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MDGeist commented on How Not to Buy a SSD andrei.xyz/post/how-not-t... · Posted by u/speckx

I'm a big fan of Microcenter for this kind of stuff and hope they can hang on (I was disappointed to see one of the ones near me reducing its store footprint).

MDGeist · 2 days ago

This is the reason I also go to Microcenter for components. It's too bad there are so few of them and Fry's is defunct. Not many brick and mortar options left.

MDGeist commented on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet nytimes.com/2025/08/11/bu... · Posted by u/situationista

hopelite · 13 days ago

I’ve always wondered about the remaining users of the dial-up service. Who are they and what is the use case for using dial-up?

Does anyone know?

MDGeist · 13 days ago

I had an aunt who was a hold out until this past year. She was in a rather wooded and sparsely populated area and although faster internet became available awhile ago it was much more expensive and she was already used to the limitations of dial-up so she didn't feel compelled to make the jump. If she really needed fast internet for some reason (maybe emailing an attachment) she would drive to the nearest library.

MDGeist commented on Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation perl.com/article/proxmox-... · Posted by u/oalders

ZiiS · a month ago

I am sure we are all grateful for Proxmox's generous donation; but if €10k is newsworthy for a Foundation with Perl's historic profile, I would be very worried.

MDGeist · a month ago

Kind of wondered if that was part of the rationale for making it news. Maybe another company will say "that's all!? we can do better" and help out.

MDGeist commented on Why are there no good dinosaur films? briannazigler.substack.co... · Posted by u/fremden

hdjdjdbdgsud · 2 months ago

There is the Animatrix.... Specifically it has a history reel like that.

MDGeist · 2 months ago

I did not entirely hate the sequels, but I feel like the Animatrix was better and kind of flies under the radar.

MDGeist commented on Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford nexo.sh/posts/microservic... · Posted by u/nexo-v1

candiddevmike · 4 months ago

Some resume driven developers will choose microservices for startups as a way to LARP a future megacorp job. Startup may fail, but they at least got some distributed system experience. It takes extremely savvy technical leadership to prevent this.

MDGeist · 4 months ago

I've also seen the top down version where senior leadership like a CIO/CTO wants to put a huge "modernization" project on their resume and they don't care if it is impossible to maintain or falls over after they move on.

MDGeist commented on Heart disease deaths worldwide linked to chemical widely used in plastics medicalxpress.com/news/20... · Posted by u/amichail

conorjh · 4 months ago

there are fungi that have evolved to eat plastic with no human intervention. we'll be fine.

MDGeist · 4 months ago

There was a recentish David Cronenberg movie about humans evolving to eat plastic so we'll be fine. Can't wait to chow down on plastic.

MDGeist commented on Restructuring Announcement automattic.com/2025/04/02... · Posted by u/markx2

etchalon · 5 months ago

We always let our ex-employees keep their laptops because a. why not? and b. I don't need laptops for positions that no longer exist.

MDGeist · 5 months ago

I was at a company that let people keep laptops (after they were wiped) largely because the severance was so meager it seemed they expected people to sell the laptops for some extra cash. :p

MDGeist commented on Canon EF and RF Lenses – All Autofocus Motors exclusivearchitecture.com... · Posted by u/ExAr

post_break · 5 months ago

Canon is dead to me after they forced 3rd parties to stop all RF lenses. I bought the last AF lens by Viltrox and it's fantastic. I regret getting an RF body after they threatened them, and now only allow 3rd parties on their crop sensor bodies. Fuji, Sony, Leica, Nikon, all allow 3rd party lenses. I switched to Fuji and won't go back.

MDGeist · 5 months ago

They weren't dead to me immediately just because there are still third party RF lenses that rock, but when Sirui did the AF anamorphic lenses and I couldn't get one for my Canon then it really bummed me out. :/

MDGeist commented on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser opendaw.studio/... · Posted by u/raggi

duped · 6 months ago

I was a longtime JUCE user and won't hold my breath for them to support the web. They skate strictly where the puck was two years ago, not where it's going. I also wouldn't call their Linux support "easy" - it's not surprising to me very few JUCE developers even consider using Linux in CI, let alone as a supported target.

That said, I think there's something interesting about building out an audio platform with "no VSTs" as a constraint - about 6 years ago I was convinced that the web was a deadend for even middling complexity audio projects when I saw Bandlab at NAMM, and I was very wrong. It seems like the value of a DAW that you can fire up in a browser and instantly access all your projects/share them with your friends is more valuable than having no plugins and crashing after hitting browser tab memory limits. And looking down the road it frees you from the serious problems with native plugins and current plugin APIs.

MDGeist · 6 months ago

I think you make an interesting point about the implications of the no-VST constraint. In the earlier days of Reason (before they had VST support or even Rack Extensions) it was great because I could work on a song on any system that had just Reason installed and anyone that also had the current version could open it as is. No installing plugins and no plugin compatibility issues between users. Away from the studio for a weekend? Just install on a laptop and use the dongle, no problem!

Creatively it was very freeing. Naturally, plugin envy eventually crept in and I was glad when they did add VST support, but I miss the ease of use and portability. And you got to know the stock effects inside and out which offered some streamlining in workflow.

MDGeist commented on Boring tech is mature, not old rubenerd.com/boring-tech-... · Posted by u/mikece

steveBK123 · 6 months ago

Exactly - This is known to graybeards and mostly ignored by the youths.

We've seen the wheel re-invented many times and would prefer to work on something other than the wheel again. Stuff like solving user problems and making money.

Meanwhile you have the coworker who uses some new but soon to be deprecated language/framework on every project, leaving a field of unsupportable debris in their wake..

MDGeist · 6 months ago

Totally agree, but how often is the young coworker using the hip new language in their position because they were told learning it was the key to getting a job in a competitive market and it is what they have to fall back on?

Somewhat similarly, I feel like the boring/mature infra often gets ripped up in favor of something hip and new by a CIO who wants a career checkmark that they "modernized" everything. Then they move on to the next company and forget the consequences of breaking what was stable.