xyguy @ xyguy @startrek.website Posts 0Comments 34Joined 2 yr. ago
Failing to properly evacuate the city during a Tsunami because its easier just to clean up afterwards (Cities Skylines).
I was genuinely convinced they offered 10gig service in some markets. Doesn't surprise me that its all marketing nonsense.
Just a tip for anyone who wants to know, if you have Comcast business internet they'll tell you you have to use their modem but, you can swap it out with a 3rd patty modem and use the live chat service to get it activated. Then you can send back their modem for free at a ups store. Every salesperson will tell you its not possible but it absolutely is.
Connected a Samsung smart TV to my network when we first got it. The thing damn-near crashed my pi-hole asking for so many ad/tracking domains. Factory reset it later that same day. I think my % of requests blocked went from 15% to 68% in just the 3 hours or so the Smart TV was connected.
All I see around is old Cisco enterprise stuff and 1000 would be a low price for that. Not to mention the potential for quite loud fan noise.
Unifi has one with 10 gig uplinks for the same price as used Cisco stuff and it has poe also. Still 1600 bucks though.
I switched to Delta Icons, also open source also on F-Droid. They aren't as minimalist but they're neat and flat and pastel.
Funny you mentioned articons. I have actually had a lot fewer stability problems when I switched away from articons.
Dope Wars Classic. The best modern recreation of the TI Calculator/Palm Pilot game Drugwar.
Still awesome to play to this day.
Kiss is exactly what I want in a launcher. I use it but it seems to crash a lot and/or fail to run the search properly or render my icons.
Have you noticed that at all? It's happened across 2 phones for me but I may be unlucky or doing something wrong.
Oh man I already forgot about that monitor stand. Yeah that's the kind of ridiculous stuff that people should be angry about.
This is a great point. Anyone that says that the MacBook is a piece of crap has never used one (other than the first gen 12 inch MacBook) they are awesome and the design is great.
MacOS on the other hand really gets on my nerves and all of their anti-consumer stuff is enough for me to avoid them entirely. I won't even call them overpriced because a PC similarly equipped with a monitor as nice as theirs is just as much.
I wish there was a hardware designer as good as Apple on the PC side but because they are so good people excuse abhorrent business practices. You don't see people vehemently defending stupid things that Dell does for instance.
God I really hate to see Oracle involved. Everything they touch turns into an IP lawsuit.
If they really loved open source so much they wouldn't have close-sourced ZFS and OpenSolaris in 2010 after they were already open source.
CIQ and Rocky are solid but remember just because Oracle is the enemy of the enemy doesn't make them even close to a friend.
When I was in 9th grade it was netbooks with Windows 7 and they were also terrible and fated for the recycling bin before I was a junior.
In most enterprise IT your lifespan for hardware is between 5 and 7 years maybe 10 for printers and network switches.
I'm sure most schools try to stretch hardware as far as it will go but IT would have known when they bought the Chromebooks that they'd not be long for this world as cheap as they were and that's the price they would pay for paying such a low price.
I think what is sticking up the works is on an administrative level, higher ups are expecting IT departments to stretch EOL dates like they used to do with Windows machines but now they absolutely can't and Admin didn't plan to have to buy all new whether or not IT did
I will gladly admit that I don't use BSD nearly as much as Linux and know far less about it but I think Apple forking and close-sourcing a version of BSD is a pretty good example of what you said doesn't happen in BSD.
With all that being said, that's what the BSD license allows for and so there's no issue with anyone doing so.
Interestingly, Apple as well as the 2 others I mentioned that ship BSD based operating systems sell hardware meant to cooperate nicely with the software that they "give away". Red Hat and other commercial Linucies? Linuxes? Linnii? often have a support or software license agreement that makes them money.