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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

Right


plenty of fog, but not a lot of salty spray.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

My university was pretty zen about this


essentially, "don't use your own access point/router please. But if you do, please talk to your resident (University employed) student IT rep and they can probably help you set it up correctly."

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 29 points 2 months ago (3 children)

...but was it the "Windows Uninstall" button...or the "format /dev/sda1 as ext4" button?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think (?) it's generally true that the root user should never mess with users' files.

Imagine your home directory is shared across many systems on a network (my alma mater did this). It would be really bad if a sysadmin for alpha.university.edu removed a program, and suddenly your personal settings were removed from beta.university.edu


even though that computer still has the program.

This is one of the "UNIX on the desktop" issues


a lot is designed for a sysadmin/multiuser situation, and it has some gotchas when using it as a desktop machine (I'm used to/really appreciate the directory structure and settings management at this point, but it may take some getting used to).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They're just popular ETFs which contain a lot of $AAPL. I was just commenting that even if someone doesn't explicitly hold any $AAPL, if they own ETFs/mutual funds, they are likely exposed to $AAPL.

Doesn't apply to you though since you said you don't own any stock :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

...or $SPY, or $QQQ, or...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Posted this in another reply, but their entry level hardware has decreased in price over the years I think:

In 1999, the iBook was US$1599 (equivalent to $2925 in 2023) (source).

The 2010 13" Air was $1299 (more in today's $) (source).

The current 13" M3 Air is $1099 (source).

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In 1999, the iBook was US$1599 (equivalent to $2925 in 2023) (source).

The 2010 13" Air was $1299 (more in today's $) (source).

The current 13" M3 Air is $1099 (source).

So yeah, they may well raise prices, but the cost of Apple's entry-level hardware has decreased in absolute terms over the years, and has decreased substantially if inflation is taken into account. Not to say the margins aren't higher (no idea about that), but it's interesting.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 3 months ago

I'll push back on that a little. Peloton has, from the beginning, been a very closed ecosystem.

Contrast this to the smart trainer I have which is marketed to cyclists (a Wahoo KICKR). It uses standard protocols to talk, and while they have some software available, it works independent of their ecosystem on standards compliant equipment (ANT+ and BLE). You can even talk to it using the open source GoldenCheetah software.

I would say I own this device. Sure I can't necessarily hack the firmware easily, but I can't hack the firmware on my microwave easily either, but I'd say I own that, too.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago

Right, you can control that behavior in bash with the HISTCONTROL variable, and in zsh with setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Linux is just as bad though


.zsh_history records every command you run!

(/s, obviously...)

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