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If they’d actually had to pay the $1.24B back in 2009, it could have been quite meaningful.

Maybe having to pay less than a quarter of that, more than a decade later, just pathetic.

The beauty is you can just go and get one (which may have no brand name whatsoever) for $20 at a restaurant supply store.

If you want one that’ll look nice in your kitchen, you could try one from De Buyer.

Also far too many clock stoppages.

Rugby: an 80-minute game that completes in around 100 minutes, inclusive of the 15 minute break between halves.

Gridiron: a 60-minute game that inexplicably takes 3.5 hours.

Very little fucking about in rugby, they just get on with it.

U3219Q reporting in. The new U4025QW is looking pretty tasty though, 5120x2160, 120Hz, Thunderbolt hub, more ports than you can shake a stick at.

All of the U and S series Dells I’ve used have been great, and they’re by and large remarkably reasonably priced too.

Double-bagged, with any luck.

You have to dig reasonably hard, but a few articles have linked to the original EASA directive, which is allowing up to three non-passenger flights to relocate the plane to a service location.

I’m not sure if that rule would just apply in Europe where they have authority.

Money. Money is where it comes from.

“I am rich, therefore my opinion is valid and you should listen to me”

EXTREMELY LOUD ‘INCORRECT’ BUZZER

And if those specific ones aren’t available where you live, there’s a very similar range from a brand called “Pale Blue”.

Theirs are available in AAA, AA, C, D, 9V, and CR123.

First game I ever bought.

Mailed a freaking cheque internationally, and got a box of 3.5" floppy disks back about 6 weeks later.

Wild times.

Knee and elbow pads.

Performance wise, you’d struggle to beat a JBC station.

I have an older version of this one, has been fantastic: https://www.jbctools.com/cdb-soldering-station-product-1605.html

Price-wise, well that’s a whole different story. That station is about $600 USD and change, and individual tips start at about $40.

What it does have though is damn near instant heating (it takes longer for the controller in mine to boot than it does to heat), hot-swappable tips (the metal comb-looking thing is to aid pulling the tip from the handle), and nearly 150 shapes of tips to choose from (see https://www.jbctools.com/c245-cartridge-range-long-life-tip-product-19-design-iron.html).

Their other innovation (now somewhat commonplace) is building the element into the tip, letting them put significantly larger power output into comparatively low thermal mass tips. Does wonders for temperature control.

Here’s a reasonable comparison of the older-style (Hakko, Weller) separate element/tip design against the JBC’s integrated: https://youtu.be/scvS2yeUH00

https://archive.ph/skO4b

I keep trying, but the clock only displays 4:29.

What do?

Back in the XUL days (pre Firefox 57) it was possible for an extension to muck with keyboard bindings. So only 90 versions later :)

I’m looking forward to being able to disable the ^q quit shortcut, at the very least.

It also gives you no clue whether those prices are one-off purchases or monthly subscriptions, making them entirely useless.

$3.99, sounds like a dea… per month… YOU BASTARDS.

At work we use the NexDock for that purpose (for anything that doesn’t have proper Ethernet remote management, at least). It’s relatively convenient that it’s self-powered and self-contained, basically a laptop minus the computer part.

(Conveniently, I see this is also a new model that replaces the awkward mini-HDMI port with a proper full-size one)

If you need VGA, you will have to buy an active VGA-to-HDMI dongle. They’re cheap (down to about $10-15 these days) and seem to work just fine.

Should the preference be to use a laptop you already own, you’ve got a few options. Either an IP KVM like the JetKVM, GL.iNet Comet, NanoKVM, etc, or a USB one such as the Openterface.

(Note that a couple of those links are pre-orders or otherwise not immediately available, make sure you do your research)

All of these things are fairly comprehensively reviewed by tech-focused Youtube channels, just gotta pick your favourite form factor.

Well at least they’re honest about it…

bunk
/bʌŋk/
noun
nonsense.
“anyone with a brain cell would never believe such bunk”

For what it’s worth, you can have your very own 4U rack-mount chassis with a dozen of these in it for around a grand.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186249007611 https://www.ebay.com/itm/357827557706

Less than a hundred bucks each, and no need to rig up janky power and cooling.

Not that I think you necessarily should, but the option is always there.

Under the Dome very nearly transcended its shittyness, but only with some outside context.

It wouldn’t be any fun to re-watch I expect, but at the time it was live, the weekly Reddit discussion threads trying to predict the next atrociously dumb stunt the writers would pull (and then somehow still being surprised when they came up with something even worse) made it worthwhile.

It was for sure some hot garbage though, the ham-fisted Microsoft Surface product placement was a particular “highlight”, but just bad in general.

I sometimes feel like the only option left with HP is to buy used.

There’s a great (but admittedly narrow) window in which they are a safe option; the cut-off is approximately that if it has a colour LCD, it’s too new. You need to look for one that has the good old 2x16 character LCD with green backlight.

The trick is you then have to find one where toner and parts are still readily available, with some of the older models it is becoming difficult.

The CP5225dn (2012 designed, but 2017 built) I rescued from the e-waste at work is doing me nicely, and it looks like I should have no trouble getting the parts for a few years to come.