Re: Oh yes, the famous "additional router from the boss's son"
Doesn't anyone run DHCP snooping on their switches?
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I've noticed that the current crop of arm laptops all have massive batteries. If you compare battery time per Wh, it's at best an incremental improvement over x64.
It helps that all manufacturers are on board making laptops with good battery life, but once that fades and the race to bottom starts, battery life will fade away again.
On that topic, it would perhaps be a blessing if they can't run x64 well at all, it could serve as a warning to the user that they've installed some old lardware app that's going to eat battery, and serve as a push to running modern software that is typically more well behaved and battery friendly.
Steam hardware survey from ca 2012 shows 4G ram as most popular, so rpi had 16 times less! And originally out of that tiny ram, only half was usable for the CPU. PCs had 32 times the usable RAM.
Today, Steam hardware survey says most common ram size is 16G. The raspberry Pi has grown from having 32 times less RAM than contemporary PCs, to having half the RAM of contemporary PC.
So it seems to me Raspberry pi is catching up rather than falling behind?
I think crippling start menu was still passable for experienced users, as most of them don't use the start menu.
For me, crippling the taskbar was a much bigger inconvenience in W11.
Lately, disappearing settings and the culling of control panel has been a source of annoyance. I actually like file history, but the "modern" settings UI has disappeared and doesn't show up in search, but does still exist in control panel..
I would've thought it would be the regular computer illiterate adult for which whatsapp was a blessing. At least in my experience with previous services like Skype, it usually went like:
-:"I can't log on, i don't remember my password"
- "What's your Skype username?"
- "No idea"
- "What email did you use to sign for Skype?"
- "Uh..."
- "Do you have email?"
- "I have Google/Hotmail/Microsoft/Outlook "
- "Oh okay let's go look in email what your Skype password is"
- "What's my email password?"
(And when trying to log in to email they actually accidentally go to Skype web and log in successfully and get angry I didn't immediately tell them Skype was same as email)
Whereas with WhatsApp one can usually figure out the users's phone number without too much hassle, and the user can usually receive SMS to the phone.
In local news, Yandex says Ilmatar started providing energy from First of January, but canceled the contract "on a technicality shortly after". Yandex says it offered to pay higher rates for the contract to continue.
The energy sellers they've contacted have given "formal excuses" for being unable to sell energy.
As a local it amazes me that there wouldn't be even a single supplier willing to take a PR hit in exchange for a large electricity sales contract. There would be concerns about payment, even in best of times russian companies have a reputation of being tardy at paying bills. The local energy distributor Nivos did comment that Yandex has always been punctual when paying their bills, and Yandex itself said they've opened up their books to potential energy sellers to give assurance of their financial stability and ability to pay electricity bills in the future too.
The detail that their previous PPA was canceled "shortly after" makes me wonder if they meant before the war, which would make the whole event more interesting. From the point of view of a seller wanting to make a quick buck, they could offer hourly market price plus a margin, putting most of the risk on Yandex. The DC power consumption should be extremely predictable, making it financially a very risk free sale.
I think there's something more going on than a spontaneous boycott of Yandex by energy firms.
Many current routers have USB3 ports and advertise hard drive support through smb1. I've seen a lot of people use this feature to plug in usb flash or hard drive for inexpensive backup destination.
The reason routers never upgraded and are sold with smb1 even today is because the branch of samba with smb3 support is way too bloated to fit in a router. Smb2 results in half the performance of smb1, so most often it gets disabled even though the router's software could otherwise support it.
I suppose back in the days there was never really any reason to have windfarms idle in high winds? I wonder if that's the biggest use case for remote connectivity these days, to modulate production when electricity prices turn negative?
(Instead of random powerplants tripping due to high frequency)
Probably the testers never thought to test flying a simulated missed approach at a runway where the charts tell you to make a 270 degree turn to the left in order to fly right.
At least, that's how I understood it, that fiddling with certain parameters will result in the plane turning 90 degrees to the right instead of the long turn 270 degrees left, but in both cases will end up flying in the correct direction.
The benefits accumulated from years of living densely has come back to reclaim.
Those who have endured living sparsely now find they're less restricted than the fat cats of the cities.
People in "full" quarantine conditions in the cities, will still be served better by home deliveries or groceries, pizza, and other exotic take away foods than the unquarantined man outside the city. The city people have in some cases paid ludicrous amounts of money for their dwellings, and if they're quarantined it will be a relatively short period of their life confined to enjoy what is definitely the largest investment in their life.
Take a moment to stop and think about what really matters in life.
I would’ve benefitted from a smart water meter. If it would’ve let me look at usage history hour by hour.
Eventually I figured it out, that the inherited washing machine, the finest mid 80s engineering from Germany, skillfully crafted from what was no doubt spare armour plates originally destined for the Bismarck (judging by its weight), was consuming around 5 bucks/quid/euro in water each wash!
Although sometimes I wonder if the modern machine is worse, saving water by cheerfully claiming the wash is done when half the soap I put in is still obscuring my laundry from view.
I’m in Europe,recently installed a heat pump. It has inputs for signaling “power is practically free now “, “power is cheap”, “power is expensive”, IIRC.
Of course, the electricity supplier’s meter doesn’t have a single I/O despite being a “smart” meter. I’ve considered making a raspberry Pi screen scrape their website and signal my heat pump.
I've been told that yes, they're aware they're still running smbv1, but they can't update it because the branch of Samba with >SMBv1 support is *massive* and simply won't fit in the available flash memory.
The mythical unattributed source also claimed there have been backporting efforts to get >SMBv1 support in the lean and "unbloated" branch of Samba, but it's too unstable to be deployable.
So yeah, this is my usecase for SMBv1 too, harddrive hooked up to WiFi router, and PCs backup to that network drive. And I'm too cheap to pay for a router with enough flash to fit recent samba. :-)
That is a very good observation!
Stick shaker and stall warning comes on. Pilots think plane is nearing stall.
Nose dips down - yep, definitely stalling for real!
But how can the airplane stall at 300 knots? The airspeed indicator must be wrong.
They manage to recover, try to guess their airspeed, make sure they're going fast enough.
Still the plane repeatedly stalls.
Icing? In Africa? But it would also explain airspeed indicator fault.
Are spoilers and flaps stuck? Troubleshoot the hydraulics, get them to ret*crash"
... And they failed to notice the trim was moving on its own, and didn't run the right checklist to deal with that.
Dawn had ion engine for trajectory changes.
What I'm curious about is whether it also has reaction wheels or similar for attitude control, whether those had also failed.
It would also be interesting to know what kind of spool-up spool-down delays, if any, ion drives have, and how much efficiency is lost during that time.. and if they could be made small enough to be used for attitude control. You'd need 8-16 of them.
If dead probes weren't shut down, you'd eventually have no frequencies left for new probes to transmit on. So they shut it off, while it's antennas were still pointing close enough towards earth to be able to receive commands.
A US navy navigation satellite launched in 1964 still wakes up occasionally when it gets sunlight on its panels, and transmits telemetry. At its job of navigation satellite it failed 2 months after launch.
Iirc, Apollo era fault detection, and probably Soyuz too, consists of a long piece of wire that runs up and down the length of the rocket. If the rocket goes boom, the wire is broken, which triggers abort.
Then it's a question of how fast explosive bolts and the abort motor light up after being lit up. Hopefully fast enough that the fireball shockwave still hasn't reached the crew.
Maybe y7 can type daater ok no. Capacitive touch keyboard, but 2-@5# the poibt wjeb y97 spend nor3 time fixing ty09#?
Translation:
Maybe you can type faster on capacitive keyboard, but what's the point when you spend more time fixing typos?
Or at least, despite efforts I still can't type better than the above on touchscreen. Mind, I held out with qwerty until 2014 or so, so I've only had 4 years practice time..
My operator used to have a service like this, for 3.90 Euro a month I got 5 extra SIM cards, all with the same phone number. All phones rang at the same time, but SMS only arrived on the main phone.
Apparently this was too good of a serviy, because they only sold it for a few months. I used it for about 8 years before my level of geekiness dropped to having only one phone.
From my observations of random people trying gimp, they can't find anything because the buttons are all in windows floating around, sometimes with scrollbars, sometimes not.
Then, eventually, they try close gimp, except most of the time they close all the toolboxes before closing whichever window that makes gimp actually close. On next start, all the toolbox windows are gone, and user wonders where everything went, or concludes that maybe he/she misremembered and that gimp actually has no features.
Hand a laptop or phone manufacturer a battery twice as good as their current batteries, and their next device will have a battery half the size of their previous device. Marketing will be hyping the thin sleek design, and everyone will still be whining about how battery technology isn't keeping up.
The different range options on a Tesla actually uses the same physical battery, the software limitations are just different. Now then, why does it cost more to be allowed to use more of the battery's capacity? Because using less makes it last longer and lowers Tesla's warranty repair costs.
When it comes to phones, the phone manufacturers crank the settings all the way to the "maximum capacity, some explosions, short life" end of the scale. And sometimes a bit too far.