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Comment · 1 month ago
My first job in IT was at AOL tech support and we could rattle off modem strings from memory :-)
Comment · 1 month ago
My first job in IT was at AOL tech support and we could rattle off AT modem strings from memory :)
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Comment · 3 months ago
I couldn’t help but notice that there was an equally cold spike at the bottom.
Comment · 4 months ago
OfferUp also has a ton, as does AutoTempest and even good old fashioned AutoTrader. I'm currently shopping for my son.

Facebook seems to have the lowest cost cars, but it also seems to be the least successful way of contacting people. When I bought a car for my sister in April, I contacted (no exaggeration) 70+ sellers and heard back from about ten of them. And yes, I changed the default "Is it still available?" message to something demonstrating urgency e.g. "I have cash and would like to buy." But with persistence, I found her the right car through Marketplace. Really hate the FBook search interface though, it's total garbage.

I spend most of my time looking on CList and OfferUp.

Comment · 4 months ago
Correct, but who 25 years ago could have imagined they’d have gone so far as to roll their own? I remember the Balmer days.

But the fact that they’re rolling a distro tells me they’re likely also writing software for Linux. I’m sure their Azure Linux contains apps they wrote and maintain, used by the OS.

Then there’s Microsoft apps on Android, with Linux under the covers.

Comment · 4 months ago
Also relevant quote that I think about when this subject comes up:

“If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.” ~Linus Torvalds

In this case, an entire freaking distro.

Comment · 5 months ago
I personally am itching for more hardware H.264 or even H.265. There's the ESP32-P4 but it requires a second ESP32 to handle the WiFi. I got it working, but it feels like a hack, and the BOM cost is more than 2x a single chip.

Course more PSRAM and hardware encoding would drive up the price...

Comment · 5 months ago
Air-gapped attacks are the most fascinating. Change my mind
Comment · 5 months ago
Now you’re talking!
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Comment · 5 months ago
It’s got more horsepower than my first desktop computer

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