Jordan Schnaidt

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A programmer who loves his science fiction, fantasy, fountain pens, leather journals, movies and TV shows with well-developed stories, and good rock music.
1500 AMD Ryzen PRO will heat homes and offices next year in Bordeaux, France – Qarnot Blog

Seth McFarlane finally made something I like watching; The Orville receives my stamp of approval.
Another day, another Verizon scheme to mine your personal data. "Verizon Wants to Build an Advertising Juggernaut. It Needs Your Data First"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-wants-to-build-an-advertising-juggernaut-it-needs-your-data-first-1504603801 https://mastodon.cloud/media/I87ZFNuawzKVWQU_GN0
Verizon Wants to Build an Advertising Juggernaut. It Needs Your Data First

Verizon’s new rewards program helps customers get concert tickets and phone upgrades, but they must provide their location and personal information.

I have been on hold for 55 minutes.

I have acquired a second IP phone from another room, and also put it in the hold queue.

The hold music is synchronized.

Now if I stand between them, I get the hold music in stereo.

Android O will be revealed during the eclipse, apparently. What kind of idiot is going to pay attention to a Google product launch when there's a once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event going on?

The multi elevator now has a testing tower to show it off in the real world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdTsbFS4xmI

pinging @ocdtrekkie for interest?

Help restore Mission Control and get a tax deduction all at the same time!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/589813043/restore-historic-mission-control

So that "remind me three days before Prime renews" button on Amazon... completely false, doesn't work at all. Good way to trick people, Amazon.

Remember, kids, Linux will run and provide updates for any machine you can get it to boot on.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/windows-10-support-could-be-ending-early-on-some-intel-systems/

This is really sad commentary on our society these days. A perfectly legitimate fact (which can be looked up as fast as you can type it into your favorite search engine) is now subject to the opinions of millions on social media. https://mastodon.cloud/media/CeB--13BFkgkG4byMK8