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I'll gladly take a 20min hold after having to resort to screaming "give me a fucking human" or driving the the pharmacy JUST TO TALK TO a human in the exceptions, which seem to be …

Actual personal service from a human being is the main reason that I'd choose a small regional pharmacy over a local CVS or mail-order. It seems to me like personal service is the …

Sadly, we're both on iPhone and you cannot share Wi-Fi like that on iPhone :( This was a bummer just the other day where my iPhone somehow (and I still don't know how) auto-signed …

My wife swears by using a FireStick. It was miserable due to hotel captive wifi portals often failing to work properly with the browser of the FS, and even when it does work, typin…

I never used WordStar, but I've been an emacs user since 1989 and I love how they use the control key & that they shipped a tool to swap capslock/control. Swapping caps/control has…

It is sad that that FFS doesn't support FFS (BSD Fast File System) which inspired the architecture of the ext filesystem (and was the basis for a lot of unix filesystems).

The AI bubble has increased the prices of nand and ram by a factor of 4, so a 3x increase seems reasonable. Companies that are not big enough to have long term contracts with ram/n…

It would be great if there was a list of OSes in the collection.

This really resonates with me. The ability to quickly writing one off, personalized apps really seems to be the strong suite of GenAI. A month or so ago, I had claude write a visua…

One thing that makes me nervous about the increased use of SIMD in new ways is that more processes will be using SIMD. This, in turn, make context switches that much more expensive…

At least in the US, its hard to find single-purpose over the counter medicines. Most "cold" remedies now also include acetaminophen. So that makes it easier to OD on acetaminophen …

Linux is actively hostile to out-of-tree drivers. There is no stable driver API, and interfaces change at the drop of a hat. Maintaining an out of tree driver is a constant nightma…

Golang's use of a potentially unbounded number of threads is just insane. I used to be fairly bullish on golang, but this, combined with the fact that its garbage collected, makes …

I'll always despise them (and their Itanium) for killing the DEC Alpha CPU off after they acquired it along with Compaq.

Not really a fuck up, but I was having it translate from a hardware spec into a C header file, and for page 00h of a register bank, it started naming things "P00", so enum fields w…

I'm the demographic. I became vegan a several years ago when I was in my late 40s for health reasons -- all males in my family my age or older have had multiple heart attacks excep…

I don't have a reference, but I remember reading that some Samsung TVs require internet access to get past initial setup and allow access to HDMI. So we might already be here..

If you're installing FreeBSD today, use 15.0 Or just run -current in production, like we do. See https://people.freebsd.org/~gallatin/talks/OpenFest2023.pdf Or https://papers.freeb…

Do they still block third party PCIe (eg, wifi) devices in their firmware?

The best way to run linux compat on FreeBSD is in an Linux jail. See https://wiki.freebsd.org/LinuxJails The difference is that with the standard linuxulator, the linux env. is mai…

What speed is the PCIe slot? The Minisforum site talks about it being x8, but doesn't mention if its Gen4 or Gen5

So maybe they were on to something with leeches?

In a large metro with an extant, functional, mass transit system, sure. But do this in a cold place with no existing mass transit, and all you'll do is kill off downtown businesses…

I'm a power user. I do FreeBSD kernel performance work for Netflix. I have a macbook as my work laptop. I use it as a dumb terminal to my FreeBSD desktop, a platform for corp. vide…

What gets me is the "play/pause" button behavior on a firestick remote. How many presses of play/pause would you think it takes to pause then resume playing? 2? Oh, no. Its 4! Pres…