zootboy

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by zootboy 12d ago
It's not wild at all. It's just behaving like any other MUA but with an extra step. You have to give GMail your SMTP submission credentials for the sending server of the target domain, then prove ownership of the specific address
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by zootboy 2mo ago
To be honest, it seems rather silly to go this deep into probability calculations when your N = 4 (hard drives). I can present numerous wildly-differing anecdotes about how single hard drives I have owned have fared. I have some drives that
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by zootboy 2mo ago
Life expectancy really depends on how the hardware gets used. I run a small fleet of servers that are heavily CPU / GPU loaded, and the most frequent hardware failure I see is power supplies, with RAM as #2 and spinning HDDs as #3. Eac
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by zootboy 2mo ago
> Is it hurting the batteries of my devices? Unequivocally no, assuming your chargers are reasonably spec-compliant (e.g. not Aliexpress garbage). This is the whole point of type-C / USB-PD: chargers and devices should be more or le
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by zootboy 2mo ago
Battery failure is a "when" because batteries have a limited number of charge-discharge cycles. Modern lithium-ion batteries have a life expectancy in the range of 300-600 cycles. So if you've never had such a failure, it pro
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by zootboy 3mo ago
I'm not certain that the git committer tells you the full story. I don't believe the AUR enforces that the git commit email is the same as the current maintainer email. So this could have been an orphan package, adopted by a malic
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by zootboy 3mo ago
And this is why "mandatory app to configure" is an instant dealbreaker for me for any piece of hardware. Don't buy crap like this. Force companies to be better.
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by zootboy 4mo ago
It's not outdated, you just actually need to follow it. 3 copies of data in separate S3 buckets is ignoring the "2" in the 3-2-1 rule: 2 different mediums, and also the "1" rule: 1 copy offsite. In the cloud era, of
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by zootboy 4mo ago
J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, etc.
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by zootboy 4mo ago
> ...affluent people leaving all of their moop because they don't care about the deposit This is why I suggested an increasing deposit for repeat offenders. Leave a huge pile of trash? Next year's deposit is $100k. Do it severa
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by zootboy 4mo ago
Sounds to me like there ought to be a MOOP cleanup deposit charged upfront, that only gets returned after this inspection. If the cleanup crew has to clean your site, you forfeit part or all of your deposit. Repeat offenders get charged inc
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by zootboy 5mo ago
> It's behind a UPS and a good surge protector. To be clear, neither of these things are intended to address EMI/RFI. Most consumer-grade UPSes directly pass the AC power through when not on battery, so any noise on the lines w
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by zootboy 5mo ago
The DUP profile is meant for use with a single disk. The RAID* profiles are meant for use with multiple disks. Both are necessary to cover the full gamut of BTRFS use cases, but it would probably be good if mkfs.btrfs spat out a big warning
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by zootboy 5mo ago
> Metadata DUP (not sure if it's across 2 disks or all 3) should be expected to be robust, I'd expect? No. DUP will happily put both copies on the same disk. You would need to use RAID1 (or RAID1c3 for a copy on all disks) if y
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by zootboy 6mo ago
I think the idea is you stick a link to this page in your PR-closed comment.
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by zootboy 8mo ago
Perhaps they were using Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the Task Manager so that they can kill an unruly process?
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by zootboy 8mo ago
Here's the actual TSA list: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/identification But fun fact: even if an ID is on that list, if it's not one that their little scanner machines know how to read,
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by zootboy 8mo ago
> Consumer PCs and laptops spend most of their time idle Not when Windows gets its grubby mitts on them. I will frequently hear the fans spin up on my Win10 laptop when it should be doing nothing, only to find the Windows Telemetry proce
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by zootboy 9mo ago
I've always thought it would be neat if the accelerator pedal on cars had some sort of force feedback that was proportional to the amount of power the engine is putting out. That way the driver would be able to feel how hard they'
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by zootboy 9mo ago
A little bit of educated guessing on my part: The purple frames have a bunch of gradients to white, which looks a lot like what happens when the infrared filter on most color cameras is removed and a bunch of IR light is shone into then. Fo
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by zootboy 10mo ago
There's a relevant FAQ with a solution for you: https://adventofcode.com/2025/about#faq_highcontrast
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by zootboy 10mo ago
But this article is only grading the styling of the OS GUI elements, not the functionality (or lack thereof) of the OS itself.
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by zootboy 10mo ago
It does look to be a nudge in that direction, but it's not a slam-dunk. From my non-lawyer reading of the text, it seems like it would depend on how well you can argue that a total ban is not "narrowly tailored."
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by zootboy 1y ago
> the non-backlit screen If I'm not very much mis-remembering, this Palm actually did have a backlight? I think you had to long-press the little green button to activate it.
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by zootboy 1y ago
Silicon and silicone are two very different things...
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by zootboy 1y ago
A few I like: https://www.youtube.com/@Blondihacks - A (primarily) model engineering channel with a focus on hobby / home precision machining https://www.youtube.com/@daliborfarny - A guy working to ke
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by zootboy 1y ago
> I find out that the seller is actually just doing arbitrage from Amazon Please report these sellers to eBay. This is explicitly against their terms of service: https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/posting-items&#
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by zootboy 1y ago
Commercial Tier 4F diesels of the John Deere variety have latching fault codes when they relate to the aftertreatment system. It requires the manufacturer's proprietary scan tool (which they will not sell to you) to clear the code, eve
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by zootboy 1y ago
I know this is just a weird workaround, but you can put your mouse cursor on top of the scroll bar. The scroll wheel still works like normal there (at least in my tests on Linux / Firefox).
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by zootboy 1y ago
I wish this had a "I can't tell" option. A few of the really hard ones I got right, but I'd say it was more of a lucky guess than a genuine ability to discriminate the difference.

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