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Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.
> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
Recently I am more and more angry with Presidents acting like dictators, billionaires who wreck the planet in front of our eyes and another two books full..
I've been told to "'not worry about things you cannot control" over and over
But I cannot make peace with that, and my reply is:
"No, I keep worrying and fighting until I am in a way of control so I can do something about it"
The feeling of "no control" is what they want so they can get away with everything
Well, there's some good news.
Four years after her passing ,the Nichelle Nichols Space Camp for girls 14-18 will open next year in Huntsville, Alabama.
Lt. Uhura will live on to inspire a new generation of space explorers.
Representation matters.
A space camp for girls, named for the late 'Star Trek' actress Nichelle Nichols, is launching in January 2026. Friends of the actress speak to PEOPLE about the impact the camp will have on women in STEM.
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Nokia self-destructed before acquisition.
As a separate note: IIRC they got a new CEO who was thought in some quarters to have deliberately ruined the company in order to reduce its valuation, in order to give Microsoft a good acquisition price.
(I have neither proof, nor do I think it's a mere conspiracy theory)
*Github by Microsoft
* Zenimax by Microsoft
Was it ever good? xD
@nixCraft What about Hydrox, that Oreo-alternative. They got bought by Kebbler and vanished.
Now we're left with Oreos with twice as much of that vile filling.
And yet Lenovo Thinkpad are still one of the best options on the market (at least T-series, non-s models even have some replaceable parts), what does it say about other brands then?
@oxidand @nixCraft I suspect a very specific meaning of ruined is being used here. Lots of laptops could only dream of being as ruined as an M1 macbook air.
I have both that macbook and an X390 running linux on my desk. Both are decent machines and good at their respective jobs.
No you can’t swap out half the guts. But in practice I never did that anyway. Yes ram/storage is pricey, but if cheap was the criterium why are you even looking at Thinkpads?
I never used IBM Thinkpad, I can't compare. I'm simply saying that in the past 5-6 year every time I was looking for a laptop (either for work or personal use) I always end up with a Thinkpad T series. Because everything else is either niche (like Tuxedo or Framework) or significantly worse than Thinkpad.
Apple laptops are good in terms of hardware, but I think their software just sucks (not as "Windows 11 sucks", but still below average). So, yes, I would consider a laptop with Apple silicon to be ruined.
@nixCraft I'm still trying to figure out what the crap is even going on with VMWare of those. It's like they've been actively sabotaging it just a bit at a time and laughing to themselves each time, taking bets on whether a particular change will be the thing that finally makes the market stop using it. "I bet if we gut the existing models and make people pay up the wazoo for simple things that were free before they'll finally stop using it!" "Nope. They're still using it! We need something even bigger!"
Whoever is putting bets on "yes" must be getting pretty irritated if so. Positively astounding...
The reign of Jonathan Schwartz ("open-source ponytail") was pretty bad. Seemed to me we had pretty much stalled and begun to fall before Oracle completed the awful trend. The whispers I heard in the halls were Oracle wasn't really interested in anything but our I.P.
@nixCraft Nokia mobile wasn't the first iconic company that disappeared after Stephen Elop took over. I seem to recall that a Nokia joint venture was an earlier victim.
But Nokia had too many divisions that wouldn't talk to each other, and multiple mobile operating systems and UIs - eg Series 40 for feature phones, Series 60/Symbian, the short-lived Hildon UI, Meego (why wasn't the N9 released in countries where it could have sold?), at least one other Linux derivative for featurephones...
@nixCraft David Wood's book on Symbian was interesting until it got to the TESCREAL section, and it doesn't mention the Palm/Symbian crossover
Can confirm. I was present for the first of the bullet items you listed. Sun culture was allowed to exist for about five years after the acquisition but certainly not flourish. Then Oracle killed it outright with the massive layoffs in August of 2017.
Whatsapp was pretty good before being acquired by Facebook.
Also liked Skype, but apparently we can't have nice things and are stuck with Teams.
@nixCraft Lenovo laptops are eminently repairable, and very easily set to run Linux of almost any flavor.
Maybe the firmware isn't great, idk I'm not qualified to say, but the hardware is solid and efficient.
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