Or the next administration can just give it back.

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They will name it Trumpland so he’ll get his legacy. Billionaires will set it up as a place for the wealthy to retreat to for the upcoming political and climate wars.

I only block what will never interest me or is somehow flooding All. After about a week I found myself spending most of my time in my subscribed communities.

Start with All and begin subscribing and blocking as needed.

yeah that’s probably fine, i don’t have any experience with it myself though. AT is known to be decent and deserves credit for staying in vinyl business even when everyone else was exiting it.

I personally would check out the local 2nd-hand stores, pawn shops, and estate sales for a week or two 1st to see if there’s anything laying around though. I paid $75 for my old gemini from a vintage/antique shop 5 years ago and I think all it needed was a new cart and soldering of some new line-out leads. Anything Technics will be overpriced but i regularly come across gear from the 70’s and 80’s that probably work great. I suppose i should buy them up, fix them, and get them into people’s homes.

Speakers vibrate. You don’t want vibrations getting to the needle or you get feedback.

You also don’t want the player moving around as it can cause the needle to jump.

Vinyl isn’t a cheap hobby.

• You need a decent record player.
• Used is fine.
• It should feel heavy.
• The arm should not be designed straight unless you’re a scratch dj.
• It should use a standard head shell so that replacing the needle is simple.
• “Direct drive” motors are nice but not essential.
• Automatic stylus return is essential.
• Technics brsnd “1200” series players will be overpriced but a lot of others are out there. I have a pair but use a Gemini brand player for listening.
• Pitch control isn’t essential.
• You should calibrate the counter weights and other settings to avoid excessive wear on your records.
• You need to place the player on a solid surface that is not near speakers.
• You need a line level converter and you must attach the ground.
• You need a record cleaning brush.
• You need space for the records. Lots of space.
• Don’t leave records in a car or somewhere that gets hot or they will warp.

Desktop streaming isn’t the same as web apps.

Modern desktop streaming is quite impressive. 100ms, 5% loss is no problem for most tasks. You don’t even notice it, and as a result your experience can sometimes be better.

Additionally you can offload some tasks to the local machine where appropriate.

You dont need to fit every users needs into a thin client setup, but you could fit probably 50% of all users onto one and they wouldn’t know any different. Think of the energy savings. Think of all that plastic that goes into a desktop or laptop that isn’t needed in a virtualized blade chassis. Think of the rolling performance upgrades. Think of never having your hardware go End of Support. Think of the old equipment that ends up properly e-wasted instead of shoved into a dump. Think of the batteries that no longer need to get produced.

I might play around with this idea and host my own non-profit Desktop as a Service.

I’ll repeat what I said elsewhere:

Renting PCs is probably overall cheaper and a lot better for the environment. Most people don’t need a machine, they just need a thin client and something to access a few apps maybe 30 mins a day.

Even “power users” don’t need a machine.

If there were a non-profit or not-for-profit that was selling maybe an rpi we’d be saving a lot of money and reducing climate harm.

I just don’t trust bezos to not be greedy.

Prevent MS from forcing their docs xml standard on us all.

Causing me financial harm. For example, Verizon wireless hounded me for more than 3 years over $200 for a home router that I sent back to them.

The worst ms has done is make me read and disable/uninstall some defaults. They have encouraged me to look at alternatives and I have a number of non-ms devices.

Linux always screws up though and is redrawing the line for me. I have a small device that runs Linux and the upgrade process was backup all your data and then wipe/reinstall. wtf?

Another laptop wouldn’t login or let me do anything without typing in a PIN, while MS has Hello and UAC.

Looking up commands or blogs for something that should take 3 clicks, like fixing dpi scaling, shouldn’t take 30+ minutes.

If I struggle even the slightest with simple issues, it’s just not ready for me. I completed my college education solely on Gentoo machines (stage 1 I think it was called?) so I’m comfortable with Linux at a beginner to intermediate level. It’s just not polished.

I go to osx if they supported other hardware.

If it’s plastic then fill with epoxy and send it.

But that part is really cheap. I’d buy new unless it’s not available.

My issue with US’s relationship with Cuba is that the US doesn’t want a Russian outpost so close, yet doesn’t do anything to make the island stable enough to resist outside influence.

https://lemmy.world/c/bestoflemmy

Which is your favorite?

Run windows in a vm for work.

In what context? My Teams Rooms devices can recognize and isolate my voice in a conference room with 10+ other people.

This plugged into a raspberry pi would be a cheap alternative to a true kvm appliance.

https://openterface.com/product/minikvm/

You don’t need a kvm for 5 systems, just one for the machine that doesn’t have vpro.

Vpro is really only needed to get you into your bios or fix an issue where you disabled network somehow.

You could buy a standalone kvm. I think there’s one that uses a raspberry pi.

Or you could set up vnc or something similar on your host if you need a gui.

I would put vpro as a nice to have but not essential component option.

Non-vpro with amt will still get you to the pre-os screen I think.