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You're not liable for using company devices to access company data, regardless of if it's insecure or not. Don't use personal devices for work

yep

The website for my HSA required me to set up a passkey last time I logged in. I set it up on my work laptop and my work password manager, which means I can now no longer access my …

About the only thing that regularly wears out is spinning drives, and those have SMART data to give you an idea of when they'll die, but generally yif you're actually committing to…

If you're using a USB adapter on a Pi 4 you can use raspi-config to enable booting from an external drive and not worry about SD cards at all

Hey, I have a script for updating my background too! I'm not archiving the old images though, but I've thought about it to make some cool animations

Hey, good luck! I've had some depressive episodes where I couldn't do work or even good off for a good week or so, but I'm privileged to have not been chronically depressed and nee…

Nah that's just the way defense essays have sounded for the past 20 years or so

COD/Battlefield and Arma are two different genres. Squad is somewhat in Arma's genre. I can't stand Arma's movement anymore. The closest thing I've found to the unique parts of Arm…

Generally it doesn't make sense, but in this particular case the servers are going ti be so overloaded with people trying to download it that it might be worth it to preloaded the …

If you can't see the human effects scalping has on the market, then, well, you might be a microeconomist

What kind of stuff do you make sewing? About the only think I've ever wanted to sew was a new pocket on a jacket

It says it was inspired by Ethernet, and while modern Ethernet might have some significant differences of course, what were the differences between Chaosnet and the Ethernet of the…

nerds built companies largely as a byproduct of their own interests. they made a lot of money because their technologies were great, but it was always about the tech, not the perso…

This charger: https://www.startech.com/en-us/computer-parts/424dna-usb-c-c...

I have a couple like that in my mini rack. The problem is the power supply: these take 65W, so I figured I could get a quality 140W charger and power them both, but it turns out th…

what you should put in a frame is "put in a ticket"

temporarily deployed yonder

I want my net worth to be dependent on my skills, not the pile of money I happen to have laying around

There's a lot of people talking about the technical aspects of AI, but I think the (for a lack of a better term) marketing of AI is just as important. Insisting that anyone who is …

Fundamentally the point of DNS versus Ansible updating /etc/hosts is the same: get a mapping from DNS named to IPs to the client. As such, Ansible will have all the same issues. Pl…

Changes from a single point of failure to a thousand points of failure. What if a host if offline when the Ansible update runs? What if someone wants to run a service that ignores …

The OS was smooth and worked well, and the design philosophy across basically every app was extremely coherent. Everything worked well, and everything felt like it fit together. Re…

My first smartphone was a Windows phone with half a gig of RAM and it's still the best phone I've ever owned in terms of software

well, here's hoping lol