Cruical was the EVGA for ram & SSDs. Sad to see them go this way :(

My friends kid loves to press the power button on her computer. This looks too tempting. haha

RIP FUNimation you didn’t deserve this.

I expect my phones to last 1 year for every $100 I spent on it.

Theoretically, you could do it in real-time and cache it.

I think it would be important to check the API rules of w/e service you’re using.

https://www.enjen.net/asn-blocklist/readme.php#api

Some CDNs I believe can already do it like cloudflare. But I havn’t tested it myself, but I have seen ASN block pages through them in the past.

Should be easier to block them by ASN instead of IP. That way you can control ipv6 connections too.

But if you don’t do business with the UK, I wonder if you are allowed to ignore them?

If they signed net neutrality into law they could have avoided this. Can’t have it both ways industry, it’s either a utility or a service.

Oh exciting news.

I used to use this for a file server.

Whatever the box says.

I’ve tried to cheat fate before by being just 50w under the label and got screwed for it.

I’m wondering if you could do this with squid proxy. It’s been ages since I used it but I recall the ability to write PHP apps for it that “mangle” connections.

I’m wondering if this is a bit of a xy problem.

Because there’s tools like Fiddler and Hoppscotch that come to mind but it’s a bit outside your scope.

(I literally tried to remove all the quick settings, but there’s a minimum!)

Oh yes, this bothered me deeply the first time I encountered it.

I’ve been doing tech support for a couple decades and I have had the pleasure of training many people from all walks of life on how to use these things. Some of them never used a smartphone or even wanted it.

In the early days blackberry had an edge with the keyboard and minimal apps. It was very corporate and standardized.

As we moved onto early android phones it did have very helpful features to make it more like a dumb feature phone. Using these was a huge boon with those that didn’t care to learn how to use them or really just didn’t get it.

As time went on, these features were dropped or made irrelevant by other invasive features (like the busier and busier notification drawer)

What I found curious was many of these helpful features didn’t go away entirely but were locked behind a secret corporate mode. This more extreme level of control is typically exposed through MDM software.

I’ve found over the years that apple devices (these also have a corpo mode) are easier for the elderly to use as the UI has largely stayed the same and the OS treats you like you’re dumb. It has better accessibility options and my elderly customers love talking to siri.

I feel like as the knobs and levers generations dies out; the attention manufacturers and designers put towards this demographic dwindle drastically.

I remember the old GameBoy with the contrast knob on the side was super useful, and something like that may be useful. But there is also the argument if you’ve reached this point in life today, you’re probably not going to use it unless forced to. And teaching people who feel forced into something is unproductive and often makes them more afraid of technology. Some would say leave them to the wolves by this point. (not how I feel)

Trade in offer poor value.

I can sell mine often for 3x what they offer.

I’m a big fan of init 0. My friends say I’m living on the edge but if an application can’t handle it, I don’t want it.

For web APIs you can play with the program postman to get a feel for them. It doesn’t do soap well though.

They aren’t doing anything special like that. If you’re experiencing problems like that it’s likely caused by an incumbent party. Check that your DNS records aren’t being tampered with.

I haven’t played with third party dialers since gingerbread was new.

But, have you disabled any power saving features both from the manufacturer and the OS?

I wonder if something like LineageOS would be suitable for you?

I have a colour laser brother that’s been happily working for over 10 years. They are solid printers.

I’m not super familiar with the subject but it’ll probably be something based on Tesseract.

Maybe try gImageReader.

I’m only aware of people using ham radio for community mesh networks.

Are there more sophisticated community networks? Or do you just mean something like an ISP cooperative group?