What’s annoying in this situation is that the Republicans love Israel, back them in the war and want to send weapons to them in droves. This means that Joe, being more of a moderate/centrist wins favor and likely votes from their side by doing so.

But it also means if we don’t agree with that, we can’t vote Republican either because it’ll likely be worse.

And is there loads of content on BlueSky? It’s really the only thing missing on Mastodon/Lemmy. Both are superior to X/Reddit, but content is slow in moving over.

As one of the first such computers on the market, the device has a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 6281 ARM-compatible CPU, a.k.a. Feroceon.

Man this Pokémon thing is crazy, how many Eevolutions are there?!

It is actually in demand by one big customer, the DoD. Amazon is pushing hard to get all its services IPv6 by EOY as of this year’s re:Invent. Something like 98% need to be in place for DoD contracts.

And they’re trying to force people over to IPv6 by charging them per public IPv4 address, so, hopefully that spurs the migration. Larger address counts/space is super useful.

While this is true, I feel like this tank misses a few things.

• not everyone replaces on this schedule. I still know people that go 2hrs or less on a phone. At the same point, I bought new, used, then passed down to my daughter,my iPhone 6 and she finally replaced it in 2022. It was still getting security updates. That’s 8 yrs. I’m not in a hurry to replace my iPhone 11, it’s still perfectly fine. My late 2013 MBP, still works well. (I replaced the battery once in 2020) I finally upgraded to an M2, but continue to use the 2013 for things at times.

People replace things too often imho. But to go with this theme, I used to do so as well… swapped my iPhone 3GS for a 4s and then the 6. I’d build a new desktop every 18-24 months near the late 90’s and 2000’s. Things were improving so fast in those times, it was worth it… but then things have stagnated. I don’t see a good reason to get a new iPhone, and while I love the M2, it’ll easily tide me over for 10 yrs. My wife still uses her Lenovo laptop from 2011. Cost is only part of the equation. Sure I don’t want to drop the coin, but also there’s really no big changes worth it to me.

I do miss my Nokia 3110 though. Stability and battery life were awesome. Those were simpler days.

And preferably do it not connected to Meta or Google or any other large org that makes money spying on its users and sharing their data.

Well, I guess I’ll switch back to Dr Sbaitso

Since the vast majority of homeowners aren’t doing so with cash, the total cost of a home is the price over the lifetime of the mortgage. I’d be fine with the higher interest rates if the base price of the home was lower, or vice versa. However, the houses have gone up in price AND the interest rates have gone up meaning that the total cost has risen substantially.

Some of this is due to scarcity caused by the 2008-9 recession, people couldn’t afford homes, so the amount of new construction dropped and the workforce adjusted. Meaning that now we’re behind a few million homes from what we should have built by now, and that scarcity is driving prices up. Combine that with the high interest rates causing people to want to hold on to what they have instead of moving (so they can avoid the interest rate and housing cost jump) means we have even less inventory that normally.

I’ll probably have to move for work soon, and I’m not looking forward to swapping my mostly paid off 4% home with a more expensive higher rate one in a different area.

I feel like 10-15 yrs ago, you’d be absolutely right here, but not now. Everyone I know, even less technical folks, keep it separate simply because they do that stuff on their phone instead.

The numpad usage was super quick, but my first (I’ve got a few and all follow that pattern) was a tented, split, ortho keyboard, the Iris. The ortho part for normal typing took me about two weeks or so to get up to normal speed. The split part has definitely helped my RSI though.

I definitely have tweaked my keymap for other special keys and media usage and such along the way. I’ve got the movement arrow keys under my sdf keys (for left, down, right, up on e) as well as of up and down on w&r so that hand doesn’t have to move either. Been living the ortho split life for 6 years now and I can easily type all day at work without any issues. (I’m a DevOps engineer so I do lots of typing, coding, console work all day long)

I noticed that as well. Or any other expansion boards of the day. The odd peripherals is part of what made the retro stuff interesting!

I ditched my numpad when I set up a layer that puts 456 right under jkl. My left hand hits the layer key (how much do you use both your left and right hands while using a numpad) so it’s right there and I don’t even have to move my hand. Doing so let’s me have the essential mouse closer to the boards.

It’s a full numpad, I’ve got the keys setup around it to put + - enter, etc there.

I’ll also add though, it’s an ortholinear so it’s also the same grid layout and a normal numpad.

The story right below this: https://www.pcgamer.com/wizards-of-the-coast-dispels-rumours-that-tencent-wants-to-gobble-up-dandd-like-a-tarrasque-to-be-clear-we-are-not-looking-to-sell-our-dandd-ip/ … WotC saying explicitly that they are not selling out to Tencent.

‘To be clear: We are not looking to sell our D&D IP’

Love the consistency here.

100%. And If I’m watching a YouTube video on computers and technology, I don’t need ads for tampons and car insurance.

Honestly, it’ll be 2100, so they could just keep incrementing… it won’t be two digits, but v100.2 would be fine and consistent. It’s y3k they need to watch out for.

Edit: though I guess then it’ll just be off… v1000.1 in 3000ad. Maybe we’ll just switch to stardate or something by then… or more likely be extinct.

I’ve got it running in a docker container on my Synology, but I’ve been experimenting with a Raspberry Pi 4… and to all those on here talking about how the Pi can’t transcode, you have to do some work to enable hardware transcoding. I went through a whole bunch, but here’s a summary someone else wrote up: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/comments/ei6ew6/rpi4_hardware_acceleration_guide/

It makes a huge difference. ffmpeg normally is like 8fps, with HW accel, it’s like 50+. It’s why I’m playing with it. Lower power draw and the Synology I’ve got it on now has no HW acceleration and is old and crusty.

“Now what?” == Layoffs apparently. About 350 people or 31% of iRobot’s staff.

Markdown has definitely replaced most of what I used wordpad for. Obsidian is nice, but I’ll also write markdown in vscode or even just vim. It all works and even when it’s not interpreted, it still looks readable. Plus since it’s all just text, easily converted, and widely supported, I don’t have to worry about format deprecation.

As a manager, I can tell you it’s not about management. None of us asked for return to office. In fact the vast majority of managers at my company have been pushing back hard, which is the only way we got a hybrid schedule. It really comes down to being all about real estate, local taxes, optics, C-levels stuck in the old ways of doing things and wanting to return to “the good old days”.

I don’t give a crap where my employees are working as long as they get shit done and can reply during business hours when shit hits the fan.

Obviously this is due to all the deep fried foods in southern cuisine.