thanevim

joined 1 year ago
[–] thanevim@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is Damn Small Linux still around?

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

PXE, or network boot. It is basically never used (and rarely enabled, if ever, by default) by the individual, but can be helpful in, for example, a large scale OS deployment. Say IT has to get their corporate image version of Windows 10/11 installed on 30 new laptops. They could write a ton of flash drives, but it'd be easier to just host a PXE boot server and every laptop just listen to them.

V6 specifically in that instance would just be for the reason of "we need to move away from v4 anyways"

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Did you not ever have to have a controller plugged in the host and Link per player? That's a quirk I've faced using my laptop as the Steam Link device, streaming from my desktop.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And yet they couldn't extend the same courtesy for me when they raised my grandfathered family plan

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, but given Musk's tantrums, there's something to be said regarding listening to the good PR

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking that I might buy it once we have creation kit access and mods that add story and flesh out the game a la Fusion City Rising and companion mods for Fallout 4

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They sent me a claim form for a steering wheel lock. I traded the vehicle in for a Ford

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (3 children)

That's annoying. Part of the reason for local media is reducing the amount of monthly bills

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What's the state of apps like kodi or other methods of local streaming on Apple TV?

[–] thanevim@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Selling the data, presumably

[–] thanevim@kbin.social -5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Alphabet's monopoly is bad, make no mistake.

But they aren't controlling all electronic means of communication for 90% of the continental United States, as AT&T did in the ma' bell and pa' bell days.

[–] thanevim@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (6 children)

When you browse to a website, your browser passes info about itself to the server hosting that site. This info is intended to help the server provide the best rendering code for your browser. This is called your User Agent.

However, Google is using it here to identify Firefox users, and is apparently choosing to lump them all in a box called "adblock users" instead of trying to identify an ad blocker more accurately.

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