Not a replicant

I’m fed up with gmail requiring an “app-specific” password for Outlook. Not some crusty old 2007 version, the 2021 LTSC version.

Doesn’t require an app-specific password from its own app on android, oh no.

LOL no. There are many good reasons choose Linux on the desktop/laptop, but the so-called Win10 apocalypse isn’t in the top 10.

ffmpeg - www.deb-multimedia.org . I edit podcast videos for distribution to subscribers. High-quality video produces very large files but if they’re only going to be watched on laptops, tablets, and phones, I can throw away a lot of bits without noticeably affecting quality on a phone screen.

And nothing does that better or faster than ffmpeg.

OS400 (IBM i)

I didn’t say it was a bad thing, I wanted to know about some of the broader implications, e.g. govt ownership doesn’t remove legal obligations. I doubt the govt could continue to offer service under the previous T&C, some sections would need revision. And Starlink’s T&C are slightly different in some countries, as are the operating conditions. Some countries who are nominally friendly with Starlink/SpaceX to allow ground stations, POPs, etc, might not be so keen on the US govt controlling things.

These are just some of the things that popped into my head when I read the article.

And the international customers, what about them? The ground stations, POPs, and terminals in other countries, hmmmm?

There’s a lot of copper pairs left underground. Many hundreds of thousands of kilometres of it. Use it as a pull-through for fibre-optic bundles, and everyone can have gigabit internet.

Seriously though, there’ll come a time when that underground obsolete copper will become economic to retrieve.

Heh. My batteries are flooded lead-acid, all 1320ah of 'em. No copper guilt here.

YT becoming shittier and shittier with ads is why I’ve changed to downloaders instead. No ads.

I’ve got two piholes running on the home network, and they are both DHCP servers - with different ranges, i.e. #1 serves 192.168.0.11 - 100, and #2 serves 101-200. Each uses option 6 to specify DNS servers, and they both reference each other. It doesn’t matter if one goes down because each client will have the both piholes specified as DNS servers. I’ve never had an address conflict problem.

I have two piholes - they serve different DHCP ranges (e.g. 1-100 and 101-250), and option 6 references each other.

JFC it doesn’t become a honeypot on November 1.

Be clear about it - you’ll still get Windows Defender updates, but not patches to the OS or MS applications/Utilities.

New outlook is a steaming pile. Classic Outlook has some very handy features and unless Evolution pulls its finger out, I will continue to use classic Outlook. Hell, I used Outlook 2010 until last year.

It met my needs.

It’s fine. It’s mostly crap-ware free, and it’s more stable than other versions. It’s Long-Term-Stable-Channel, it’s used by corporate, so it doesn’t change frequently. It still gets security updates but not the latest BS, like Recall, and on-by-default Bitlocker. It also doesn’tt require a MS account during setup.

Yes

That’s extraordinary, even for Microsoft.

If you’re on Win 11 Pro, up to 23H2, follow these steps to prevent 24H2:

win+R, type GPEDIT.MSC, press enter Locate “Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Update\Manage updates offered from Windows Update\Select the target feature update version”

Now click the “Enabled” button, type “Windows 11” in the first prompt and “23H2” in the second prompt and click “Apply”

That will prevent 24H2 from being downloaded and installed. When they’ve fixed this and the “Recall” mess, you can go back and undo the setting.

You can still do the “bypassnro” thing, it’s just a script that’s been removed. All it did was write a registry entry and reboot. This is the registry key entry - you can still press shift-F10 at the same point and type this manually:

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
shutdown /r /t 0

another method to try is this, instead of the registry entry:

start ms-cxh:localonly

but I haven’t tried that one yet.

I’ve edited a couple of independent shorts with PPro - I didn’t find it lacking at all. I like Resolve, but I can work with either one.

PPro has multi-camera features, that’s much more than a basic video.

The feature set of the Adobe suite is more comprehensive, but Resolve is a bit easier to use.

It doesn’t trounce PPro, they’re about equal IME. I’ve used both and it’s the price that makes it beat PPro. And you get the full version for free when you buy a Blackmagic camera.

Looks like Australia will profit. We have a lot of lithium, and some of the others, china’s been undercutting the price for a while.