riskable

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[–] riskable@programming.dev 156 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Let's look at the logic here: If we don't expect troops to defy illegal orders, that means some commanding officer could order his troops to kill the president πŸ€”

That's illegal but... The Trump administration thinks orders should be followed no matter what.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Doesn't matter: Nobody uses right shift for anything but pinball games!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 50 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Related: Every Fn key on a keyboard is a missed opportunity! That's not fun at all!

Riskeyboard 70 analog hall effect keyboard left side showing the Fun key

[–] riskable@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Yep! There's really only ONE operating system that doesn't do rsync over SSH. Can you guess which one? 😁

BTW: FolderSync does it on Android for free... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite (only OK-ish GUI but it works).

[–] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😀

[–] riskable@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No. They're off the old block.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago

To summarize:

  • The Republicans have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they've thought up so far is an even bigger handout to Visa and MasterCard as well as other rich/incredibly profitable/unnecessary middlemen companies that handle Health Savings Account plans. Note: The more money you make, the more money you save via HSA plans!
  • The Democrats have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they've thought of is to extend the ~~Republican band-aid known as Romneycare~~ the Obamacare subsidies which will only slightly delay the inevitable, on-going collapse of health care in the United States. AKA the death spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_%28insurance%29
[–] riskable@programming.dev 26 points 1 month ago

What should be illegal is patents like this!

[–] riskable@programming.dev 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I just use rsync over ssh via a cron job 🀷

It's been working fine for over 20 years on all my various PCs.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Open source software. Sigh.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago

It created a lot of jobs. It just didn't get the usual network effects of having a lot of people employed because they were all incentivized to stay working at these big tech firms.

The solution is to make it easier for said tech employees to form their own tech startups using local talent. That way they're likely to break away from US tech and forge their own paths.

I don't know what the situation in Ireland is for starting such business but clearly it isn't in great shape. The government obviously focused on the big players at the expense of the small (local) ones.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As long as there's some kind of power available inside the machine (e.g. an extra SATA power connector) it can just use that and wifi.

I suspect that the Valve engineers weren't so short sighted though and probably have all the usual headers/connectors inside the thing that a normal PC would have. For example, a USB 3 header (the kind usually used for front-panel USB ports).

If anything, the device probably has at least one extra M.2 connector and a 1x or 4x PCI express connector. With those, anything is possible.

Even if the only power available is the CPU fan header you can always just use a splitter and pull power out of that.

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