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It's not as straightforward of a choice as it may seem. In theory Linux would be a better choice but there simply isn't the infrastructure or IT staffing in place to manage million…

I stopped going to StarBucks when all the employees started looking like the carnival freak show was in town. I just don't trust people who look that way to handle buy food and bev…

As corny as they seem now the early FMV CD-ROM games felt like a gigantic leap forward at the time. Being able to interact with a photorealistic environment was a completely new ex…

Here's one of the most simple practical examples that proves to me cats are conscious. When my cat sleeps in my bed occasionally I accidetanlly kick or bump into her in the dark. I…

To put this into perspective it's a small enough amount of memory that merely running a web browser with a dozen tabs open is often a choppy laggy experience.

Winamp was doomed to be a relic of a simpler time. Even if you take the iPod and iTunes Store out of the equation Winamp's file-centric approach was a limitation as people's music …

As a casual observer it seems to me they were simply too late to the party and probably didn't have anything that fantastic or high margin justifying to bring to the table. It's li…

I'm not sure I ever actually bought a box of blank floppy disks. Instead I would call up software companies and ask for free demos instead. I did it so often the postal service war…

As far as adaptions for the illiterate masses go I thought the series was pretty good. I couldn't personally get past the stink of soap opera SciFi Channel quality acting and writi…

There was a time when the Atari ST was the perfect home computer. It was cheap, easy to use like the Mac, and offered a 'next gen' 16bit gaming experience before any of my friends …

Seems like a very risky investment to me. Unsupervised non-employee mods have a tremendous amount of power over the day to day user facing operations. Why would anyone invest money…

Just focus on the fundamentals. Ignore the obscure edge case stuff until it's relevant to what you're doing and chances are it never will be. There are experienced network engineer…

Back in the 90s the only book on programming my school library offered was Dr Dobb's Toolbook of 80286/80386 programming which was a compilation of articles from the journal. Even …

The best advice I can give anyone trying to appreciate jazz is to think of it like listening to a conversation in an unfamiliar foreign language. You don't have to understand the l…

I use my M1/8GB Air pretty much exclusively for web browsing and run into 'out of application memory' errors on a regular basis. Relaunching Safari generally solves the problem. It…

I dunno about Chrome but a single YouTube tab in Safari can use over 1GB of RAM these days. It's absolutely insane to sell a computer in 2024 that's gonna struggle to open 10+ brow…

Obviously a planned obsolescence tactic. If the base models were 16GB there's a fine chance Apple wouldn't see another dollar from those customers for another 10+ years at minimum.…

I experimented with it as a productivity enhancer and ultimately found it was too much of a happy hamster wheel effect. It makes you feel more productive even if you're not actuall…

I'm not a big fan of any of the modern macOS or iOS wallpapers. They're so busy it's hard to even read text labels on top of them. My goto background for many years was Leopard Ser…

My local Mom & Pop burger/pizza/grinder places actually cost the same or even sometimes a bit less than fast food these days and the quality is much better. Most of these places ac…

Condé Nast might have helped run it into the ground but the unrecoverable dive started a long time ago. Pitchfork's content slowly turned into something more like a parody of prete…

Maybe I'm just too old for this shit but I'd much rather spend $3500 on a set of excellent displays for my computer and still have money left over to buy a huge TV for entertainmen…

Hey if you're ever looking for any DevOps people with a network engineering background LMK I'm a big fan of NetBox I think it's something I'd enjoy working on.

Big fan of NetBox I'm not even sure how I'd manage modern infrastructures without it. Unless your environment happens to be very static it's a huge time sink to document a network …

I usually dismiss this type of stuff as being cool but ultimately a massive waste of time. In this case however how can you argue with the results? He can hand this card to any pot…