Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 74
Bad Data meaning "anything I don't agree with or like"
That works until it is gamed by bad actors.
Bad Data meaning "anything I don't agree with or like"
That works until it is gamed by bad actors.
Maybe IBM should also make that promise - wait, too late, broke that one last century.
My last "real" laptop was a Thinkpad T480. It was, at the time, the most upgradeable/serviceable machine on the market. RAM, SSD/HD (if you had the right proprietary adapter for M.2) and WiFi (if you didn't run afoul of Lenovo's BIOS "whitelist" restrictions). I'd have continued to use it if I could have bought reputable replacement batteries at a price in that was in the same ballpark as reasonable.
Sadly, you cannot. A set of batteries would have cost more than the machine is worth in any configuration.
So, I bought a "factory seconds" Framework 13, moved my RAM and SSD from the T480, added a $12 Intel WiFI card, and booted up. Running Linux, everything just worked, no new install required. Slightly less battery life (I had the carrier class megabattery), but half the weight. I'll take it.
Best part: $50-$60 batteries once the current one craps out, and upgrades once the AMD mobos get cheap or hit the used market.
I'm a big fan.
One more vote for "nuh uh" - manual surface-mount component work is not for the faint of heart. And yes, most DRAMs are going to be BGA packages. BGAs are chip packages with balls of solder on the back, which are then typically affixed to a circuit board using an oven.
The real problem is _removing_ the old chips. Get it wrong, and you pull up contact pads. And then the circuit board is essentially destroyed (or can only be saved by even more difficult procedures).
You cannot do this with a soldering iron, period - there's nothing to solder. You need something called a "hot air" tool, or as others have said, a rework station. At least a few hundred dollars. Oh, and flux, hand tools, etc.
Maybe it's like saying that vanilla is your favorite ice-cream flavor, but I really like GNOME. It works the way that I do, and I find it intuitive and elegant.
Yes, I've tried most other WMs/DEs, but always come home to GNOME. Sorry, just had to dissent from the GNOME hate.
"Pictures. Or it didn't happen!"
AI has ruined the joke.
Thinks they are Apple.
We use Windows because we're not Fanatics, but because we kind of have to.
You know its bad when your 85 year old Father-In-Law keeps asking about Linux.
My CD collection is about 2000 discs; during the last pass, I had two titles that had mysteriously become unreadable. Both were decades old, and no scratches - likely due to oxidation somehow.
You're welcome.
In case I wasn't entirely clear before, I was pissed off about things like (again, SPOILERS abound):
USA has been hit by nukes, and the gov't is in total chaos. In response, Russia refuses multiple calls from the acting gov't (both before and after American missiles fly) because the appointment of a new President hasn't happened yet. What?
A nuke is incoming to the USA's east coast, but the fictitious president keeps on delaying leaving for a secure location. What?
The fictitious Russian president knows that there's a substantial chance that his country will not be destroyed if he doesn't launch on warning, and can still destroy the USA even if he's wrong about where the missiles are heading - his subs, and their "dead man's switch" system ensure this - so he launches on warning, thus insuring the destruction of his country. WHAT?
The Secret Service loses the fictitious American president, because their EMP shielded vehicle doesn't shield from EMP. WHAT?
I mean, you have to accept that the entire scenario starts with North Korea launching strikes for no reason at all, assuming that China doesn't have some say over such an action, and Dear Leader knowing that doing such a thing is suicidal. WOT.
Let's hope that the screenplay is better than the book - it really had me on the seat of my pants, until it went totally stupid.
She absolutely included plot points that would never have been part of any wargame scenario, some of which bordered or ventured into inanity.
It would have been just as gripping a book, and perhaps more believable, had her characters been somewhat logical actors.
I think that time was of some essence, because they didn't know if North Korea would continue to fire missiles or barrage Seoul with artillery fire, but yeah, that would have made the most sense.
I did read the book, and I found Jacobsen's scenario to be problematic for several reasons (spoilers inbound):
Jacobsen's book started strong, but became weak and silly in the end. There was a lot of interesting info in the details of things, such as how the USA's interceptor technology is problematic, or the state of the art of Russia's threat detection systems. Not sure how true either is, but I'll accept them at face value.
Roku needs to add Keyboard support before they try adding Ads.
There is no reason to not support a keyboard for entering search
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