BarbecueCowboy

joined 1 year ago
[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

The UPS here just gives you a computer to look at, it's not super secured or anything special here, if you can get it connected, you can print on it.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I know Firefox is the popular option here, but do we have any serious non-google managed Chromium based browser options out there that don't have some weird gimmick?

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They did also kill hangouts... and pretty much every other messaging platform they've ever created, sometimes just for kicks. It might be incompetence as opposed to anything malicious there.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Source was included in OPs post, not sure of the reasoning behind putting it through the wayback machine, but to each their own. https://apnews.com/article/entertainment-elections-education-school-boards-teaching-059f2465829ab009394469b95c8cc94a There's a few more links within the article with other details.

The spreadsheet linked in the post is a bit weird but also has a lot of other interesting supporting details.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Right there with you on the UI. This would overlap in functionality with a lot of other items in my network, but I'm trying to find a reason to use it just so I can play with the UI.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're being sarcastic, but I could go for a few more of those.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't find a scenario where paint.net doesn't come out on top when compared to the version of paint that ships with Windows and it's free.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I asked our Intel guy about it once. After you've dealt with vendors and sales engineers for long enough, you start to learn to detect when they have no clue how one of their offerings work. I'm not sure that I've ever heard so many non-specific comments, meaningless buzzwords, and attempts to redirect the conversation.

I didn't get it even a little bit until I found an open source project based on Intel AMT, and that's apparently just a piece of ME.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably some kind of horrific bomb.

It looks like the big technological leap in relation to 'How can we use superconductors to hurt things' is to use them in making advanced EMP devices. It doesn't seem like anyone has figured out any other obvious use cases for them that massively change or improve upon the other horrific devices that we've already come up with.

In regards to potential for use in war crimes, it could be a lot worse.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Just an option, there are a lot of places out there that will sell you a 'refurbished' phone with 1-3 year warranty. eBay even has an integrated program for it, I think they call it 'certified refurbished'.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is kind of problematic... By creating a community driven hashlist that is freely shared, you've also kind of created an index of CSAM content that could easily be extrapolated for people actively looking to find/share that content.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I think you may have responded to the wrong person.

The Lenovo tiny line isn't related to Raspberry Pi/etc and I didn't mention a Raspberry Pi. I have a server running on an M900 tiny with an i7-6700 in it and 32gb of RAM. That is the high spec config from Lenovo, but there are room for upgrades if you were willing to buy parts separately, however the value proposition starts to fall apart rapidly when buying non-standard parts and compatibility is kind of a coin flip. Even the lowest spec ones should almost always outpace a Pi though (usually by a healthy amount) while still being very small compared to a typical computer. Solid chance the tiny will also be cheaper than a Pi. Compared to laptops, they'll usually also easily outpace those too in terms of performance in terms of money spent, but that's obviously a lot more variable.

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