davemtl

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by davemtl 2y ago
Roasting your ultrawide 3440x1440 "I need binoculars to see my tabs" setup in Longueuil, QC—a city so forgettable even your *2-core potato PC* probably buffers its Google Maps—while you lurk on Hacker News like a tech bro NPC stil
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by davemtl 2y ago
This sounds like BitLocker wasn't enabled on the drive. All of the laptops I've deployed with BitLocker are very good at detecting tampering and will immediately go into lockdown mode. A Linux USB most likely requires Secure Boot
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by davemtl 2y ago
I have Bitwarden Enterprise deployed and authenticate via our IDP. It's been working well for us, each team has their own collection that they manage. From an IT admin perspective, it's pretty hands off. Any changes to password ar
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by davemtl 4y ago
There's a mixed bag of articles surrounding this. If you've bought the game on Steam or other platform of choice, you will retain access to that game. Online game play and DLC that requires the on-line component is going to be ret
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by davemtl 4y ago
And in typical Reddit fashion, the post was removed for bending the sub-reddit rules. It's frustrating that a popular and highly upvoted post like this is just _removed_. Anyone have the original content?
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by davemtl 4y ago
Also in gamedev. Git doesn't work for larger AAA projects, as it often chokes on the amount of data that stored by production teams, even when LFS is used. Perforce can handle huge binary files relatively easily in comparison.
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by davemtl 4y ago
I've had the suggestion "sex balls" show up as the place holder of the search box once. I posted a screenshot of it back in 2019: https://twitter.com/DavieDavieDave/status/117813945962534502...
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by davemtl 4y ago
We're effectively looking at somebody's notebook from 3200 years ago. Makes me wonder what our descendants would think if they were looking at our old notebooks and random text files in the next 3200 years.
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by davemtl 4y ago
I decided to take a break from social media this week so logged out of Twitter & Instagram prior to this announcement and removed the apps from my phone. Depending on how it goes over the next week will depend when and if I will resume
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by davemtl 4y ago
Couple of issues with this, the first being a "rudimentarily activated using a Generic Key" ISO that's not from Microsoft. Can you really trust this source and technically at this point, it's piracy. Secondly, once the M
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by davemtl 4y ago
This is disappointing: "Note that this project is supported on all major operating systems except FreeBSD, which is still incompatible." Considering both Plex and Emby support FreeBSD, I'm sad to to learn that Jellyf
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by davemtl 5y ago
I've had jobs where there's been on-call and you can have the pager all week and nothing happens. I was very fortunate to be in a team that had a well matured and very stable service, however when it did go down, it went down hard
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by davemtl 5y ago
I recently set-up HA on a Raspberry Pi, integrating my lights, security system and other devices. You're right about it having a steep learning curve but once it's up and running it's pretty much set and forget. With HA I&#x2
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by davemtl 5y ago
Once again this shows that we're at the mercy of the giant AI machine. For fear of having my data locked into Google, I migrated to my own domain and e-mail hosting elsewhere. I'm still at the mercy of the hosting and domain regis
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by davemtl 5y ago
I selected other. I was working in the Air Transport Industry as the pandemic kicked off. Three months in we started having weekly meetings to "update" us on the situation, saying the company has money to weather the storm, expect
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by davemtl 5y ago
I also drew the short straw for on-call this weekend. I've probably already clocked up 10hrs following a network failure at one of our datacenters. I'm not an essential worker, but I want to pass on my Christmas wishes to people w
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by davemtl 5y ago
That's a tough thing to do when said sites are server IPMIs that never get up to date firmware.
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by davemtl 5y ago
Microsoft now provide binaries for Debian and RHEL based Distros. Used Edge on Ubuntu for more than 6+ months for work, probably one of the best experiences I had with a browser now that I think about it.
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by davemtl 5y ago
Firefox recently started refusing to render pages for me on some sites, no amount of resetting the profile fixes it. I'm curious why Edge isn't an option for you? I've started using it recently and so far it's a fairly d
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by davemtl 5y ago
There was a DC-3 rescued from St-Hubert Airport near Montreal, it was just a shell when they started and it flew for D-Day memorial. Registration C-FDTD. You can read more about it here: https://planesavers.com/ and watch t
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by davemtl 5y ago
Welp, I guess it's not for me. I'm unable to upgrade my Microsoft Service Pro (2017) as the CPU is not supported. Which is odd, the CPU is more than capable and all the other requirements are met. I get the feeling of planned obso
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by davemtl 5y ago
My worry was this required both FastMail and 1Password, to my delight you only need FastMail. Masked Email is an option under settings.
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by davemtl 5y ago
The age verification appears to be opt-in, however they don't say what happens if you don't hand over your kids ID. One would hope that it would disable or limit communication between players and keep the player in a suitable for
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by davemtl 5y ago
I have Nexus, since getting it no more need to take my shoes off or take my laptop/tablet out of my carry-on. You practically get waved through security. Also, at the border in Canada & US, you effectively skip the line and use the
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by davemtl 5y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I get forwarded to an advert for iFastNet and the domain gets forwarded to suspended-website.com.
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by davemtl 5y ago
I use a sub-domain of a domain I registered. For example, I use in.[myname].ca.
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by davemtl 5y ago
I welcome the integration, but how'd you even turn it on? Nothing in the settings I can find after installing.
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by davemtl 5y ago
Considering it was almost 20 years ago, just as the Internet was starting to take off and it certainly pre-dates things like Cloudflare, things like this were pretty mandatory. Couldn't tell you if it's still the case, but it did
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by davemtl 5y ago
Yes, test your backups regularly. When I worked for a large insurance firm, we would run drills every 6 months to perform off-site disaster recover and operational recovery tests to validate our recovery processes. Everything was tested fro
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by davemtl 5y ago
Is this just another Google product I'm going to invest a lot of time in, only to find out that one day they take it 'round back and put it down? [1] [1] https://killedbygoogle.com/

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