As a resident of St. Louis I can tell you that we seem to get a lot of the "test" foods from companies like this. I'm not going to try to suppose the exact reason but we *do* have a pretty solid foodie scene (and some amazing restaurants). The Impossible Burger has actually been available here for a while from a number of restaurants around town so that might have affected that decision too.
Though I have a suspicion that on average it's because someone right-handed throwing a dart at a map of the USA is statistically going to land closest to St. Louis when aiming at the middle...
It's pretty good. A local bar here has been serving them for about a year (I volunteered to beta test before it officially went on the menu there). The catch I've found is that you have to be VERY careful not to either over or undercook it. If it's undercooked then it's pretty "wet" and falls apart... it also completely fails at the "convincing beef burger" thing because the texture is all wrong. Overcooked it's definitely too dry and far too much like a fast food patty. When cooked exactly right the taste is "not quite beef but pretty damn close", while the texture to me is mostly convincing except that it reminds me a little of the texture of eating cooked kidney beans. Not quite beef, but not quite not.
Still, it's become a reasonably regular order for me on a wheat bun with no cheese (plus pickles, tomato and lettuce) and to me that's actually pretty good and reasonably healthy. Combined with some sauteed brussels sprouts and you've got a decent post-workout dinner (the bar in question happens to be across the street from my gym... convenient if not always the healthiest option).
I don't always eat vegetarian. I often do when I travel for work because it's a lot easier for calorie control when eating at random restaurants (you'll typically get full before you hit 2000 calories in a day... meat is VERY calorie dense) but as I get older I find myself gravitating more toward good vegetarian options in restaurants. When at home though I love me a good slab of steak:)
Uh, did you miss the part about where it'll be made in China, by the new owner of Volvo? That instantly nullifies pretty much everything you are so hot about there. Maybe you've already forgotten what happened to Saab when they got a new owner?
Uh... Volvo hasn't been an independent company in decades and Geely aren't new; they've owned Volvo since 2010.
And Saab were bought by GM who mismanaged the entire lineup. Instead of allowing Saab to continue to engineer and innovate their platforms they strongarmed Saab into using GM's own platforms. Then when that didn't work they tried OEMing a Subaru. Truth is Saab was dead before GM ever entered the picture; the GM purchase was ostensibly to save the already ailing manufacturer. And I write all this as an ex Saab owner and lover... they had good cars but shit marketing and after the GM buy the cars just took a nosedive in quality.
This. It's a toy, a game. I just wish they didn't advertise it as a scientific test because it isn't.
Out of curiosity last year I did one of these too. I live in the Midwest so it probably wasn't that surprising that my results came back with a small but noted percentage of Native American DNA. Thing is; I'm British. Grew up in Northern Ireland. My family heritage is pretty well documented going back to the time of the Vikings thanks to my grandmother's work many years ago. Unless there was some undocumented child of a Victorian-era show-Indian in my lineage then it's pretty unlikely...
I think the results were based more upon my address than my DNA.
The IS YouTube Premium. Plus, you don't have to specifically subscribe to that; I actually paid mostly for the Play Music subscription because I use Play in my car through Android Auto quite frequently. Got YouTube Premium as a bonus and found I rather like not seeing ads. There is also some original programming there which is sometimes decent, and I like being able to download videos to my phone in particular so I can watch YouTube on flights (I fly a LOT for work so I have ended up with quite the library on my phone!)
I do get it; it's another streaming service to subscribe to but I find all my entertainment is taken care of between YT Premium, Amazon Prime (I got it for the shipping... video was a bonus again) and Netflix. Then I have all my DVD's and Blurays long-since ripped to a Plex server; thanks to years of purchases I have more viewing material than I can ever realistically watch.
Wish I could mod you insightful because you're absolutely right. The site has changed, yeah... but so have we. And really the site isn't as bad as some of the commenters here are making; it's still my goto when sipping my coffee before my work day starts and gives me a few decent headlines which sometimes I drill into and sometimes don't.
Yeah, there's a lot of toxic commenters as well, but as a general rule I find that I don't see them all that much. I tend to ignore AC's and don't usually spend more than a few minutes scrolling through the top comments before I move off to something else.
There's amazing amounts of interesting stuff going on in the tech world. As someone knee deep in it (and I mean on the manufacturer/OEM side) I am constantly excited by the stuff I see, some of which gets reported here. The lustre probably has worn off for many of those who have settled into a coding career or working for a conservative big company that's just now wondering if they should new-fangled 10G ethernet stuff (more of those around than I think some people care to admit). I mean, machine-learning while it gets a bad rap is incredibly fascinating on some of the stuff it can do. On the infrastructure side we're looking at a real possibility of terabit Ethernet within a decade. Open networking (decoupling of the control and data planes in networking), NFV, SD-WAN and a new focus from OEM's on the edge can lead to radically new ideas on how networks are built and maintained, turning your entire infrastructure into a distributed cloud that can respond elastically and flexibly to demand with simple scripting engines. This stuff is amazing! IoT is another buzzword-filled niche that is also incredibly fascinating in itself in some of the stuff it can do. When coupled with ML it can give businesses insights that can radically alter the way they do business, reducing costs (potentially) and providing better customer service.
In terms of interesting technology, we are on the cusp on another sea change in the way technology is used... and that change has been driven in part by the locked-down smartphones that people are complaining about elsewhere in this thread. I still prefer a good open PC, and there will always be a route to that so long as there's open hardware. But as a driver of change smartphones have changed the way people work, the way people interact and yes in some ways changed the way people think. That's driving new and interesting technologies and we haven't even started yet.
Yup... that's when I dumped them as well. I liked to use it on three devices; my cellphone, my tablet and my desktop... all for different uses. And the price for just that one extra device was more than I felt like stomaching... particularly when OneNote and others just work. In fact I've found a preference for OneNote at this point.
I did play with a few others... SimpleNote looks cool and I hadn't actually tried that one. But there are no shortage of good note taking apps out there.
It's a shame because I really did like Evernote... but I've long-since migrated away from it.
PC's (really, clones) had won the business market, hence their sales dwarfed everything else. That's rational because computers were a business tool first and foremost. But the home market was quite different; few people had the money to have a PC at home in the late 1980's and while clones were bringing the costs down, people were gravitating toward more home-targeted machines like the Amiga and ST because they could do things that PC's were awful at... like games.
Yeah, the 2000 was an attempt to create a PC-class Amiga that never really took off, but you're wrong about the timing. The 2000 appeared in 1987... the PC really didn't start to gain traction in the home market until at least about 1991 because the PS/2 (which was more accurately targeted at this broader market by introducing new things like VGA and the much-maligned but ultimately solid Micro-Channel Architecture) that was also introduced in 1987 was pretty much a non-starter. The 286 (and more expensive 386) at the time just wasn't really competitive with even the 68000 in the ST, Mac and Amiga and was a heck of a lot harder to code for (68K was a far more modern ISA). It took really until the 486 before PC's started turning up in any quantities in the home. Even then, it took a couple of years for the 486 to gain traction because of its high cost, and it was only really the introduction of the SX25 and DX33 models that home users could finally really buy a PC for home.
Of course, non-standard interfaces to sound and graphics meant that there was no single PC platform to code for even then... so the Amiga hung on for a few more years after that since software aimed at the home was targeted to the more predictable architecture of the Amiga.
Yeah... no. The 2000 released at the same time as the 500 but aimed at a different market (the people who bought 1000's and people looking for a more expandable platform). The 500 was in many ways the START of the Amiga, not the end. Particularly in Europe which let's be honest is where all the best software for the Amiga was coming from.
There have been hipsters of every age for as long as I've been alive. While the term was popularized in the early 2000's, it originated in the 1940's and never actually fell out of use... just not in common parlance. And the personality of people who are identified as hipsters are really no different from the hipsters from any other previous decade. The fashions themselves change, the people really don't.
And as a more direct answer; go to any hip coffee bar during a weekday to see plenty of retired hipsters. Starbucks usually isn't the best one of those... find a local coffee shop... or hell, any craft brewery on any evening of the week.
Working from home requires a certain amount of commitment and a certain degree of self-control. I have done it for 5 years (more if you include the flex working arrangement I had with my previous position) and found that the best way to work is to first set up a dedicated working space... a desk with a GOOD quality chair... not a $50 special from Office Depot (I got my current set from a place that specializes in liquidated office furniture for pennies on the dollar; still not cheap but built to last in a corporate environment). You're going to be sitting a lot, so make it worthwhile.
Second, you have to minimize distractions. No TV in the room or even close by. Keep the space as professional as possible within the constraints you have in your home (I made it work in a corner of my living room in a condo for a while). It helps to have a dedicated computer for work, and most companies will provide that. I have two computers; my personal PC and my work laptop both connected to the same monitor, mouse and keyboard via a KVM switch. When I'm at work, I flip to my work computer and I'm dedicated to that so I can ignore my personal stuff.
Finally, set yourself a schedule. My daily routine on days when I WFH is set pretty much in stone. I have a time to start work, a time for breaks and a time for lunch. Stick to the schedule but allow things to shuffle a bit depending on work requirements like conference calls. Time management is key to making WFH work effectively both for yourself and your employer.
And it's not all work and no play. There is always time to kill in a day when you're working or taking a break... just make sure you are keeping on top of how much time you spend messing around and keep it to a minimum.
Thing is, there really isn't much of a distinction. Chrome/Android are both still Linux under the hood (and I use that phrase in the sense that it's a completely capable Linux kernel with the GNU tools and a shell). They're all Linux-based computers. If you really want a distinction then use the one the marketing folks have already given you; a Linux laptop, a Chromebook and an Android device. That's all the distinction you really need.
Be wary though; the J1900 in that box doesn't support AES-NI. While PfSense will work great on it today, the next major release is going to require those instructions. Something like this would work better for PfSense past version 2.5.
See, the problem here is that you're conflating a "Linux" system with one that has simple package management for the tools (technically, the GNU part of Linux). That's simply not true, and GP's point that Linux tools will run on Android is actually quite valid. Just because they're not installed by default doesn't make it any less of a Linux or GNU/Linux system than the system I'm currently using to type this post.
Plus, you're deliberately moving goalposts here. How do YOU define a complete Linux system? Personally I'd define it as a kernel that can boot all the way to a usable shell... you're adding layers of client-access tools on top of that including a GUI, none of which is required for it to be considered a Linux system. Your argument basically implies that you wouldn't consider anything a full Linux system unless you can run a web browser in a fancy GUI. Sorry, that's just not a valid argument.
So if you want to see Linux on your Android device, install a shell. There's plenty in the Play Store. My personal favourite is called... strangely enough... Terminal Emulator. You want to get really fancy, install SSHDroid and then SSH to your Android phone over WiFi. Once there you'll find a completely usable Linux system. Yes, you're correct in that Android basically sits on top of Linux and is written in such a way that interaction between the two environments is relatively minimal... however, the Linux environment (or GNU/Linux environment) is still there.
Then I'm not 100% sure why you've got a Mac... you can get far better machines for far less money that'll run Windows and do exactly what you need.
My Windows laptop of choice these days in a Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. It's really small, portable, fast and does everything I throw at it well enough. It's also a shedload cheaper than a Macbook Pro and has a fantastic touchscreen (which yes, I use... with the stylus as well for handwritten notes in OneNote).
PowerPC is really nice for well pipelined and predictable workloads, but tends to fall apart when the workloads get more "randomized". Client-side workloads tend to have highly randomized input (read: human beings) which can lead to pipeline crash frequently. This is why PowerPC has done really well in servers and mainframe type workloads.
I had come here basically to say this. Use SSH keys instead of passwords (and if you're really paranoid make sure you set them up before you leave home) and it works like a champ. All you need is a publicly accessible IP that has SSH open on a port which can be arbitrary, pointing to a host inside that's appropriately secured.
For my setup I recently moved from doing this using a VM to running a dedicated NUC for this just because I had one sitting around doing nothing. I use it all the time when I'm out of town in hotels and coffee shops. I do all my work stuff on my work laptop and have X2Go for the stuff I want to keep private.
I will second your suggestion because it was obvious to me even from the question that this person has no idea what they're doing or they would've already found the massive selection of options available. It's definitely a solved problem at this point.
Hell, you want to get fancy then you can even deploy Z-Push so you can send up your phone to ActiveSync to your calendar/To-Do as well as contacts and mail. I do this myself though my backend is split (IMAP mail and I use OwnCloud for my calendar and contacts via CalDAV/WebDAV). This stuff isn't hard to setup with a bit of Linux knowledge... I did it in a Saturday afternoon.
I might take a good look at that eGroupware though... I hadn't heard about it before and it looks pretty slick. I've been using OwnCloud's mail plugin (an embedded RainLoop which is... OK) and the eGroupware stuff looks much better integrated. Thanks for that heads up:)
Well (a) from the article it says that Salon is asking permission before it starts doing this... so right there the entire first part of your argument goes out the window. I don't mind being asked for permission to mine for cryptocurrency to pay for a resource I like (reading material).
That's fine but I don't think you've done the math on the cost per page if you think $0.02/page is reasonable. For me that could easily top $50/day at that sort of price point.
Well, quite frankly I think that OP was using that number as an example and is probably the wrong number. And how much time do you spend reading articles on a magazine website in order to rack up $50 a day in 2 cent a page expenses? Can I have your job? The reality of this is that yeah... Salon started it and others may well follow suit. I get it; monetizing content is important in order to provide decent content. Just look around the USA today to see the results of a population with unfunded or underfunded independent information sources. We are a country surrounded by propaganda and a good part of that is because independent outlets for information can't survive unless they kowtow to advertisers and/or sponsors... then they become propaganda by default.
The reality of Salon's proposal here is pretty good. You start mining currency when you arrive on the page and agree. If you find the article boring or it doesn't grab your attention then you navigate away and the mining stops. That might cost you a tiny fraction of a penny in electricity, particularly since they do say they're going to use a percentage of your CPU power, not all of it.
As an aside, I'm pretty sure none of my CPUs are powerful enough to mine $50 worth of Monero a day...
Thank you for saying this. I would want to see properly instrumented results with numbers before I'd make a judgment on whether or not this is a good speaker or not. And yes I agree with you; everything I HAVE seen is consistent with a pretty middling driver that's at least made of somewhat quality materials... so in other words little different from the engineered Bose solutions that sound "good enough" for most people.
For my part, I have yet to find a speaker (especially these small-box speakers) that sounds even half as good as my now 20 year old Harmon Kardon speakers for good crisp highs and mids... and though I've been through a couple of subs and receivers with this setup it still sounds amazing... which surprises me sometimes because of the age of these speakers. And I have been an audio engineer in my life (briefly) so I do get picky about my sound setups. Of course, the only problem is that newer HK speakers in the same price range actually don't sound as good. I guess I should just be happy that I'm getting older and my hearing is starting to change so maybe in a few years I won't care so much:)
And for the record, I don't trust ANY reviews of Apple products until at least a year after they're released. Quite frankly the RDF and the fawning over Apple's new widget in the online press is awful. It's like people still believe Apple can do no wrong and are "the good guys" (hint: they aren't!). It takes a few months to a year for REAL people who aren't Apple-faithful to get a hold of the products and properly review them. And I say all of this as a 10-year Mac user and iPhone user (until the iPhone 4 where I felt like they finally lost me)
The only change now is that the script kiddies know. And it's not Intel, Spectre (the bug that's exploitable with Javascript in the browser) is a speculative execution problem that virtually all modern CPU's have. You're thinking Meltdown (which IS Intel specific as far as we know)
There's some truth to what you say... but the truth from my perspective as an original Pebble backer and Pebble Time Steel backer (which is still my "daily driver") what Fitbit did wrong with the whole thing is ignoring the pretty much captive market they already had. Instead of buying up the product itself they ignore what is still the best smartwatch on the market today for many people's needs. It does exactly what it needs to do and no more, and has a battery that lasts a week (and takes maybe an hour to charge, at that). It's a much more focused and polished product than even the Apple watch that seems to be constantly trying to be another iPhone but in a wrist form factor. Pebble knew exactly what they needed for a good product; notifications, long battery life and good looks.
And see there's the rub for me. The Pebble hardware is gone and that's a shame. My Pebble Time Steel is a damned good looking watch and I can customize it with whatever watch band I like. Fitbit replaced it with the Ionic... which is twice the price and somehow made of some of the cheapest and ugliest plastic I think I've ever seen in my life. It's horrific, uncomfortable and just downright bad. Fitbit seriously have replaced my PTS with... nothing I would buy. I know I'm not alone here and will keep my current hardware going as long as humanly possible. After that, who knows? Maybe the software on the Zetime will have reached a better level of maturity... or maybe I'll find something more to my taste in the admittedly expensive but much better looking Garmin line.
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As a resident of St. Louis I can tell you that we seem to get a lot of the "test" foods from companies like this. I'm not going to try to suppose the exact reason but we *do* have a pretty solid foodie scene (and some amazing restaurants). The Impossible Burger has actually been available here for a while from a number of restaurants around town so that might have affected that decision too.
Though I have a suspicion that on average it's because someone right-handed throwing a dart at a map of the USA is statistically going to land closest to St. Louis when aiming at the middle...
It's pretty good. A local bar here has been serving them for about a year (I volunteered to beta test before it officially went on the menu there). The catch I've found is that you have to be VERY careful not to either over or undercook it. If it's undercooked then it's pretty "wet" and falls apart... it also completely fails at the "convincing beef burger" thing because the texture is all wrong. Overcooked it's definitely too dry and far too much like a fast food patty. When cooked exactly right the taste is "not quite beef but pretty damn close", while the texture to me is mostly convincing except that it reminds me a little of the texture of eating cooked kidney beans. Not quite beef, but not quite not.
Still, it's become a reasonably regular order for me on a wheat bun with no cheese (plus pickles, tomato and lettuce) and to me that's actually pretty good and reasonably healthy. Combined with some sauteed brussels sprouts and you've got a decent post-workout dinner (the bar in question happens to be across the street from my gym... convenient if not always the healthiest option).
I don't always eat vegetarian. I often do when I travel for work because it's a lot easier for calorie control when eating at random restaurants (you'll typically get full before you hit 2000 calories in a day... meat is VERY calorie dense) but as I get older I find myself gravitating more toward good vegetarian options in restaurants. When at home though I love me a good slab of steak :)
Geely have owned Volvo since 2010... I'm not seeing this lack of faith in the West in Volvo that you're predicting.
Uh, did you miss the part about where it'll be made in China, by the new owner of Volvo? That instantly nullifies pretty much everything you are so hot about there. Maybe you've already forgotten what happened to Saab when they got a new owner?
Uh... Volvo hasn't been an independent company in decades and Geely aren't new; they've owned Volvo since 2010.
And Saab were bought by GM who mismanaged the entire lineup. Instead of allowing Saab to continue to engineer and innovate their platforms they strongarmed Saab into using GM's own platforms. Then when that didn't work they tried OEMing a Subaru. Truth is Saab was dead before GM ever entered the picture; the GM purchase was ostensibly to save the already ailing manufacturer. And I write all this as an ex Saab owner and lover... they had good cars but shit marketing and after the GM buy the cars just took a nosedive in quality.
This. It's a toy, a game. I just wish they didn't advertise it as a scientific test because it isn't.
Out of curiosity last year I did one of these too. I live in the Midwest so it probably wasn't that surprising that my results came back with a small but noted percentage of Native American DNA. Thing is; I'm British. Grew up in Northern Ireland. My family heritage is pretty well documented going back to the time of the Vikings thanks to my grandmother's work many years ago. Unless there was some undocumented child of a Victorian-era show-Indian in my lineage then it's pretty unlikely...
I think the results were based more upon my address than my DNA.
The IS YouTube Premium. Plus, you don't have to specifically subscribe to that; I actually paid mostly for the Play Music subscription because I use Play in my car through Android Auto quite frequently. Got YouTube Premium as a bonus and found I rather like not seeing ads. There is also some original programming there which is sometimes decent, and I like being able to download videos to my phone in particular so I can watch YouTube on flights (I fly a LOT for work so I have ended up with quite the library on my phone!)
I do get it; it's another streaming service to subscribe to but I find all my entertainment is taken care of between YT Premium, Amazon Prime (I got it for the shipping... video was a bonus again) and Netflix. Then I have all my DVD's and Blurays long-since ripped to a Plex server; thanks to years of purchases I have more viewing material than I can ever realistically watch.
Wish I could mod you insightful because you're absolutely right. The site has changed, yeah... but so have we. And really the site isn't as bad as some of the commenters here are making; it's still my goto when sipping my coffee before my work day starts and gives me a few decent headlines which sometimes I drill into and sometimes don't.
Yeah, there's a lot of toxic commenters as well, but as a general rule I find that I don't see them all that much. I tend to ignore AC's and don't usually spend more than a few minutes scrolling through the top comments before I move off to something else.
There's amazing amounts of interesting stuff going on in the tech world. As someone knee deep in it (and I mean on the manufacturer/OEM side) I am constantly excited by the stuff I see, some of which gets reported here. The lustre probably has worn off for many of those who have settled into a coding career or working for a conservative big company that's just now wondering if they should new-fangled 10G ethernet stuff (more of those around than I think some people care to admit). I mean, machine-learning while it gets a bad rap is incredibly fascinating on some of the stuff it can do. On the infrastructure side we're looking at a real possibility of terabit Ethernet within a decade. Open networking (decoupling of the control and data planes in networking), NFV, SD-WAN and a new focus from OEM's on the edge can lead to radically new ideas on how networks are built and maintained, turning your entire infrastructure into a distributed cloud that can respond elastically and flexibly to demand with simple scripting engines. This stuff is amazing! IoT is another buzzword-filled niche that is also incredibly fascinating in itself in some of the stuff it can do. When coupled with ML it can give businesses insights that can radically alter the way they do business, reducing costs (potentially) and providing better customer service.
In terms of interesting technology, we are on the cusp on another sea change in the way technology is used... and that change has been driven in part by the locked-down smartphones that people are complaining about elsewhere in this thread. I still prefer a good open PC, and there will always be a route to that so long as there's open hardware. But as a driver of change smartphones have changed the way people work, the way people interact and yes in some ways changed the way people think. That's driving new and interesting technologies and we haven't even started yet.
Yup... that's when I dumped them as well. I liked to use it on three devices; my cellphone, my tablet and my desktop... all for different uses. And the price for just that one extra device was more than I felt like stomaching... particularly when OneNote and others just work. In fact I've found a preference for OneNote at this point.
I did play with a few others... SimpleNote looks cool and I hadn't actually tried that one. But there are no shortage of good note taking apps out there.
It's a shame because I really did like Evernote... but I've long-since migrated away from it.
As another thought, you might be thinking of the 600/1200/3000 rather than the 2000... yeah those were latecomers to the game.
PC's (really, clones) had won the business market, hence their sales dwarfed everything else. That's rational because computers were a business tool first and foremost. But the home market was quite different; few people had the money to have a PC at home in the late 1980's and while clones were bringing the costs down, people were gravitating toward more home-targeted machines like the Amiga and ST because they could do things that PC's were awful at... like games.
Yeah, the 2000 was an attempt to create a PC-class Amiga that never really took off, but you're wrong about the timing. The 2000 appeared in 1987... the PC really didn't start to gain traction in the home market until at least about 1991 because the PS/2 (which was more accurately targeted at this broader market by introducing new things like VGA and the much-maligned but ultimately solid Micro-Channel Architecture) that was also introduced in 1987 was pretty much a non-starter. The 286 (and more expensive 386) at the time just wasn't really competitive with even the 68000 in the ST, Mac and Amiga and was a heck of a lot harder to code for (68K was a far more modern ISA). It took really until the 486 before PC's started turning up in any quantities in the home. Even then, it took a couple of years for the 486 to gain traction because of its high cost, and it was only really the introduction of the SX25 and DX33 models that home users could finally really buy a PC for home.
Of course, non-standard interfaces to sound and graphics meant that there was no single PC platform to code for even then... so the Amiga hung on for a few more years after that since software aimed at the home was targeted to the more predictable architecture of the Amiga.
Yeah... no. The 2000 released at the same time as the 500 but aimed at a different market (the people who bought 1000's and people looking for a more expandable platform). The 500 was in many ways the START of the Amiga, not the end. Particularly in Europe which let's be honest is where all the best software for the Amiga was coming from.
There have been hipsters of every age for as long as I've been alive. While the term was popularized in the early 2000's, it originated in the 1940's and never actually fell out of use... just not in common parlance. And the personality of people who are identified as hipsters are really no different from the hipsters from any other previous decade. The fashions themselves change, the people really don't.
And as a more direct answer; go to any hip coffee bar during a weekday to see plenty of retired hipsters. Starbucks usually isn't the best one of those... find a local coffee shop... or hell, any craft brewery on any evening of the week.
Working from home requires a certain amount of commitment and a certain degree of self-control. I have done it for 5 years (more if you include the flex working arrangement I had with my previous position) and found that the best way to work is to first set up a dedicated working space... a desk with a GOOD quality chair... not a $50 special from Office Depot (I got my current set from a place that specializes in liquidated office furniture for pennies on the dollar; still not cheap but built to last in a corporate environment). You're going to be sitting a lot, so make it worthwhile.
Second, you have to minimize distractions. No TV in the room or even close by. Keep the space as professional as possible within the constraints you have in your home (I made it work in a corner of my living room in a condo for a while). It helps to have a dedicated computer for work, and most companies will provide that. I have two computers; my personal PC and my work laptop both connected to the same monitor, mouse and keyboard via a KVM switch. When I'm at work, I flip to my work computer and I'm dedicated to that so I can ignore my personal stuff.
Finally, set yourself a schedule. My daily routine on days when I WFH is set pretty much in stone. I have a time to start work, a time for breaks and a time for lunch. Stick to the schedule but allow things to shuffle a bit depending on work requirements like conference calls. Time management is key to making WFH work effectively both for yourself and your employer.
And it's not all work and no play. There is always time to kill in a day when you're working or taking a break... just make sure you are keeping on top of how much time you spend messing around and keep it to a minimum.
Thing is, there really isn't much of a distinction. Chrome/Android are both still Linux under the hood (and I use that phrase in the sense that it's a completely capable Linux kernel with the GNU tools and a shell). They're all Linux-based computers. If you really want a distinction then use the one the marketing folks have already given you; a Linux laptop, a Chromebook and an Android device. That's all the distinction you really need.
Be wary though; the J1900 in that box doesn't support AES-NI. While PfSense will work great on it today, the next major release is going to require those instructions. Something like this would work better for PfSense past version 2.5.
See, the problem here is that you're conflating a "Linux" system with one that has simple package management for the tools (technically, the GNU part of Linux). That's simply not true, and GP's point that Linux tools will run on Android is actually quite valid. Just because they're not installed by default doesn't make it any less of a Linux or GNU/Linux system than the system I'm currently using to type this post.
Plus, you're deliberately moving goalposts here. How do YOU define a complete Linux system? Personally I'd define it as a kernel that can boot all the way to a usable shell... you're adding layers of client-access tools on top of that including a GUI, none of which is required for it to be considered a Linux system. Your argument basically implies that you wouldn't consider anything a full Linux system unless you can run a web browser in a fancy GUI. Sorry, that's just not a valid argument.
So if you want to see Linux on your Android device, install a shell. There's plenty in the Play Store. My personal favourite is called... strangely enough... Terminal Emulator. You want to get really fancy, install SSHDroid and then SSH to your Android phone over WiFi. Once there you'll find a completely usable Linux system. Yes, you're correct in that Android basically sits on top of Linux and is written in such a way that interaction between the two environments is relatively minimal... however, the Linux environment (or GNU/Linux environment) is still there.
Then I'm not 100% sure why you've got a Mac... you can get far better machines for far less money that'll run Windows and do exactly what you need.
My Windows laptop of choice these days in a Dell XPS 13 2-in-1. It's really small, portable, fast and does everything I throw at it well enough. It's also a shedload cheaper than a Macbook Pro and has a fantastic touchscreen (which yes, I use... with the stylus as well for handwritten notes in OneNote).
PowerPC is really nice for well pipelined and predictable workloads, but tends to fall apart when the workloads get more "randomized". Client-side workloads tend to have highly randomized input (read: human beings) which can lead to pipeline crash frequently. This is why PowerPC has done really well in servers and mainframe type workloads.
Though what you've said is all mostly correct.
I had come here basically to say this. Use SSH keys instead of passwords (and if you're really paranoid make sure you set them up before you leave home) and it works like a champ. All you need is a publicly accessible IP that has SSH open on a port which can be arbitrary, pointing to a host inside that's appropriately secured.
For my setup I recently moved from doing this using a VM to running a dedicated NUC for this just because I had one sitting around doing nothing. I use it all the time when I'm out of town in hotels and coffee shops. I do all my work stuff on my work laptop and have X2Go for the stuff I want to keep private.
I will second your suggestion because it was obvious to me even from the question that this person has no idea what they're doing or they would've already found the massive selection of options available. It's definitely a solved problem at this point.
Hell, you want to get fancy then you can even deploy Z-Push so you can send up your phone to ActiveSync to your calendar/To-Do as well as contacts and mail. I do this myself though my backend is split (IMAP mail and I use OwnCloud for my calendar and contacts via CalDAV/WebDAV). This stuff isn't hard to setup with a bit of Linux knowledge... I did it in a Saturday afternoon.
I might take a good look at that eGroupware though... I hadn't heard about it before and it looks pretty slick. I've been using OwnCloud's mail plugin (an embedded RainLoop which is... OK) and the eGroupware stuff looks much better integrated. Thanks for that heads up :)
Correct... but do you never close tabs? Sounds like a workflow problem.
Well (a) from the article it says that Salon is asking permission before it starts doing this... so right there the entire first part of your argument goes out the window. I don't mind being asked for permission to mine for cryptocurrency to pay for a resource I like (reading material).
That's fine but I don't think you've done the math on the cost per page if you think $0.02/page is reasonable. For me that could easily top $50/day at that sort of price point.
Well, quite frankly I think that OP was using that number as an example and is probably the wrong number. And how much time do you spend reading articles on a magazine website in order to rack up $50 a day in 2 cent a page expenses? Can I have your job? The reality of this is that yeah... Salon started it and others may well follow suit. I get it; monetizing content is important in order to provide decent content. Just look around the USA today to see the results of a population with unfunded or underfunded independent information sources. We are a country surrounded by propaganda and a good part of that is because independent outlets for information can't survive unless they kowtow to advertisers and/or sponsors... then they become propaganda by default.
The reality of Salon's proposal here is pretty good. You start mining currency when you arrive on the page and agree. If you find the article boring or it doesn't grab your attention then you navigate away and the mining stops. That might cost you a tiny fraction of a penny in electricity, particularly since they do say they're going to use a percentage of your CPU power, not all of it.
As an aside, I'm pretty sure none of my CPUs are powerful enough to mine $50 worth of Monero a day...
Thank you for saying this. I would want to see properly instrumented results with numbers before I'd make a judgment on whether or not this is a good speaker or not. And yes I agree with you; everything I HAVE seen is consistent with a pretty middling driver that's at least made of somewhat quality materials... so in other words little different from the engineered Bose solutions that sound "good enough" for most people.
For my part, I have yet to find a speaker (especially these small-box speakers) that sounds even half as good as my now 20 year old Harmon Kardon speakers for good crisp highs and mids... and though I've been through a couple of subs and receivers with this setup it still sounds amazing... which surprises me sometimes because of the age of these speakers. And I have been an audio engineer in my life (briefly) so I do get picky about my sound setups. Of course, the only problem is that newer HK speakers in the same price range actually don't sound as good. I guess I should just be happy that I'm getting older and my hearing is starting to change so maybe in a few years I won't care so much :)
And for the record, I don't trust ANY reviews of Apple products until at least a year after they're released. Quite frankly the RDF and the fawning over Apple's new widget in the online press is awful. It's like people still believe Apple can do no wrong and are "the good guys" (hint: they aren't!). It takes a few months to a year for REAL people who aren't Apple-faithful to get a hold of the products and properly review them. And I say all of this as a 10-year Mac user and iPhone user (until the iPhone 4 where I felt like they finally lost me)
Educated bad guys know and have known for decades...
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The only change now is that the script kiddies know. And it's not Intel, Spectre (the bug that's exploitable with Javascript in the browser) is a speculative execution problem that virtually all modern CPU's have. You're thinking Meltdown (which IS Intel specific as far as we know)
There's some truth to what you say... but the truth from my perspective as an original Pebble backer and Pebble Time Steel backer (which is still my "daily driver") what Fitbit did wrong with the whole thing is ignoring the pretty much captive market they already had. Instead of buying up the product itself they ignore what is still the best smartwatch on the market today for many people's needs. It does exactly what it needs to do and no more, and has a battery that lasts a week (and takes maybe an hour to charge, at that). It's a much more focused and polished product than even the Apple watch that seems to be constantly trying to be another iPhone but in a wrist form factor. Pebble knew exactly what they needed for a good product; notifications, long battery life and good looks.
And see there's the rub for me. The Pebble hardware is gone and that's a shame. My Pebble Time Steel is a damned good looking watch and I can customize it with whatever watch band I like. Fitbit replaced it with the Ionic... which is twice the price and somehow made of some of the cheapest and ugliest plastic I think I've ever seen in my life. It's horrific, uncomfortable and just downright bad. Fitbit seriously have replaced my PTS with... nothing I would buy. I know I'm not alone here and will keep my current hardware going as long as humanly possible. After that, who knows? Maybe the software on the Zetime will have reached a better level of maturity... or maybe I'll find something more to my taste in the admittedly expensive but much better looking Garmin line.