Notices by David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)

Dear Laptop Makers:

I do not want feature "blah-blah-blah" in my new laptop. I just replaced my high-performance laptop with a high-performance desktop.

I'm getting 3x the performance while the hardware is running half as hot as the laptop did. And the desktop is quieter.

Sincerely,
Me

#laptop #desktop #performance

@molly0xfff Or CEOs adopting some buzzword they just heard about 5 seconds before...

@glynmoody
Good luck! They are banned here in Hawaii, but that didn't stop people from setting off commercial grade aerials in their front yard, burning down their house, etc.

Hawaii has a long Asian fireworks tradition, where the loudness is an important part of frightening away evil spirits. Drone displays are pretty, but lack loudness!
@troglet

@dansup
Alternatives to Telegram? Matrix seems to lack some of Telegram's features.
@briankrebs

@wilsonhurley
"Love is a rose but you better not pick it:
Only grows when it's on the vine.
Handful of thorns and you know you missed it:
Lose your love when you say the word mine."
- Love Is A Rose by Neil Young
@bmacDonald94

@geekysteven
"I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me." - Rorschach.
@bmacDonald94

@eff
Same thing with medical reports!

@bmacDonald94
You're welcome! I lived in California when he was governor trying to destroy the UC and California State College systems, so I agree. I also think he was already developing Alzheimers at the time. By the time he was president, it was already there although well-concealed by his handlers...
@claysand

@bmacDonald94
He was the actor hired to be their face, and just followed the scripts they gave him, in my opinion.
@claysand

@claysand
No, the GOP did. Reagan just did what he was told.
@bmacDonald94

@eff @cooperq @Reuters So now I have to ask. All "regular calls" and texts travel digitally. Why can't the digital transmissions be end-to-end encrypted?

@apps Is this just in the official FediLab app? I tried it in the web interface and it does nothing.

@mgrahamwoods
https://bookwyrm.social/ is on the Fediverse, isn't owned by billionaires, and doesn't use machine learning to recommend books... #Bookwyrm
@bmacDonald94

@phaedral
No problem! As a third-generation descendant of public school teachers, I'm a fan of public schools!
@alice @axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

@phaedral
It was the only school option here for gifted ADHD students on Oahu. At least it wasn't a for-profit school; I loathe for-profit schools! Hawaii DOE doesn't do a good job for such students. My in-laws' gifted kids attended a gifted program with about 40 students until the school principal discontinued it. He didn't believe in doing anything for students that weren't his idea of "average". The school district supported his decision. :(
@alice @axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

@alice
One of the best things our gifted ADHD daughter learned at the private non-profit school she attended through sixth grade was *how to get along with non-gifted kids*. I was a gifted, verbally-precocious kid. Such kids can be very impatient and cruel to kids that don't learn as fast they do!
@axnxcamr @actuallyautistic @PeteLittle

When Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, a team of gophers were helicoptered in to bring it back to life

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/environment/gophers-mount-st-helens

> Everything within eight miles of the huge volcanic blast was wiped out almost instantly. More than 40 years later, scientists reveal how an unorthodox experiment involving burrowing rodents brought life back to the Washington State mountain.

#volcano #environmental #restoration #gophers

@sullybiker Interesting. About 20 years ago, a large private school system I used to work for finally got around to demolishing the interior of an old building. In the process, they found a Novell Netware server, still running, that much earlier remodeling had walled up inside a storage closet.
Sounds to me like old Netware rules the reliability roost!

@sullybiker
Oh, the first real job I had in Hawaii was with a consulting service that ran their financial accounting on a very old Prime minicomputer. When they went to wipe its array of disks (spread across a wall of cabinets), they set off a wave of disk failure messages. I guess the hardware had been on the edge of failure for years, as disk controllers silently corrected errors until forced to wipe disk sectors they'd left alone for years.

@br00t4c
Cat (and dog) bombs on video meetings were always fun! We all loved them.
@DeborahLeagueFineArt