Just in time for Google to kill RCS and move on to something else.

That view of the driver, looking out from the front passenger side out the driver’s window always makes me anxious for this reason. It’s like Chekhov’s gun. Why would they pick that angle unless the characters were about to get T-boned?

That one actually has some basis in reality though. My terminal still dings at me, it’s just that having it ding too much is annoying and out of fashion now. Does no one else remember PCs piezoelectric beeping, even before you upgraded to an actual soundcard?

Hot take: to Most windows users (not you) probably shouldn’t be able to access power shell or cmd.exe at all.

You could proyget pretty good bandwidth with a tube full of portable digital storage. Latency will suck though.

From the article it does seem that the failure of ability isn’t strictly related to computers per SE, but to an over all inability to think about the word problems given in an abstract and mathematically coherent way. They seemed to ask participants to solve what are essentially database query, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and logic problems in the context of an email suite. Word problems can be hard for anyone that hasn’t studied and practiced how to decipher them. It’s just that using a computer kind of forces one to confront those gaps in what should be a fundamental part of highschool education. Math and science classes aren’t just solving problems by wrote memorization or memorizing the periodic table, they are about problem solving. Lots of people fall through the gaps and don’t get that one special teacher who understood this.

I wonder whatever happened to Knoppix. All I’ve been able to find online is speculation and questions.

Lars ruined Napster. BitTorrent came around some time later after Limewire, Soulseek, and DirectConnect. Lars might have had something to say about Bit Torrent, but by that point no one was listening.

Besides, back then, we really were using BitTorrent mostly for Linux ISOs. At the time it was more reliable than http. It really sucked having to download an entire ISO again because it failed the checksum. BitTorrent alleviated that.

Well then, say hi to the ghosts for me, just don’t sit down for a drink with them. Do read that book if you haven’t already; it’s one of my favorites and none of the movies do it justice.

Do the buildings have carbon monoxide detectors? Are they old buildings with old electrical systems? You said it’s a ski resort, so I’d expect some banging and weird noises as the temperature of the buildings fluctuate. Portable electric/magnetic field detectors exist. Maybe portable carbon monoxide detectors too. These things can be measureable and often feel like ghosts. Rule them out. Then maybe introduce yourself to the lifeless guests and they’ll leave you alone. If none of that pans out. Read Stephen King’s The Shining. Real life is rarely as scary as Stephen King.

In my experience, 2 devices will ultimately save you effort and frustration. Anything you choose as a good NAS/seedbox will be unlikely to have a good from the couch interface or handle Netflix reliable and easily. A small Android TV box may have a much better interface, simple app setup, and support all the streaming services, but probably won’t be very powerful or convenient to use as a NAS. The NAS is always on, plugged directly into the Internet access point, and tucked away out of sight and sound. The Android TV or Apple TV box is silent, small, and can be mounted directly to the Beamer/Projector.

Yes, Kodi exists and it’s add-ons can bridge this gap. But I still think that a SBC NAS running Jellyfin or plex + an Nvidia shield with jellyfin, Plex, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, amaon, etc. will be so much easier to setup, manage, find support for, and upgrade.

I have a similar setup even though my server has a direct HDMI link to my TV. I’m not a fan of viewing using the server it from the couch. Setting up IR remotes sucks always. And it’s confusing for anyone but me to use. But if my Nvidia Shield dies or I’m having network trouble, VLC a pretty good backup.

Maybe they are illuminating their living room with the front end of a BMW.

Better yet, it’s a Pimp My Ride style makeover that replaces those unused turn signals with a projection system for an instant drive-in movie experience.

This is gonna sound odd, but have you cleaned out the USB port lately? Weird stuff happens when pocket lint collects in there. I thought mine had a dead port until I picked out (with a non-conductive toothpick) the lint I didn’t realize had accumulated.

The amount of downvotes on this comment is a symptom of how toxic this community has become.

I think the more nuanced take is that we should be making “piracy” legal by expanding and protecting fair use and rights to make personal copies. There are lots of things that are called piracy now that really shouldn’t be. Making “piracy” legal still leaves plenty of room for artists to get paid.

I’m barely rebuilding my server once a decade, so that’s all pretty irrelevant. I do use docker a bunch for programs I’d never interact with in the terminal, but that’s not really my issue with immutable; it’s flatpaks and the CLI, bash wrappers or aliases and all that noise. Too much trouble till they sort that out better.

Immutable distros sound great for desktop users, distro hoppers, and system admins maintaining a fleet of desktop Linux machines in the wild. They sound more than a little annoying for homelab server users that mostly interact with their machine via the terminal and are more likely to want to run unpopular software on unpopular hardware in a niche distro.