sundvor

And they still try to gaslight us into removing our adblockers. No thanks.

The C30 64GB kits are nearly impossible to buy now, so, well done. Got one in September '23 for ~$380 AUD, on the rare occasions it's available today it's been over $1600 AUD.

I upgraded my UPS to a sine interactive unit to minimise the risk of it dying to bad power while the market is so crazy...

I have about 14 or 15 USB devices in addition to my 4 monitors, and whilst I'm sure you're right I'm very happy to have a high quality soundcard that is not part of that mix.

Yup the 4090 and SoundBlaster ZXR in my AM5 7800X3D system would both like to upvote your reply.

I use the speed chime in my Model 3 car to alert me if I'm more than 2 km/h over the posted speed limit, which it infers from its database with the autopilot camera providing overrides.

If I'm over that when passing a speed camera in Victoria, AUS, I'll be pinged with a decent fine to arrive shortly.

Imagine if instead of a chime I got fined every single time, everywhere? All this new monitoring makes it a bit like that, at an extreme. I don't want to live in such a society.

The idea discussed in the article was one of progressive overload; slowly make your body adapt to an ever increasing workload. Don't go straight for the 200kg deadlift when you are new to the gym, in other words.

The endpoint stuff kills laptop performance. I left my previous job and they let me keep my X1 Nano (1st gen; 16GB memory) which was performing abysmally towards the end.

Deleted all the partitions and did a 100% clean install (multi boot Win11/Fedora), and it's suddenly what feels like 2-4x as fast. Made sure to disable some of the Copilot and Internet content in search menu rubbish etc with a few registry tweaks (yay for having admin access to get rid of the bloat/junk).

Fedora/Wayland/Plasma still feels faster though - I just had some issues getting my video to work properly across all of Teams and Zoom.

I missed that - thanks!

Would it kill them to let me specify my own username, as it appears in `c:\users\$username` ?

MyUXG Max has DHCP, and for my attached devices if I specify a static IP I get the option to set a Local DNS record.

There's no central management of these records that I'm aware of though.

Absolutely love my Unifi setup, recently upgraded my USG to the UXG as the old was EOL and not performant enough for gigabit routing with SPI.

Yeah I like to take photos of my cast iron cooking with my S25U, on a black induction glass surface - and I find myself swapping to Pro mode all the time as the colour temperature is often way too warm and or oversaturated.

It's a great camera in automatic mode most of the time, but not for that scenario.

I started with PageStream on the Amiga then later went to Publisher on the PC; I used both of them heaps, primarily for print - got myself a HP LaserJet 4P which was just glorious. Did club newsletters, school works / assignments, cafe menus, everything. Great times.

I actually bought the boxed edition of PageStream with my paper boy money, even though I was just a high school student at the time. That's how much into it I was. :-)

(The skillsets picked up from this along with Assembly on the Amiga transitioned reasonably well into a career of web development and software engineering.)

Bit off topic, but if you ever travel into Australia never don't declare that package of chips.

It could easily turn into your most expensive bag ever.

All food items simply _must_ be declared. There's two lines, so join the "something to declare" one. You'll be waved through after a quick inspection, or asked to surrender any offending items. Super easy. The declare line is often quicker as well.

I'm very pleased to see this sentiment, as a father of a 14 year old boy. 4 years ago I decided to quit alcohol altogether (from a moderate by Australian standards consumption), and I hope to be a positive influence on him through his formative years through open and honest conversations about the topic.

(He has no desire to start drinking etc early or at all at this point.)

Long term health impacts are high, as someone in my 50s I'm certainly doing better for my choice. And yes, not making stupid decisions under influence also cannot be underestimated.

It's crazy to see big companies doing dodgy stuff like this.