I've had this work, but part of the attraction of the Linux layer in Windows for me is not having to mess with the whole cygwin layer on top of everything. Keeping it running and updated was a bit of a pain and it's been nice not to have to mess with anymore.
I ran (and still run, for now) Gentoo for a long time to squeeze every bit of horsepower out of my stuff and generate the smallest, fastest kernel I could. Nowadays I mostly just run genkernel and let it do it, and barely touch use flags or anything else beyond getting my preferred desktop environment running. I've had the occasional case where tweaking specifics and re-emerging fixed edge cases, but in general hardware has made it all a lot less useful.
Not sure where to go from here distro-wise. I've been out of the loop running Gentoo so long that I'm not even sure what a good distro is for someone hardcore into Linux who doesn't really want to have to deal with it all anymore.
We run a mix of Ubuntu Server and CentOS as work, and I've never had an occasion to compile kernels for either of them.
I was seriously tempted by the Atrix, but the main thing that turned me off was the expense of the various docks. There's nothing the docks do that shouldn't be possible with a simple MHL cable and bluetooth peripherals, or a relatively cheap dock/hub. I believe there were hacks to force the Atrix into webtop mode with other things, but I can't recall now.
It looks like the DeX dock is just under $100 on Amazon which isn't terrible, but could really add up if you wanted one in multiple locations. Give me a cheap cable with maybe an HDMI out and one USB port (add a cheap hub) and I'd be happy.
A lot of orbits of things are fairly low orbits. Low Earth Orbit is where the space shuttles, the ISS, a lot of satellites, etc sit. There's not much atmosphere there but there's enough drag that most things will need occasional engine burns to stay there. Smaller objects and things higher up in LEO will stay up longer, but most stuff will eventually decay. It takes a lot more energy to get things higher up into, say, geostationary orbit where a lot of communications satellites, GPS, etc are where they need very little effort to stay where they're supposed to.
Love my Microsoft keyboards. I'm still using the Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro I bought new circa 2001 at work, and a new-in-box one I got at a thrift store a couple years ago at home (replacing an original '95 Microsoft Natural). They fell off the wagon a bit when they released that line that had cursor keys in a + instead of inverted T, but otherwise they've been great.
At least on Android, you can forcibly disable the notifications on the OS level per-app. This will prevent an app from presenting a notification regardless of any in-app settings.
Just for funsies I loaded up my Windows NT 3.51 VM I have around for no good reason and tried it, and it immediately hard-locked. Must be a very old bug.
I mostly blame the media for this, even the some somewhat geeky sites. Every time a bit of ReactOS news comes out, the breathless articles about the amazing "Windows-Exact Replacement OS!!!" pop up that seem to misunderstand or misrepresent what state ReactOS is in. People try it, find out it's still very much an alpha, and you end up with the sort of reactions you see on/.
I've never been able to see it as that. It looks like a hand with a bloody stump at the wrist. Even going back to look at it now I can't see anything other than a hand.
I recently thought about the configuration thing and how little I customize my boxes anymore. I used to run all the interface tweaks, hacked themes, bunches of customization addons for shortcuts and macros, etc etc. Now about all I do is stick my taskbar on the left (on widescreens), switch it to show labels, and maybe turn the colors to a dark theme. I just don't have the patience or motivation to mess with the level of customization I used to.
I do still play with Gentoo on several boxes, including a couple laptops, but it's definitely gotten to be more and more hassle.
I was talking more about the line "If I want to manufacture a product for $10 and sell it for $5, I am completely within my rights to do so." Depending on the circumstances, he may well not be within his rights to do so.
Likely because it dates back to the pre-tab era when you just had one window in the first place. Once tabs became a thing, the paradigm was never updated. Hopefully they get this in there quick.
I never really minded flash in the earlier days, it enabled a lot of fun content. As time passed, it was the source of more and more security problems, and was used for more and more just plain annoyances like advertising. Had Adobe reworked it into a good, secure framework with some touch interface and power optimizations for mobile (I kept Flash around on Android for some time. It sucked the battery down hard while doing much of anything) it may have stayed relevant.
HTML5 didn't help either, since it did a lot of what it was for anyway.
Actually, it can be a crime. There's a whole concept of Dumping. It usually applies in the case of international trade, but can apply domestically as well. Generally it's used to drive competition out of business when they can't sustain the lower price.
I've had the pause and resume copy/moving come in handy several times. It's also much more resilient to network blips while moving things around thanks to that.
Directly mounting ISOs in virtual drives without needing PowerISO or other third party software is kind of cool.
I like the corner-snapping that windows can do now - I made a lot of use of the side by side and drap-to-top functionality, so the corner one is even better. Especially on today's big monitors.
Nothing earth-shattering, but nice little improvements. I don't actually hate Windows 10 at all, aside from the privacy issues.
I guess a potentially more interesting question is whether that drone could have done $3.4 million of damage via surveillance or something. Seems unlikely in this case, but if we're talking some kind of super top secret installation then it might be worth that kind of force to make sure it's really, really blown up.
Still worth investigating sufficient response that's more economical.
The earlier 400/800k Mac disks couldn't be read on a standard PC floppy controller due to the GCR format that used variable speed bits. No amount of software could change this (though there were some hardware solutions from third-party floppy controllers to entire floppy subsystems)
The later HD floppies could be read just fine on a PC with various software packages to read HFS. They moved over to using standard MFM encoding for their HD drives.
It can also depend on whether what you're doing is considered repair or installation/upgrading. I replaced my own hot water heater last year and my ex-wife and her grandmother spent a lot of time being worried about permits and such. Basically as long as I was replacing like for like it was considered repair and I didn't need anything special. If I was going to upgrades, say convert to a tankless water heater, I'd have had to pursue more.
There are also methods in place in some places to have your work inspected and signed off on by a licensed person for a much cheaper price than having them do it. My boss rewired and finished his basement himself and just had to have an electrician come out and sign off that it was all up to code.
A couple years ago, my ex-wife wanted to stream from an iThingie to HDMI, and when we looked it up the adapter to do so was a kind of shocking $50. A whole Apple TV was $65. So we ended up just buying an Apple TV and getting a lot more functionality for not that much more money.
It has where I downloaded raspian for a rasp pi, and an Android rom for my phone. I don't think anyone who knows anything about how torrents work would be too surprised to know anyone else downloading it can see all the peers. Might be an eye-opener for people who don't.
This varies by phone. Non-AT&T phones that support the proper frequencies should work just fine on AT&T with LTE. There can sometimes be some drama getting the APNs set up just right, but it's usually not hard. Also, some features like HD Voice or VoLTE may or may not work depending on the rom and software support - those usually need a stock AT&T or AT&T-derived rom, but it may be possible to install one on an unlocked device and make it work.
I read an article that was admittedly about Spam scams, but I'd imagine the same would apply here. They're intentionally designed to be off-the-wall and unbelievable. That way, they know anyone they rope in is likely to be gullible enough to go all the way and fall for it without much problem. They don't want to try to make something super-believable that will cause smart or smart-enough people to question it and spend a bunch of time researching, because it wastes their time when they drop out.
Unfortunately, this often means elderly folks get the worst of it, though apparently college kids are getting hit too.
I'm not sure exactly when/how it triggers, but the first time I tried running Chrome when it wasn't default on a brand new Windows 10 install I got a popup that extolled the virtues of Edge and I really, really should give it a try. Pretty please, etc. Dismissed it and made Chrome default and haven't seen it again.
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I've had this work, but part of the attraction of the Linux layer in Windows for me is not having to mess with the whole cygwin layer on top of everything. Keeping it running and updated was a bit of a pain and it's been nice not to have to mess with anymore.
I ran (and still run, for now) Gentoo for a long time to squeeze every bit of horsepower out of my stuff and generate the smallest, fastest kernel I could. Nowadays I mostly just run genkernel and let it do it, and barely touch use flags or anything else beyond getting my preferred desktop environment running. I've had the occasional case where tweaking specifics and re-emerging fixed edge cases, but in general hardware has made it all a lot less useful.
Not sure where to go from here distro-wise. I've been out of the loop running Gentoo so long that I'm not even sure what a good distro is for someone hardcore into Linux who doesn't really want to have to deal with it all anymore.
We run a mix of Ubuntu Server and CentOS as work, and I've never had an occasion to compile kernels for either of them.
I was seriously tempted by the Atrix, but the main thing that turned me off was the expense of the various docks. There's nothing the docks do that shouldn't be possible with a simple MHL cable and bluetooth peripherals, or a relatively cheap dock/hub. I believe there were hacks to force the Atrix into webtop mode with other things, but I can't recall now.
It looks like the DeX dock is just under $100 on Amazon which isn't terrible, but could really add up if you wanted one in multiple locations. Give me a cheap cable with maybe an HDMI out and one USB port (add a cheap hub) and I'd be happy.
A lot of orbits of things are fairly low orbits. Low Earth Orbit is where the space shuttles, the ISS, a lot of satellites, etc sit. There's not much atmosphere there but there's enough drag that most things will need occasional engine burns to stay there. Smaller objects and things higher up in LEO will stay up longer, but most stuff will eventually decay. It takes a lot more energy to get things higher up into, say, geostationary orbit where a lot of communications satellites, GPS, etc are where they need very little effort to stay where they're supposed to.
Love my Microsoft keyboards. I'm still using the Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro I bought new circa 2001 at work, and a new-in-box one I got at a thrift store a couple years ago at home (replacing an original '95 Microsoft Natural). They fell off the wagon a bit when they released that line that had cursor keys in a + instead of inverted T, but otherwise they've been great.
At least on Android, you can forcibly disable the notifications on the OS level per-app. This will prevent an app from presenting a notification regardless of any in-app settings.
Just for funsies I loaded up my Windows NT 3.51 VM I have around for no good reason and tried it, and it immediately hard-locked. Must be a very old bug.
I mostly blame the media for this, even the some somewhat geeky sites. Every time a bit of ReactOS news comes out, the breathless articles about the amazing "Windows-Exact Replacement OS!!!" pop up that seem to misunderstand or misrepresent what state ReactOS is in. People try it, find out it's still very much an alpha, and you end up with the sort of reactions you see on /.
I've never been able to see it as that. It looks like a hand with a bloody stump at the wrist. Even going back to look at it now I can't see anything other than a hand.
I recently thought about the configuration thing and how little I customize my boxes anymore. I used to run all the interface tweaks, hacked themes, bunches of customization addons for shortcuts and macros, etc etc. Now about all I do is stick my taskbar on the left (on widescreens), switch it to show labels, and maybe turn the colors to a dark theme. I just don't have the patience or motivation to mess with the level of customization I used to.
I do still play with Gentoo on several boxes, including a couple laptops, but it's definitely gotten to be more and more hassle.
I was talking more about the line "If I want to manufacture a product for $10 and sell it for $5, I am completely within my rights to do so." Depending on the circumstances, he may well not be within his rights to do so.
Likely because it dates back to the pre-tab era when you just had one window in the first place. Once tabs became a thing, the paradigm was never updated. Hopefully they get this in there quick.
They got me three times last week, and twice so far this week. Has to stop.
I never really minded flash in the earlier days, it enabled a lot of fun content. As time passed, it was the source of more and more security problems, and was used for more and more just plain annoyances like advertising. Had Adobe reworked it into a good, secure framework with some touch interface and power optimizations for mobile (I kept Flash around on Android for some time. It sucked the battery down hard while doing much of anything) it may have stayed relevant.
HTML5 didn't help either, since it did a lot of what it was for anyway.
Actually, it can be a crime. There's a whole concept of Dumping. It usually applies in the case of international trade, but can apply domestically as well. Generally it's used to drive competition out of business when they can't sustain the lower price.
Dumping
I've had the pause and resume copy/moving come in handy several times. It's also much more resilient to network blips while moving things around thanks to that.
Directly mounting ISOs in virtual drives without needing PowerISO or other third party software is kind of cool.
I like the corner-snapping that windows can do now - I made a lot of use of the side by side and drap-to-top functionality, so the corner one is even better. Especially on today's big monitors.
Nothing earth-shattering, but nice little improvements. I don't actually hate Windows 10 at all, aside from the privacy issues.
I guess a potentially more interesting question is whether that drone could have done $3.4 million of damage via surveillance or something. Seems unlikely in this case, but if we're talking some kind of super top secret installation then it might be worth that kind of force to make sure it's really, really blown up.
Still worth investigating sufficient response that's more economical.
Next you'll be asking how to dial one of the phones since they no longer have a dial.
Language evolves, it's pretty neat!
The earlier 400/800k Mac disks couldn't be read on a standard PC floppy controller due to the GCR format that used variable speed bits. No amount of software could change this (though there were some hardware solutions from third-party floppy controllers to entire floppy subsystems)
The later HD floppies could be read just fine on a PC with various software packages to read HFS. They moved over to using standard MFM encoding for their HD drives.
It can also depend on whether what you're doing is considered repair or installation/upgrading. I replaced my own hot water heater last year and my ex-wife and her grandmother spent a lot of time being worried about permits and such. Basically as long as I was replacing like for like it was considered repair and I didn't need anything special. If I was going to upgrades, say convert to a tankless water heater, I'd have had to pursue more.
There are also methods in place in some places to have your work inspected and signed off on by a licensed person for a much cheaper price than having them do it. My boss rewired and finished his basement himself and just had to have an electrician come out and sign off that it was all up to code.
A couple years ago, my ex-wife wanted to stream from an iThingie to HDMI, and when we looked it up the adapter to do so was a kind of shocking $50. A whole Apple TV was $65. So we ended up just buying an Apple TV and getting a lot more functionality for not that much more money.
Still wasn't 4k.
It has where I downloaded raspian for a rasp pi, and an Android rom for my phone. I don't think anyone who knows anything about how torrents work would be too surprised to know anyone else downloading it can see all the peers. Might be an eye-opener for people who don't.
This varies by phone. Non-AT&T phones that support the proper frequencies should work just fine on AT&T with LTE. There can sometimes be some drama getting the APNs set up just right, but it's usually not hard. Also, some features like HD Voice or VoLTE may or may not work depending on the rom and software support - those usually need a stock AT&T or AT&T-derived rom, but it may be possible to install one on an unlocked device and make it work.
I read an article that was admittedly about Spam scams, but I'd imagine the same would apply here. They're intentionally designed to be off-the-wall and unbelievable. That way, they know anyone they rope in is likely to be gullible enough to go all the way and fall for it without much problem. They don't want to try to make something super-believable that will cause smart or smart-enough people to question it and spend a bunch of time researching, because it wastes their time when they drop out.
Unfortunately, this often means elderly folks get the worst of it, though apparently college kids are getting hit too.
In fact, here it is
I'm not sure exactly when/how it triggers, but the first time I tried running Chrome when it wasn't default on a brand new Windows 10 install I got a popup that extolled the virtues of Edge and I really, really should give it a try. Pretty please, etc. Dismissed it and made Chrome default and haven't seen it again.