Root Access

12:40 AM

@bwDraco That X1 question was rather fortuitous for me... we just got some devices in that have that exact slot on them.

rahuldottech

5:44 AM

GUYS THE SEVER IS STILL DOWN

Ah no it just recovered

djsmiley2k

8:01 AM

@rahuldottech <3 :D

Burgi

morning

Journeyman Geek

8:35 AM

@rahuldottech your face seems to be down...

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek It's not: xn--9ck.co

wait were you cracking a second grade joke

Journeyman Geek

Well glad to see you got it...

Also your url is in punycode

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek Yeah, I know

easier to type unless I'm on mobile

On mobile I have a shortcut for the whole URL

Journeyman Geek

Xn-9ck is hardly funny

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek I know, I'll figure something out

I also have no idea what I should host on there.

Journeyman Geek

8:48 AM

Which is always a useful thing to decide before buying a domain

DavidPostill

I did tell him to go for fias.co

Burgi

the irony of that is rather nice

Michael Frank

One vote more til repcap :o

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A: What computer port is this?

It's used for an ethernet adapter. This range of laptop is too thin to put a full sized RJ-45 port in, so they use this port to extend out. If you didn't receive one in the box, you should be able to buy one from Lenovo directly. Part Name: ThinkPad Ethernet Extension Adapter Gen 2 Part Number:...

Oh, it's HNQ.

lols

rahuldottech

@DavidPostill I looked into it. Unavailable

Redirects to ma.tt

@JourneymanGeek nah this is fun

Michael Frank

9:05 AM

fun until it's time for domain renewal and there's 30 domains all wants $20 for the next year!

rahuldottech

@MichaelFrank I drop the ones that I haven't managed to find a use for within a year

Journeyman Geek

@MichaelFrank hah. Also since you basically can subdomain all the things ...

Hence nearly all my stuff being on one domain

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek meh

oh btw it doesn't matter if the link you click on is in punycode, since the browser will still show the unicode version

Burgi

anyone know what snore toast is?

its appeared in my startmenu

djsmiley2k

Toast is that notification thing isn't it?

so I guess it'd make that go to sleep?

rahuldottech

9:11 AM

Also, neither SE chat nor reddit text boxes will accept a URL with a unicode domain name for the markdown link syntax

@Burgi github.com/KDE/snoretoast

> A command line application capable of creating Windows Toast notifications.

@djsmiley2k yes

@djsmiley2k not really lol

I'm really angry that someone snatched rahul.dev before I could

@Burgi It's a part of KDE apparently

Burgi

i don't remember installing anything that needed it

Journeyman Geek

9:25 AM

github.com/heroku/cli/issues/979

Heroku CLI?

Burgi

hmmm...

nope

its been installed as part of a laravel site

djsmiley2k

@rahuldottech how dare they!

rahuldottech

9:43 AM

Oh my god Quora is cancer

They can't answer a single question without inserting a dozen unrelated images into the text

Lmao, look at this HN discussion on Theranos from 2013: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6349349

> It's odd how little information is provided about the actual new technologies behind this.

> it's weird how the founders' background is all about "dropped out from here" and "dropped out from there". Is dropping out an achievement?

> Strangely designed web-site. When you open it you don't understand what they provide. Is it a service, app, or idea? Device or standard? Then while clicking through sections you see some clipartish generic-looking pictures of people and ipad screens. Only the small vial with blood promises some useful information but no descriptive text or images provide any detail (why this small vial is better and experience is less painful than generic tests?). So after skimming the site reveals nothing you get irritated and leave. There's so much interesting things on Hacker News.

> > Wow. That board of directors is a sight to behold. Looks more like a panel at the World Economic Forum. How on earth did the founder manage to get such high-profile backers?

through liiiiiiiesssss

rahuldottech

11:15 AM

OnePlus 7 Series - We just bought a bucket.

►

Lmao what. Read the disclaimer halfway through the video

Burgi

12:26 PM

djsmiley2k

12:55 PM

>
currently i have
ram 4mb
intel 1037U processor 1.8 ghz
64 bit system

4mb ram, no wonder it struggles...

Journeyman Geek

lol

rahuldottech

@jou I feel like writing a canonical post, can I write one on all the different ways in which you can make a WindowsToGo drive?

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech that's probably a question for meta

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek eugh just say yes

Journeyman Geek

No

;p

cause even as a mod, that's what I'd do

rahuldottech

1:00 PM

lol okay I'll post on meta then

Biswapriyo

Anyone use Https Everywhere extension? Today, I got an update of that extension and it resolves the certificate issue in Firefox.

rahuldottech

@Biswapriyo What about it?

Bob

@Biswapriyo uhm, the cert issue has nothing to do with that extension

@rahuldottech nothing illegal

rahuldottech

@Bob Yeah, yeah

Creating WindowsToGo drives isn't illegal

Biswapriyo

1:17 PM

@Bob All other extensions installed shows that warning but not that one.

Bob

@Biswapriyo update your firefox

it's a firefox bug that was fixed in 66.0.4/66.0.5

anything else that doesn't get automatically re-verified is an addon without an extension id and needs to be reinstalled from amo

Biswapriyo

@Bob Oh, what a consequence, I got it just now (~1 ms).

rahuldottech

meta.superuser.com/questions/13662/… @bob @JourneymanGeek

bertieb

It appears in the feed items FWIW

rahuldottech

1:32 PM

Whoo downvotes

Burgi

DVs on meta work differently

rahuldottech

@Burgi As in they don't affect my total rep? Yeah, I know

Journeyman Geek

@rahuldottech and its agreement/disagreement too

which is true of main meta, where its true too.

rahuldottech

Yeah

rahuldottech

3:57 PM

On the contrary—monospaced fonts are harder to read precisely because each letter occupies the same amount of horizontal space. Thereby, there is one less factor that differentiates letters, which makes it harder to tell them apart. — Tin Man Nov 11 '18 at 14:01

TIL. Personally, I've always found monospace fonts to be the most readable, but I appear to be in the minority with that

Also, they're apparently more readable to people with dyslexia (I'm not dyslexic).

rahuldottech

4:12 PM

So did we reach a consensus on the Windows To Go post?

bertieb

It's a bit early, give it some time

rahuldottech

Hmm ok

+2/-2 lmao

bertieb

Meta posts can take quite a while for folks to weigh in

The way I see it there's nothing stopping you just writing a self-answer question

I'm not entirely sure why it needs to be canonical

rahuldottech

@bertieb Well, the question would be too broad, I think

bertieb

Can still already VTC older questions as duplicates of newer ones

rahuldottech

4:17 PM

"What are the different ways in which I can create WTG drives, and what are their respective advantages and disadvantages?"

bertieb

It's possible

I think a naïve "I'd like to boot Windows from a USB drive and I've heard there's a feature called WindowsToGo which might achieve this. How might I create a WTG drive?" might be okay

"different ways" is implicit, and "advantages and disadvantages" is reasonably implicit too

rahuldottech

@bertieb And there would be half a dozen snarky comments asking me to perform a basic web search

I'd honestly rather just wait for an "ok" from a mod or the community

bertieb

@rahuldottech So?

Flag them a unconstructive

rahuldottech

@bertieb //shrug

bertieb

I mean, if you actually post a self-answer question it's fairly obvious you know what you're talking about

Also, if it can really be answered with a basic search do we really need a canonical post on it?

(to play Devil's advocate)

rahuldottech

4:22 PM

@bertieb It can't be answered with a basic search, see my meta as to why

bertieb

Then I wouldn't sweat the comments

Burgi

but is there enough traffic for @rahuldottech to spend his time doing a canonical post?

rahuldottech

@Burgi I'd honestly just write it and put it on my blog anyway

Burgi

i haven't seen any WTG questions in the new questions list

rahuldottech

For my future reference, and anyone else looking to make WTG drives

And to point to each time someone asks me what is going on when they see me use a WTG drive in person, which happens more often than you'd think

bertieb

4:27 PM

@Burgi Submit that as an answer

I'll probably submit my own "just write one" as an answer

folks can vote

bertieb

4:59 PM

Hmm, doing a system update has changed a green colour my terminal uses

XKCD

5:11 PM

Fortunately, after a brief skirmish, I seem to have gained the upper hand in the battle against my internal organs, at least until they learn to read and find out the mean stuff I've said about them.

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bwDraco

roar

rahuldottech

5:47 PM

Woman Burned by McDonald's Hot Coffee, Then the News Media | Retro Report | The New York Times

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djsmiley2k

6:04 PM

@XKCD Randall, are you ok? :/

bertieb

7:24 PM

Also tmux going to 2.9 'broke' some stuff

github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1689

Unless... ah, byobu is an AUR package

will need to update that too

bwDraco

Apr 10 at 19:30, by bwDraco

Just as I had expected, the cells are mounted horizontally. It's a lot lighter than the Jackery SuperCharge 20000 because it has 6 cells rather than 8 and uses plastic construction, but delivers similar capacity due to the use of higher-capacity cells.

On second thought, I'm not so sure it's eight cells...

Perhaps four 20700 cells?

(yes, there are 4800 mAh 20700 cells)

rahuldottech

@JourneymanGeek @bwDraco

I'm thinking of getting this for college:

bwDraco

Hmm?

rahuldottech

pine64.org/pinebook-pro

Here's a review Linus just put out: youtu.be/sXLdIYL30tw

According to comments on HN, it makes for a brilliant note taking device with a long battery life

It's also cheap enough that I wouldn't have to constantly worry about it getting stolen/damaged

bwDraco

Consider a Windows on Snapdragon device?

rahuldottech

7:30 PM

Also, lots of potential for custom mods!

@bwDraco what's the cheapest for one?

bwDraco

Not as moddable, but can run Win32 apps, and Arm64/AArch64 desktop apps are becoming available (including Firefox).

Designed primarily to run Windows Store apps, but desktop app options are growing.

Options at lower price points seem to be rather hard to find, though.

Hmm. Instead of an Arm-based solution, how about the Surface Go?

brb.

It's probably the perfect cheap Windows tablet for students. Starts at US$400, uses a Y-series Pentium Gold processor (not Atom-type, just low-powered).

djsmiley2k

8:11 PM

@rahuldottech i sawe he did a review, is there a predicted price?

bertieb

8:41 PM

So, colours being subtly different lead to me registering on launchpad to submit a bug on the byobu project

I have no idea what the heck I was doing before I decided to update

Fell deep down the rabbit hole on this one

Also I could swear a few minutes ago it was around 8ish

bwDraco

10:17 PM

I'm not super-familiar with specialty open-source hardware of the sort @rahuldottech was initially looking at. I'd probably stick with familiar PC hardware for actual student use, and get a separate device for hacking around with.

So... do you need a hackable, moddable, open-source solution, or just a simple computing solution for note-taking and stuff in university?

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(I am purposely avoiding the word "college" in this context because it's not widely used outside of the United States in reference to postsecondary education)

I'm actually thinking that as a basic device for student use, the Surface Go is probably the best answer.

But I have concerns about price; at Rs. 38,599 for the 4/64 model, this is well above the US$399 we'd pay for the same.

(8/128 at Rs. 50,999; in the US, it's $549)

Is this kind of pricing premium typical for electronics in India?

bertieb

@bwDraco This is an excellent point

I've lost track of the number of times I've chosen something moddable and hackable over something that, er, works well

and stopped using the thing as a result

that being said, these things have gotten a lot better over time

but it's still worth considering where along the openness spectrum of 'Apple-to-Richard M Stallman' you want to base your decisions on

Michael Frank

11:52 PM

This might be a silly question... but how do you change what shell you drop into when using ssh?

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