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> the 4th port on the 14-inch got turned into a dumb HDMI port that can only do HDMI out

I would have paid extra to turn it into a USB A port instead.

> People often forget how "good enough" the PS2 graphics were, and how big of a deal that was.

I remember going to an electronics store with my friend. I couldn't figure out why they had a broadcast football game playing on a 15 inch LCD display up front. I assumed it was a game but then watched it for a few cuts and was so certain it was live footage...

It was a madden game on PS2 in demo mode.

App Store search is so bad that I won't use their search at all anymore. I search the web and grab the link from the app maker's website.

I do the same, but I switched from cert-per-subdomain a couple of years ago.

They're either using Passive DNS logs or a historical dataset.

> Keep track of which apps had been opened every month, only pay the subscriptions for the ones I’ve opened, and allow me to set monthly limits.

That turns app icons into land-mines though.

Idk what the happy medium is, but there's gotta be something between "buy this kids game once" and "pay $13 a month until he gets sick of it," and I don't think we've quite found one that's equitable for all parties yet.

36 bays and only 24T of storage?

Can't you get that in a single disk that costs less than a kilodollar?

I have a pool heater and an air conditioner, and I'm running both at the same time. They're fifty feet apart, but this thought crosses my mind constantly.

What do you mean?

I ask because I find Apple's wired EarPods to be less... selective than AirPods are—by that I mean they'll pick up more background noise whereas AirPods seem to only transmit my voice—but EarPods' clarity exceeds AirPods if you grab the mic and hold it next to your mouth, which you obviously can't do with AirPods.

I was looking at roughly the same, m5 max, 128G with 4T. It was ~$6000 out the door.

The same config on their site is now $8000 before taxes and AppleCare.

A couple weeks' notice would've been nice.

I get that, but I don't care.

I want the PDF (or CSV) emailed to me as an attachment because that's the workflow that doesn't suck.

Everything else sucks in one way or another, and much of it is security theater.

That'd be nice, but I'd even settle for the plain pdf attached to the email.

> Why can’t I set up Windows or MacOS like that? I know the answer I just find the answer annoying.

I wish I still cared about this. I had intended to build an iPXE boot menu via a small web service that would act as a windows install XML template editor/selector, but I never got around to doing it after learning enough web dev to pull it off.

I built a few similar things that worked inside of WinPE, but the slowness of waiting for it to boot was always what drove me to do as much config as possible in the PXE boot menu—you can get into that in seconds versus minutes for the PE.

I used to install Windows a lot, and found a lot of tech around it to be a little too opinionated. SMS/WDS were just too legacy-leaning and Microsoft Enterprise-flavored. FOG was a little too heavy-handed (though very good). Glazier excited me but I never actually used it to determine if it has the flexibility I wanted...

But I digress. OS installs should be a lot easier and faster to accept your configuration preferences and get to work when the goal is "erase this machine and reinstall" than they are even today.

That was the point as I read it. Payload signature verification is a good and sometimes desirable alternative to transport encryption when the payload itself isn't secret.

Highly-cacheable resources like game and OS updates are often intentionally delivered over http as signed payloads to facilitate middlebox caching.

I saw a helpful ad once.

The organic search results didn't offer what I needed at all, but the ad took me straight to an e-commerce site that sold what I wanted. I had it in my hands at a reasonable price about 5 days.

It was for a Nintendo Wii component video cable, back in 2007.

> Finally, AWS isn't a silver bullet. For anyone in us-east-1, you know [0].

I probably should have commented on the original article here, but I pulled all of my company's production infra out of that AZ back in 2019 because AWS dragged its feet for too long deploying 5th gen hardware there.

I assumed the racks were full or something. I still don't know if they ever did get newer hardware in that AZ—I just avoid it like the plague.

I had a light chuckle this week when I discovered the work I did out of sheer frustration saved us from a partial outage seven years later.