Bluecobra
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Comment · 21 days ago
Yep, I was surprised to find this as well. Though my Nintendo DS Lite seems fine. I have a first run PSP (complete with dead pixels when it was brand new). Apparently a screen upgrade is cheap and easy.
Comment · 28 days ago
Also highly recommend watching Nerds 2.0.1 - A Brief History Of The Internet as well: https://archive.org/details/nerds-2.0.1-a-brief-history-of-t...
Comment · 1 month ago
An insurance policy with a robot plan? Certainly, I’m too old!
Comment · 2 months ago
I accidentally bent some of the pins on mine but I was able to carefully bend them back and luckily it booted. Computer building on those days was much more unfriendly. I remember hearing tons of horror stories of water cooling including leaks and the cpu overheating and dying that kept me far away from it until more recently.
Comment · 4 months ago
Indeed. In high school we had a Mac (Performa?) lab running System 7 in the art department. The whole system would crash so constantly that I would manually save my work almost after every change. Really stunk when Netscape Navigator 3 crashed, because you couldn’t save your work there.
Comment · 4 months ago
red rings of death, specifically :)
Comment · 7 months ago
I didn’t realize that you can get 128GB of memory in a notebook, that is impressive!
Comment · 8 months ago
Mit luftpudefartøj er fyldt med ål!
Comment · 8 months ago
I literally just ran into this myself with my spouse. She is ready to upgrade her M1 MacBook Air and thinks she doesn’t need more RAM because everything is “in the cloud”. Hopefully 8GB is enough RAM for the next 5 years or so...
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm for all for less bus stops, but how do you make it equitable for people who can't walk longer distances if they are disabled or have an underlying health condition? Run a separate paratransit line?
Comment · 8 months ago
Great idea, would it be possible to make it possible to add my own custom tshark one liners under weird stuff? For example, sometimes I find myself troubleshooting TCP retransmission issues that is specific to proprietary applications and that may not be relevant everyone else to have by default.
As an aside, I was thinking about something similar to this tool for a while now after seeing this post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723990) where someone was using Claude to troubleshoot a PCAP. It made me think that it would be nice just to have a nice collection of tshark one-liners to quickly weed out any weird stuff right off the bat. I would assume that it would be a lot more performant than using a LLM and more scalable if you have large PCAP files.
Comment · 8 months ago
It’s probably some feature they sell to recruiters to grab your attention. :)
Comment · 8 months ago
This is a great idea, thanks. I built an IPv6 only webhost in Digital Ocean a while ago as a learning exercise and it’s been sitting idle. Making a personal portal sounds like a fun project.
Comment · 8 months ago
I just use “New Tab Redirect” in Chrome so I can make new tabs default to google.com. The home page only applies to the initial browser window/tab. It’s pretty silly.
Comment · 9 months ago
How does that compare with Google? I tried updating my Google Mini smart speakers to have Gemini and it still seems dumb as a box of rocks.