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A couple of notes: - The corporate PC market is many times greater than the enthusiast market - Many companies don't own their hardware, but lease it on an upgrade plan - Businesses find it easier to manage their hardware if it's all the same - it keeps the inventory down for spares and repairs...

Don't forget, if your electrics are up to code, you also have to replace your RCDs with a rusty nail, and disconnect your earth rod. If you live in an apartment and don't have access to your electrics, then simply wrapping your case, desk and chair with several layers of aluminium foil, taking...

Oh, I think they are. The biggest problem with decriminalisation is not the act of removing legal restrictions on the drug itself - that part is easy - so much as the effort needed to rehabilitate the entire supply chain from production to consumer, including across borders with countries that...

I saw "third party component" and worried in case it meant "hardware component" - thankfully, my laptop's been vaccinated*. Anyway, this seems appropriate: (Credit: https://xkcd.com/2166/ ) * pengiunated, really, as vaccine comes from vacca, meaning cow, and I run Linux rather than Hurd.

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Which brings the thread full-circle. A 2700K light has some blue. The LEDs most commonly made for blue don't quite match up with the human eye's sensing range for blue light, so a higher absolute intensity of blue is needed to create the right perceived intensity. Thus your eye may be...

The colour temperature relates to the frequency of light emitted by an ideal black body emitter at a specific temperature. In more human terms - you know when you heat metal and it glows red hot, then white hot? If it didn't melt, it would eventually glow blue hot. Ironically, "cold" colours...

That... still happens sometimes. When he's pretending to be a cat, or a guinea pig, or robot overlord or something. Being 9 is great! My prematurely greying hair agrees :( Ah mate, it's been ages since you've had a new car, I see. They come with telemetry now! I have an app on my phone, I can...

Mint's USP originally was to make it easy to install media codecs (less significant as the most common are now out of patent), the Cinnamon desktop (now repackaged and made available on other distros, from Arch to Ubuntu), and simpler driver installation (which other distros now also do) there's...

As none of us are using RISC-V based fully open-architecture machines with no proprietary bits (binary blobs in kernel etc.) then we're all capitalists. Don't fight it - the way to become "capital" is simple: buy some shares, and use your shareholder vote.

Maybe. Intel has a far larger collection of chip designs, licences and patents, and as a result has been able to play games with its form factors, chip designs etc. to prevent AMD from completely eating its breakfast. Probably more a case that x86 and x86_64 are now a bugger's muddle of...

The word for word identical post was already answered here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/698869/all-my-usb-ports-shut-of-randomly-and-dont-turn-back-on-plz-help/

Not a problem - I was trying hard to paraphrase Aristotle, despite my never having actually read Nicomachean Ethics... or any Aristotle, or, to be fair, any philosophy whatsoever. The Gentoo Handbook is just more useful, wouldn't you agree? ;) Getting older by the day. I got back home just in...

A happy life requires effort, knowledge and patience. By gaining and sharing knowledge, you are better able to apply your effort in the correct way. By applying effort, you achieve satisfaction, and by practicing patience, you understand that the results of your effort may take time to become...

Well, I did try to do that once. I'd bought a cheap USB satellite decoder, compiled the necessary driver for the Raspberry Pi, and set up tvheadend accordingly. Unfortunately it highlighted two things: i) there's nothing worth watching on telly ii) the raspberry pi 2 isn't fast enough for the...

It's not my favourite - I'm conscious of part of my resistance being simple inertia to change, but also that I've had problems getting it to start services dependably, in the right order, and actually be trusted to wait for one service to finish starting, before trying to start the dependent...

... for this iteration, and maybe the next. Then one of two things will happen: either Intel will add more silicon in order to win, or AMD will make a silly mistake.

It means that a rarely used network protocol has a problem that could potentially be used. I don't even have that module built. If you do have it, and you don't use infiniband, then you can safely blacklist rds.ko and be safe from any future exploit until your kernel gets upgraded >5.0.8, or the...

I always thought that was due to the effect of cocaine on the dilation of the pupil :rolling:

Just to add to Gizmo's post above, any frequency of light, including some that our eyes' lenses can bend, but which we cannot perceive, is potentially dangerous. If you repeated the experiment described above with red or green light, the same effect would be present. The various militaries...