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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago

Basically sounds like the Tesla game plan, which was super effective: roadster (which is purely a toy for the rich) and a little later the Model S (practical EV), and then introduce an affordable model.

This implies that eventually people will strap rusty boxes to their head though, so grain of salt with the analogy...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 77 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I went with "cheap mikrotik router + cheap used enterprise APs (3x Aruba 325)," and I've been pretty happy.

What hardware you running for pfSense?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I've heard that RawTherapee is good, but not quite on the same level.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

I'd definitely recommend getting a credit report (not from the websites that advertise with an insane jingle, but from the actual credit bureaus


you're entitled to a free report). Mine had debt from a relative with a similar name; I was able to get that removed. They will also tell you in more detail what goes in to calculating it.

I agree that it's not perfect, and often very opaque, but you should be able to get some understanding of why she doesn't have good credit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 40 points 10 months ago (10 children)

...except that it used to be that your ability to secure a loan was based on where you went to school, how firm your handshake was, and if you happened to have the right skin color and sex organs.

The current system certainly isn't perfect; and if you're denied a loan you have a legal right (in the US) to know the reason.

There are systemic issues, to be sure. But the nominal goal is absolutely better than what we used to have.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 10 months ago

Right


not immune to congestion at all. Unlike ATT fiber, where we had 300Mbps (symmetric I think)...but if you log in to the modem it reported a gigabit link. Starting a download, you could often get more than 300Mbps, but it would slowly fall in line with bandwidth policies.

With Sonic, my gigabit connection would get north of 900Mbps (iperf3), both ways, to a nearby university computer. I miss it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 36 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Not every ISP! Where I live there's an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers "best effort" service


which means there's no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that's what you get.

Sadly, they're not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 3 points 10 months ago

I still use my i5-4670k machine. It has a SATA SSD, only 8GB RAM, but it is a completely zippy machine. Ancient (by today's standards) 750Ti, but I only rarely use it for old games (Xonotic and Portal2) and it doesn't break a sweat.

Debian, i3wm, so it ends up being lightweight but that's my preferred setup regardless of specs.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there a commonly accepted reason why Microsoft makes these big releases so different?

AFAIK macOS has relatively minor changes, in terms of UI/UX, from release to release (look at screenshots of the original OS X vs. the current macOS version). And Linux is entirely dependent on distro, but for me it's just "has i3wm changed drastically? No? Great!"

My guess is that Windows just does it because they need folks to upgrade, and that's the only tool they have to force people's hands...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you put on potatoes? Ketchup. What color is ketchup? Red. What color are commies?

I rest my case.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 10 months ago

Lots of games worked just fine on a 486...

Commander Keen and Lemmings should keep you busy for a few evenings at least.

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