Completely this! Just enable roaming on the phone, and virtually everywhere works. Doing nerd conventions like PAX where the frequencies become highly congested with too many people accessing it at once, just tell the phone to use Edge only, and the signal will become 100% perfect (because nobody else is on that spectrum anymore). The thing will work pretty much everywhere.
I was able to get coverage living in a ghost town in Montana up in the mountains for a few months about 20 miles away from the nearest town. And by "coverage", I mean I could set my phone in the window to get bare minimum GSM signal. But I had a signal. Nobody else in the town did, unless they went with the local only communication services that worked via a series of repeater towers across the mountain tops.
All nonsensical bullshit aside from that part of my life, I've traveled quite frequently for work. I've yet to hit a location that I don't have decent service, except when truly in the middle of nowhere. Service may not be perfect in all areas of a particular city (like parking garages, elevators), but I've yet to be in a location without service at all. The one and only exception to this that comes to mind is when visiting Kalaloch WA, which is about 30 miles from the nearest town. But this is a place with zero service for anyone!
I picked up one of these tuners about a year ago, but without the added option of recording. Nobody in my house cares enough about TV to record, so it wasn't an issue. Most of our content is either PBS or available on Amazon Prime or some other streaming service. We mainly wanted it for live broadcasts (such as local sports or news)
With a rooftop mounded antenna, surprisingly, my house is currently picking up 56 stations. The absolute minimum cost for cable in my neighborhood right now is $20/mo, which is exactly the same channels as the broadcast list, except we get a few extra international and religious stations, and are missing some government stations.
The HDHomeRun was around $80, plus another $20 or so for the antenna, and another $20ish for wiring. That is the same as about 6 months of wired service from the cheapest local option for nearly identical content. This was simply a no-brainer!
I still remember the days of how FireFox started. Mozilla browser was "bloated" in their eyes because of the mail and chat client, so they wanted to rip those parts out and make everything separate applications. Now they're just shoving the kitchen sink back in again, because WHY THE HELL NOT!? Good thing to know that history never repeats itself.
Opera Browser - practically the same thing as Chrome, but has a full featured built in ad-blocker already AND VPN client. Google is just now playing catch-up.
GitLab also doesn't have the growing pains that GitHub faces at scale. When GitLab reaches that scale, either 1) they'll have the same issues, or 2) it'll have already been solved by other projects (like GitHub), and they would have learned from where others implemented fixes and new solutions already.
CenturyLink is full of shit right now. They are backpedaling very VERY hard. I always go and do screen caps like that from time to time to show the shit service they offer in my neighborhood. One day, the site shows gigabit internet, so I went and signed up (thinking it was a fluke), and sure enough, they went and signed me up and I've been on it over a year!! (I'll save the rant for how unstable it has been for another time), but since then, I've gone back to check what offerings they have for my house and neighbors, and they've reverted back to only 3mbps DSL. So despite the fact that fiber is ran to my house and is right next to all of my neighbors, they won't allow anyone new to connect to it anymore. I've talked with the service guys, and our optical splitter is a 64-port trunk with 24 active connections, and a second trunk running to the same box which is not activated yet. Despite this level of connectivity in my neighborhood, they'd rather have everyone sign up for the slowest and shittiest DSL service imaginable.
And this right here is exactly why Intel is leaving the market. I was just gifted a brand new Joule over the weekend, and looked up the current selling price... $350. Yes, more than 10x the cost of other boards. Granted, this board is more powerful than my laptop, but in the "maker" space, that much power is overkill. Not only that, it expects 20-40w power supply for it, not something I could easily shove a small battery at for any length of time. Other than for 4k video processing, who else in this space needs 4GB of 25GB/sec DDR4 RAM on a quad-core CPU that bursts over 2GHz!? Granted, for my prototyping needs in the lab, this thing is freaggin AMAZING, but for what I'm building, production will be using one of those cheap $20 boards in the field.
This is literally what killed Yahoo, when they switched from a simple and clean search interface into being a media portal. Google became king BECAUSE they didn't have all this shit on their homepage, and everyone shifted from Yahoo to Google because of it.
Maybe this will be the surge that DuckDuckGo needs to become more prominent. If only they had a simpler name...
Fancy that, my day job is doing IT for an antique auto parts company that services primarily 1924-1970 vehicles. What are you interested in? Quite a bit of our stock is new-old-stock, that is parts that were manufactured in the same era as the vehicle, but sat in warehouses and never sold. The rest is all modern parts that still fit the older vehicles.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot had the ability to pin comments right to the top of the entire thread. This is probably the most useful piece of information I've read on any post at all today. Thanks for the info!
Photoshop and Lightroom. I'm more or less forced to use these tools because all competing products dropped off the face of the Earth, so there is no viable alternative to the work that I do (yes, I know there are some RAW processors out there, but they don't have the feature set that I need for my job) - but PS and LR are so god awful fucking buggy pieces of shit. Over four years ago, LR5 Beta introduced a UI bug. It made it into production. It continued to exist in LRCC/6. It continues to this day. Yes, over four years for a stupid UI bug. Photoshop is so notorious for crashing, they implemented a crash recovery system that never works! Oddly enough, today PS "recovered" a photo from a crash from six weeks ago, despite the fact I've been using PS nearly daily since then until now. DRM is both also routinely fail at LEAST once a week, even though they are supposed to go 30+ days without a phone home connection. LR-CC had a very nice DRM bug in which it 100% failed for everyone at launch! Luckily THAT was patched quicky.
We literally have countless web based documentation, tutorials, and editors. "View Source" is no longer needed. All of the good information is readily available without needing to dig into some half-assed "dev" tool that is literally just showing the raw text without any annotation whatsoever.
Other than testing to ensure the contents sent from the server are exactly what I expected them to be, I've never used "View Source" otherwise in years. If you REALLY want to tinker, then the modern F12 dev tools like the DOM inspector are significantly better. Being able to inline edit DOM and CSS with real time changes is far more beneficial than simply reviewing flat source files.
The default client has command line options to simply output the cert to a file and NOT touch Apache or any other HTTPD at all. In fact, in my setup, I have a 100% dedicated VM for generating certs. It does nothing else. That's it. From there, the cert files are moved via SSH to their respective web servers. But in no way shape or form does the LetsEncrypt VM have any sort of access to any infrastructure to modify it at all.
On-demand scalability of local resources. You have 100x servers running a collection of VMs that can scale up and down across these servers as demands change for each application. One particular module starts to get hit hard, that app can spawn more instances across your local cluster, and possibly also downscale lesser used apps to give it more resources.
This is essentially what Docker or VMWare is, but for the Microsoft world.
Can Microsoft please PLEASE fucking fix PIN Number caching finally!? Yubikeys are fucking worthless ever since a March Windows Update broke them. It has been a serious pain in the ass on Windows 10 machines to have to RDP into a Win7 machine just to be able to authenticate with servers, Git, and SSH in general. https://forum.yubico.com/viewt...
Its not so much that college has lowered quality so people can pass to survive, they've lowered quality so more people can pay to attend. It is literally a business at this point, not an educational institution. A college degree is hitting that point where it costs more than a house mortgage, which is INSANE! And while some might try to argue this claim, remember that a college education is per-person, whereas a house generally can fit multiple people.
This is actually the best point, if you shorten it. In Windows, there is a very obvious "START" button (now just an orb though), and without knowing it being called "Internet Explorer", you can literally just type in "internet" in the search box, the box that is literally the closest item to said orb button itself when clicked. With absolutely zero instruction but a little tech savvyness, this would be something someone could figure out on their own.
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Completely this! Just enable roaming on the phone, and virtually everywhere works. Doing nerd conventions like PAX where the frequencies become highly congested with too many people accessing it at once, just tell the phone to use Edge only, and the signal will become 100% perfect (because nobody else is on that spectrum anymore). The thing will work pretty much everywhere.
I was able to get coverage living in a ghost town in Montana up in the mountains for a few months about 20 miles away from the nearest town. And by "coverage", I mean I could set my phone in the window to get bare minimum GSM signal. But I had a signal. Nobody else in the town did, unless they went with the local only communication services that worked via a series of repeater towers across the mountain tops.
All nonsensical bullshit aside from that part of my life, I've traveled quite frequently for work. I've yet to hit a location that I don't have decent service, except when truly in the middle of nowhere. Service may not be perfect in all areas of a particular city (like parking garages, elevators), but I've yet to be in a location without service at all. The one and only exception to this that comes to mind is when visiting Kalaloch WA, which is about 30 miles from the nearest town. But this is a place with zero service for anyone!
"Commercials" are called "Designated Piss Breaks" - learn to use your time more effectively!
I picked up one of these tuners about a year ago, but without the added option of recording. Nobody in my house cares enough about TV to record, so it wasn't an issue. Most of our content is either PBS or available on Amazon Prime or some other streaming service. We mainly wanted it for live broadcasts (such as local sports or news)
With a rooftop mounded antenna, surprisingly, my house is currently picking up 56 stations. The absolute minimum cost for cable in my neighborhood right now is $20/mo, which is exactly the same channels as the broadcast list, except we get a few extra international and religious stations, and are missing some government stations.
The HDHomeRun was around $80, plus another $20 or so for the antenna, and another $20ish for wiring. That is the same as about 6 months of wired service from the cheapest local option for nearly identical content. This was simply a no-brainer!
I still remember the days of how FireFox started. Mozilla browser was "bloated" in their eyes because of the mail and chat client, so they wanted to rip those parts out and make everything separate applications. Now they're just shoving the kitchen sink back in again, because WHY THE HELL NOT!? Good thing to know that history never repeats itself.
Opera Browser - practically the same thing as Chrome, but has a full featured built in ad-blocker already AND VPN client. Google is just now playing catch-up.
GitLab also doesn't have the growing pains that GitHub faces at scale. When GitLab reaches that scale, either 1) they'll have the same issues, or 2) it'll have already been solved by other projects (like GitHub), and they would have learned from where others implemented fixes and new solutions already.
CenturyLink is full of shit right now. They are backpedaling very VERY hard. I always go and do screen caps like that from time to time to show the shit service they offer in my neighborhood. One day, the site shows gigabit internet, so I went and signed up (thinking it was a fluke), and sure enough, they went and signed me up and I've been on it over a year!! (I'll save the rant for how unstable it has been for another time), but since then, I've gone back to check what offerings they have for my house and neighbors, and they've reverted back to only 3mbps DSL. So despite the fact that fiber is ran to my house and is right next to all of my neighbors, they won't allow anyone new to connect to it anymore. I've talked with the service guys, and our optical splitter is a 64-port trunk with 24 active connections, and a second trunk running to the same box which is not activated yet. Despite this level of connectivity in my neighborhood, they'd rather have everyone sign up for the slowest and shittiest DSL service imaginable.
On one hand, we're creating genetically modified super-humans. On the other hand, we're also creating AI fueled human killing drones.
World War III sure is looking to be pretty freggin awesome!
And this right here is exactly why Intel is leaving the market. I was just gifted a brand new Joule over the weekend, and looked up the current selling price... $350. Yes, more than 10x the cost of other boards. Granted, this board is more powerful than my laptop, but in the "maker" space, that much power is overkill. Not only that, it expects 20-40w power supply for it, not something I could easily shove a small battery at for any length of time. Other than for 4k video processing, who else in this space needs 4GB of 25GB/sec DDR4 RAM on a quad-core CPU that bursts over 2GHz!? Granted, for my prototyping needs in the lab, this thing is freaggin AMAZING, but for what I'm building, production will be using one of those cheap $20 boards in the field.
Intel/AMD x64 pfSense. #DONE!
This is literally what killed Yahoo, when they switched from a simple and clean search interface into being a media portal. Google became king BECAUSE they didn't have all this shit on their homepage, and everyone shifted from Yahoo to Google because of it.
Maybe this will be the surge that DuckDuckGo needs to become more prominent. If only they had a simpler name...
Fancy that, my day job is doing IT for an antique auto parts company that services primarily 1924-1970 vehicles. What are you interested in? Quite a bit of our stock is new-old-stock, that is parts that were manufactured in the same era as the vehicle, but sat in warehouses and never sold. The rest is all modern parts that still fit the older vehicles.
Sometimes I wish Slashdot had the ability to pin comments right to the top of the entire thread. This is probably the most useful piece of information I've read on any post at all today. Thanks for the info!
Obligatory Nuclear Launch Codes: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Photoshop and Lightroom. I'm more or less forced to use these tools because all competing products dropped off the face of the Earth, so there is no viable alternative to the work that I do (yes, I know there are some RAW processors out there, but they don't have the feature set that I need for my job) - but PS and LR are so god awful fucking buggy pieces of shit. Over four years ago, LR5 Beta introduced a UI bug. It made it into production. It continued to exist in LRCC/6. It continues to this day. Yes, over four years for a stupid UI bug. Photoshop is so notorious for crashing, they implemented a crash recovery system that never works! Oddly enough, today PS "recovered" a photo from a crash from six weeks ago, despite the fact I've been using PS nearly daily since then until now. DRM is both also routinely fail at LEAST once a week, even though they are supposed to go 30+ days without a phone home connection. LR-CC had a very nice DRM bug in which it 100% failed for everyone at launch! Luckily THAT was patched quicky.
We literally have countless web based documentation, tutorials, and editors. "View Source" is no longer needed. All of the good information is readily available without needing to dig into some half-assed "dev" tool that is literally just showing the raw text without any annotation whatsoever.
Other than testing to ensure the contents sent from the server are exactly what I expected them to be, I've never used "View Source" otherwise in years. If you REALLY want to tinker, then the modern F12 dev tools like the DOM inspector are significantly better. Being able to inline edit DOM and CSS with real time changes is far more beneficial than simply reviewing flat source files.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The default client has command line options to simply output the cert to a file and NOT touch Apache or any other HTTPD at all. In fact, in my setup, I have a 100% dedicated VM for generating certs. It does nothing else. That's it. From there, the cert files are moved via SSH to their respective web servers. But in no way shape or form does the LetsEncrypt VM have any sort of access to any infrastructure to modify it at all.
On-demand scalability of local resources. You have 100x servers running a collection of VMs that can scale up and down across these servers as demands change for each application. One particular module starts to get hit hard, that app can spawn more instances across your local cluster, and possibly also downscale lesser used apps to give it more resources.
This is essentially what Docker or VMWare is, but for the Microsoft world.
Welcome to 1945. Glad to know you're "invented" something amazing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Can Microsoft please PLEASE fucking fix PIN Number caching finally!? Yubikeys are fucking worthless ever since a March Windows Update broke them. It has been a serious pain in the ass on Windows 10 machines to have to RDP into a Win7 machine just to be able to authenticate with servers, Git, and SSH in general. https://forum.yubico.com/viewt...
Its not so much that college has lowered quality so people can pass to survive, they've lowered quality so more people can pay to attend. It is literally a business at this point, not an educational institution. A college degree is hitting that point where it costs more than a house mortgage, which is INSANE! And while some might try to argue this claim, remember that a college education is per-person, whereas a house generally can fit multiple people.
Have you ever gone to any of the PAX conventions? It'll be just like that (in terms of technical infrastructure usage)
This is actually the best point, if you shorten it. In Windows, there is a very obvious "START" button (now just an orb though), and without knowing it being called "Internet Explorer", you can literally just type in "internet" in the search box, the box that is literally the closest item to said orb button itself when clicked. With absolutely zero instruction but a little tech savvyness, this would be something someone could figure out on their own.