Cau5tik

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Comment · 6 years ago

Sublime Text isn't free. https://www.sublimehq.com/store/text

Comment · 8 years ago

Now, where did I put that drill?

Comment · 8 years ago

> They're underpowered, but if you're just SSHing into a remote box it's a good choice.

I feel like this concept doesn't get enough attention. You'll never get a laptop (that you actually want to carry) that has as much power as a server in a rack somewhere. Thinking of the laptop as an ephemeral mobile thin client rather than an entire workstation lets you focus on finding a laptop that's comfortable to type on and not a pain to carry. Trying to combine all of those requirements with a lot of computing power is much more difficult and expensive.

I second the earlier thinkpad X series suggestion. My x201 was less than $200, has fantastic driver support, and you can beat the snot out of them. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thinkpad+x201+c...

Comment · 8 years ago

That's one of the main issues here. Houses should be about having a place to live, not your largest financial asset. The selfish protectionism that comes from treating housing as an investment is why so many cities are so broken.

Comment · 8 years ago

You're sure that this is the source of the rebooted game and not a release of the original SS1 code?

Comment · 8 years ago

Bridge burning is never a good professional move, and the author goes out of his way to be rude about it. I'm not sure what positive effect they thought this would have.

Based on this post I can't say I'd want to work with the author either.

Comment · 9 years ago

Games

Comment · 10 years ago

Ars seems to imply that there will be two M.2 ports that users can populate.

"Instead of adding more expensive graphics memory, why not let users add their own...The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots for adding up to 1TB of NAND flash, "

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2016/07/amd-radeon-pro-ssg-...

Comment · 10 years ago

> People who need to hide things have encrypted options. People who don't, also have options. I don't see the problem.

This viewpoint is tricky. This basically turns encryption use into a big target on a user. If only people who have something to hide use encryption, then everyone using encryption must have something to hide.

Also, your argument makes the assumption that everyone grasps the value of all of their information. Not everyone understands how much of their life can be found out through their Google Maps history.

I prefer to look at it from the perspective of my life not being anyone else's business. If my local MP came up to me and asked me who I'd talked to and where I'd been for the last week, I'd tell them to sit and spin. Why should passive surveillance be any different?

Comment · 10 years ago

There are a few people in my office (web dev shop) that have Chromebooks. With a little tinkering to open them up, they're perfect.

I mean really, 99% of the time all you need is a web browser and a connection to remote into the machine that's doing the real lifting for you.

My favourite part is the disposability. If it gets trashed or stolen, all I have to do is sign in to a new chromebook and generate new keys to be back up and running.

Comment · 11 years ago

OMIGAWSH THANK YOU

I picked up an X220 as my first thinkpad a couple weeks ago and this has been driving me more than a little batty.