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by gbrown 5y ago
Look into the cheap Sceptre displays. They make non-smart panels with decent resolution and performance, so long as you have external speakers and use the optical audio output instead of the output from their garbage DAC.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Time will tell, but in theory the Volts should last a really long time also. The generator only directly powers the drivetrain at highway speeds, and in the gen-1 they were really conservative with allowed pure electric range on the battery
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by gbrown 5y ago
"Error: cannot start (no connectivity). Please call a licensed repair technician to service your vehicle."
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by gbrown 5y ago
More than possible, it's common as an attack: cryptojacking.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I did, but had trouble getting it to work. It was a while ago though, and the image I was working from was old/unmaintained even at the time. Linux guest. Do you have any examples to hand?
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by gbrown 5y ago
Is there something specific about the AMD drivers? I have a decent Nvidia card (I know, I know…)
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by gbrown 5y ago
I do kill it, but I’m in and out of meetings all day, so it’s easy to forget.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I found the video quality and responsiveness to be far worse, and I have to teach and work over Zoom. I tried running the desktop client virtualized as well, with similar results. So… sketchy it is. I find myself wondering what it’s doing w
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by gbrown 5y ago
It does keep running and using CPU after exiting though, so I always have to ‘pkill -f zoom’ it.
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by gbrown 5y ago
There’s a desktop Zoom client. Also, the web office 365 Word works… okish.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of the workshop.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I’ve been playing with GPGPU on Julia lately also, and it really seems like things have come a long way in the last few years. Check out the Juliacon 2021 talk on GPU compute if you’re interested.
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by gbrown 5y ago
> I think you're confusing Arch with Gentoo or something - the Arch package manager is not from-source, it ships binaries just like apt. Perhaps you're thinking of the AUR Sorry, what I meant was: when I need to manage the vers
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by gbrown 5y ago
Yeah, exactly. Why?
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by gbrown 5y ago
Can an Arch person explain to me why their approach is worth it over something with a more comprehensive package manager like apt or dnf? I don’t mind compiling programs myself when needed, but for most things I’m happy to not have to hand-
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by gbrown 5y ago
Not to mention all the people that were on Instagram and WhatsApp before the sale… If a competitor emerges, it will play out the same way.
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by gbrown 5y ago
I see what you mean now. I still draw the line differently - I don’t think I’ve ever interactively worked through conditional logic, control loops, or user prompts, so I’d happily make simple bash scripts from basic commands, but I wouldn’t
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by gbrown 5y ago
Good for them, but I have no trouble using different tools for different tasks. I find bash cumbersome to write complex programs in, so I just don’t.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Shell scripts are one way to do this, but I don’t have a library of shell scripts because I always have access to actual scripting languages. To each their own, but writing bash scripts that get more complex than moving a few files around a
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by gbrown 5y ago
Interesting article, though for me an acceptable middle ground is to just use bash and friends as an interface, as described, and to write any larger and more complicated scripts in Python with argparse (or similar). I don’t see why the she
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by gbrown 5y ago
The migration requires multiple instars, so they reproduce on the way.
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by gbrown 5y ago
And then, of course, iTunes got steadily and uniformly worse for years .
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by gbrown 5y ago
I’ve repaired numerous non-lenovo laptops, it just required googling rather than an official web-page.
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by gbrown 5y ago
That’s overhyped. Keep your foundation clear and dry, and the wildlife will stay in the habitat you create. I live by a forest, and when we moved in the place was surrounded by sterile lawn. We had all sorts of german cockroaches crawling
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by gbrown 5y ago
Well, sure, if you have a lawn and stop maintaining it, the result will suck. That’s not the alternative though, which is environment appropriate landscaping. Out west that’s often succulents and hardscape. Where I live in the Midwest, tha
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by gbrown 5y ago
Seaweed is great - it also pulls excess nitrogen out of the water, can be co-cropped with bivalves, can be fed to cows for decreased methane production, can be eaten directly in many forms… If we had an actual price on carbon seaweed produc
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by gbrown 5y ago
> Best estimates I've seen is that this would lower the total population burden from lead by well under 5%. That sounds pretty great actually, for such a simple solution.
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by gbrown 5y ago
And then iPhone users are stuck due to anticompetitive lock-in.
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by gbrown 5y ago
Maybe competition was the wrong word for what I meant - I meant software alternatives. I've recently owned laptops from Acer, Asus, Dell, and Apple, and I put various flavors of Linux on all of them (pre M1).
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by gbrown 5y ago
Software alternatives.

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