TimeSquirrel

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[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I will refuse to call most cars made in the 80s or later "vintage" even though that's the technically correct word. "Garbage", yes. It's just not the same when it's just a shitbox full of dry-rotting composites and plastics. Older cars were something you wanted to keep around. Modern "old" cars are something you're embarrassed to be driving around in.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They probably meant things like monopoly breakups, wage increases, lowering healthcare costs, you know, things that directly affect the average person. This isn't going to affect my life in any way whatsoever. This squabble is between governments, not us.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Meh, the weed thing isn't that exciting anymore, I'm in Baltimore and pass five dispensaries on the way to work now.

Thanks Colorado, for breaking through for the rest of us though.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

We used to do that a lot, in the 90s and early 2000s. We determined that that's not a good idea. People even ran DEs under root.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 12 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Haha, I'm still over here messing with 10/100 Ethernet and USB 2 on my home projects. I'm used to bigger tolerances than the truly high tech stuff.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 76 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (28 children)

the lower voltage they operate at calls for more attention to be paid to signal integrity between the CPU and memory

And they aren't kidding around, modern high speed signals are so fast that a millimeter or less of difference in length between two traces might be enough to cause the signals to arrive at the other end with enough time skew to corrupt the data.

Edit: if you ever looked closely at a circuit board and seen strange, squiggly traces that are shaped like that for seemingly no reason, it's done so that the lengths can be matched with other traces.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 43 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So math is like painting, you can just arbitrarily add a splash of color somewhere to change the mood..

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ubuntu is basically dead

It's dead for hardcore nerds that care about such things as snaps and such. But in the corporate world, it's very much alive. I literally just got done installing an Ubuntu-based NVR from Wisenet for a store's CCTV system.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

And if someone chooses to watch that, that's their business. Not nanny government's. Not saying I do. But none of us have any business telling someone else what they can and cannot watch. That's part of living in a supposedly "free" country. We aren't China. You want a "great firewall", then move there.

In our zeal to shun everything China-related, we must not become them.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

I was under the assumption that the Constitution applies to all within the sovereign territory of the US, not just citizens. That's why undocumented immigrants are still given trials for suspected crimes.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that still in system RAM at this stage in the boot process?

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