If it doesn’t work it’s harmless. If it does work, you’re out a little water, a few minutes for a ceremony, and might just save untold weekend and evening hours for everyone.

That man is a menace.

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

https://youtu.be/6ztxYDaxyd8?t=52

It’s tough to look at, but I bet it’s amazing for traffic calming.

Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.

What’s kind of amusing is that all those old ports with the screw-in fasteners were moving around anywhere from 3v to 12v at about 45mA on the high-side. Meanwhile, USB-C can move 240W and has nothing to prevent disconnecting while sending enough power to run a power tool.

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.

Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.

Not entirely. I’ve had a few snaps become useless when it comes down to providing configuration data. How an individual snap integrates into the filesystem depends on the author/packaging, and quality varies. Ultimately, it’s a PITA since the mapped filesystem paths are not in the stock/standard locations the product docs say they are. I chalk this up to packaging software that existed pre-Snap, or the original authors did not do the Snap packaging. It’ll probably get better as the ecosystem matures, but right now, it’s not a great experience unless the Snap-ed package can run as-is.

Seconded. Everyone shits on Ubuntu, but it’s solid, well-supported, and is low-friction both for install and daily use.

It also has decent Nvidia support and Steam runs well on it, so (most) mainstream gaming is a real possibility here.

Corporate+Niche quadrant could be populated with dead systems that only hobbyists use. Amusingly, there’s too many to fit onto this chart.

Hah! No back issues, thankfully. Knees and neck on the other hand… Advil for joint and sinus inflammation, Aleve for muscle aches and cramps.

A few examples off the top of my head:

• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Velvet Acid Christ - Twisted Thought Generator
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Stabbing Westward - Whither Blister Burn and Peel

(why yes I’m of a certain age, why do you ask?)

There’s gotta be a way to fingerprint the output though. Like some kind of shibboleth that gives the model away based on how it responds?

True, but IMO it makes a lot more sense to support markdown under Wordpad than Notepad since the controls and doc-style layout/rendering support is already there.

it only exists so they could easily shove copilot into it.

No idea. I want to say ‘yes’, but the last time I installed Power Toys was under Win2k.

Tabs were a welcome addition, but that’s where the good idea train swiftly leaves the rails.

What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can’t just type in on whatever keyboard you have.

Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.

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I appreciate the workaround here, and I’ve tried this in production environments to one degree or another. This usually fails due to another problem: the number of systems that think unexpected JSON keys are an error, is is too damn high.

I’ll give it a shot, but I must be able to use my laptop to vibe-interview.

You’re not alone. My preference is shopping at places like that “off hours” if possible. Sunday morning (while a lot of people are in church) is a must-do for me.

I miss 24hr and late-night grocery stores. 10PM shopping used to be incredible.