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On 1.4 "Integration of Fixed Low-Capacity OS Drives" eMMC bad because un-upgradeable and/or repairable. m.2 bad because if it wasn't there a user could put a big storage device the…

My recommendation for some time gas been get the best value smart TV and don't connect it to the internet. Use devices you trust to play content. Problem solved. ... But this. Is c…

While I can't speak for other states (though I'd be surprised if they were different), power bills in Victoria are split into supply and usage. Eg each day costs 90c, then 30c per …

I really liked the land usage discussion. That (for the US) if you took the land currently being used to grow crops for ethanol based motor fuels. Turned them into solar farms you'…

This is something I've never understood. If consent is remaining on the line after a message "this call may be recorded (for training and quality purposes)", the simple answer is i…

Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html

I'm now at the point I research parts to see where the LED control is stored. My keyboard LED is controlled internally without software. My mouse requires software to set, but ther…

> Leave your phone on silent permanently, setup your emergency contacts like partner and kids to ring on silent, and turn off all notifications except email and SMS/WhatsApp. That’…

I had a perfectly functional Galaxy A71 this time last year, still had great battery life, etc. I had to replace it because it only has 5 years of support. Samsung offers 7 years o…

Wow! Never thought I'd see my little Alma Mater on Hacker News!

Mine is so slow to become initially responsive. It (thankfully) comes on to whatever source / channel it was on when turned off, but it takes a good 15 seconds till you can change …

Recent switcher to macos. I can't find a way to separately set mouse acceleration and scroll wheel momentum. I use a trackball for RSI reasons, in order to get across the screen in…

Great post. And if you want some control support for your cronjobs perl App::Cronjob[1] can provide features such has exclusive locking, so a job won't run if the previous run is s…

> I think this is incorrect. Specifically the Windows ARM support. Official hardware support page indicates that the Windows version requires x64. I unfortunately don’t have the ha…

> There's something to be said for the restrictions of an environment when you're learning how to operate in a domain that seems to shape future thinking. When at University the ac…

To those who haven't heard how colossal the size of OpenAIs contracts are. 900,000 wafers monthly. Tom's hardware estimates that is equal to 40% of global dram production capacity.…

Didn't Microsoft drop 16 bit application support in Windows 10? I remember being saddened by my exe of Jezzball I've carried from machine to machine no longer working.

This is an aside. Yesterday I was in a shopping centre (ie a mall) and a bunch of kids ran through the food court, maybe 10 of them all around the 9-12 A grumpy lady shouted at the…

You joke. I still use an old winamp 2.81 on my windows machine. About 15 years ago I came across some plugin dll files that added flac support. The only issue I ever run into is so…

It all depends on how the flow is implemented. If it's a one time unlock, eg like developer mode then hopefully it'll just work. If it's a big long flow per install... Yikes, that'…

That's similar to me, I started using FreeNAS back in the 9.x days. At the time the FreeNAS documentation recommend installing to a usb drive. This proved unreliable, but dedicatin…

Interesting, that's been the opposite of my experience. My Mum converted her homes down lights to LEDs over a decade ago. Hasn't lost a single one. I moved into my current house 5 …

> Stalwart is essentially the first server implementation of JMAP Just to clarify. Stalwart is the first to have JMAP contacts and calendars. Cyrus has had JMAP mail since the begi…

Funnily enough, one of the things we were recommended was a pack of mini nut butter jars. Made specifically for the purpose of being a easy way to expose little ones to a variety o…

Hi,there's a lot to unpack here. > They could always move to a compatible license? > No, it was always designed to be hostile to Linux from the outset. It's a project that doesn't …