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Comment Re:Historical my ass (Score 1) 132

A year from now, nobody will remember or care when this was added to the app store. I've ripped farts that people have remembered for longer.

Very few people using a Mac probably even care now.

Sorry, I'm confused. You mean they don't care about his farts or about LibreOffice? Be clear, man! How are we supposed to have an intelligent conversation otherwise??!

Comment Re:REVENGE! (Score 1) 229

Yes, I have the $99 bundle for TV, Phone and Internet. It costs $230 a month.

I'm paying 20 euros ($22 or so) for 20 Mbit ADSL. Fuck phone, I don't use that anymore. We don't watch TV, and I'm guessing that's where the majority of your bill is?

Comment There's prices and then there's Apple prices (Score 1) 60

FTFS: "prices for consumers have dropped to an average of $91.55 for a 128GB SSD and $164.34 for a 256GB SSD"

Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would an additional 256 GB flash cost $300 and an additional 768 GB cost $800 when you buy a 15" MacBook Pro? Or perhaps there's a boardroom in Cupertino where they're laughing and shoveling money the whole day :D

Comment Re:What an upgrade! (Score 1) 468

Well, my significant other uses a cobbled-together desktop PC. It's an oldie, but with an SSD, Windows 8 runs actually pretty well because it was already slimmed down (as compared to 7) and would with with 1 GB RAM. Removal of these features means she'll get longer usage out of her PC.

Comment Just enough space (Score 1) 557

Heh, I just came here to post how you shouldn't add too much space :)

My experience with closets is that you will fill them with things. Stuff you have but don't really need. If you won't fill it, then your SO will. We live on 1022 square foot, with one child and one woman and in my opinion, that's enough.

Comment MagSafe laptop power supplies (Score 3, Interesting) 258

At one time I got a broken MagSafe power supply, the ones that Apple ships with their laptops. Since I was curious how these switched-mode power supplies work, I cracked it open and somehow shorted the big capacitor. These temporarily store up to 400 volts but it wasn't that much left. I still got quite a zap, though :-)

Anyway, I got a big crate of broken ones from a local Apple dealer in town. I found out that they usually didn't work because the wire would break close to the adapter. eBay sold replacement cables and I started fixing the power supplies. Cracking them open, replacing the cord, testing them, glueing them shut as neat as possible, then selling them for 25 bucks.

It was fun but with a kid on the way, I had no room for a separate table for my soldering iron, electronics stuff etc. and I stopped doing it. Cleaning up every time you want to do something small isn't fun.

Comment Pay off debt, start living on 50% of your income (Score 1) 583

If I could give some advice to my past self, it would be to immediately start living on half of my income. That way, I could have paid off debt immediately and started saving.

I wasn't interested in finances back then, but great blogs have cropped up since, like Mr. Money Mustache.

It's about early retirement and I'm not so much interested in that. But after ten years of working for the Man, I wanted to start freelancing. Turns out that if you have a family, you want to have quite a bit of money stashed away when starting.

So I kept working in a job I lost interest in, just to save half a year of income. Only then could I make the step towards starting a business for myself.

Comment Still needs another vulnerability (Score 5, Insightful) 82

FTFA:

The researcher who discovered the flaw, Pedro Vilaça, said the vulnerability can be used to (some examples) that is invisible to the operating system in the writeable flash memory

So to summarize: as a user, you can sometimes write to EFI memory.

That's currently all there is to it. There's no rootkit, there's no malware, etc. Just this space where you can hide and survive an OS wipe and reinstall.

I'm sure some will come up with a payload that uses this space to hide itself, no doubt about it. But currently, this is all there is to it.

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