SanguineBrah

joined 1 year ago
[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

All I want is more non-flat themes.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've run a TR-004 for the last 5 years haven't had any reliability issues so far. In hardware raid modes, drives are hot swappable but you can't grow the array without wiping it. I'm JBOD mode you need to power off before swapping drives. The main problem I've had is their chipset is only partially supported by smartmontools due to proprietary crap so there is some strange behaviour there.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I recently attended a presentation given by Microsoft to my multi-academy trust which outlined a bunch of flavours of Copilot in the works that they are intending to sell to schools, primarily as a substitute for one-to-one tutoring. As if these bullshitting text prediction models weren't bad enough when poluting web content with nonsense assertions, we are now going to automate misinformation in education? This is, to me, a completely terrifying prospect.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

Oswaldtwistle... Never been there but it sounds like it must be somewhere near Framley.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

I see this all the time when the person first learned to type on a touchscreen keyboard.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

As an IT technician in a school, I have to repair Chromebooks of many different models on a regular basis, mostly from Dell and Lenovo. I haven't seen one that I would consider durable yet. All of them use butterfly switches that break when a child rips off the keycap, meaning the whole keyboard has to be replaced. It is also common for the brass inserts into which the hinges are screwed to pop out of the plastic on most models due to rough handling. We also had one Lenovo model where almost every device we put into service developed a no power issue due to the same ceramic capacitor going short. Of course, the display panels are just normal panels that crack when struck - that is probably the most common damage we have to deal with.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

I do think the sleaze is an integral side to Frank's character that should stay or he would be a lot less interesting. I don't think anything in the article actually demonstrates that they are changing his character despite the headline. If I recall correctly, Off the Record also included the mechanic even though Frank was not the protagonist so perhaps it was never meant to reflect on his character and was just there to reward the player for being kind of gross.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is nothing new. I was taught about analysing bias etc in news sources during "citizenship" classes 20+ years ago. Before that, it was called PSHE if I remember correctly.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

I have fond memories of Kubuntu Feisty Fawn and the whole suite of KDE apps that were around back then. It's nice to see that Amarok got a new release recently after such a long time.

[–] SanguineBrah@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)
 

I'm fitting a Marpet 4MB upgrade to my STFM today. What a hassle! PLCC socket hot glued on top of the surface mount MMU, interposer board inside the metal can and further mods needed to disable the onboard RAM.

 

Spooky late night text adventures on my BBC Micro model B, courtesy of [https://zornslemma.github.io/ozmoo.html](Ozmoo for Acorn).

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