Honestly, it’s mostly the returns process that I feel make Amazon a better place for “direct from china” stuff. I do a lot of electronics hobby work and I can buy the same part from Amazon, Ali Express, or direct from fly by night companies in China. The latter two are generally cheaper, but the quality tends to be more questionable at times and I can’t really “return it for my money back” like Amazon.

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I have a MacBook at work simply because our Systems and Security teams don’t want to support linux. The only other option is Windows 11 and i don’t need that nightmare.

But I heard it was so fast!

Copilot keeps finishing my code for me in near real time… it completely disrupts my train of thought and my productivity dropped tremendously. I finally disabled it.

I LIKE writing code, stop trying to take the stuff away that I WANT to do and instead take away the stuff I HATE doing.

AI would help to account for the memory footprint of Prometheus monitoring… but no. Not yet (I’ve used it for 7+ yrs at this point).

However theres also the NASA “Project Prometheus” which also predates this, more closely matches the name, but sadly also doesn’t have AI: found here

I’m just waiting for Musk to get his robots to learn how to feed off biomass and complete his transition to Ted Faro.

It takes a lot of fossil fuels to push things to LEO let alone higher.

The best time to shop other jobs is while you’re still getting paid at your current one.

Someone has to rip it in the first place.

I prefer to rip my own, as well as CD’s and DVD’s I already own. I also do a lot with retro hardware that doesn’t always have a USB port.

BluRays are also fairly decent for offline, offsite backups, though writable media is getting expensive.

Everytime I hear the name “Game Bar” all I can think of is this.

You are way more positive about the future than I.

Does Nokia still make a solid feature phone?

My biggest use case for a smartphone is MFA for work, so if I can convince them to give me a yubikey instead, I’d be interested.

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Can’t be eatin’ omakase in the middle of the street

Seriously? There are third party apps to get mac to install a newer os than Apple says it should. Similarly MS prevents installing on PC without certain capabilities unless you install a third party app to bypass. Birds of a feather.

So, just like Windows 11.

I bought it… i wanted the physical disc so I could make a few hackintoshes.

It was only $29.00… I thought that was a weird price, but cheap enough that I didn’t feel the need to try to pirate it. I don’t think windows has been under $100 In decades.

At this point, I feel like its gone from “these companies are disgusting kissing up to the orange one” to “if they don’t go, they’re risking being on the receiving end of a massive company ending lawsuit/cancel war from the right and his Orangeness.”

Both are disappointing and I’d rather go elsewhere, but the second is far more dystopian and probably more reflective of the current state of things.

I dint do calls often at all, so a flip/dumb phone doesn’t appeal to me much. However, i have been very tempted to upgrade my existing smart watch to one with LTE connectivity and skip the smart phone completely.

The Apple watch, for instance, with LTE can do maps/directions, calls, texts, etc., without needing a smartphone near by. It would be much less to carry, less distractions, and way more convenient.

The big thing it can’t currently do, however, is MFA for my job. It can do Authy and many others, but the one we require doesn’t work, I’ve tried many times, so I’m stuck carrying a smartphone around if I want to remain employed.