nickflood

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by nickflood 2y ago
My NUC11 with 8 GB of DDR4 and Ethernet idles at 3-4W when I tell it to not power any status LEDs. Can be power-limited in BIOS so that it runs off of a USB-C power adapter with a fixed 19V negotiation cable. But it is not low-end for sure.
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by nickflood 4y ago
I've had the same free Google Apps account with forwarding for me and couple friends on my custom domain. We didn't use the mail boxes themselves, only forwarded email from the custom address to our free mailboxes. When they moved
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by nickflood 4y ago
I'm thinking more and more that the biggest new realization for big youtubers is that they have a very powerful marketing platform bundled for free with their business. You know, the thing they sell for lots of money to other companies
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by nickflood 4y ago
At ~$2.5/GiB of changes in Europe, this is a very expensive service. Is the sync process that resource-intensive, are they increasing margins to recoup development costs, or is it just targeting (big enterprise) customers that are okay
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by nickflood 4y ago
I feel you on that, but in these moments I remember a quote from Steve Jobs: "You can't connect the points forward, you can only connect them backwards". Which for me means that you don't yet know what advantage these &#
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by nickflood 4y ago
Yep, finally my TB3 eGPU starts being at least in theory outdated. The fact that there was no improvement in TB speed for the last 5 years is ridiculous. Edit: but probably PCIe lanes to the controller chip would be somehow a bottleneck as
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by nickflood 4y ago
Just get a Dell charger, they are high quality and relatively cheap.
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by nickflood 4y ago
Yep, a 5-seat personal Office 365 license is $100/year, and academia loves Google's online counterparts which are totally free. My wife who's a PhD also gets a free Adobe CS institute-wide. Very hard to compete with all that.
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by nickflood 5y ago
I use MS Edge for trusted websites and the ones I want to be logged into and DuckDuckGo browser for random pages and news articles which are normally filled with ads and tracking code.
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by nickflood 5y ago
The invoices and the "order details" page (one that looks like it's from 2000's internet) should retain the item description at the time you bought the item. That's how I successfully claimed a refund on the item th
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by nickflood 5y ago
The Chromium Edge can produce .MHT files as well
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by nickflood 5y ago
If you have kids and live in Europe already with a spouse who also has their hopes and dreams and works in a different field, kids cost you 500k out of the total 600k compensation because you can't (really - don't want to) move to
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by nickflood 5y ago
Hey, Europe is not that bad. ASML is the leading semiconductor fab tech producer is based in Europe. They use optics from Carl Zeiss which is a german firm. ARM chip corporation is a UK company. So, like, stuff happens in Europe which is es
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by nickflood 5y ago
You can do "g!" instead of "!g" on mobile. (And even hn! works, but not every other one.) This helped me considerably
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by nickflood 5y ago
Yep, Apple exploits holes in everything. Remember when Europe tried to introduce one charging port standard? Apple got around it by selling the shittiest most flimsy and easily broken microUSB to Lightning adapter known to man. If Apple can
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by nickflood 5y ago
Epic, while huge, is 100 times smaller than Apple. Apple could buy 3 Epics from one quarterly iPhone revenue.
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by nickflood 5y ago
What the other person meant, I think, is that when you buy services from the companies, those companies then pay a 20% tax on profit to the state, additionally, all the salaries they pay to people also end up ta ed at 30-40%, so much of the
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by nickflood 5y ago
A little bit related: I've got a latest Hario Slim ( https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/aw/d/B01GPMH590 ), and it has a hexagonal post for the handle. Using a 7mm hex wrench in a cordless screwdriver
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by nickflood 5y ago
All good points, thank you! Yeah, I kind of tuned the issues out because for me the XPS is the only machine that combines slickness with repairability and that's what I value. I have the skill to resolve some of the issues (I always do
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by nickflood 5y ago
Yes, they could. Look at Dell XPS 13 9310. It has the battery that's not glued in (using screws) which you can get a replacement for 70-150 bucks and change youself. It has trackpad and keyboard that are replaceable separately. And the
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by nickflood 5y ago
Me too, this speaks to me so much. The games all look wholesome, in line with the device itself. Judging by what I've seen, the processing power inside will be quite good and would not require optimisations unlike "retro" har
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by nickflood 5y ago
They addressed the SDK availability here - https://twitter.com/playdate/status/1400849495198289920?s=19 Basically, they don't have resources yet to open it up and support it enough for people to have good exp
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by nickflood 5y ago
Countries are supposed to in the end benefit people who live in those countries. There are many things that countries do that private companies can't, like jail people without their consent, for example.
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by nickflood 5y ago
Yeah, but by that same logic there may be unknown holes in app review and app sandbox as well. And since Apple aren't big on publicising their missteps (while Chrome is developed in the open), we may never really know how secure the ap
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by nickflood 5y ago
Web browsers don't have widely known glaring security holes in them even though their vendors don't approve the content that's viewed through them. On the other hand, you can't be completely sure that sandboxes on mobile
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by nickflood 5y ago
Anything that has a Xamarin legacy will forever have a "buggy and unfinished" stain on it for me. But I'll be glad to be proven wrong.
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by nickflood 5y ago
The comment of laurent92 doesn't read as if he needs acknowledgement. It reads like he thinks he's done enough "good" or has enough "accomplishments" in his head that he is definitely owed affection from women
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by nickflood 5y ago
RTX 3090 also does 936 GB/s which is very close to Radeon 7 but with conventional GDDR
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by nickflood 6y ago
Oh wow, the hwnd approach is an awesome idea! I suffer from a different issue - my monitor has a displayport and 2 hdmi inputs, and when you activate one of the hdmi inputs, the other sends a "monitor disconnected" signal to its h
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by nickflood 6y ago
Dell XPS 13/15/17 are super repairable, too. Unlike the macbooks, the battery is replaceable. On 15"/17" models the RAM is socketed. The SSD drives are all standard socketed. And nothing is glued, everything is scre

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