Tim Kane (ⵜⵉⵎoⵜⵀⵢ ⴽⴰⵏⴻ) 🏳️‍🌈

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@andkon @zacbowden Imagine… deprecating W11 and re-committing to W10 😂

@zacbowden LOL, why not just improve on Win 10 indefinitely as was the original plan?

For those who like to keep track of codenames, this entire effort is codenamed "Windows K2"

@tomwarren Microsoft has never done me a better service than to declare my CPU as unsupported for W11 from the outset.. It’s funny, I railed at this at the time.. but honestly W10 is just a better place to be right now

🚨Microsoft has a plan to fix Windows 11 🚨 Lots of changes are coming to improve Windows 11 performance, reliability, and UX. "Unnecessary" Copilot buttons will be removed and Microsoft wants to get rid of the annoying "noise" from Windows. Full details theverge.com/news/897834/mi…

@decruz @SebAaltonen People might like to occasionally play games on their MacBook Neo outside of their primary purchasing objective

@SebAaltonen People are not buying a MacBook Neo as a game machine.

I am vocal about 8GB RAM laptops because I am a game dev. We were also vocal about cut down 10GB RAM in Xbox Series S. Steam Deck is a 4 year old $399 gaming device with 16GB RAM. It's the modern min spec for gaming. I would love to see more games on Macs, but 8GB alienates devs.

@tipheret That said.. if you don’t want to mess around.. nothing *wrong* with Synology really. Quite functional and my little ds218j has just done what I needed it to do (if slow)

@tipheret You can backup Time Machine to a regular SMB network share. For me that just happens to be on an old Synology, but it need not be FWIW, I don’t think I would get another Synology tbh.. reliable though it has been, they’re overpriced and drive lock-in was a bit of a sour note

I've been using MacBooks for 20 years. Never had a serious issue. Until now. My MacBook Air M4 is in service for the second time - two weeks after the first repair. The symptom: stops charging. The fix: full logic board replacement, which means complete data loss. First time I recovered everything via Time Machine — slow (24h+), but it worked. After the repair, Apple quietly blocked new backups to my Time Capsule. Machine ID changed with the board, old backup couldn't continue. A workaround I found online didn't help. A week later — dead again. This time with no backup. Time Capsule discontinued in 2018, never replaced. Is Synology the only real option now, or is there something simpler I'm missing?

@rekdt Except the contacts almost never align quite right and the lightest jiggle causes one or both channels to drop out. Fucking hate.

The correct answer and I’m furious they did this to us

Been just absolutely racking my brain trying to think of a use case for this 2 male, 1 female audio adapter I found in my audio box I’m at a complete loss, I think it might be the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen

@tim_cook Despite the lack of more recent rumours.. refreshed Apple TV pls

A big week ahead. It all starts Monday morning! #AppleLaunch

ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday. “We need to inspect your property for illegal aliens,” one of them said. I replied, “Alright, but whatever you do, don’t go into that field over there.” The officer in charge exploded. “Mister, I have the authority of the federal government behind me!” he barked, reaching into his back pocket. He yanked out a badge and shoved it in my face. “See this fucking badge? This badge means I can go wherever I want on ANY land. No questions asked, no answers given. Am I clear? Do you understand?” I nodded politely and said, “Be my guest.” Then I went back to my chores. About ten minutes later, I heard screaming. I looked up and saw six ICE agents running for their lives, being chased by my big, mean, old bull. And with every step, that bull was closing in fast. It looked like they were about to get gored for sure. So I dropped my tools, ran over to the fence, and shouted at the top of my lungs: “YOUR BADGE! SHOW HIM YOUR FUCKING BADGE!”

@StanSportAU why am I paying to see ads between sets?

@vanzwali @StanSportAU A handful, just the premium matches I guess? You get ads also, which is awesome after sinking $44

Oh good, now I see we have ads during the @AustralianOpen coverage, on a paid for add-on for a paid for streaming service on a Premium tier.. what’s the deal @StanSportAU

@StanSportAU just dropped the feed, nice one guys.. @AustralianOpen

Bahaha, sorry, my fault.. sort of. Seems this domain is included in common blocklists for known spam/ads 😂

@hbomaxhelp see below

@hbomax @HBOMaxPR your email unsubscribe link is busted

Counting down to see which mega corps think I’m too young to use the internet anymore

@ChShersh @barelyreaper Perhaps look at postgres, native binary json support.. with built-in toast compression

@ChShersh @barelyreaper Start simple, consider more complex indexing algorithms as necessary (btree, hashmap).. you’re essentially wanting a streaming database.. in-memory for perf if possible

Here’s a real task from my job. I have a 100GB binary file. Produced daily. I can’t grep it. But I can decode it. However, I can’t store the decoded version either. It’s too big. How do I efficiently query it? Decoding piped to grep takes 2 minutes. I want 2 seconds.

@sleepylunii I had to search to find your post.. then open the app, read the same notification, dick around some more.. and then finally I get the push message notification.. Which would have been useful BEFORE I got on the train and been stuck in the loop

Aughghghghh fuck sydney trains!!!!!!