rfarley04

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I write about tech history. Otherwise, a dad, endurance racing amateur, TTRPG nerd, and craft beer snob.
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Comment · 8 days ago
I have an Asus Vivobook with the same mediatek chip and it does something similar on Linux. I've got it set up to literally unload the WiFi driver after a sleep or shutdown command
Comment · 19 days ago
> "Then, to throw a little extra wrinkle into the mix, there was Lotus’s product strategy on the PC. If Improv wasn’t your thing, maybe their other Windows spreadsheet, 1-2-3/Windows, would feel more comfortable. Or their other-other option, Lotus Symphony. Or their other-other-other option, Lotus Works. Or their other-other-other-other option, Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS Release 4, which went on sale in 1994."

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Comment · 23 days ago
I absolutely love little tools where the URL defines the app's data. Cassidy Williams's pocketcal.com is another really simple but really useful one.
Comment · 1 month ago
At what scale? How is 3d printing at the scale of a boardgame you can sell nationwide different then the current manufacturing methods to create these materials?
Comment · 1 month ago
Should probably put somewhere in the title that this is an individual's prediction
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you for saving me five minutes. Seriously.
Comment · 1 month ago
I have lived in Thailand for 13 years and taxes have been a huge pain. When I worked for a local company, I had to pay taxes in both places, for example. I have since started a US-based S Corp for my contract/freelance work and have payments arrive in family's US bank account, where I tend to keep them in savings while living off my wife's local salary. I use an expact-specific tax service (Greenback) that typically costs ~$650 for me to just give them all my paperwork and they do up the taxes for me. Absolutely worth it to just not have to worry about everything.
Comment · 1 month ago
Oh my god this is a lifesaver. Just last week I was using Google Groups to search for old Usenet posts about the Commodore 64 and the Mimic Spartan, and I was getting "too many requests" errors 4 out of 5 times clicking a result. Happened on VPN+incognito, and in a separate browser. Just searched for what I was looking for in Rewind and immediately found the posts and even some I never saw in Google Groups results. So glad all of this is archived in multiple, non Google places
Comment · 2 months ago
The video is just people typing into a chatbot window and then Claude building them something. Salesforce is totally irrelevant to that workflow except as the place where you store your data.

Another video claiming that AI can do anything and everything, but it needs a human babysitter. Another video claiming that working with a CRM will be fun. Another video claiming that we can finally trust AI. God why does Salesforce still exist at all.

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