I've been playing with. Syncthing. I'm seriously thinking about using it to make an offsite backup, already my documents are synced between my laptop and desktop using it, I'm pretty sure it would work if I decided to "go big" with it.
Many years ago before the term "cloud" was a buzz word I used my home Internet connection combined with Webmin and Usermin to have my own, easy to use, remote storage. This was before USB flash drives were even a thing.
If it weren't for the fact ISP's tend to like to combat home hosting through port blocking these days (even if I do know how to get around it), I think I would be doing that again. I'm about to get a new ISP, we'll see.
If I could pay a one-time charge, like buying a hard drive, or even a once a decade thing I might be on board. I seriously don't want more monthly costs.
It was my (former) sister-in-law that pulled it, and it's been quite a few years now. She was technologically handicapped so she probably did use a paper form.
the post office acknowledged it happened, then absolutely positively refused to do anything about it despite it being a pretty big federal offense.
Story of my life - crap pulled on me regularly and no action taken on my behalf, but if someone throws trash in my yard right after I leave for work I get a note from the homeowners association before I get home.
I'll have to take a look at this too. Supporting things like F-Droid gives it a real future to me. I really like my "Pure Android" phones, but I want to work my way away from Google all things considered. A good marketplace is a good way to make that happen.
I liked it yesterday. Today is the real test - it should be pulling in my podcast on it's own here in less than an hour, we'll see.
I did like the manual configuration that was available, oddly the default manual time setting was AM only on the easy graphical interface. It did have an option to manually type it in also so I was able to put in 1740 instead of the 0540 it assumed.
My first car was a 1982 GT Mustang. I of course got it used in 1995 and the odometer had flipped at least once, I suspect it may have flipped twice. Due to problems with that car and the other Fords my friends had in the mid-90's I wrote Ford off as a bad vehicle. Seriously, that one power-steering pump they put in EVERYTHING they had from about 1976ish all the way to 1999ish was something I had to change a dozen of in high-school, there were serious alternator issues from the factory from some of their higher end vehicles - they didn't put in alternators big enough to support the premium stereos and a host of other issues.
Time went on.
Toyota and Honda, which were pretty much looked down upon as "the poor people cars" when I was growing up in the 80's and 90's proved to be exactly what America needed.
Rumor has it that at some time in the 60's or 70's the Big Four got together and decided that no vehicle should make it much past 100,000 miles without need of a major repair, then about 50,000 miles after that. Turns out they were really, really good about making sure that was the case.
AMC cratered. Chrysler turned out trash, and GM overall wasn't all that bad besides some electrical issues for quite a while, while sticking to that 100,000 mile thing. The fact they were working with both Toyota and Isuzu off and on is probably what put them a little ahead on quality.
Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, other Japanese vehicles a few European cars, and all of the sudden Korean cars rightfully began to eat into the American market place at levels a few cute little Beetles running around in the past never could.
Ford - to their credit - was the first American car company to pull their heads out of their asses and decide quality mattered in about 2005. We saw a new Ford and by God over time they became impressive.
First of all Chrysler shit the sheets, isn't actually American anymore having changed hands twice in Europe THEN they took the government bail-out.
GM pissed all over the American way pretty much being the welfare queen in the bailout. I believe in a free market, open trade, and voting with your dollars. The GM federal bailout to me was the equivalent of a blatantly rigged election. I can't look at GM vehicles anymore without thinking that vehicle was the victor of a rigged election. I voted with my dollars, and so did most the rest of America and we voted for someone else. GM should have failed or sold out - but not to tax payers.
Ford on the other hand only took a little bailout and paid it back quickly - that was almost a formality from what I understand and very political. Sure Henry Ford was pro-Hitler and a lot of what has come out of Fords past as pure evil, but I really do think the modern company, over-all, is turning over a new leaf. It's not - not-evil, don't get me wrong, I think most big corporations are big beast that have sold their souls (they do legally count as people after all) and Ford's no different, but at least they've stopped being tyrants and have started to do their jobs - which is sell good cars that people want them. I can forgive the Hitler thing - after all one of my cars is a Volkswagen.
Modern Ford cars are awesome - except for their inexplicable horrific polished-turd stereo systems.
I've got a Transit Connect Wagon. I absolutely love it, and my wife does too. My dad, who's very critical of mini-vans even said "Heck, that's a useful van you can drive for the family and you don't even have to put your balls in your wife's purse to do it". The thing gets better mileage than the data-sheet says. I can just hit 30 MPG on a flat highway with low traffic in good weather. It's not rated for that. For a seven passenger vehicle it's super impressive. The only thing I really have to complain about is it has a fucking MICROSOFT stereo with all the joys of running Windows entails. I occasionally have to shut down the van and disconnect the battery so voice recognition and Bluetooth will work again.
So far so good, I've done some customization, I like the tweaking level. I'll make my real judgement when I initiate playback on the way home - hoping it actually has downloaded my podcast by then.
Still, the Candy Crush ICON file is probably bigger than the optical drive driver. Removing an optical disk driver is more of a publicity stunt to say "look we're removing things that are not longer current!" than it is an effort to save space. It's the Microsoft version of virtue-signalling.
They could make more money and save more space by offering a Citrix-like remote program service that had an ad-banner attached to the client side window/toolbar. I'm not 100% sure what the average person would want to run in a remote hosted window like that, but I'm sure there could be some use for a service like that. VMs, power hungry games that could stream like the Sims, etc...
I've still got my 2nd Gen, the 3G and it's still mostly working.
The screen is good. All of the radios are bad. Originally Bluetooth and WiFi went out - some of my original motivation to switch to my first Android Phone, but the phone radio kept going for years. Now that the time is no longer correct I'm assuming that's gone too.
As much as I make fun of iPhones now I really have to salute that 3G. Not only does it still power on and play music for my three year old every night (he loves Styx and goes to sleep to them - it's like giving him Benedryl without the ethical concerns, a trick we learned when he was five months old), the original factory battery still works. While I was sitting in the chair in his room last night and he and my wife were playing and getting ready for bed I played the Towers of Hanoi game I installed on it years ago - on battery. I don't know how long it will hold a charge, but I know it's at least an hour or two, maybe more. I've bought PlayStation 3 controls well after I bought that thing that have puffed up and stripped screws in the process. The JBL speaker dock I have it plugged into still works too.
I don't want to praise the JBLs too much though, I also have the better version of that same dock that blew without a good reason a few months ago that was the same age, and my old speakers that held up for years suddenly blew a subwoofer last year - also without reason, I don't crank my music often. I dug out the subwoofer to see if it could be repaired or replaced and literally the entire soft part of the diaphram decayed like a dead bird outside over the past few months while sitting on the shelf. I'm assuming that's what happened to my dock also.
I'm trying Podcast Player - a generic enough name - it's got great reviews and I like the player itself, but the damned thing won't download a podcast without manual intervention despite that being what the program is for. I want to be able to ignore my phone at work all day and listen to the podcast it pulls in off of my companies WiFi while driving home without having to stop and think about it.
I used to use a program specific to my podcast that would usually pull it in without intervention, but the built in player sucked (I like 150% playback speed so I can hear more of the show while driving). It could launch VLC which used to solve those issues, but modern Android VLC is supper buggy. If I get a phone call while listening to a podcast there's about a 60% chance it will forget it's spot and start me over at the beginning of the file.
Back in the day when I worked on lots of DOS systems I used to have to load the Mitsumi driver on floppy disk, usually after having booted to said floppy disk. The Mitsumi driver took up so little room on the floppy I didn't even consider it in my "space budget" when figuring out what I was going to put on a floppy and what I was going to leave out.
FLOPPY
I'm going to go out on a limb without actually testing it, and assume that if I were to boot to DOS from a floppy on a modern system with legacy support on (because honestly how are you going to boot to a floppy otherwise?) I could likely use the latest SATA Mitsumi driver to access data on a CDROM in the latest BluRay drive as long as the BIOS is setup with ATAPI support on SATA, which it usually is. I'm not going to go so far as to guess I could access a DVD or BluRay simply because I don't trust the huge file system to be accessible on such an old OS.
I would guess optical drive access overall would be kernel level these days.
Anyone want to test this?
Removing IE was a good idea, the registry editor, meh, MMC - hey as long as we're remove lots of stuff tablet users not on a domain won't need sure. I've got an idea to save space - how about NOT installing Candy Crush, Adobe Photoshop Express, Duolingo, Translator, and a host of other things while I'm not looking and wait for user request? I'm sure even the smallest of these programs far outweighs a DVD driver.
and this is partially why, along with raping my battery.
Can't tell me wanting to collect this data isn't part of why they try to strong-arm you into using their apps by intentionally cutting down on what they'll allow you to do with a mobile browser.
I'm a Libertarian, I'm part of Libertarian groups, I look at freedom things. For the past what? Three presidential elections since Google + came into being my feed has become a Democrat promotion fest. "Trending" things get posted on my feed, interestingly enough, it's nearly all pro Democrat with a 1 in 30 Republican thing showing up. Sometimes these "trending" posts have been reshared three times and have a whole +5! Being reshared by three people I don't know and being plused by five people I don't know shouldn't be enough to break through the I'm not following it and don't care about it wall, +1,000 sure, otherwise Google is taking sides in political things and pushing them on me. I've seen plenty of evidence of that one Google +. GOOGLE + IS NOT NEUTRAL.
I know - I'll get a regular coat-hook for $0.99 at Ace Hardware, screw it into the side of the drawers that way it will be out of the path of the keyboard tray, serve the same purpose, not need adhesive, and not violate any I.P.
Here's the one you're fond of: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/lo... Notice it's primaries and run-offs. You can't be sure she wasn't voting Republican to try to make sure the weaker / less harsh on her issues person was the opponent. She may or may not have been a Republican, I don't know, I don't know her and I'm not a Republican, but sabotaging the opposition in primaries isn't unheard of. In Texas we have open primaries, she could still have voted Democrat in the actual election had her butt not been in a sling.
Oh look, another one that makes a point of avoiding the mention of party affiliation - isn't it incredible how left-leaning journalist fail to mention these sorts of things when reporting on their own kind? http://www.themonitor.com/mvtc... Considering the perp was basically hired from Illinois to do the bribery campaign I'm going to say it's fairly safe to say they're Democrats. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...
You notice when it's Republican they make a point of saying so but when they're not - for lack of further info I'll call this one unknown..... https://www.twincities.com/201...
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I've been playing with. Syncthing. I'm seriously thinking about using it to make an offsite backup, already my documents are synced between my laptop and desktop using it, I'm pretty sure it would work if I decided to "go big" with it.
Many years ago before the term "cloud" was a buzz word I used my home Internet connection combined with Webmin and Usermin to have my own, easy to use, remote storage. This was before USB flash drives were even a thing.
If it weren't for the fact ISP's tend to like to combat home hosting through port blocking these days (even if I do know how to get around it), I think I would be doing that again. I'm about to get a new ISP, we'll see.
If I could pay a one-time charge, like buying a hard drive, or even a once a decade thing I might be on board. I seriously don't want more monthly costs.
It was my (former) sister-in-law that pulled it, and it's been quite a few years now. She was technologically handicapped so she probably did use a paper form.
the post office acknowledged it happened, then absolutely positively refused to do anything about it despite it being a pretty big federal offense.
Story of my life - crap pulled on me regularly and no action taken on my behalf, but if someone throws trash in my yard right after I leave for work I get a note from the homeowners association before I get home.
I'll have to take a look at this too. Supporting things like F-Droid gives it a real future to me. I really like my "Pure Android" phones, but I want to work my way away from Google all things considered. A good marketplace is a good way to make that happen.
I liked it yesterday. Today is the real test - it should be pulling in my podcast on it's own here in less than an hour, we'll see.
I did like the manual configuration that was available, oddly the default manual time setting was AM only on the easy graphical interface. It did have an option to manually type it in also so I was able to put in 1740 instead of the 0540 it assumed.
My first car was a 1982 GT Mustang. I of course got it used in 1995 and the odometer had flipped at least once, I suspect it may have flipped twice. Due to problems with that car and the other Fords my friends had in the mid-90's I wrote Ford off as a bad vehicle. Seriously, that one power-steering pump they put in EVERYTHING they had from about 1976ish all the way to 1999ish was something I had to change a dozen of in high-school, there were serious alternator issues from the factory from some of their higher end vehicles - they didn't put in alternators big enough to support the premium stereos and a host of other issues.
Time went on.
Toyota and Honda, which were pretty much looked down upon as "the poor people cars" when I was growing up in the 80's and 90's proved to be exactly what America needed.
Rumor has it that at some time in the 60's or 70's the Big Four got together and decided that no vehicle should make it much past 100,000 miles without need of a major repair, then about 50,000 miles after that. Turns out they were really, really good about making sure that was the case.
AMC cratered. Chrysler turned out trash, and GM overall wasn't all that bad besides some electrical issues for quite a while, while sticking to that 100,000 mile thing. The fact they were working with both Toyota and Isuzu off and on is probably what put them a little ahead on quality.
Toyota, Honda, Mitsubishi, Isuzu, other Japanese vehicles a few European cars, and all of the sudden Korean cars rightfully began to eat into the American market place at levels a few cute little Beetles running around in the past never could.
Ford - to their credit - was the first American car company to pull their heads out of their asses and decide quality mattered in about 2005. We saw a new Ford and by God over time they became impressive.
First of all Chrysler shit the sheets, isn't actually American anymore having changed hands twice in Europe THEN they took the government bail-out.
GM pissed all over the American way pretty much being the welfare queen in the bailout. I believe in a free market, open trade, and voting with your dollars. The GM federal bailout to me was the equivalent of a blatantly rigged election. I can't look at GM vehicles anymore without thinking that vehicle was the victor of a rigged election. I voted with my dollars, and so did most the rest of America and we voted for someone else. GM should have failed or sold out - but not to tax payers.
Ford on the other hand only took a little bailout and paid it back quickly - that was almost a formality from what I understand and very political. Sure Henry Ford was pro-Hitler and a lot of what has come out of Fords past as pure evil, but I really do think the modern company, over-all, is turning over a new leaf. It's not - not-evil, don't get me wrong, I think most big corporations are big beast that have sold their souls (they do legally count as people after all) and Ford's no different, but at least they've stopped being tyrants and have started to do their jobs - which is sell good cars that people want them. I can forgive the Hitler thing - after all one of my cars is a Volkswagen.
Modern Ford cars are awesome - except for their inexplicable horrific polished-turd stereo systems.
I've got a Transit Connect Wagon. I absolutely love it, and my wife does too. My dad, who's very critical of mini-vans even said "Heck, that's a useful van you can drive for the family and you don't even have to put your balls in your wife's purse to do it". The thing gets better mileage than the data-sheet says. I can just hit 30 MPG on a flat highway with low traffic in good weather. It's not rated for that. For a seven passenger vehicle it's super impressive. The only thing I really have to complain about is it has a fucking MICROSOFT stereo with all the joys of running Windows entails. I occasionally have to shut down the van and disconnect the battery so voice recognition and Bluetooth will work again.
I'm trying this one now.
So far so good, I've done some customization, I like the tweaking level. I'll make my real judgement when I initiate playback on the way home - hoping it actually has downloaded my podcast by then.
I'll try this one tomorrow.
Still, the Candy Crush ICON file is probably bigger than the optical drive driver. Removing an optical disk driver is more of a publicity stunt to say "look we're removing things that are not longer current!" than it is an effort to save space. It's the Microsoft version of virtue-signalling.
They could make more money and save more space by offering a Citrix-like remote program service that had an ad-banner attached to the client side window/toolbar. I'm not 100% sure what the average person would want to run in a remote hosted window like that, but I'm sure there could be some use for a service like that. VMs, power hungry games that could stream like the Sims, etc...
I've still got my 2nd Gen, the 3G and it's still mostly working.
The screen is good. All of the radios are bad. Originally Bluetooth and WiFi went out - some of my original motivation to switch to my first Android Phone, but the phone radio kept going for years. Now that the time is no longer correct I'm assuming that's gone too.
As much as I make fun of iPhones now I really have to salute that 3G. Not only does it still power on and play music for my three year old every night (he loves Styx and goes to sleep to them - it's like giving him Benedryl without the ethical concerns, a trick we learned when he was five months old), the original factory battery still works. While I was sitting in the chair in his room last night and he and my wife were playing and getting ready for bed I played the Towers of Hanoi game I installed on it years ago - on battery. I don't know how long it will hold a charge, but I know it's at least an hour or two, maybe more. I've bought PlayStation 3 controls well after I bought that thing that have puffed up and stripped screws in the process. The JBL speaker dock I have it plugged into still works too.
I don't want to praise the JBLs too much though, I also have the better version of that same dock that blew without a good reason a few months ago that was the same age, and my old speakers that held up for years suddenly blew a subwoofer last year - also without reason, I don't crank my music often. I dug out the subwoofer to see if it could be repaired or replaced and literally the entire soft part of the diaphram decayed like a dead bird outside over the past few months while sitting on the shelf. I'm assuming that's what happened to my dock also.
I'm trying Podcast Player - a generic enough name - it's got great reviews and I like the player itself, but the damned thing won't download a podcast without manual intervention despite that being what the program is for. I want to be able to ignore my phone at work all day and listen to the podcast it pulls in off of my companies WiFi while driving home without having to stop and think about it.
I used to use a program specific to my podcast that would usually pull it in without intervention, but the built in player sucked (I like 150% playback speed so I can hear more of the show while driving). It could launch VLC which used to solve those issues, but modern Android VLC is supper buggy. If I get a phone call while listening to a podcast there's about a 60% chance it will forget it's spot and start me over at the beginning of the file.
I really should proof read myself. Should have read I could likely use the latest PATA Mitsumi driver to access data on a CDROM
Seriously? How big is a DVD driver?
Back in the day when I worked on lots of DOS systems I used to have to load the Mitsumi driver on floppy disk, usually after having booted to said floppy disk. The Mitsumi driver took up so little room on the floppy I didn't even consider it in my "space budget" when figuring out what I was going to put on a floppy and what I was going to leave out.
FLOPPY
I'm going to go out on a limb without actually testing it, and assume that if I were to boot to DOS from a floppy on a modern system with legacy support on (because honestly how are you going to boot to a floppy otherwise?) I could likely use the latest SATA Mitsumi driver to access data on a CDROM in the latest BluRay drive as long as the BIOS is setup with ATAPI support on SATA, which it usually is. I'm not going to go so far as to guess I could access a DVD or BluRay simply because I don't trust the huge file system to be accessible on such an old OS.
I would guess optical drive access overall would be kernel level these days.
Anyone want to test this?
Removing IE was a good idea, the registry editor, meh, MMC - hey as long as we're remove lots of stuff tablet users not on a domain won't need sure. I've got an idea to save space - how about NOT installing Candy Crush, Adobe Photoshop Express, Duolingo, Translator, and a host of other things while I'm not looking and wait for user request? I'm sure even the smallest of these programs far outweighs a DVD driver.
It also works in the Last Pass browser - which is basically a customized Firefox for Android.
and this is partially why, along with raping my battery.
Can't tell me wanting to collect this data isn't part of why they try to strong-arm you into using their apps by intentionally cutting down on what they'll allow you to do with a mobile browser.
Bullshit.
I'm a Libertarian, I'm part of Libertarian groups, I look at freedom things. For the past what? Three presidential elections since Google + came into being my feed has become a Democrat promotion fest. "Trending" things get posted on my feed, interestingly enough, it's nearly all pro Democrat with a 1 in 30 Republican thing showing up. Sometimes these "trending" posts have been reshared three times and have a whole +5! Being reshared by three people I don't know and being plused by five people I don't know shouldn't be enough to break through the I'm not following it and don't care about it wall, +1,000 sure, otherwise Google is taking sides in political things and pushing them on me. I've seen plenty of evidence of that one Google +. GOOGLE + IS NOT NEUTRAL.
I know - I'll get a regular coat-hook for $0.99 at Ace Hardware, screw it into the side of the drawers that way it will be out of the path of the keyboard tray, serve the same purpose, not need adhesive, and not violate any I.P.
This looks like something that I could ALMOST use.
Except that my desk is custom built by me and the keyboard drawer slides back so far as to make this thing useless.....
So - since we're talking about Texas and if it's Texas voter fraud has to be pro-Republican:
https://www.houstonchronicle.c...
https://empowertexans.com/arou...
https://www.justice.gov/usao-s...
Since this one was vague about party affiliation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Here's the one you're fond of: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/lo...
Notice it's primaries and run-offs. You can't be sure she wasn't voting Republican to try to make sure the weaker / less harsh on her issues person was the opponent. She may or may not have been a Republican, I don't know, I don't know her and I'm not a Republican, but sabotaging the opposition in primaries isn't unheard of. In Texas we have open primaries, she could still have voted Democrat in the actual election had her butt not been in a sling.
Oh look, another one that makes a point of avoiding the mention of party affiliation - isn't it incredible how left-leaning journalist fail to mention these sorts of things when reporting on their own kind? http://www.themonitor.com/mvtc...
Considering the perp was basically hired from Illinois to do the bribery campaign I'm going to say it's fairly safe to say they're Democrats. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...
http://www.star-telegram.com/n...
You notice when it's Republican they make a point of saying so but when they're not - for lack of further info I'll call this one unknown.....
https://www.twincities.com/201...
Considering each and every case has a link to an outside source I don't think it really matters that the hosting site is conservative.
You lefties love your fallacies when arguing against the truth.
These are just the proven cases that are cataloged on this site. It doesn't mean it's all the proven cases, and it certainly doesn't cover the ones that were covered up or not caught.
Thank you for demonstrating how you despise the democratic process and freedom.
The very definition of fascist.
My post will be down-modded into oblivion because progressives need those votes, believe heavily in "solidarity", and narrative control.
There's also lots of progressives on Slashdot with mod points.
Fortunately there's also a lot of balance here as long as you're not insulting Apple. We'll see what happens.