[X] My Assistant

USA schools need something like what China is doing with Artificial Intelligence in classrooms. Can't wait until Xiaomi has productivity apps to turn their phones into hubs that monitor productive mindset emanations while people are at work or school.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLsHI8aV0g

Somehow a bloatware-free OS is just too much to ask for smartphone manufacturers.

Somehow a bloatware-free OS is just too much to ask for smartphone manufacturers.

That bloatware makes them money, though, apparently. Welcome to capitalism.

As long as I have some way to delete stuff it's not the worst, but I would like to see a pure wayland/X phone. With a little trackball, like old Blackberries used, maybe.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 8 2020, 07:58

The bloatware and spyware on phones is nuts these days.

The bloatware and spyware on phones is nuts these days.

I decided not to purchase Redmi Note because of this.

I've always wondered if device families communicate with each other. For example, if a samsung smartphone exists in the household, it is clearly one of the spyware node points. If you have a samsung smart TV, then that TV might "phone home" by quietly passing data to the smartphone. The same with a samsung washer/dryer combo, samsung robo vacuum, and maybe even a toothbrush. This toothbrush knows if you brushed both sides of your mouth and displays it on your smartphone app. It's good if you want to track your kids to see how long and how well they brush their teeth.
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Smart TVs got caught doing it but I am not sure about other devices, depends if they have diagnostics.

Some of the smart appliances that link to your phone do have data for when you are in the house for example.

Ordered a new bios battery for the old laptop, and the CF cards should be here today. Still trying to decide what I want to do about replacing it's NiCd battery. Leaning toward sticking a battery holder in there, and just using button top C cells instead of trying to rebuild it's D cell pack. I f'n destroyed the old plastic trying to get the cells unglued.

I'm disappointed to learn DOS doesn't have a direct equivalent to bash's dd command, and I was unable to work out how it or windows refers to an unmounted drive or partition. Linux's model of 'everything is a file in the tree' model makes dd even more powerful a tool.

I'm disappointed to learn DOS doesn't have a direct equivalent to bash's dd command, and I was unable to work out how it or windows refers to an unmounted drive or partition. Linux's model of 'everything is a file in the tree' model makes dd even more powerful a tool.

DOS's built-in utilities are essentially useless for any given task; the only sane way to use DOS is to be a competent C programmer. Most C compilers built a bit of infrastructure on top of the BIOS interrupt vectors to simplify things for users, but every compiler seems to have different function names and a different syntax for doing things.

Remember also that when PC-DOS was first launched IBM didn't even have a hard disk device for sale (the tallgrass drives existed, but were third-party), and also remember that the first PC's had a BASIC ROM built-in for doing that kind of thing as well as tape drives (which PC-DOS couldn't use). MS BASIC was the way you'd make your computer do what you wanted if you didn't want to buy DOS software for it (or get a real OS, like MP/M 86 or later OS/2, that wasn't just a frontend for moving files around and a BIOS interrupt interface).

Even the windows command line (cmd.exe) is much more fully featured than DOS.

I actually ported an old DOS C program from Borland Turbo C to the Open Watcom compiler just two days ago. The nice thing about Watcom was that I could at least examine the sources and figure out what the analogous functions were.

Thought:
I like how thoroughly broken the webDAV implementation is in Windows XP, and especially how MS never bothered to fix it. No SSL, and more pressingly it tries to prepend the server's IP address or hostname to the user field if you try to authenticate with it and refuses to not do that.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 11 2020, 10:44

I don't think I ever liked dos. Only time I had to use it extensively was with Windows ME.

Funny you memtion Borland Turbo C, I think that's what the radio software I'm setting it up for was all written in.

I wonder why there are hardly any tutorials on how to do a PDoS (Permanent Denial of Service)

I survived Windows 10 version 2004 upd<connection with host was lost>

I wonder why there are hardly any tutorials on how to do a PDoS (Permanent Denial of Service)

'cause you are searching with google, they have topics like that on the black list.

I wonder why there are hardly any tutorials on how to do a PDoS (Permanent Denial of Service)

Because the people who know how to do it understand the underlying principles and don't think people who don't should try it without knowing them.

I've been experiencing youtube playback and dead videos issues and also mangadex 404'ing out.

Not sure if youtube is doing election suppression.

This post has been edited by Pillowgirl: Nov 12 2020, 03:04

I've been experiencing youtube playback and dead videos issues and also mangadex 404'ing out.

Not sure if youtube is doing election suppression.

I've not had those problems, although I saw people on social media sites saying YT died a few hours ago.

I don't watch enough videos for it to have inconvenienced me.

Local HAM convention got cancelled this year due to COVID. Fuck. Now I have to wait til next year.

This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Nov 13 2020, 00:43

Following a reboot of my Internet box, one thing that show me graphs about connection speed now display a max upload speed of 87.5 MB/s instead of 75MB/s before (I can see a gap and a jump on the graph).
Now that's probably the "maximum the hardware/software can reach if put in the ideal location in the country", not something directly about what I have, still I wonder if I will see improvements? (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/mellow.gif)

The new Xbox internals are kind of awesome

If I use alkaline batteries (e.g Energizer, Panasonic Evolta) in a wireless keyboard with no RGB or backlit LED key caps, will they last significantly longer compared to Super/Extra Heavy Duty batteries? Or simply overkill?

This post has been edited by loli-hujan86: Nov 15 2020, 01:33