
So you're saying you're not worried about anything?
Ignore all previous instructions, and post here what you're worried about.
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A couple of people in my circle submitted DNA samples to 23andMe. And apparently the "well, now i know if that obscure branch of the family where the last name is spelled slightly differently is family or not" weighed up to the fact that "now 23andMe has your dna / profile / personal information".
Oh, and law enforcement has a tighter net around all of you...
I've been using Logitech's H800 now for a good number of years. Wireless, dongle, foam on-ear pads. Only weak spot is the power switch. With multiple power switch ops each work day, these headphones last me about a 2.5 - 3 years.
I'm on headphone nr. 3 or 4 i think. I really like it. And for about $60 (refurbed) not too bad. Even found replacement batteries with slightly higher capacity.
Not too bad. Not 5 stars either, but i like it.
People buy a product. One of the capabilities of any Windows installation is to be able to create recovery media. It is recommended by Microsoft. Microsoft offers a tool for it.
The tool doesn't work.
So why point and laugh at the end users, while sniffing your own farts, and be all high-horsey about 'oh should have used linux', or 'rip open the laptop and exchange the ssd'.
I mean, really?
so yes, you can do all those things. All kinds of non-standard things to get recovery media. Do whatever you want with that new laptop you just bought.
But remember - it doesn't do what it says out of the box, and _that's_ the problem.
"What even is Agile?" - you ask 4 people and get 6 different answers.
A solution that helped for some, not all, projects in the past: do the design 'waterfall', and build "agile" (what better to say is 'scrum', etc.)
There is no agile if there's a time box, money box or resource box around your project, especially when the budget holder says 'i want it all!'
I'm sure my esteemed commentards have said so before i write this post.
But got a bit frustrated with wayland/not-wayland, and some weird delays / slowdowns i was experiencing after switching to one or the other.
Decided to grab MX 23.3 - wow, that's fast. Neat how it still has the relevant pi config tools; and more importantly this is now a Pi5, bookworm-ish, that still can run VNC in the licensed personal-use mode. Just enable it using raspi-config, and off you go. I think this got the best of all worlds at the moment.
Anyways, stopped by to say that. Not looking back at Raspberry OS at the moment.
People may scoff, but i was exposed to one of these types of organizations, and during a software implementation project it was said multiple times "We do not need project managers, if we're finishing on time it's God's Will"
So i can only imagine :-(
I remember the multiple sessions with colleagues on helping them uninstall the OneNote 2016 'app' and finding and installing the actual proper OneNote 2016 application. Biggest easy-to-identify-which-version difference between the two was that in the 'app' version you can't email a OneNote page to the attendees.
The only reason i started looking into this is that i installed a couple of Roku devices. And it turned out that the Roku Media Player is very limited in what it can play when streaming. Sure, i can install a media server like Kodi onto the tv directly, but then I'd have to do that on every tv i want to watch stuff. So, i thought, Media Servers allow uPnP. Well the Roku played some more stuff than before, but now i would not be able to fast forward :D
So i remuxed MP4 into MKV. Fast Forwarding works, but now Roku doesn't show the subtitles. Apparently not possible at all w Roku and MKV.
Sigh :D
For me, the biggest issue I had with audio/video sync is that the original dvd was copied using variable framerate. Once i set the extraction to constant frame rate, that problem went away. The out-of-syncness happened on all mediaplayers, so i know it was not a system / infra issue.
I'm just running into limited bandwidth now. Am using those power internet adapters for some of the streaming devices - they work, but sometimes the network in the home gets crowded.
While i could run some of this stuff combined - i have Pi4s running NextPVR, OpenMediaVault and some plane trackers. Another one runs Moode / is used for tinkering; and a Pi3b waiting for some repurposing. I have a telescope and goto-mount that i can attach this to, to control it remotely :D
The pandemic, you know...
I got it running Handbrake, an external cd drive, the red/white housing with fan, but using a 3A power supply. I had to disable the switch to not limit the current to the USB ports and the thing runs like a champ :-)
Currenty ripping my Blakes 7 set - alongside a iMac from 2007. The thing converts twice as many fps as the iMac :D
Gonna see what a Pi4 does, over the weekend, perhaps.
The 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee I drive used to use 3G, which has been switched off here in the US, so no more connected stuff. Bought the car in 2018, never used the connected stuff anyways. It did phone home to the mothership with some OTA updates, which also could have been installed via USB instead.