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a96

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About a96

Recovering sysadmin. Finnish weirdo. Totally not a robot.

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    Comment #49216345

    Or it's a scam where there's no product and no price and the "seller" is just fishing for contacts (or marks).

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    Comment #49216284

    Well, analog broadcasts did stop in Finland some 15-20 years ago. DVB-T stopped a few years ago. Only T2 receives anything these days AFAIK. Physical antennas are the same, though.…

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    Comment #49216251

    Except annoys people who do see the ads and wastes bandwidth.

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    Comment #49216182

    You can put a bigger price tag over it. It won't be any better.

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    Comment #49215904

    Wow, that is high praise. I really should get around to it sometime, too.

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    Comment #49193748

    And hiring and billing are nearly infinitely hard unless you already have a routine set up for it.

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    Comment #49193680

    No human drawing an engine would have called an oil pan a crank shaft. A thing that in no way resembles a crank or a shaft.

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    Comment #49189238

    How about a wall and the national anthem of Sweden? I don't know Latvian or stretch that much any more. I'm actually half tempted to try that...

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    Comment #49189132

    No, flash is very durable. SSD's do die and they generally just go completely dead with no warning or any way to try any recovery. I've had a few go so far and I have a lot of old …

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    Comment #49185839

    Americans will use anything but ISO standard units.

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    Comment #49183975

    Like they were just posting... vibes.

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    Comment #49177334

    We had a dishwasher let out the smoke recently. No fire, luckily, just literal smoke and melted plastic. The melted part was the mechanical power switch. Yes, dead simple non-IOT h…

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    Comment #48871033

    I wish someone would just write a clear description of that magic version of REPL that isn't a REPL. Maybe also a demo. And how to get the actual pristine source out once you've do…

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    Comment #48856931

    Apart from better (luck with) enclosures, cables, and power, probably not. USB-SATA bridges are notoriously flaky.

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    Comment #48856891

    The models that are a crappy PC can, almost like any or other crappy PC. Some have a very tiny DOM that might or might not be enough for a recent system. Of course, once the system…

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    Comment #48843680

    That will be a single point of failure, though. (Which you might not care about depending on the backup strategy.)

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    Comment #48843534

    You might want to re-read the hn guidelines.

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    Comment #48843516

    Usually both at the same time. Soldered on the board and unchangeable.

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    Comment #48843107

    Or a bumper sticker, so license plate scanners can enjoy it, too.

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    Comment #48842900

    I wonder if people today remember BIND's history with security.

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    Comment #48842183

    One obvious target might be rewriting from an unsupported, broken, and/or obsolete target to something that still works. Or moving a project from a platform that no other system in…

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    Comment #48815438

    Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot?

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    Comment #48813945

    https://community.frame.work/t/noisy-psu-fan/74751 Well, almost. Maybe. Not all units. But probably.

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    Comment #48813836

    Yes. There's the obvious difference of "it's a working printer" and desirable and useful product. You don't need to be state of the art to be in the first category was my thought.