geekworking

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geekworking,

Get a long swing out arm for the TV. Swing it 90 degrees. [LikeThis] (a.co/d/htnnZWA)

geekworking,

It must be great to live in a place that has so few real problems that the town can waste time with bullshit culture war distractions.

Can I pre-install Ubuntu on an SSD?

Ths might be a silly question, but asking those is how i learn sometimes. I’m trying to install my first Linux distro to set up a Plex server and one of the few things I know is you need a wired internet connection. My intended server location is across the house from my router, and there isnt much room there to set up...

geekworking,

You don’t need any internet connection to install Ubuntu. Just use the normal install, not minimal network installer. Install from a USB stick.

Also, there’s no requirement for a wire either. If that were the case, you could never install on any modern laptop.

You would need some sort of functioning network to upgrade packages or install anything not in the base image, but this would all be after installation when you have a working OS and wired or wireless won’t matter.

geekworking,

Even Nvidia video works out of the box without any additional drivers.

The thing with Nvidia is that although the default drivers work, they are more generic and don’t take advantage of all of the features and performance of recent cards. Most people would want to load the proprietary drivers from Nvidia to take full advantage of the card.

Linux would normally include the better drivers, but Nvidia keeps them under a software license that prevents Linux distributions from bundling them.

Even with this, Ubuntu includes a tool that will download and install these drivers that they can’t

geekworking,

Does this BS law make medical staff mandatory reporters? Mandatory reporting laws should go around privacy laws.

geekworking,

100% this. My sister had a nightmare rental experience. The rental company was sold out on gas cars and gave her a Hyundai EV.

She had to drive about 200 miles through some remote areas. When she left, the car said 300 miles. She figured 50% was a good enough buffer. She started driving and range dropped quickly. About 100 mi into the trip, it was saying 40 miles left.

She was in the middle of nowhere with spotty cell reception worried that she would be stranded in the desert. She was afraid enough to call her daughter and say, “If you don’t hear from me, send help.”

The only charger she could find was at a Hyundai dealer. She just made it, but had to sleep in the car until the next morning when they opened to get the car charged.

She swears never again.

geekworking,

Could he be trying to cause some sort of mistrial or appeal on the grounds that his lawyers we incompetent for not stopping him?

geekworking,

New versions of software are released because the older version was lacking in some way. Features, security, functionality.

Lowest number wins.

geekworking,

Code security is directly proportional to the amount of resources devoted to finding and fixing bugs regardless of open or closed. If nobody is maintaining the code, it doesn’t matter.

One advantage with open you is that you can look at the version control to see how active the code is being maintained.

geekworking,

I love open mic night at Men’s Warehouse

geekworking,

One of the hurdles to ARM is that you need to recompile and maintain a separate version of every piece of software for the different processors.

This is a much easier task for a tightly controlled ecosystem like Mac than the tons of different suppliers Windows ecosystem. You can do some sort of emulation to run non-native stuff, but at the cost of the optimization that you were hoping to gain.

Another OS variation also adds a big cost/burden to enterprise customers where they need to manage patches, security, etc.

I would expect to see more inroads in non-corporate areas following Apple success, but not any sort of explosion.

geekworking,

No, actually, enshitification will continue until the product/service dies due to everyone leaving for another product that is in one of the earlier stages of enshitification. Rinse. Repeat.

geekworking,

Meth-10

geekworking,

Was Florida Man flushing M80s again?

Toilets can break, fall, shatter, etc and cause injury, but generally won’t explode without some help.

geekworking,

The Clippy Key.

Kellyanne Conway thinks Republicans can win back women in 2024 by saying, “We took away your abortion rights, but we’re letting you keep contraception” (www.vanityfair.com)

Something you’ve probably heard by now is that the Republican Party’s decision to decimate reproductive rights—and celebrate the overturning of Roe v. Wade like it was the greatest thing to ever happen to America—has not gone over great with voters. The 2022 midterm elections, which were supposed to be a red tsunami for...

geekworking,

Potential problems with your theory are that old people voting percentage isn’t way higher than young people and that people tend to get more conservative as they age.

The boomers were the ones out protesting the Vietnam War and fighting for civil rights. Now they are the establishment and behaving the same as those who they protested in their youth.

Hopefully, the batshit craziness will die down, but there will be new conservatives to replace the ones who die off.

geekworking,

Even if Obama were eligible, I doubt that we could convince him to do it again.

He seems way too happy with retirement to want to deal with the militant toddlers that sprung up after he left.

geekworking,

Not sure if just glare, but a lot of these look like one side has too little solder like you didn’t use enough and/or it wasn’t flowing correctly.

geekworking,

Use a tool to push sideways on the joints and from the component side.

Bad looking joints can still have a connection even if they look bad. If the connection has truly come loose, there will be some movement in the joint.

When we were working on surface mount boards, we would use a sewing needle and run it down the pins, and listen to the sound. The needle crossing a solid pin will make a sharp sound. If solder joint is not good, the pin moves, and you will get a duller sound. Dink, dink, dink, dut.

geekworking,

I have had various sticks and Roku highest end models and then got the latest ATV with hard wire port that adds Dolby vision and high frame rate HDR. I have a 2022 high-end TV.

The video quality is noticeably better. Not sure of older ATV, but this is clearly better than the top end Roku. Also, I’m not sure if it is the same on older tvs

The other thing is that you want to hard wire if at all possible. Even the best wifi can’t touch the reliability of a wire

geekworking,

Bagpipes. One of the few instruments that can both make you cry and make you want to charge into battle.

geekworking,

Enshitification won’t stop until the frogs realize that they are being boiled to death and jump out of the pot.

geekworking,

Up periscope.

geekworking,

Found the script for the next John Wick movie.

geekworking,

Or he could go it operations where every day is “a bad day to stop sniffing glue” because you are the only thing keeping the house of cards up while dev and network squabble over who’s foot cannon broke shit this time.

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