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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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True. He said he thought nobody would even need 640k!
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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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True. He said he thought nobody would even need 640k!
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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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Well except for that time when they declared Win11 to require a TPM. They dropped 16-bit support a long time ago too.
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Microsoft admits 8GB RAM is fine for Windows 11, after years of pushing 16GB as the baseline
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True. We buy pretty good PCs and they run okay. But if I put vanilla Windows, even Win11, or any Linux, they're absolutely screaming fast.
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75% More Pedestrians Have Been Killed Since 2009. Giant Trucks and SUVs Are Why
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The modern Rav4 has exactly the same length and width as the modern Camry. Cars have gotten bigger, for sure, but by no means is it huge.
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Do you host your own AI?
Yes. Openwebui/ollama for LLM, comfyui for stable diffusion. I just dick around with it as a toy.
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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
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I like flavored seltzer water.
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Alcohol is the root of 62 diseases and a partial cause of dozens more
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I've found 0% beer is good for having a drink in your hand during a social event. They're not really that good in and of themselves that you can drink them to appreciate them like a real beer, and of course they don't get you drunk at all. But it's better than having water or nothing.
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Banned from [email protected] for anti-zionism
YDI. Don't editorialize the headlines by changing them.
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First new phone in 6 years! (GrapheneOS) What else have I been missing?
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RCS is working for me. For now, at least.
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Message notifications don't clear
Try the mark as read button on the replies tab. Pretty sure it's a bug.
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Arena Employees have unionized!
Magic: The Gathering: Arena is a free-to-play digital collectible card game developed and published by Wizards of the Coast
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Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS
This is highly misleading. Hopefully there's a link in the article to the original report on the GrapheneOS forums, where they talk about the app update breaking it on multiple platforms, not just GrapheneOS. It does not appear to be a block.
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Help me fix my dad’s home internet setup. Does my plan make sense?
Putting random stuff into AP mode is sketchy, but usually works. Modern equipment in particular usually supports proper roaming, and clients are smart enough to change BSSID based on strength. Old and/or cheap equipment is less reliable because of poor or nonexistent roaming support.
If you want to do it the right way, get a couple real APs and pull Ethernet back to a switch. Ubiquiti is fine for prosumer, and you're less likely to get "help my wifi stopped working and you need to come fix it" calls.
How many APs depends on house layout and what it's built out of.
Most importantly, DON'T get a bunch of standalone mesh repeaters. The cheapest ones literally just rebroadcast your traffic, meaning speed takes a huge hit with each hop. There are better ones, but even then they're nowhere near as good as APs with Ethernet.
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What are those maggots on the roots of my dead lettuce plant?
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Right, they're infesting the plant because of the root damage. You gave them a great food source. But if they run out of damaged roots, they won't start in on the healthy ones.
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Former Unreal Engine 'lead evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong leaves Epic Games, says the industry is reaching a 'pivotal' moment that he must 'come to terms with'
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Yes, which is why they didn't do that.
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What are those maggots on the roots of my dead lettuce plant?
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Yeah, if the roots rotted they make great food for insect larvae.
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How do you store seeds for more than a year?
Any cool, dark, dry place.
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The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s
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People with lift kits and cops overlap significantly.
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Manage Devices without AD,GPO or an MDM
Possible, but it's gonna be real difficult. What kind of management are they expecting? Are you held to any kind of compliance?
If you have Windows server licensing available, I'd just stand up AD anyway. Hopefully you're not running Windows Home on all the devices.
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The Supreme Court Will Decide Whether ICE Can Hold People Indefinitely. We Should All Be Worried.
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Sometimes it's useful because the original is paywalled.