Posts by BartyFartsLast 1177 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2023
Kudos to Apple,
This looks like a smart move, something that can be given to young people in school and 'capture' their OS loyalty, old people who need a bit more than a tablet but don't want the faff of Windows or want something a bit prettier than a budget wintel and those who don't care what OS is on it as long as it plays youTube/netflix//whatever stream service and let's them buy crap on the 'met
Possibly, something simple and (relatively) low tech to stick together in the good old US of A but, it is a pretty smart move for more reasons, it opens up and gives them a presence in a market segment they've not got a foothold in yet.
Heck I even found myself looking at it and wondering if I might find a use for one.
We do need to get more nuclear capacity as well as more renewables, that way we aren't reliant on the toddler tantrums between the orange one and other fossil supplying countries but "private industry"?
Makes total sense to rely on private industry from other countries to build our nuclear capacity :facepalm:
I have a theory that the idiots at the top of the AI tree are hoping they can somehow live forever in their AI, perhaps Neil Stephenson "Dodge in Hell" style perhaps.
If it involves dicing up their brains I'm all for them trying right now.
(Oh, btw, Elmo? If it needs explanation, it's not a joke alright? )
He and his truth henders can spin a deal as a win, " the best deal, only I could make such a great deal" but the spectacle of US service personnel coming home with a flag draped over them and greeted by a baseball cap wearing yob is rather more difficult to spin so his choices are nukes or deal.
Also, bear in mind the Venn of deprived areas where military service is seen as a valid way to make a better life and red votes is quite strongly coincident.
But, the number of tech bros building survival bunkers and compounds as well as the resurgent trade in domestic nuclear shelters is rather alarming.
(And having seen the kind of people who are building themselves shelters, I'm going outside to get a tan if it all kicks off)
My partner, for reasons, has a licence that needs to be renewed every few years and age has to have a medical.
She's not had a driving licence since her last one expired during COVID, she's still driving on a DVLA exception because, despite her MPs intervention, many letters from her doctor, the DVLA still can't seem to work out if she's allowed a licence to drive or not.
Their ability to manage a simple driving licence gives me absolutely no confidence they could run an ID card scheme.
The money is gone, the end result of this and the other various moronic ventures (including Bonespurs' war in Iran) will be more expense passed on to the average US citizen, along with the rising cost of fuel, food and pretty much every other daily expense, hopefully the democrats can make it plain that Trump and the lickspittle GOP are squarely to blame for this.
The key phrase in the article was "vulnerabilities in Microsoft's supply chain" which suggests the licence stickers and keys were stolen goods or at best obtained fraudulently by the people supplying her.
Regardless of how you feel about MS, that's extremely dodgy and they'd be well within their rights to revoke those keys
The up side to those days was that most manufacturers, including the big names, were using standard form factor boards and cases so disconnecting the reset switch was fairly easy to do, custom motherboards ce quite a bit later.
I also bumped into malicious resets occasionally where some idiot would think it funny or necessary to push reset or otherwise disrupt a server, I solved a couple of those with CCTV cameras and locked cabinets
Seriously, downvotes for common sense cover up the reset switch FFS.
It's as if you lot have never learned that people accidentally press switches and reset stuff if they're not protected or disconnected.
And Ehlers Danlos is hyper mobility, the condition is potentially why the gangly youth could hit the reset switch by accident when it seemed so unlikely. Us, the EDS society symbol is a Zebra
Ehlers Danlos I wonder.
I also wonder about anyone who has a server with such an easily accessible reset button, even back in the days of NetWare and "built from parts" servers I'd never connect the reset switch unless it was well recessed or covered because *nix and Novell didn't cope well with unscheduled resets
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