Krisjohn

Hard to beat the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_PPC_512

At 505 vulnerabilities I don't know if it's better or worse than average https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2105...

A$200 per week for being on-call (5am-8:30am weekdays, 9am-5pm weekends and public holidays, three people in the rota). Actually having to do anything just goes into the normal overtime system.

For all the extra effort of having an on-call system it's used less than half a dozen times a year, but the boss likes being able to charge for it.

Problem is, there's a bad update combination for the RB1100 that can cause it to get into a reboot loop that has to be resolved in person with a direct connection and a recovery tool.

Ask me how I know.

The data store is just a folder tree of .md text files. You don't even need Obsidian to view them, it just makes navigating the links a little easier.

And me. Cyberlink YouCam and XSplit Vcam haven’t screwed me over yet.

Why bother? The Venn diagram of people that need a bug-for-bug clone of RHEL and think that the proposed process is in any way appropriate is two seperate circles.

Two things spring to mind: My experience with a YouTube premium trial ended immediately upon being told that I couldn't play music in a second place at the same time. And ad-blocking is part of my security posture.

I have plenty of local storage. Moving forward, maybe good videos won't just go into a playlist with the assumption that YouTube will continue to be available.

Plexamp and Wireguard have revolutionized music in my car.

I must say I spluttered a bit at F-Droid.

My French is basically inexistant, but are they saying that attempting to protect your privacy is an indication that you might be a terrorist?

Even while businesses promote government policy that looks to treat workers as rich and businesses as poor, they understand (as can be seen by lots of product pricing policies) that businesses are rich and individuals are poor. How many products have you seen with a cheap (or free) personal or family option, then expensive business or enterprise option? This is how the economy should be structured. Businesses should fund the government budgets and individuals should have lots of stuff (like public transport, or basic housing) provided free.

I believe the difference between SA15 (£154,995) and SA16 (£220,000) is a single wealthy individual who's been buying up everything in SA16 to rent.

I nuked my Ubuntu Mate laptop and installed Qubes, just to get a feel for it. It's significantly more maintenance than a vanilla distro, because of all the separated environments, but if I ever wanted to return to Linux on the desktop as my main OS, I'd absolutely use it. It's the only BYOD/WFH solution I've found that feels even close to secure enough if you don't want to run physically separate PCs.

I work somewhere that specialises in secondhand enterprise equipment and storage. The answer to your first question is "yes, but they really shouldn't". We're burning more hours than we can spare dealing with drive failures. Sure, we have RAID arrays capable of withstanding multiple failures, but we still find ourselves scrambling to replace drives faster than they're failing, even when they were tested before they were put in the spare pile.

Also, fuck Chia. It was supposed to be a low-power "proof of storage", but it's really "proof of prior work" and burns even more energy than proof of work since you need to constantly power the cryptographic calculations AND storage.

Maybe I should put some more time into my new Qubes install, plus see what the latest updates to my Pinephone look like.

It's just fashion. It moves around, and you have plenty of options to change it to how you want.

Having recently attempted to move from LastPass to Bitwarden, only to have to abandon it due to sudden changes that broke third party integration without consultation or a sensible solution, I'd say this whole drama on brand.

You pretty much described my last interviewing experience from one end to the other

I really should sell my Blizzard account.

I used Norton Commander back in the DOS days, but hated the Windows product. I still find myself tossing Midnight Commander onto places I only have a text mode console for. (Great for Windows Core.)

My daily file manager now is Directory Opus. The dual pane stuff is at the core of how I use it.

Lenovo have a problem with their USB C ports. Durability is not good enough for them to be the only source of power. Daily plugging and unplugging breaks them eventually. Accidentally pulling the cable sideways breaks them quickly. We stopped selling them a year or two ago.

When the wealthy classes "move" they often don't give up any of the existing locations, they ADD to the places that they have a base. They don't really move, yet they think everyone else should and have no problem saying it loudly.

When a working class family moves, they have to give up one home for the next. They leave behind friends, family and their support network. If it's for work, they're risking the new role vanishing out from under them at any moment, even before they've started, but certainly before the move has paid for itself.

The wealthy can survive many mistakes and much bad luck. The working class can't survive a single negative event in their financial lives. They're not refusing to move because they want to inconvenience businesses. They're trapped. The wealthy wanted them trapped so they had a workforce that would work for poverty wages, and this is the result. You want workers where you need them, you're going to need to pay them more. Much more.

This is suppressing everyone's wages. Failure to address this is a government policy failure. How about we take all the existing laws designed to stop this and enforce them?

Independent sources of information with a reputation for accuracy and unbiased reporting generally agreeing on something is literally the best we have for being informed about something we did not personally witness. Refusing to accept consensus positions from good sources should be done VERY carefully and has a high risk of reaching conclusions that are wildly inaccurate. You'd need a very good reason to reject consensus - one that's based around the available facts, not just negative personal impact or discomfort.

Declaring, without an argument that is not circular, that a collection of respected sources are all wrong (or lying) and that the truth must be something different is, by definition, a conspiracy theory.

Your position implies that there is no way to determine the difference between reputable media and disreputable media; that all stories must be considered with equal weight in the equation that is "the media". I can form an opinion of something without personal experience by considering the reputation of the source(s), and when reputable sources tend to agree and only the low-value sources dissent, I can have a confidence in my opinion that is better than just plotting all points on a graph with equal weight.

Once I feel that I have a good view of an issue, using information weighted by reputation, I can make a statement like "This article appears inconsistent with the likely narrative, but consistent with someone who has been conned by a conman" without needing to justify my position directly, or abstracted away from the story. If you have a real alternative, you need to present it, but simply questioning someone's methodology is somewhere between irrelevant and disingenuous. At the very least, it adds little to the discussion of the issue at hand -- even more so in casual conversation where people are expressing a personal opinion of little or no real importance beyond this tiny little puddle. I mean, who is really going to respond to something like your comment with a couple of paragraphs to justify one sentence? ;)

Fortune magazine should not be considered a source of anything other than propaganda for the wealthy elite.

I’m happy when someone explains something with words strung together into sentences, rather than code. Code is an example, an example is not an explanation.

Then your examples can be simple, rather than trying to be a complete explanation of everything.

All these articles about "just moving". Who can afford it? We would lose A$24,890 just on stamp duty - a "tax" that goes to the government based on nothing other than the value of the property that they've been inflating over the last three decades. If I had a spare $25k kicking around, using it just to pay off creditcards would make me much happier than moving next to friends.

I've set up a spare PC at my mother's place so I can help her out when she needs it (I'm in my late 40s) and still do my work remotely. Her house is half way to my office, so it doesn't cost much time. Unfortunately all my friends are too far away to make working at their places less time consuming than going to the office.