xyguy

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[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago

Failing to properly evacuate the city during a Tsunami because its easier just to clean up afterwards (Cities Skylines).

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was genuinely convinced they offered 10gig service in some markets. Doesn't surprise me that its all marketing nonsense.

Just a tip for anyone who wants to know, if you have Comcast business internet they'll tell you you have to use their modem but, you can swap it out with a 3rd patty modem and use the live chat service to get it activated. Then you can send back their modem for free at a ups store. Every salesperson will tell you its not possible but it absolutely is.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

I can't wait. As long as they keep the autotiling feature working as well as it does now I'm down.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago

I didn't realize it was that recent of an addition to the NEC. Weve only lived in super old houses where everything was always needing completely redone. I was usually replacing 2 conductor and cloth-jacketed stuff everywhere.

That was around 2012 and I remember the electrician we hired at the time mentioned it being a thing so that makes sense.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

This is pretty much my setup anyway. I run Pop Shell on top of Fedora and add dash to dock.

I'm just absolutely hooked on the autotiling built into pop shell.

If its an official spin all the better.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Current national electrical code in the US (since the 1980s) is a neutral in every switch box. Before then a switch loop was allowed so you see a lot of older construction with those.

You also see newer construction with those where Uncle Dave™ decided it was easier to only have to run a wire down from the light rather than fish it up through the crawlspace, NEC be damned.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 57 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Hey at least you won't have to sign in anymore just to get automatic driver update checking.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There have been some smaller ISP outages in my area too.

There was a recently disclosed giant problem with DNSSEC that was suppossed to have been mitigated but I wonder whether certain DNS providers haven't been able to patch yet.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago

It baffles me that they don't at least dump these on their own streaming service. I mean seriously. What an absolute waste.

Its like the plot of the movie The Producers, make more money by doing a bad job on a movie and writing down the loss, only Gene Wilder isn't in it and it sucks.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

TLDR: Android 15 is going to keep the Android System Webview ram-resident at pretty much all times so that when an app needs a "web popup page" it will load significantly faster.

Here is an article from Android Central detailing how the component works at relatively high level.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 2 points 9 months ago

It is amazing. I love how easy it is to mount network shares with it too.

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 13 points 9 months ago

Don't forget USB On the Go protocols! shudders

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