant fire) and suffered from several market driven spikes (DDRx shortages, Apple's crazy pricing structure)
Damogran6
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Raspberry Pi emulation works well, too. (and is massively fast.)
Damogran6
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Pull the CMOS battery. Recap before you put power to it...make sure the power supply is healthy. Do those things and it'll run 40 years from now.
Damogran6
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I've found when you have a file with stops and starts, it's because the extraction process is not familiar with how the data is laid down on the storage media. So it sees 'I have a file'...and if it's better it sees 'the name of the file is here' and then 'it's this big' and then 'here's the linked list of clusters for that file'....or it starts at the first cluster and gets as far as it can before it runs off the tracks.
Damogran6
·8 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
At the time, formatting a floppy disk was a single task thing.

Downloading a file via Zmodem was mostly a single task thing.

The Windows of the day could to the latter, but not the former.

OS/2 on my 8mb 386sx could do both AND have a clock up, and play solitaire, and have another terminal window open.

It took a bit to get there, and there was swapping while everything loaded, but it was true pre-emptive multitasking, while still maintaining the highly time critical I/O stuff that Windows couldn't touch.
Damogran6
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
As a career security guy, I've lost count of the battles I've lost in the race to the cloud...now it's 'we have to up the budget $250k a year to cover costs' and you just shrug.

The cost for your first on-prem datacenter server is pretty steep...the cost for the second one? Not so much.
Damogran6
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There's a cost/value calculation that just doesn't work well...I have a Ryzen9/rtx3070 PC ($2k over time) and my M4 Mini ($450) holds it's own for most all normal user stuff...sprinting ahead for specific tasks (Video CODEC)...but the 6 year old dedicated GPU on the PC annihilates the Mini in pushing pixels...You can spec an Apple that does better for gaming, but man, are you gonna pay for it, and still not keep up with current PC GPUS.

Now...something like minecraft or SubNautica? The M4 is fine, especially if you're not pushing 4k 240hz.

Apple has been pushing the gaming experience for years (iPhone 4s?) but it never REALLY seems to land, and when someone has a great gaming seperience in a modern AAA game, they always seem to be using a $4500 Studio or similar.
Damogran6
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
We're in a mode where we're 'camping' with a 5th wheel trailer. It has COMPLETELY altered my travelling experience in ways I never expected. Being in Nature, with a clean bathroom and warm shower and cold beer makes the experience amazing.

More in line with this thread: Our house is full of stuff. It's a long story that ends up being: four adults living in the space that holds two comfortably.

Having the trailer lets us spend time in a relatively uncluttered environment. IT's a reset that lets me not get quite so worked up about the time I spend not-camping.

None of this is, in any way, cheap.
Damogran6
·9 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
That's what you got with BeOS...throw out backward compatibility and build to current Best practices...it's ability to extract performance out of an 133 Mhz processor was amazing.
Damogran6
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
CORE energy in Colorado is charging $0.10819 per kWh _today_

https://core.coop/my-cooperative/rates-and-regulations/rate-...
Damogran6
·10 เดือนที่ผ่านมา·discuss
I got past that back when I was paying for ISDN and had 5 Surplus Desktop PCs...write it off as 'Professional development'