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Trainguyrom

@ Trainguyrom @reddthat.com

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  • What's been your most painful parent tech support moment?

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  • My grandmother has always had iPhones and I've always been on the android side of the fence. She's been struggling with spam texts and unfortunately I'm not seeing an obvious way to stop them. Meanwhile my pixel automagically tosses basically all spam texts usually before I even see them. Honestly the spam is becoming a problem because she's getting so many texts from organizations begging for donations and she doesn't actually know how much she actually has set up to donate every month or to whom

  • What's been your most painful parent tech support moment?

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  • I've noticed the tech illiterate develope tunnel vision and only see the tiniest portion of the screen at a time. They also are incredibly suseptible to the dark patterns that phones are riddled with so when the phone helpfully tries to offer a random app that paid to be promoted with a certain search term they don't realize they've been had and blindly install it

  • Oh no some conservatives are suffering, oh no...

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  • I saw a calculation once that found he'd be more wealthy now if he literally just shoved all of his money into stocks when he turned 18. Truly evidence of an incredibly smart business man

  • Oh no some conservatives are suffering, oh no...

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  • My understanding is he tried to expand his operation too quickly into a second casino very near the first one ended up with both casinos competing with each other

  • Oh no some conservatives are suffering, oh no...

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  • If there's money going in probably the best option in the very long term is to not sell/pull money out but to instead keep buying while the stocks are depressed. Buy low sell high as they say. If the entire US economy collapses we'll all have much bigger problems than worrying about what we selected to do with our retirement portfolios

  • Musk melts down as Tesla stock price plunges

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  • Y'know, if this gets conservatives to actually start being interested in EVs maybe that's not as bad of a result as it could've been

  • Musk melts down as Tesla stock price plunges

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  • you agree not to “boycott israel” whatever that means

    As performative as that is, it's just bizarre to imagine as a business having to ask "if I just happen to have not had any contracts with Israeli entities am I in violation of my contract with this random rural Texas county's public works department?"

  • Late stage capitalism coming in hot!

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  • My wife grew up on a farm and her description of how nasty cleaning out the chicken coup is is enough to put me off ever considering keeping any kind of birds

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  • That's more than I can afford to be donating right now

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  • First time my 3 year old saw The Lego Movie he got very upset at the part where they were falling at the end of the Wild West scene

  • Why yes, I would in fact like to write a file bigger than 4GB in 2025. Com'on flash drive manufacturers, get your shit together and format in exFAT already -_-

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  • The client was, so I ran the command for them to format the full 128GB as FAT32

  • Why yes, I would in fact like to write a file bigger than 4GB in 2025. Com'on flash drive manufacturers, get your shit together and format in exFAT already -_-

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  • I have a client that does HVAC work who needed help preparing a 128GB flash drive for loading firmware onto high end thermostats. Quickly ran the command to format as FAT32 because that's what the thermostats require (and he indicated the firmware files would exceed the 32GB limit in the GUI)

  • Disney Introduces Christian Character After Ditching Transgender Story

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  • My interpretation is less about pandering to the perceived majority and more about avoiding drawing negative attention from the Trump/Musk administration which is clearly very petty and very receptive to virtue signals. Do they kiss the ring? They get special treatment. Do they do something perfectly within their rights that Trump doesn't like? He'll find some way to make them hurt for it and take whatever concessions they offer to avoid being hurt

  • Disney Introduces Christian Character After Ditching Transgender Story

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  • This one's my favorite

  • OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal'

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  • So with datacenter GPUs (excellerators is the more accurate term, honestly), historically they were the exact same architecture as nVidia's gaming GPUs (usually about half to a full generation behind. But in the last 5 years or so they've moved to their own dedicated architectures.

    But more to your question, the actual silicon that got etched and burned into these datacenter GPUs could've been used for anything. Could've become cellular modems, networking ASICs, SDR controllers, mobile SOCs, etc. etc. but more importantly these high dollar data center GPUs are usually produced on the newest, most expensive process nodes so the only hardware that would be produced would be similarly high dollar, and not like basic logic controllers used in dollar store junk

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  • Sounds like you're describing pure HTML5

    JavaScript partially took off due to HTML's limited functionality at the time. This was also around the time that web media was becoming really big, which before HTML5 it wasn't easy to integrate into a webpage without turning to extra libraries or extensions

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  • Edge is actually pretty decent. Native vertical tabs, M365 SSO integration, native multiple profiles with quick switching, preinstalled on your work computer and will work with anything that "only works in chrome"

    Obviously this is ignoring the obvious downsides such as assisting Microsoft's search, browser and platform monopolies, tracking data sent to Microsoft, etc. etc.

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  • A moderately competent Windows admin with a single Windows Server can make ten thousand Windows workstations work seamlessley in fifty countries, twenty data protection doctrines and ten languages with hundreds of customisations, tweaks, automations and deployments tailored to each combination of device/user/location

    Not to mention that single Windows admin is paid less and a more common skill set than a more specialized skill set like Linux administrators. Paying $10k per year in licensing but saving $40k in payroll is still a net $30k savings.

    And if you're hiring in a rural area specialized skillsets tend to not exist so you open yourself up to new risks of not being able to hire a replacement if needed by building something less standard