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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, how would that work if your corporate IT department uses an (Azure/Entra) active directory system? Can you use a bare metal Linux OS on a Microsoft-based domain service? Asking out of ignorance and curiosity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an engineer, all my jobs so far have used niche internal corporate software which would only be available for Windows. This would be Document Management Systems (DMS’s), internal reporting tools (progress and hour keeping), software distribution programs etc.

  And of course the engineering tools themselves are often only built for Windows, whether it’s proprietary PLC programming environments or CAD software.

  That said, I can run both WSL and a corporate-approved Debian VM on the same work laptop as a compromise, for whatever makes sense for the task. Still sucks though! At home I’m a Debian fanboy 4 lyfe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, let’s call it a self defence cable instead. Like a corded taser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, industrial communication protocols in the IT industry uses lots of master/slave terminology. E.g. Modbus and Profibus DP comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads''⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The majority of users are either a communist or almost a communist.

  I was 97% communist at the last measurement. I think I will get the final 3% any day now, God willing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a human produces 1.35 deaths per 100M miles driven

  My car has been driven around 100k miles by a human, i.e. it has produced 0.00135 deaths. Is that like a third of a pinky toe?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But my WiFi is just fine!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or ensuring the spool is still useful 15 years later while everything has migrated to SFP/QSFP

  Nah, the remaining spool will be useful for the rest of its/your lifetime, it always comes in handy as a generic 4-pair twisted pair signal cable for any non-ethernet purpose. I’ve used my old spool twice this year; first for an m-bus cable to my power meter and then for a limit switch for my garage door.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  From my experience in Norway, these are typical in context of daily speech: (…) km, m, dm (kinda rare), cm, mm

  Don’t forget the Scandinavian mile! You and the Swedes use it all the time.