tangycitrus

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[–] tangycitrus 3 points 5 months ago
[–] tangycitrus 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why I want a Raspberry PI based PDA and a Tablet. Nothing fancy, even if its somewhat thick and not water proof, etc... It should be modular and repairable. Put a flavour of Linux on it and configure it to be secure. Then have a dumb phone which I can use as a modem if I want but otherwise call and text and turn off when I don't want it.

[–] tangycitrus 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think (although I've never tried to verify) Steam is making progress to make most games playable on Linux.

[–] tangycitrus 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

There was a video on LTT about this. From what I remember the conclusion was that if you shut down the laptop while connected to power, it remembers the fact and wakes up in the middle of the night to apply updates and shut down again, assuming the power cable will remain connected so there wouldn't be an impact on the battery. But of course, most people (I think) disconnect the power cable once the laptop is shut down. Windows still wakes up, sees the power cable disconnected, and goes 'oh well' and proceeds to update anyway.

[–] tangycitrus 28 points 5 months ago (6 children)

This is the reason I will never buy an apple device and go out of my way to (try and) convince people in my circle not to buy apple devices.

[–] tangycitrus 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

All good. Hopefully this is not a step towards locking the bootloader preventing custom OS installs on Pixel devices.

[–] tangycitrus 3 points 5 months ago

People do stupid things for internet views.

[–] tangycitrus 2 points 5 months ago

I use my mag loop indoors. It's a 40 to 17 meter band loop, but as you say its a pain to tune, even with the lovely built-in analyzer in the G90. I've set it at 7.028 (FISTS CW calling frequency) and I can move a bit up and down without messing up the SWR. I can make contacts around the UK and sometimes across to the continent.

[–] tangycitrus 6 points 1 year ago

Nuked everything from reddit. I still have the account though.