It’s not just coffee, soda cups have ice lines and a growing number of soda machines have automated / measured filling. And if you go to a theme park your cups are RFID chipped so you can’t get refills (or only a certain amount of refills).

One day I might care about 4k, but it hasn’t happened yet. So I really can’t muster a shit to give about 8k.

The first thing I do with any new laptop is figure out show to disable the trackpad. I’ve never liked them and they’ve been getting worse as more manufacturers make apple-like ones (physical buttons are nicer). So I’m disinclined to own something that, for me, just introduces a ton of new ways for my spacebar to break.

I maintain bare metal, traditional cloud hosting, containers, and serverless (plus “serverless containters”) and this is how I think of it:

I worked for the department that ran student computer labs (before most people started bringing computers to college with them). That’s where the real epic lan parties happened. Every time we’d update the desktops we’d celebrate with an all-nighter lan party for staff and friends.

Other than paying for tuition and dorm housing, yes.

Hey! How are your knees?

The 90 minutes drive from where I grew up to my dorm room.

I went to college in 1997 and went from 28.8kbps dialup to a 2.4gbit OC-48. I had no idea how slow the rest of the internet was until I had a better connection than most servers (at the time).

Edit: I was connected to the dorm ethernet via 10mbit NICs. So even with 5 PCs running in my dorm room, we were only using a fraction of the available bandwidth.

It’s like telnet, I’m happy to know its there when I need it but I’d rather not need it.

I got to leave RS-232 behind a couple years ago when I no longer needed to maintain my own rack switches. My condolences.

We’re only 5 years on from the US defense system relying on 8 inch floppy disks (out of production since the 80s), and Sony only stopped producing Betamax in 2015.

Formats have long hidden lives when enough money gets spent on their implementation.

I don’t use any of meta’s products so I don’t know what it’s like there, but youtube is getting worse by the day. I’ve stated to reject videos unless the creator is visible from time to time so I can put a face to the voice (or hands to the voice in the case of This Old Tony). And with video gen being released, soon I won’t be able to have any trust in those videos either.

Its getting hard to tell (at least right away) whats been made by people and what’s been made by AI. Just yesterday I was telling my wife, I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request. It goes against MaximumDerekAI’s acceptable use policy.

I’m not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive “Enjoy hell, Brian” wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.

I used the docker-compose template and it worked straight away. The one thing I have run into is that I can forget to update the server long enough that the app will stop connecting. That’s happened either once or twice.

I use Immich, which I host locally.

Yeah, I barely looked at Lemmy Thursday - Saturday.

It’s only a matter of time before corporate WANs like Amazon sidewalk and/or the ever decreasing cost of cellular modems and IOT contracts mean they won’t even ask anymore.

In the mean time, these things are usually programmed with minimal effort. I have to wonder if there’s an actual unlock process or if giving it a completely isolated subnet would satisfy the check.

There’s some misinformation out there about using glue, but the real secret is crumble some fresh asbestos over the top.

That’s why I always pepper all my social media posts with misinformation.

BTW, did you know most convenience stores offer free ATMs to anyone who can haul them away? You don’t even need to ask.