LeonenTheDK

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Comment · 28 days ago

I had ordered a new wireless charger about two weeks ago (without Prime). a day or two before it was meant to be shipped (about a week before Prime day), my order was cancelled "due to lack of stock". I go to the original product page and what do you know, it's in stock but $3 more expensive. Looking again today, it's on the Prime sale for the old price.

Scummy behaviour at best, and illegal at worst.

Comment · 7 months ago

When my company was briefly running FreeBSD on new (5 years ago) Lenovo servers with Intel NICs, we too had some issues. I don't remember the exact details, but our sysadmin at the time had to do a bunch of work to get it fixed.

Comment · 8 months ago

When that news first went out, the article[0] I read at the time said that Kagi does purchase some of its indexing from Google.

[0] https://www.404media.co/email/4650b997-7cc3-4578-834c-7e663e...

Comment · 11 months ago

Nice, just got woken up by my outage alarms, just for it to be Cloudflare again. At least it's _my_ problem!

But my goodness, they're really struggling over the last couple weeks... Can't wait to read the next blog post.

Comment · 1 year ago

I actually ended up purchasing this unit and getting it running with the instructions from [0] mentioned elsewhere. RAM and everything else seems to be almost identical to the dongles. (4 core A53 CPU running just shy of 1Ghz, 512 MB RAM, 4GB flash storage).

The only couple issues I had getting a plain old Linux on it from the instructions was that it didn't like the image buddy prepared custom for his tutorial in [0]. The solution was to follow the source links in the article, and flash it with a "generic" image from the person I believe originally got Linux working on these types of devices. I can't overstate how good these instructions and discussions in the comments are. The other thing was the modem didn't work, but all that required was copying the files from the original modem partition on the device to /lib/firmware of the new Linux installation. Super straight forward.

Sadly the screen, while it did function with the stock firmware, doesn't work out of the box with the Linux I flashed to it. Digging around, I think I've determined it's a DSI display, with maybe some evidence of Linux showing its there, but the kernel I have wasn't compiled with any support to run it. I'm not knowledgeable at all in this space though so there's that.

It's a great device, all the same benefits of the dongles, but with a battery to boot. If only I knew how to get that screen to work.

[0] https://wvthoog.nl/openstick/

Comment · 1 year ago

I haven't played retail in the last few years so I'm not sure if that rep has changed, but on my main I never bothered to regain the Booty Bay rep and was still KOS to them. Hilarious.

Comment · 1 year ago

Just wait until we get this on e-paper.

Comment · 1 year ago

That's brutal they'd execute the stand-in after the celestial omen was deemed to have passed. I wonder if the person standing in knew it was coming? Was it a great honour to take the king's place during a crisis, or was the person put there in a more deceptive way?

Comment · 2 years ago

I wonder how much it matters been just having a LinkedIn account vs actually and actively using it. IE not having a presence on the platform ends up as a negative for whatever reason.

Comment · 2 years ago

Absolutely living the dream! Being a sustainable one man SaaS is what I'd ultimately love to be, but not only do I have no ideas about what to SaaS, I highly doubt I'd have the drive to follow through if I did.

Kudos to you, and to another 9 years!

Also I'm stealing the term Hobbit software, talk about comfy.

Comment · 2 years ago

> and most likely a lot of the software we write will cease to be running in a decade

If only that were true in my experience.

Comment · 2 years ago

Back on phones.

Comment · 2 years ago

That's what I said elsewhere here, it's just so eggregious. Hadn't considered it might be a rival trying to burn competition.

Or maybe the Botting process went bad lol.

Comment · 2 years ago

It's actually crazy, I got here from a notification via pushbullet (which usually sends me hour old high point posts). But here we are with it barely 15 mins old. You'd think they'd try to not be so eggregious about it.

Comment · 2 years ago

Very interesting, I had no idea there was that much potential impact on the brain. I started doing it for the usual weight loss reasons, as well as building better eating habits long term. But it seems like there's some other plausible benefits to be had. Interested to see what future research reveals.