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This new season of HBO’s Silicon Valley is wild!

IBM PC XT 5150 4.77MHz, 640KB, no, not weird at all :)

Try a distro like Fedora. I mostly use Arch, but I’ve found Fedora to be an excellent out of the box experience.

You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.

Sounds like you’re looking for the RNode firmware

I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning …

Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.

Just wanted to say thanks for ntfy! I use it daily to notify me on events from my home Meshtastic node.

I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screen…

Just paid $3.59/doz at Kroger here in Ohio about an hour ago (plain store brand). They were stocked pretty well.

That’s one way to keep you watching, you’ve at least gotta hear the rest of the sentence! /s

A quick search on Amazon shows a number of generic trackers compatible with “Find My”. In fact, the one on my dog’s collar is one of these.

I’ve even seen some wallets with built in “Find My” support.

I love reading debugging stories like these. Thanks for sharing!

This looks very nice, I’ll have to give it a try!

In many cases the company might have a subsidiary in a lower cost of living location (India, Eastern Europe, etc). The company I work for has slowly been laying off software engine…

I saw a post on Reddit that said this was a bug and they’re working on it.

It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before…

I have transaction notifications / alerts set up for my Citi credit card account. Over the last month, it seems like these notifications have been getting slower and slower to arri…

Right? I can’t believe how many people seemingly use the same machine for both.

I would wager that most people don’t want to use public transit regularly. I know I certainly don’t.

Under $100 - an electric head shaver. I started balding in my mid 20’s, so I shaved my head with a BIC disposable and shaving cream. I kept up this routine for probably 15 years be…

These have been popping up all around my town in southwest Ohio