frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always said that about the PS2, or early model PS3s if you can get one for a reasonable price. Backwards compatibility galore.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 1 month ago

And this coming release will be the first time I'm not going to bother about a new Nintendo console going back to the original. For context, I even like the Virtual Boy. Nintendo has done everything possible to make themselves unlikable.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Wouldn't that imply it's not a growing market anymore?

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 1 month ago

Not so much mixed metaphors as throwing the ingredients in a bowl and calling it a cake.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago

Because they make all the cheap ethernet chips that go on motherboards.

Other than that, can't think of a good reason.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 23 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Straight people celebrating being the ones to perpetuate the human race give argument for not perpetuating the human race

[–] frezik@midwest.social 26 points 1 month ago

I am shocked, shocked, that wccftech left things out of their reporting.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Might not need anything except economies of scale. But getting that is the problem.

Tablet sized eink displays found a niche that couldn't quite be displaced by smartphones and regular tablets. That let them have a market for getting costs down.

There would need to be a similarly wide use case to get the price down on larger eink displays.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Be glad you don't have VR. Those porn vids get big.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Instructions unclear, setup personal Project Gutenberg mirror.

(Started months ago, actually. Their main archive server isn't very fast.)

[–] frezik@midwest.social 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When it comes to attacks on the Internet, doing simple things to get rid of the stupid bots means kicking 90% of attacks out. No, it won't work against a determined foe, but it does something useful.

Same goes for setting SSH to a random port. Logs are so much cleaner after doing that.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Large corporations are allergic to capital expenditures. That is, they don't like investing in new things to make the business run. They want their previous investment to run as long as possible. On occasion, the workers will arrange big projects to be covered as "maintenance" rather than capital expenditures.

Oil companies have invested in oil pumps and refineries. They could invest in all sorts of other things, but that's less money in the hands of shareholders. That's all there is to it. Money spent on new investments isn't making them richer right now.

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