Brkdncr

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Brkdncr ,

!remindme 1 year

Brkdncr ,

90% sure I saw this guy at a Margaritaville in Palm Springs. Looked exactly like him, had a lanyard and had some sort of assistant walking with him.

Brkdncr ,

Northern New Mexico?

Brkdncr ,

I managed a cyber cafe many years ago. Mostly filled with regulars that I knew on a first name basis and would usually sit in for a CS match if it was slow.

I wouldn’t call myself great but I could take down middle schoolers. That’s not what this post is about though.

A girl walks in, has some sweats on from the big university that’s not too close but still in the area.

She wipes all those kids out repeatedly. They start yelling, asking me to help them out so I do. I’m effectively going 50% with this person.

Before she leaves she reveals that’s she’s visiting her parents for the weekend and that she was on a team that was ranked or otherwise played professionally.

I asked her if I was good enough to play competitively.

She said no, she hadn’t played at all for a few months because of school and she was going easy.

Felt pretty proud that I was able to keep up with an out-of-shape pro.

Brkdncr ,

If there was a calf or bull around I wouldn’t walk through.

You can yell at them and they might disperse. If they don’t then you’d be able to walk through them.

Cows just don’t like to be startled, that’s about it.

Brkdncr ,

Behind the Arby’s.

Brkdncr ,

Why.

How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?

Just a shower thought. Seeing how these structures took decades to build in their times, and that too entirely with manual labour, I was wondering how long these architectural marvels would take to be built in this post modern era with the help of our technological advancements....

Brkdncr ,

Is slavery allowed?

Brkdncr ,

If true they wouldn’t have pointed her to another game. Whales are the entire business strategy.

Brkdncr ,

It’s still a small community. Asklemmy would be fine.

Brkdncr ,

I think this makes the intermediate company a military target?

Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser ( www.windowslatest.com )

Would you use Edge as your default browser on Windows 11 if Microsoft nags you with a 3D banner? Microsoft thinks you would. In a new experiment, which appears to be rolling out to Edge stable on Windows 11, Microsoft has turned on a banner that uses 3D graphics to promote the browser....

Brkdncr ,

It’s probably the browser, not the OS, that’s doing this. The teams are separate although someone in upper management oversees them both.

Brkdncr ,

One one hand, this can be pretty annoying.

On the other, when thinking about the lowest common denominator general user that’s been tricked into running some awful PUP-ware browser, I can understand MS’s point.

Brkdncr ,

Ever since windows 11, edge, and MS’s approach to resetting defaults, I’ve stopped getting support calls from relatives. Yes it’s riddled with annoyances but it’s a net improvement over previous gen software. I see regular people struggle with tech and can tell things have improved dramatically for them.

Brkdncr ,

Just disable the windows update services.

You could also use a allowlist firewall rule to restrict access to what you need.

Also why the paranoia? What do you have against windows updates?

Brkdncr ,

Win11 isnt forced.

Breaking vpns was a result of security fixes and was addressed. This is normal for all OS’s that get patched.

There’s no restarting without prompting.

Copilot is optional.

I don’t need to go on.

Brkdncr ,

It was pretty simple to stop windows 11.

Updates will eventually restart but not unprompted. There is a combination of settings you can set that will install updates right away and restart soon after, but it’s not default.

The vpn issue didn’t affect all vpn software and a workaround was available.

MS adds features to their products and are pretty forceful about getting you to use them.

Brkdncr ,

Birb.

Brkdncr ,

Because many 3rd party hardware providers are lazy, while Linux maintainers are not.

Ms provides a way to have drivers deployed over their windows update channels when needed but the hardware provider has to do it.

Linux allows basically anyone to provide a driver.

Brkdncr OP ,

Hmm I wonder why MS has spent so much time converting office apps to run on webview2…

Brkdncr OP , (edited )

They’ve also been pushing PWA hard. A lot of apps run on webview2 even in specialized industries.

I won’t be surprised if we see a larger push to non-x86 and if it’s arm then it’s also possible to go risc-v if app support is there.

Brkdncr ,

So you don’t need to change your network if your isp changes.

Brkdncr ,

Yes but you’d still be performing NAT. It’s at least 1:1.

You’ll need to deal with firewall rules regardless, and drop IPs into policies. IPv6 doesn’t remove any of those chores but gets rid of having to maintain tables to deal with many-to-one NAT.

Brkdncr ,

If you use a single shared public ip then you’re using some amount of address translation.

If you’re using an external ip address that’s different than an internal ip address but both are assigned to a single host the you’re doing 1:1 NAT.

At least that’s how I understand ipv4 and I don’t think ipv6 is much different.

Brkdncr ,

What translates the public ip to the internal ip? Aren’t they different?

Brkdncr ,

Just like ipv4 though, you wouldn’t use external addresses internally because your external IPs might change, such as when moving between ISPs. You would NAT a hosts external address to its internal address.

Brkdncr ,

DNS doesn’t propagate fast enough.

Brkdncr ,

Love this. I don’t know much about risc-v but I’d love to see it disrupt the market a bit.

How to make an old USB brother laser printer wireless?

I have an old Brother laser printer that's been doing fine and doesn't need to be replaced, but it only supports USB. Is there a device besides an old computer/laptop that would make it a shared wireless printer that supports windows machines well? I'm pretty sure i could come up with something myself, but i would prefer an...

Brkdncr OP ,

Wouldn’t I need to get a unique ARM driver for the usb printer to work?

Brkdncr OP ,

It didn’t and I ended up with a generic driver that’s lacking a lot of function. Not the worst, and it mostly does what I need.

Brkdncr OP ,

Looks like toner status and some other notifications.

Brkdncr ,

Our phishing training specifically says don’t scan random QR codes or nfc tags.

Brkdncr ,

If you have a 1-click exploit for iOS, you’re not using it on a shitty movie site. You’re selling it for top dollar to governments.

Brkdncr ,

How friendly we talking about?

Brkdncr ,

Password generator used the date/time to create the password. It was fixed a long time ago.

Brkdncr ,

Free EFI conversion for any carbureted vehicle still on the road.

Brkdncr ,

Oh wow the water wars are starting a few years earlier than I anticipated.

Brkdncr ,

Set up iperf on a machine connected to your router.

From your machine, connect it to the router too and see if iperf shows good speed.

Take your machine to another room and plug into your lan and test again.

If the speed is considerably lower then yes you have an internal network issue. I would look into how the cables connect to the router. It might be an old or cheap switch. It could also be the cables or cable ends themselves. I’ve seen cables that are terminated poorly cause slowness. I’ve seen two connections in a single cable end work but have lots of problems.

Brkdncr OP ,

You can do that today with their setup I think. You would need to plug the pump into one of their batteries and run their solar panel to the battery. You’d also put the battery on grid power.

The article is focused on an inverter that pushes energy back to the grid, something we don’t have yet at this market level.

Brkdncr OP ,

Your breaker will pop. Just like if you were to run a hair dryer on each outlet.

Brkdncr OP ,

Maybe for a same-circuit device that’s consuming more than the breaker can provide? I don’t know enough about this tech but would expect this can be accounted for in some way.

Brkdncr ,

That’s the point. Broadcom focuses on only the top consumers and desire everyone else to go away. They then focus only on what those top consumers want and their support staff can be cut down considerably.

It’s an interesting tactic that they have mastered.

Brkdncr ,

Convection ovens will always dry out cakes.

Brkdncr ,

If it’s like mine then it’s a low speed fan on “bake” mode which has little impact on cakes. If you have a convection option, don’t use it when baking.

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