I am a Meat-Popsicle
Just some detail
Processor
Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 8 x 2 - 2.4 GHz, Cortex-A78 / A55 Graphics adapter Qualcomm Adreno 710
Memory
6 GB
Display
12.10 inch 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixel 249 PPI, capacitive touchscreen, IPS, Corning Gorilla 3, glossy: yes, 120 Hz
Storage
128 GB UFS 2.2 Flash, 128 GB , 100 GB free
Weight
571 g ( = 20.14 oz / 1.26 pounds) ( = 0 oz / 0 pounds)
Canonical historically makes bad decisions. Ubuntu any most points in time is simply great. Their LTS is fab. But they’re hungry. And they screw with us over time. the latest Debian just erased most of the reason to go with Ubuntu adding nonfree, and they haven’t screwed us over.
Wayland is ready, ‘nobody’ else is ready to use Wayland. And by nobody, I mean any software packages that are doing anything at all out of the ordinary. Text expanders are a hot mess, remote control apps or dodgy, OBS screen capture is dodgy. We’re still playing catch up, support for Wayland in applications is honestly quite lacking.
Historically you don’t hear a lot about Baltimore’s mayor unless they’ve done something really awful. In the early 2000s we had some riots that broke out from police brutality (Freddy Grey), The mayor at the time said some very non-choice words and ended up becoming very unpopular very quickly. She was followed up by a mayor that was taking bribes, she was found complicit in businesses having to order a large quantities of her book to receive preferential treatment, ended up with a 3-year prison term. She was followed up by somebody who was okay but short-lived, The current guy that’s in there is relatively young, he just turned 40. He’s good for the city and he doesn’t tend to make controversial decisions, as long as you’re a Democrat I suppose.
There’s give and take. If they lay the ads right into the stream at random points with no indicators and if you’re due for an ad, they only serve you ad until you’ve consumed that time. So the apps turn to buffering. You pause the video for 10 seconds then you run it at 95% speed. At some point we’ll end up predownloading everything at 1x speed with ads and watching it later with an ad skip algo on the canned video.
They can’t stop you from stripping ads, but they can make it not work in realtime. You’ll have to have a plan on what to watch and lose some time when you’re discovering random content.
Got a fun one today!
Wife gets a piece of snail mail from the school. Little post card saying you should try pickupusafitness, it’s a service on the other side of the city that organizes pickup games for elementary-aged kids. Place is 20 miles away through Baltimore suburbs.
She talked to me about it, mentiones the name, picks up her phone, goes to search them out, types “pick” and they autocomplete in her search. She’s never searched for it before.
My phone and PC autocomplete pickles pub, pickleball, pick 3 md, pickup lines, pickled cucumber…
At my old house I picked up pager traffic on a software defined radio and decoded it. Everything I’ve ever seen has been unencrypted.
Basically the pulses come from the towers the first X number of pulses are the address kind of like the phone number for the pager. All pagers listen to all pulses and just ignore the ones that aren’t addressed to them.
Here’s some details on one of the more popular protocols
Consider a watch with cell service?
Screw that You’re all great everybody from slackware to steam deck.
So I have never experienced it at all. But my wife, at least once a week will mention something random and get an ad for it. If it were just purely confirmation bias I should be seeing the same biases.
The last one last week she mentioned checking out a certain store 10 minutes later she got around to searching for it. Google auto completed “where can I” with find (whatever store she was looking for) It was the first time she had typed it in and it was dead on what we had been talking about.
It’s definitely not everyone and everything every time but it happens in awful lot for coincidence.
One possible cause of the infections is that the devices are running outdated versions that are vulnerable to exploits that remotely execute malicious code on them. Versions 7.1, 10.1, and 12.1, for example, were released in 2016, 2019, and 2022, respectively. What’s more, Doctor Web said it’s not unusual for budget device manufacturers to install older OS versions in streaming boxes and make them appear more attractive by passing them off as more up-to-date models.
I mean there’s knowing and there’s being certain. This seems quite likely.
The front page of the official site has always been pretty clean. But if you click that search button or try to go through results without a decent ad block, they lay it on pretty thick.
Yeah between the forced binding arbitration and their claims to wanting to start pre-roll ads, Roku is dead to me, I will never buy another device from them nor recommend them to anyone.
ut never called it that. And I mostly would background or foreground tasks. I didn’t
yeah I had no idea about disown, Jesus the number of times I could have used that, I might have never learned tmux or screen :)
Had a little spark of glee looking at a fellow nix user in the wild
Defined in /nix/store/vicfr
Yes this meme is dated. You can run proprietary stuff in bookworm with just a couple of check boxes.
I was working for a big company, middle upper level technical position.One of my ex co-workers went to work for Disney. He hooked me up with an interview. They flew me in, rented me a car.
They brought me in to the interview. I sat around for about an hour and a half before they were ready. They came in and grilled me on uncommon proprietary Linux management packages. At the time I was managing a couple of 10,000 node clusters, had been running them for years. Of the four guys in the interview three of them just dismissed me. After the interview I headed out, wasn’t really mad but I was pretty disappointed the fourth guy pulled me aside and said I think they were being extremely unfair to you in there if you are really interested in trying to work your way in here reach out to me and I can advocate for you.
After the interview I farted around LA for a couple of hours and then flew home.
After some reflection I realized I really didn’t want to work with those other three guys. I never reached back out.
4 months later Disney dissolved that department.
Data exports start with their business+ plan If they’re running that or Enterprise the admins can pull whatever they need.
You can obviously pull stuff through legal request without any difficulty for any plan.
I’d go back and write a book with just enough truths to cement myself as a soothsayer. I’d then warn of wars, eco disasters, pandemics, natural disasters. Then I’d invest some money in some good places and make sure it made it to my kids after I’m gone.
Android 17, 🍆