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New comment by trashcan in "To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes"

trashcan — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:29:21 +0000

How?

New comment by trashcan in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

trashcan — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:50:56 +0000

No, you don't. And you probably also use a ton more power than a streaming box too.

New comment by trashcan in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

trashcan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:15:45 +0000

And of course it doesn't even work on Xbox.

New comment by trashcan in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

trashcan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:40:43 +0000

Oh, this is probably related to why I cannot resize "live caption" windows at all on the latest version of MacOS. They have been mucking around with resizing and not testing it well.

New comment by trashcan in "Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem"

trashcan — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 02:46:43 +0000

New comment by trashcan in "The Game Genie Generation"

trashcan — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 23:36:34 +0000

Goldeneye on N64 had some really cool hidden modes that could only be turned on with Game Genie. I don't recall which ones exactly required the Game Genie, but I'm pretty sure there was one that made everyone invisible until their first death in multiplayer. That was a lot of fun.

New comment by trashcan in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

trashcan — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:18:16 +0000

I'm just responding to what you said:

> Surprisingly no mention of AI in an article about mass layoffs at a tech company.

Sorry if I misunderstood.

New comment by trashcan in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

trashcan — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:59:31 +0000

The first sentence of the article is:

> Microsoft Corp. began job cuts that will impact about 9,000 workers, its second major wave of layoffs this year as it seeks to control costs while ramping up on artificial intelligence spending.

And AI is a bullet point in the "Takeaways, powered by Bloomberg AI" section as well.

New comment by trashcan in "Google Fiber is coming to Las Vegas"

trashcan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 03:07:51 +0000

Same. My neighbors have it and apparently I am never getting it.

New comment by trashcan in "Query Apple's FindMy network with Python"

trashcan — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 01:52:41 +0000

I am on Sequoia 15.3. If I can do anything to help, let me know.

New comment by trashcan in "Query Apple's FindMy network with Python"

trashcan — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:24:25 +0000

It's not clear to me how to actually get the required plist file to make this library work. Neither of the scripts in this issue seem to work: https://github.com/malmeloo/FindMy.py/issues/31

Is the syntax to run them just `swift `?

Swift/ErrorType.swift:253: Fatal error: Error raised at top level: main.MyError.noPassword

New comment by trashcan in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

trashcan — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:10:07 +0000

I have setup a raspberry PI dashboard before and run into these exact issues. They are not defensive or pre-emptive. An e-reader will probably not have the same issues, just sharing my experience.

* Browser runs out of memory or has other issue and stops refreshing.

* Wifi connection drops and browser displays an error page and stops executing your refreshes. The power-saving options on the RPIs wifi caused me quite a bit of grief before I disabled them.

* Raspberry Pi crashes with kernel errors due to cheap SD card, underpowered USB power supply, or something else.

I ran into these issues one by one over a few months and fixed each one as I ran into it. What I ended up with was:

* Browser set to run at OS startup displaying my page.

* That page having a meta refresh tag, and javascript code to reload the page periodically.

* A browser extension to automatically reload the page as well if both of those failed.

* A watchdog daemon that detects when the RPI has frozen and reboots it.

* A cron job that reboots periodically.

With all of those my dashboard would run for months without any issues or interruptions. Just sharing so others can be aware of potential issues.

New comment by trashcan in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

trashcan — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:03:35 +0000

Yep, exactly r:refreshing failing. If you are using a full featured browser you can also use a browser extension that forces the refresh.

Additionally for a raspberry pi, you can use a watchdog timer service that checks to see if the rpi has frozen, and reboots it.

New comment by trashcan in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

trashcan — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:44:27 +0000

Having done this, you will also most likely want to setup a javascript timer that also triggers a refresh in case the meta refresh fails. And a weekly reboot of the machine in case there is a memory leak or some other issue.

New comment by trashcan in "Frontier is about to offer 7-gig fiber across several states"

trashcan — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 17:42:25 +0000

They also refuse to do installs in new builds in many neighborhoods. I have lived sandwiched between two addresses that have Google Fiber, and they have refused to come out to install the last 25 feet of cable to my house for 5 years. So I'm paying $100/mo for crappy Spectrum internet that goes down all the time.

I've reached out to them several times to come out or do a survey, or run the existing fiber through already existing conduit and they just refuse.

New comment by trashcan in "The rise of the camera launched a fight to protect Gilded Age privacy"

trashcan — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 00:01:55 +0000

Looks like it is license plate reader cameras. https://www.flocksafety.com/

New comment by trashcan in "Tips for analyzing logs"

trashcan — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:17:09 +0000

Also, sometimes logs stretch across multiple lines, and the other lines won't have the identifier you are searching for. For example, Java stack traces. In that case if you are stuck parsing unstructured logs, the simplest thing to do is to look at the entire file and search for the timestamp that found the first line.

New comment by trashcan in "Unlaunching the 12GB 4080"

trashcan — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:37:57 +0000

This is the best article I can found about Microsoft choosing to end its relationship with Nvidia for Xbox: https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Nvidia-loses-Xbox-Mi...

New comment by trashcan in "Datadog dashboard for the Texas power grid"

trashcan — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 01:22:33 +0000

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/do-you-know-the-difference-b...

New comment by trashcan in "Samsung asks for planning permission for 11 fabs in Texas"

trashcan — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:11:04 +0000

This is not being done by ERCOT that manages power distribution in Texas. Your friend had a local power failure, probably caused by a downed power line.

Rolling blackouts would be documented here if they were happening: https://www.ercot.com/services/comm/mkt_notices/opsmessages

More info: https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/do-you-know-the-difference-b...