kennethrc

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by kennethrc 10d ago
PIA
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by kennethrc 12d ago
They lost me as a customer when they got rid of port forwarding, which is nice to have on the high seas
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by kennethrc 2mo ago
Stories like this worry me- I've got a fair amount of stuff connected to Google and I'm afraid one day I'll sneeze in the wrong direction and end up disabled and no way to talk to anyone about it (I used to live in the SFBA a
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by kennethrc 4mo ago
> COLOSSUS and COLOSSUS II https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177 It may be sick, but someone's got a sense of humor over there :)
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by kennethrc 4mo ago
Ditto for me on every one of the ~20 places I've logged in starting in ~2017
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by kennethrc 5mo ago
Pressure from rights holders or law enforcement? Amazon has sold ~250M Fire Sticks; there's just no way most of 'em aren't used by regular people as vanilla FSs
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by kennethrc 5mo ago
"Basically the main reason"? I can count among my friends and family some 50 Fire Sticks, and we're all happy with them, as they do what they say on the box. We Tech folks (and some more than others) live in a bubble, but the
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by kennethrc 6mo ago
> You really only need dirty_ratio/bytes and dirty_background_ratio/bytes set to something lower than default. The vm.swappiness=1 was very necessary for me as well, and made as much difference as the dirties you'd mention
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by kennethrc 6mo ago
> Even something as simple as alt-tabbing lagged for seconds on an overpowered machine. This may not be KDE's fault; I tracked these kinds of issues down to some bad tunable defaults. I came up with this: ---- cat /et
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by kennethrc 8mo ago
Couldn't care less, honestly. That being said, I don't use any LLM for coding and it'll be a long time before I do.
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by kennethrc 8mo ago
I love(d) it and used it every time I'd go to WF, but TBF I heard about it by "accident" (some small ad somewhere, or maybe it was in the Amazon app?) ... I got the impression Amazon just didn't want to push it much.
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by kennethrc 8mo ago
Aw ... it was really nice at Whole Paycheck, I'm going to miss it. Any guesses as to why? Unlike Google Maps Timeline data being subpoenaed, I can't see what LE could use with this (since they have other ways to determine you were
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by kennethrc 8mo ago
> I grew up drinking the 'American culture ...' > misspells "Kool-Aid"
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by kennethrc 9mo ago
... excuse me while I Nope! TF out
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by kennethrc 10mo ago
> in the era of the most cutting edge breakthroughs in video ... and what are those?
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by kennethrc 10mo ago
Likewise with decorative hedges and other gardenwork; your post brought to mind this one hotel I stay regularly where a hedge is high enough and close enough to the exit that you have to nearly pull into the street to see if there's on
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by kennethrc 11mo ago
> IF they're proven to be dangerous to others if they access the internet ... which means what? They espouse ideas "you" don't like?
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by kennethrc 1y ago
This. Don't get your downvotes, either. Sometimes you just wanna get something done, and hell, it's usually quiet AF on the weekends in-office, too.
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by kennethrc 1y ago
> Has anybody ever actually destroyed a chip with static electricity? Piling on, but yes, you very well may have: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRqj9FhgcE
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by kennethrc 1y ago
RTFA
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by kennethrc 1y ago
"Fuck you, Shoresy!"
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by kennethrc 1y ago
I have Wireguard (and OpenVPN off TCP/UDP 443 as backup) on a router connected to residential symmetric 1G fiber. Among the many uses for that means I can watch the NFL (et al.) when abroad just as if I were home; there's WG/
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by kennethrc 1y ago
It seems as it would average out, but I wonder if the equation between "<some %age of> ~2500 people for a 7-14 days" vs. "<some %age of> ~175 people for 2-5 hours" incurs more "costs" for the former
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by kennethrc 1y ago
... and even if you're just on vacation it's not like you're doing nothing else but being online, OP ...
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by kennethrc 1y ago
I've been a "Sabbath Goy" a couple of times for some of my friends :)
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by kennethrc 1y ago
It's been down there waiting!
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by kennethrc 2y ago
> IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTOR IT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE Maybe add the words "then get one" after "Detector"? I'm mostly joking, but I can see a non-native-English speaker misunderstanding you
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by kennethrc 2y ago
... and I'd heard the variation: Another inmate calls out "36!" which brings out raucous laughter. The new inmate asks why that one got such a great response, to be told "We haven't heard that one before!"
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by kennethrc 2y ago
FWIW, 5 years ago a Gigabit PA pair could only get ~200Mbit/sec between two rooms in the same house, and even that was finicky. Maybe the tech has improved since then, but I suspect not.
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by kennethrc 2y ago
> Visual inspection of the carcass revealed that the liver ... and reproductive organs were missing There's a joke in there somewhere

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