AndrewDavis

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by AndrewDavis 2mo ago
On 1.4 "Integration of Fixed Low-Capacity OS Drives" eMMC bad because un-upgradeable and/or repairable. m.2 bad because if it wasn't there a user could put a big storage device there. I'm not even sure what the auth
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by AndrewDavis 2mo ago
My recommendation for some time gas been get the best value smart TV and don't connect it to the internet. Use devices you trust to play content. Problem solved. ... But this. Is crazy, but has been possible for some time. Years ago I
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by AndrewDavis 2mo ago
While I can't speak for other states (though I'd be surprised if they were different), power bills in Victoria are split into supply and usage. Eg each day costs 90c, then 30c per kw/h. So you could eliminate the usage costs,
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by AndrewDavis 5mo ago
I really liked the land usage discussion. That (for the US) if you took the land currently being used to grow crops for ethanol based motor fuels. Turned them into solar farms you'd cover 80% of current grid demand. I was already pro r
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by AndrewDavis 6mo ago
This is something I've never understood. If consent is remaining on the line after a message "this call may be recorded (for training and quality purposes)", the simple answer is in places where you have to have consent have
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by AndrewDavis 6mo ago
Further blow their minds by showing them `apropos` https://manpages.debian.org/testing/man-db/apropos.1.en.html
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
I'm now at the point I research parts to see where the LED control is stored. My keyboard LED is controlled internally without software. My mouse requires software to set, but there is open source rgb control software that was trivial
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
> Leave your phone on silent permanently, setup your emergency contacts like partner and kids to ring on silent, and turn off all notifications except email and SMS/WhatsApp. That’s the key to a simple life. You won’t miss anything
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
I had a perfectly functional Galaxy A71 this time last year, still had great battery life, etc. I had to replace it because it only has 5 years of support. Samsung offers 7 years of support but only on their top tier phones. Google offer 7
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
Wow! Never thought I'd see my little Alma Mater on Hacker News!
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
Mine is so slow to become initially responsive. It (thankfully) comes on to whatever source / channel it was on when turned off, but it takes a good 15 seconds till you can change a channel, closer to 30 seconds to change input source.
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by AndrewDavis 8mo ago
Recent switcher to macos. I can't find a way to separately set mouse acceleration and scroll wheel momentum. I use a trackball for RSI reasons, in order to get across the screen in a single flick means high sensitivity, mouse accelerat
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by AndrewDavis 9mo ago
Great post. And if you want some control support for your cronjobs perl App::Cronjob[1] can provide features such has exclusive locking, so a job won't run if the previous run is still going, or provide a timeout, and some options for
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by AndrewDavis 9mo ago
> I think this is incorrect. Specifically the Windows ARM support. Official hardware support page indicates that the Windows version requires x64. I unfortunately don’t have the hardware to confirm for myself. But Blizzard is the kind of
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by AndrewDavis 9mo ago
> There's something to be said for the restrictions of an environment when you're learning how to operate in a domain that seems to shape future thinking. When at University the academic running the programming language course
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by AndrewDavis 10mo ago
To those who haven't heard how colossal the size of OpenAIs contracts are. 900,000 wafers monthly. Tom's hardware estimates that is equal to 40% of global dram production capacity. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-c
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by AndrewDavis 10mo ago
Didn't Microsoft drop 16 bit application support in Windows 10? I remember being saddened by my exe of Jezzball I've carried from machine to machine no longer working.
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by AndrewDavis 10mo ago
This is an aside. Yesterday I was in a shopping centre (ie a mall) and a bunch of kids ran through the food court, maybe 10 of them all around the 9-12 A grumpy lady shouted at them "kids you shouldnt be running!" I turned to whom
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by AndrewDavis 10mo ago
You joke. I still use an old winamp 2.81 on my windows machine. About 15 years ago I came across some plugin dll files that added flac support. The only issue I ever run into is some non ascii characters in ID3 tags make that file unplayabl
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by AndrewDavis 10mo ago
It all depends on how the flow is implemented. If it's a one time unlock, eg like developer mode then hopefully it'll just work. If it's a big long flow per install... Yikes, that's not much better than adb install
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by AndrewDavis 11mo ago
That's similar to me, I started using FreeNAS back in the 9.x days. At the time the FreeNAS documentation recommend installing to a usb drive. This proved unreliable, but dedicating a drive to it was silly given it couldn't be use
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by AndrewDavis 11mo ago
Interesting, that's been the opposite of my experience. My Mum converted her homes down lights to LEDs over a decade ago. Hasn't lost a single one. I moved into my current house 5 years ago, haven't lost a single one either.
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by AndrewDavis 11mo ago
> Stalwart is essentially the first server implementation of JMAP Just to clarify. Stalwart is the first to have JMAP contacts and calendars. Cyrus has had JMAP mail since the beginning of JMAP.
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by AndrewDavis 11mo ago
Funnily enough, one of the things we were recommended was a pack of mini nut butter jars. Made specifically for the purpose of being a easy way to expose little ones to a variety of nuts before they could eat the nuts themselves. Then at ea
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
Hi,there's a lot to unpack here. > They could always move to a compatible license? > No, it was always designed to be hostile to Linux from the outset. It's a project that doesn't want to interoperability with Linux I&
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
That's all a matter of perspective. Is moving a symbol from EXPORT_SYMBOL(some_fun) to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(some_func) actually changing the API? Nope, the API is exactly the same as it was before, it's just changed who is allowed t
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
I can only speculate, but maybe they're referring to the same thing Andrew Morton meant when he described ZFS as a rampant layering violation. ie ZFS isn't just a file system. It's a volume manager, raid and file system rolle
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
> If it didn't actually work, it would've been discarded by companies long ago That makes the assumption that company hiring practices are evidence based. How many companies continue to use pseudo-science Myers Briggs style tes
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
Microsoft had a POSIX personality on NT since its release in 1993. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem Then with the release of XP it was replaced with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by AndrewDavis 1y ago
> WSL 1 was relatively innovative, integrating Linux application compatibility into the Windows operating system itself Both FreeBSD and Illumos were running Linux applications (at various levels of compatibility) many years prior to wsl

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