xyguy

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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Anonymized telemetry doesn't hurt my feelings as long as it's opt in. Unfortunately, fedora's link to Rhel which has repeatedly kicked the community in the ribs worries me. Red hat may decide that fedora should collect by default in an update or that features will only be decided by telemetry instead of user request or developer interest.

Basically, Red Hat/IBM is my worry when it comes to this. No proof of anything at this point but I no longer have any faith in Red Hat.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Awesome to see There are a lot of PS4 exclusives that will be left behind without all this effort.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Not sure if this is what you mean but if all the plugs are on their own circuit you can just just turn them all off in your breaker box by flipping the switch on the breaker.

Most boxes I've seem have a place to put a padlock for extra security too

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Let them fight.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah its crazy. And according to Wendell at Level1Techs its actually a huge benefit but yeah, especially at a datacenter scale I can't see anyone buying chips with dlc. Especially with Epyc currently spanking everyone's butt right now.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 6 points 2 years ago

Maybe instead we have an army of Datas vs an army of Nomads from TOS and they have a big robot fight like in the last Avengers movie.

Or really go off in a bizarre direction and time travel back to a long time ago in a galaxy far far away and team up with R2D2 and C3PO to help fight a team up of Darth Vader and the Borg.

I could go on...

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Pretty neat idea. It'd be cool to see other implementations of this like a bulit in capture card or 10G network card or something.

Or even cooler a 2 way sli card with dual 4060tis. Don't see that ever happening though. I'm pretty sure SLI is not a thing anymore.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago

I was only able to get my Android friends to convert. Now they aren't using it either. Truly a shame.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Basically a privacy policy change that wove them tighter into facebooks's ecosystem and made it clear that Facebook would in no uncertain terms be collecting WhatsApp user data.

https://www.dw.com/en/whatsapp-controversy-highlights-growing-fears-about-data-privacy/a-56266093

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Cruisin USA baby!

But seriously, nothing compared to Forza 4 for me. The detail of the cars, the Top Gear commentary, and it was my first game I got with my Xbox 360. Just amazing.

Honorable mention for POD Planet of Death on Windows 95. Its super old but at the time it looked amazing and has a super cool aesthetic and rad soundtrack.

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