tacoman

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by tacoman 9mo ago
As someone who works in this industry and has access to commercial HDMI debugging equipment, I can’t agree more. I will use Harmony for my home setup until it no longer functions. The horrors I have seen related to CEC and ARC are something
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by tacoman 1y ago
This is the primary way I read longer articles on the internet. I hope something else pops up because this changes my daily routine pretty significantly.
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by tacoman 2y ago
Almost everything you have written here can also describe Canada. There is an Australian YouTuber named Chris Kohler who does really funny little shorts describing things happening in the Aussie economy and it’s jarring how often they appl
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by tacoman 2y ago
I'm not much of a MacOS fan, but his laptop is the best laptop I've ever owned. I got the 8GB/256GB version and it was worth the price because my kid still uses it every day. The 720p webcam is fantastic quality. The speaker
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by tacoman 2y ago
Yes!!! This happened to me also. It took me a day to get my account working on all devices again.
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by tacoman 2y ago
I have some Prana pants that I really like, but don't wear too often. Recently someone asked me where I got them and I said, "hmm maybe 5 years ago at MEC." A month later I came across a picture of me wearing those same pan
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by tacoman 2y ago
Some weeks would go by and I would just check n-gate to see what happened on HN.
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by tacoman 3y ago
I am using the exact same model. Ryzen 5600G w/32GB and an Nvidia P40 w/24GB VRAM 20/33 layers offloaded to GPU, 4K context. Uses 25GB system RAM and all 24GB VRAM. 5-7 tokens per second.
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by tacoman 3y ago
The Mediaroom IPTV platform which DT is probably using has millions of deployed STBs still running WinCE 5.0.
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by tacoman 3y ago
A simple bidet like a Neo 120. It simply baffles me that North Americans haven’t caught on to how life changing this is.
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by tacoman 3y ago
There is an artist who has a Tumblr featuring characters in the style of Richard Scarry that parodies professions that many on HN would be familiar with. https://welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com/ It's one of the best t
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by tacoman 3y ago
My use case for Pocket is completely different from the author’s. I use it every day to get web content onto a Kobo ereader. It strips ads and often gets stuff behind paywalls. My family shares the same pocket account and we often end up d
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by tacoman 3y ago
The gambling aspect has become part of NHL hockey broadcasts now in Canada. On HNIC on a Saturday night, I watched Ron Maclean hand over the broadcast to some guy from a gambling company for a ~10 second segment on the current odds of each
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by tacoman 3y ago
They've been doing this for almost decade. The last straw for me was when they decided to put the smiling face of a murdered woman in my start menu. It was just so bizarre. https://ibb.co/M8Y7gvj
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Toyotas can be stolen by getting access to CAN bus through the headlight(asahi.com)
7 points by tacoman 4y ago|5 comments
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by tacoman 4y ago
There's stories popping up in the UK, US and Canada recently about this vulnerability. From a comment in the reddit thread below: "Thieves are gaining access to the left headlight computer sub-assembly by peeling back the plastic
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by tacoman 4y ago
The website says: ~ 1,895 tons of CO2 emissions. According to the EPA ( https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-t... ): "A typical passenger vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide p
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by tacoman 4y ago
Yes, spending time with little kids can be really boring, be present when it counts though. This period of life doesn't last forever so take care of your health and maintain your important relationships with whatever energy you can mu
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by tacoman 4y ago
That's a pretty lousy policy from Moto, even more so considering it has a decent Qualcomm SoC in it. Android 9 got its last regular security update in January of 2022. If Google's pattern continues, Android 11 itself should conti
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by tacoman 4y ago
I switched from Globalstar to Zoleo (Iridium) because Globalstar wasn't reliable enough for use cases like messaging the float plane pilot. I'd often have to wait for certain times of the day to send messages or make calls. This
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by tacoman 5y ago
Same here. I have been trying to understand this practice for years and have never succeeded. Maybe someday it will click.
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by tacoman 5y ago
I'm still living this dream today. It's amazing how terrible brand spankin' new "hospitality" (hotel) TVs are when it comes to poor implementations. It is still whack-a-mole and often has to be compensated for on
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by tacoman 5y ago
I've lived in SK and AB my entire 40+ years. The coldest I can ever remember experiencing is being in Paris on valentine's day in the early 2000's. It was just below 0c but the humidity made almost unbearable.
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by tacoman 5y ago
It's interesting that the west coast of Canada only has one cable and it's to connect to Alaska.
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by tacoman 7y ago
I have fixed and replaced control boards in both my Kenmore washing machine and oven. I've had to replace the duck valve in my Kitchenaid fridge (it got plugged and froze up, leaking water onto the floor). Without online videos, I don
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by tacoman 7y ago
I have <common last name>@gmail.com and it's unusable. I've had it since you could only get a gmail account via invite. I've mostly stopped using it except I have a quite a few android apps purchased with the account
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by tacoman 8y ago
My extended family of 16 which ranges in age from 5 to 85 uses this Matrix instance. We didn't want pictures of our young kids on Whatsapp (Facebook) servers. These young kids and grandparents don't have smartphones so Signal i
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by tacoman 8y ago
Riot-web is a really nice app. Drop it on any web server and you're done. I use it all day long to talk to my family on a self-hosted, non-federated matrix instance. If you use linux, Fractal is a pretty good option for a desktop ap
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by tacoman 8y ago
Stamos sometimes has a guest spot on the Risky Business podcast. He's incredibly insightful and candid. Other than Dan Geer, I can't think of anyone else that can articulate the current state of infosec as well as he can.
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by tacoman 8y ago
Roku SoundBridge M1001. Beautiful VFD display, simple to use, and no phone or tablet required. BlackBerry 10 devices with physical keyboards.

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