Damogran6

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by Damogran6 22d ago
Because it's NOT the same experience. iCloud access, shared messages, Cut and paste between other Mac devices..I say this with a Ryzen 9 + rtx4090 super right next to the macs. (A studio and an M1 MBP with a new battery). While they&#x
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by Damogran6 2mo ago
I'd like something bigger than 1gb for the LAN port...yeah, most of my stuff is quick from a wifi standpoint, but I don't want the hardwired stuff to be second class citizens. Looking at one of these when TP-link stops patching my
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by Damogran6 3mo ago
Add to that, FB is no longer people...it's viewing entertainment...and I turn it off a bunch. Threads is the new time sink and a lot of times I open it and close it shortly thereafter because it's all the same...someone with a 20
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by Damogran6 7mo ago
My keyboard is currently behaving. For once. It's been useless roughly three times since the last major update. Over the course of each year-long iOS version life, I've become used to it sucking for a bit, either at the beginning
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by Damogran6 8mo ago
Wow...I learned UCSD/Pascal on the Amiga in High School, that takes me back. Edit: Hmmmm, might have been the Apple II. Not seeing the Amiga in the Wiki...We started on Apples, then migrated to Amigas Junior Year
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by Damogran6 8mo ago
I'm assuming you don't have any audit requirements for this application. The stupid pricing for hardware often isn't in the hardware, it's in the compliance.
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by Damogran6 9mo ago
Bundling. You get 5 things, one of which makes the other ones worthwhile. Yeah, I get it... By the same token, all ranges of Mini Cooper now have the B48 turbo 4...the top of the list had a bigger turbo and improved intake...the bottom two
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by Damogran6 9mo ago
At the time the code was/is written, I'm betting carplay offered up a square viewport. Apple's since wanted to offer up multi-display solutions to be the AV/GUI for cars...I think Aston Martin took them up on that...but
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by Damogran6 9mo ago
Having just bought a Mini Cooper, I'm in the initial free-services period of the ownership and honestly, if it's the $10 a month I suspect, I'm okay with it. Primarily for the navigation...it really is superior to the Carplay
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by Damogran6 10mo ago
I also got notification on my apple watch, while being away from the house, that the homepod mini heard our fire alarm going off. A call home let us know that our son had set it off learning to reverse-sear his steak.
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by Damogran6 10mo ago
In general, your dollar buys a _Crazy_ amount of compute...but over the last 30 years or so, RAM has spiked several times (Taiwan plant fire) and suffered from several market driven spikes (DDRx shortages, Apple's crazy pricing structu
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by Damogran6 10mo ago
Raspberry Pi emulation works well, too. (and is massively fast.)
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by Damogran6 10mo ago
Pull the CMOS battery. Recap before you put power to it...make sure the power supply is healthy. Do those things and it'll run 40 years from now.
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by Damogran6 11mo ago
I've found when you have a file with stops and starts, it's because the extraction process is not familiar with how the data is laid down on the storage media. So it sees 'I have a file'...and if it's better it sees
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by Damogran6 11mo ago
At the time, formatting a floppy disk was a single task thing. Downloading a file via Zmodem was mostly a single task thing. The Windows of the day could to the latter, but not the former. OS/2 on my 8mb 386sx could do both AND have a
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by Damogran6 11mo ago
As a career security guy, I've lost count of the battles I've lost in the race to the cloud...now it's 'we have to up the budget $250k a year to cover costs' and you just shrug. The cost for your first on-prem datac
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by Damogran6 11mo ago
There's a cost/value calculation that just doesn't work well...I have a Ryzen9/rtx3070 PC ($2k over time) and my M4 Mini ($450) holds it's own for most all normal user stuff...sprinting ahead for specific tasks (Vid
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by Damogran6 1y ago
We're in a mode where we're 'camping' with a 5th wheel trailer. It has COMPLETELY altered my travelling experience in ways I never expected. Being in Nature, with a clean bathroom and warm shower and cold beer makes the
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by Damogran6 1y ago
That's what you got with BeOS...throw out backward compatibility and build to current Best practices...it's ability to extract performance out of an 133 Mhz processor was amazing.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
CORE energy in Colorado is charging $0.10819 per kWh _today_ https://core.coop/my-cooperative/rates-and-regulations/rate-...
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by Damogran6 1y ago
I got past that back when I was paying for ISDN and had 5 Surplus Desktop PCs...write it off as 'Professional development'
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by Damogran6 1y ago
I don't, I'm a REALLY light user. smaller LLMs work pretty well. I used a 40gb LLM and it was _pokey_, but it worked, and switching them is pretty easy. This is a 12 core Xeon with 64Gb RAM...my M4 mini is....okay with smaller LLM
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by Damogran6 1y ago
Oddly, my 2013 MacPro (Trashcan) runs LLMs pretty well, mostly because 64Gb of old school RAM is, like, $25.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
Dave Kimble was also well known for his cutaway artwork. https://www.hotrod.com/news/david-kimble-cutaway-x-ray-visio...
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by Damogran6 1y ago
Alienate customers, punish colleges, cancel research, send smart folks running from your borders. Sounds like a pretty logical conclusion.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
I will say I've been on a number of flights that left late but arrived early/on-time. I think they build a pad into flight time and/or give up fuel efficiency to make up time.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
You can show me the relative statistics and we can debate it, but I'll not waste time on someone who isn't really interested in honest discourse.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
I think every accusation is a confession.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
GLP-1, amongst other things, _enables_ the calorie restriction. It takes away the noise and tendency to overeat.
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by Damogran6 1y ago
Not just delicious...dangerously, addictively, delicious. I don't by Doritos because for me, any size bag is one serving. On Zepbound and it's stunning how my favorite beer...the one I craved and tasted so good 'why don'

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