@chrisd @CatherineFlick that sort of size always seems to me like an awkward middle ground where it’s too big to be a thing I carry all the time but too small to be useful in the way a laptop is. (Tablets are imo a dead end, good only for use as a portable video player)
@chrisd @CatherineFlick yeah, ipadOS has an almost usable windowing system now that allows things like running apps side by side or one floating on top of another. Still not convinced I want that in a a phone though.
Today in security theatre, a client who is concerned we might be on a network segment with access to sensitive machines rather than just building controls. They’d like me to let them know what I can see and provide logs to reassure them this isn’t the case, rather than, you know, checking where the port we’re plugged into goes and whether it’s limited to just the BMS.
@eloy I’m not aware of any device ever which has actually implemented Ethernet over HDMI so I think you’re probably safe unless you own the only example of an HDMI network switch ever manufactured.
Love it when what I thought was going to be a multi-phase pain in the arse project turns out to be easy.
I don’t in fact need to replace the fans on my GPU to make the gaming PC bearably quiet, I just needed to not have the CPU radiator fan plugged into a fan connector that’s always at 100%.
@krans @phlash @homelab as someone who was once responsible for several Raspberry Pis distributed around Europe, do yourself a favour and get a cheap thin terminal or mini PC off eBay instead if you want something you can hold onto, or rent a £5/month VM from somewhere.
Raspberry Pis are great if you need a Linux machine with GPIO to interface with the real world, otherwise they’re just woefully underpowered computers with flakey storage.
@phlash @krans @homelab I’m the era of symmetric gigabit home internet connections I also question whether most people really want a *home*lab. I do have on site hardware for home automation and local data storage but the beefy server is rented from OVH because who wants the power draw and noise a proper server in their house?
@phlash @krans @homelab this absolutely the start point - what do you want to achieve? Also I think there’s a question of how much reliability you need/want, which will be influenced by the first question - there’s a world of difference between a machine or two to tinker with stuff you’re interested in on and something you’re going to rely on.
@dramypsyd firstly, yes. Secondly, is there a huge asterisk on that because they’ve been doing personal pizzas (four small slices) for as long as I can remember in the UK.
@Dany this depends how it’s being done for me. If you’re doing it with headphones at normal coffee shop conversation volume then fine, if you’ve got it coming out of laptop speakers while shouting over the din you can fuck right off.
EE/Money Saving Expert sales once again knocking my door, apparently BT are doing “the internet updates” in the coming weeks. I almost admire the bullshit they feed their door to door sales people to do market research on who’s with which ISP.
@an0key I’d take the piss out of someone buying one of those as well.
@an0key I love that the only commentary I’ve seen on this thing has been “wtf? Who’s spending £420 on a toothbrush?”
SaaS based building energy analysis, one of the few jobs in which you occasionally have to interact with Kubernetes and Windows XP in the same day. (I hasten to note the Windows XP machine had no Internet connection)
Possibly the biggest benefit of moving from a Ruby shop to a Python one a few years ago is that I don’t have to keep up with what DHH is up to.
If you’re not playing Denshattack I’d like to know why. It’s an incredibly stylish game set in a future Japan where everyone has taken shelter in domes from the apocalyptic climate except for a few brave… train drivers? Doing tricks off abandoned tracks‽
Just imagine Tony Hawk’s and Katamari had a wonderful love child.
@tthbaltazar @gsuberland so, I once got hit with a Trustpilot request from my ISP at exactly the wrong moment and posted a review which was broadly “Why are you so needy? You’re an ISP, if I notice you you’ve failed.” and then they *emailed me asking how they could make things better*.
They’ve at least claimed I’m now on the list of people who will never get any comms other than receipts and critical information.
@an0key let me guess, someone set a KPI for calls being answered within 33 minutes and didn’t explicitly state “and you can’t just disconnect them”.
Would it be weird to go upstairs and tell my neighbour I really don’t mind the loud music but for the love of God can they set their phone to keep notification noises on the phone instead of ducking the music?
@farah I think it’s region specific, which doesn’t make it much better but at least they’re not imposing this madness on the entire world.
Just going to drop this here like some sort of specialised grenade designed to destroy the Fediverse’s productivity: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080030/The_Message_from_Deep_Space/