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You're not kidding. I read this in the late 70s, and it's a bit of a gut punch to revisit it now, on the very day of the story, in a world where smart homes are somewhat there and …

Until recently, I used it routinely for VMs, and it worked solidly and reliably. There is a ZFS storage backend as well, always nice to see since I've loved to use zvols for VMs, e…

I have yet to even get started with ESP32, mainly because software-defined radio is my main use case. Once you start getting into absurdly high sampling rates, you start to need a …

I've been doing some heavy SDR lifting with a couple of my Pi 5s, and my own experience is that the active cooler works extremely well, and more often than not the fan can be shut …

I was ranting about the demise of American manufacturing as I was entering the workforce forty years ago , and it seems that nothing has improved in that sphere. Sure, dismantling …

Back in the early 2000s, that scene was HOPPING. A whole bunch of mods were around, some of which seem to have disappeared, particularly Armored Warfare Evolved. A couple of things…

Seeing all the gigantic and very-high-priced Pavement Princess Pickups clogging dealer lots, it's plain that the auto industry in general didn't learn a damn thing. It's easy to po…

I'm of two minds on this. In peacetime, I'd consider something like that to be unreasonable and harmful, not that I'd ever even consider setting foot anywhere on the Arabian Penins…

It seems that way, but it's been flooded with politics for all my adult life. Steve Jackson Games, the Clipper Chip, software patent shenanigans, the public domain stolen from 1976…

My high school had a /34 running RSTS/E, with roughly a dozen terminals on-campus, mostly in the lab. Even in 1980, I recall my teacher warning about Y2K, though not yet named as s…

Even better, it was a classic zombie brand revival, and it seems like the vast majority of the trusted names of my youth have followed this path.

Dave's site has an article on Fry's: https://dfarq.homeip.net/what-happened-to-frys-electronics/ They only had one in Illinois, about seven miles or so from Micro Center, and it wa…

Yes, and unlike what has been done in the Prius, these were large-format cells. The patents on them ultimately ended up sold to a Chevron subsidiary, which would only license the t…

And the silly thing is, as ridiculous as they are for mouse click/drag or touch use, those kind of dial controls are actually reasonable when coupled to a scroll wheel (like you ca…

Seriously, why not just link to the Reddit thread instead of this? It seems like every damn site has become a Torment Nexus.

Ah, I see. So still a dick move, then, even if I never use it in the first place.

> I remember when Google disabled call recording in Android, so you no longer could record scammers. Citation needed. My Pixel 7a with the latest updates has settings for call reco…

It's also something you want to look for if you're buying an SDR. Getting one with a TCXO will eliminate frequency drift, and the better-made SDRs will also have little or no need …

I was a big fan of msged on my Net 115 point. https://github.com/jrnutt/msged BinkleyTerm was another favorite of mine, but I'm not sure of this version's lineage: https://sourcefo…

As with so many old things, it's still alive, but it's down to the die-hards. I still miss it, though - I participated in Net 232 (Champaign-Urbana) for a while, then Net 115 in Ch…

That's happening piecemeal in the US as well. Any "landline" phone service at this point will be coming from a box hooked up to your internet service, quite the flip from the old d…

That's a nice reconstruction. My old dead-tree Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has an essay in its foreword that covers the evolution of English in reverse order, ending with texts…

Strange that the Balance was largely reliable. I recall one or two hiccups, but nothing that caused me lost work. There were other machines floating around, but they were pretty mu…

Eeeeeep. I was lucky that my big CS courses were done on a Sequent Balance 8000 equipped with six NS32032 CPUs and room for six more. Yup, SMP in the mid-1980s. That machine positi…

If I'm going to a brick-and-mortar store, if I go online at all, it's only to check stock/availability or look up a product's specs/foibles. No, $STORE, I don't want to create an a…