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Look into the cheap Sceptre displays. They make non-smart panels with decent resolution and performance, so long as you have external speakers and use the optical audio output inst…

Time will tell, but in theory the Volts should last a really long time also. The generator only directly powers the drivetrain at highway speeds, and in the gen-1 they were really …

"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."

More than possible, it's common as an attack: cryptojacking.

I did, but had trouble getting it to work. It was a while ago though, and the image I was working from was old/unmaintained even at the time. Linux guest. Do you have any examples …

Is there something specific about the AMD drivers? I have a decent Nvidia card (I know, I know…)

I do kill it, but I’m in and out of meetings all day, so it’s easy to forget.

I found the video quality and responsiveness to be far worse, and I have to teach and work over Zoom. I tried running the desktop client virtualized as well, with similar results. …

It does keep running and using CPU after exiting though, so I always have to ‘pkill -f zoom’ it.

There’s a desktop Zoom client. Also, the web office 365 Word works… okish.

Yeah, I was thinking of the workshop.

I’ve been playing with GPGPU on Julia lately also, and it really seems like things have come a long way in the last few years. Check out the Juliacon 2021 talk on GPU compute if yo…

> I think you're confusing Arch with Gentoo or something - the Arch package manager is not from-source, it ships binaries just like apt. Perhaps you're thinking of the AUR Sorry, w…

Yeah, exactly. Why?

Can an Arch person explain to me why their approach is worth it over something with a more comprehensive package manager like apt or dnf? I don’t mind compiling programs myself whe…

Not to mention all the people that were on Instagram and WhatsApp before the sale… If a competitor emerges, it will play out the same way.

I see what you mean now. I still draw the line differently - I don’t think I’ve ever interactively worked through conditional logic, control loops, or user prompts, so I’d happily …

Good for them, but I have no trouble using different tools for different tasks. I find bash cumbersome to write complex programs in, so I just don’t.

Shell scripts are one way to do this, but I don’t have a library of shell scripts because I always have access to actual scripting languages. To each their own, but writing bash sc…

Interesting article, though for me an acceptable middle ground is to just use bash and friends as an interface, as described, and to write any larger and more complicated scripts i…

The migration requires multiple instars, so they reproduce on the way.

And then, of course, iTunes got steadily and uniformly worse for years .

I’ve repaired numerous non-lenovo laptops, it just required googling rather than an official web-page.

That’s overhyped. Keep your foundation clear and dry, and the wildlife will stay in the habitat you create. I live by a forest, and when we moved in the place was surrounded by ste…

Well, sure, if you have a lawn and stop maintaining it, the result will suck. That’s not the alternative though, which is environment appropriate landscaping. Out west that’s often…