Back in my day, and to this day, Microsoft offers such huge discounts in academia on licensing, and recruit so many students from university, I never saw anything but MS.

I’m glad we are at least in an age that there’s alternative to Microsoft in the free and open source space for individuals even when school goes down their path.

Mac book pro from 2012 still going, not strong, Bluetooth barely works, there’s a dying row of pixels, on the screen, the CPU doesn’t seem to support any modem video codec in accelerated mode, and the speakers were clearly garbage and it doubles how bad the Bluetooth is. But it’s running pop os! And it’s running it fine. I mean as long as you connect via rustdesk to another real machine to do real work. It can’t handle tabs or browser rendering…

Anyway even if i retire it today, it’s outlasted 3 work laptops.

Digging tunnels.

It should make me irrationally angry, but no, it’s a rational hatred. It burns even more intensely.

I have to ask, do you think the websites you use or the places you post run on Windows?

The guy said brute force but meant credential stuffing.

Basically using an army of remote compromised devices to use known user name password combinations. If they used the same email and password that was found on another compromise, then their account would successfully be logged in first try from a unique ip each time.

Not to boast MS, but its service life is longer than Linux at 10 years. Lts on Linux is generally at best 8. Ltsc on Windows is much longer. Windows 10 released on 2015 and the ltsc ends at 2027 on the enterprise channel, or 2025 for the consumer general availability.

I’m only commenting because I dislike misinformation more than I dislike MS.

Yes but also no, but also yes. Here’s why:

• yes: most people don’t use cabled headphones
• no: high quality headphones require a jack
• yes: those high quality headphones need amplifiers beyond what the phones inbuilt dac can handle

So I’d probably overall argue that those who really care about audio probably have a separate DAC like https://www.techradar.com/audio/hi-fi/ifi-hip-dac-3-review

Which is probably an unpopular opinion.

Seems like my Samsung TV app is being hit by stuff too, I had 5 unskippable ads and can’t seem to get stable 1080p at 60fps any more despite gigabit fibre and cat6. Meanwhile getting 4k on my YouTube app on Android on WiFi.

Go figure.

YouTube is so desperate to fight this war that they’re harming legitimate watchers meanwhile my rockpi running Android TV seems to keep running sTube just fine.

Yep, sure, it’s a wild world we live in and this topic is changing fast. Missing this memo won’t matter when the next one will be the next generation but generations are only 6 months apart.

It does: https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-can-now-see-hear-and-speak

Edit: here’s one I did now

For asahi on Mac m1 iirc. What coffee is he?

It takes a hash.