Gee, I can’t imagine why they chose to drop this bomb today.

It’s like they wanted it to be drowned in other news.

The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.

That’s just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!

I’ll keep that secret from her 😅

Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.

It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.

But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…

I even bought her the affinity suite.

I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.

I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?

I use arch, btw.

I bought one years ago. Maybe 2018? I think it’s a kindle touch 8th gen, ad-supported. Cost me ~60€, ad-supported. It got jailbroken and KOReader installed. It has stayed offline since, so those ads have long since expired.

It gets the job done. I’ve never been in the amazon e-book ecosystem, and I don’t want to be licensing my books at their mercy.

Standardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers.

Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi.

pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.

Did I misunderstand something about the scenario here?

Wordpress foundation is a non-profit that develops and hosts installation packages and updates.

WPengine is a for-profit company that sells wordpress hosting.

All WPengine installations constantly look for updates and download these from the wordpress foundation. I’d bet they probably rack up half of their bandwidth costs.

WPengine can of course freely use wordpress’ GPLv2 licensed stuff, but it sounds like their leeching of resources was the main pain point.

To either contribute or host their own installation packages sounds like a fair request at the scale WPengine has been operating.

Hetzner, for comparison, sells virtual private servers running Debian. Debian is free, under a similar license as wordpress. Hetzner is a Debian partner and coughs up dough. Hetzner hosts their own mirrors to reduce load on Debian’s repositories.

Be like hetzner. Stroke the hand that feeds, or are least don’t tug at it.

Sounds like a prompt for generative AI to sink its teeth into.

edit: Here’s a starting point if someone with photochop skills wants to bring it to the finish line.

these emulation handhelds – which often come pre-loaded with hundreds of games

I can only speak for the retroid pocket I have. It’s not far off from a stock android phone, sans camera and modem, plus d-pad and sticks.

It only came preloaded with a few open source emulators available on play store for free in addition to GApps (with official play store support).

213kWh feels like quite a lot of juice. Admittedly, I usually don’t go at planing speeds.

I have an 80Ah lead-acid battery to power the electric trolling motor on my inflatable dinghy. That’s 80A*12V = 0.96kWh. That gives me 5-10Nm range depending on speed. My dinghy would sink with 213kWh on board.

My 7 tonne sailboat uses ~2l/h of diesel at twice the speed. 213kWh of lead-acid would double the weight.

From version 7.5 through version 7.6 onwards distribution of MaxDB (previously SAP DB) to the open source community was provided by MySQL AB, the same company that develops the open-source software database, MySQL. Development was done by SAP AG, MySQL AB and the open-source software community.

Wait, did I get his kids in the wrong order?

He does!

Say hello to MaxDB!

Their main product is telemetry and selling your watch history to advertisers.

That’s why Plex doesn’t work without an active internet connection.

The Android client seems to have dropped a few player engines in a recent update. Previously there was an option to use libvlc, omxplayer or a third option that I can’t recall. Seems the developer opted to go with the worst option.

The AndroidTV app can use external players such ss VLC. I went with kodi as a client instead.

A youth wasted playing MUDs, I guess. I was pretty fast before that, but I probably doubled my pace in a few years.

I guess I might be a millennial or Xennial, then.

Gen X here. I’ve got an average 123 WPM on typeracer, which puts me in the 99,8th percentile.

I started looking at the screen instead of the keyboard early on. There were touch typing classes as an option around 8th grade, I think, but it was literally just having a map of which fingers go where and typing text focusing on using the right fingers. I didn’t take one, but I think I’m using the right fingers for 80% of the keys. I’m moving my hands back and forth a bit to let my dominant fingers do the work.

I started playing MUDs in 1997 at age 13, and building up that muscle memory for every combination of two- or three letter commands probably did more than I’d care to admit. I still miss the responsiveness of a proper DOS prompt, or Linux tty.