miah_

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by miah_ 5d ago
I still drive a '97 4runner that I bought for 5k around 2020. I've probably put 5k into repairs. I've spent less on it than anything I could buy new, and it will probably outlast us all. Nearing 300k miles on it now.
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by miah_ 1mo ago
The easiest way to deal with the usual suspects is to just block the entire countries network range(s). There really is no reason they should be connecting to your home router anyway, and you lose nothing from blocking them. Sure their pack
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by miah_ 1mo ago
Have you ever read it? It was published in _1970_ and the content isn't really about stealing books, but about fighting against the government and corporations. Its more political commentary than anything else. Yes, bookstores should s
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by miah_ 1mo ago
Some programmers import a sarcasm library while others could write their own.
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by miah_ 2mo ago
Ahhh jerkcity. A classic.
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by miah_ 3mo ago
.NET is still installable as a standalone thing. In fact I probably have several versions installed on my current Windows PC. No reason Windows Lite couldn't also have .NET installed _when you need it_.
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by miah_ 3mo ago
I wondered if it was the same but he says he built this car in 2008 which would have been three years after that video.
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by miah_ 4mo ago
This happens with any TV or Movie that has music, and its incredibly frustrating. Always best to download to not confuse yourself as to why the media is somehow different than you remember.
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by miah_ 4mo ago
syspatch and sysupgrade have made things substantially easier these days.
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by miah_ 4mo ago
At that point you've re-invented emacs.
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by miah_ 5mo ago
No thanks.
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by miah_ 6mo ago
I've worked in tech since the late 90's and recently became an apprentice potter. My work in pottery is so much more fulfilling than any tech work I've done. I wish I had started sooner. I'm still working in tech, and li
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by miah_ 1y ago
0% AI, 80% YAML Jockey, 10% SSH Shenanigans, 10% Python programming Been doing sysadmin since the 90's. Why bother with AI, it just slows me down. I've already scripted my life with automation. Anything not already automated proba
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by miah_ 1y ago
Similarly that people are interested in running anything made by him after he's repeatedly shown his true colors.
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by miah_ 1y ago
Maybe, but carpentry, plumbing, electrician, mechanic, etc all typically have apprenticeship opportunities and its extremely rare to encounter anything in the tech field like this. Additionally, the trades above don't have new tooling
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by miah_ 1y ago
If they sold replacement parts and batteries we'd be fine and they're have their recurring revenue.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Scumbag companies continue to be scum.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Clearchannel (which became IheartRadio) owns most radio stations (>850) in the US. They fired hundreds of DJ's in ~2011. https://archive.nytimes.com/mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2... When I was a kid in the 1
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by miah_ 2y ago
I feel like I'm one of the few people who won't touch the tech for anything work related. I've used it to generate character backstories in Dungeons and Dragons, but I wouldn't trust it for anything reality based. I don&
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by miah_ 2y ago
No
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by miah_ 2y ago
Whatever this link was, all it does now is download a randomly named 0 byte file in Firefox.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Like Cambridge Analytica (who used Facebook to do exactly this for the 2016 election).
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by miah_ 2y ago
Surely China can just buy all the data that's being collected by US companies and sold. So whats the difference here?
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by miah_ 2y ago
Yes. I'd love to find other nerds into retro computing, UNIX, and pottery in my area without wading into groups or joining a forum. They know everything about me, match me up with some people I'd most likely get along with!
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by miah_ 2y ago
Thanks. Can we also have a article about how the web was replaced by bullshit popovers and invasive javascript much to the dismay of people who use it?
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by miah_ 2y ago
I don't want to touch my phone to stream music in my home. I don't want a app involved, apart from maybe setup. I don't want 'cloud' involved _at all_. I want to point my music 'streaming' device at a NFS
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by miah_ 2y ago
Sonos hardware is the stuff I see at thrift stores for ~$8 and won't even bother with. When you're as user hostile as they are you end up in landfills. Wish somebody would figure out how to unlock them and convert them into genera
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by miah_ 2y ago
quell surprise. This is the tech industry in a nutshell. Over promise. Under deliver. Executives profit. Workers get laid off.
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by miah_ 2y ago
Me too. I'd like to explore the tree and see what can happen but have zero interest creating an account, tracking progress or whatever. I got the gist of what the game was about in the first few minutes.
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by miah_ 2y ago
The Health Insurance for my wife, two children, and myself is _$1500_/mo and that's _with_ a $20,000 deductible. When I started working ~25 years ago, my health insurance was typically fully covered by my employer and I had no ded

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