Comment Re:Who cares anymore? (Score 1) 13
It's just the same garbage sold under various names where it is impossible to ascertain if there is a sale at all.
It's possible. Just do an image search on aliexpress.
It's just the same garbage sold under various names where it is impossible to ascertain if there is a sale at all.
It's possible. Just do an image search on aliexpress.
From what I have heard, the Defense Department of the United States has never passed an audit.
Exactly. Every year they fail to explain big amounts of money with lots of digits before the decimal place. We should cut their budget specifically by those amounts until they learn to pass an audit. Then we can look at how much money they need to continue operation.
It seems likely to be caused by vibration, so we could deploy a collection tent and play the seafloor some thumpin' bass.
I recently went back to a full-size desktop keyboard thinking I would love it, but me - "WTF why do I have to push so GD hard just to type !!"
You have choices. There are desktop keyboards with a very broad range of pressure and keystroke specs, and then there are also mechanical keyboards with swappable keyswitches where you can choose your own specs. They come in both standard and low-profile, low-travel variants. Standard keyswitches seem to have total travel between 4mm and about 3mm, with actuation points anywhere from 2mm to 3mm, and the force varies a lot as well.
I am currently running outemu silent peach switches. I have two boards using silent peach v1 and am about to try silent peach v3s for a new 75% layout keyboard. All versions of these switches are linear and damped for nosie reduction. They also all have 3.3mm travel, the actuation is at about 2mm, and they are factory lubricated so they are very smooth. I have tried Kailh, Outemu, Reddragon, and Cherry switches and so far I like Outemu the best, but I haven't tried lubing genuine Cherry branded switches yet.
I also was stunned by the sudden, complete disappearance of the netbook, which I thought was an ideal combination of form, capability and price (they were cheap).
I owned an Acer Aspire. It was almost $300 with a single-core Atom and a 10 widescreen display. Some years later I bought the first new laptop in a bunch of years. It was $300 with a 2C2T AMD processor (Zen/Raven Ridge) and a 15" widescreen display.
Netbooks existed because people wanted a cheaper laptop, and they went away because the parts got cheaper and you could get a laptop with actually decent specs for a low price.
So, you agree, that the Defense Department budget should be cut? I do.
I do, too. They should start by cutting the defense budget every year by the amount by which they could not pass the prior year's audit.
I don't even want rounded corners. I like sharp windows.
What a typical waste of time.
The Amiga was a dead end. It was awesome for its time and I owned many of them, but the cool stuff you could do with the OS was in many cases predicated on a lack of memory protection and this was also a major drawback. It was good that you could reboot quickly, because it was frequently necessary. The custom chips were however death to backwards compatibility, and the more they were used, the harder it was to update existing software for a new chipset.
PCs started to do the things Amiga did even at the time, for example there were accelerated graphics cards even for Windows 3.1 that would accelerate drawing operations and do bitblits, and the GUS Max would offload some audio processing from the CPU.
Merged with Maemo to become Meego, cancelled in favor of Tizen. The corpse became Sailfish OS.
Luckily these days gcc produces faster code than icc.
When I worked for an IC design company we used Sun's compiler for the same reason.
Yeah I was wondering about the idea of factories attracting the best people. That's not how factories work, the few people doing the maintenance aside. The work for the people on the line is designed to not require the best people.
Are you okay?
As usual the summary is shit, it left out the most important detail.
Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software.
These devices lack Googleâ(TM)s security protections, and the perpetrators pre-installed the Badbox 2.0 malware on them, to create a backdoor and abuse them for large-scale fraud and other illicit schemes.
These aren't Google Android devices, they are running some variant of AOSP.
I'm positive the users that are dependent on this very particular Linux distribution would happily donate their time and money to the cause...
All three of them? (I would have said two, but we have one here.)
Or just switch to Red Hat, or Ubuntu, or...
Sure, or a good distribution.
My hope is that it will make sense to switch to using this new minipc for my interface, and to leave it running for long-running tasks. I have a 5900X desktop with a Nvidia card that I'm tired of dealing with video driver problems with. Speaking of Debian updates, I run Devuan. The main install on the system is an update from the prior version, and my fresh "recovery" install on another disk has no video driver problems...
They are relatively good but absolutely terrible. -- Alan Kay, commenting on Apollos