I use it for lots of stuff, remote scanning from an old Canon flatbed scanner attached to my NAS (powered by a really ugly phone-local bash script, nothing else), rsync, renames (or the like using one liners), ssh tunnels to different destinations (to circumvent IP blockages) and of course YT downloads (using the source git folder and running it using "python -m yt_dlp $OPTIONS $URL" - when it breaks, a git pull is all it needs most of the time, I also have local patches that are not upstreamed)
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Going off on a tangent now, but man, I wish when you called support you could go through a quick technical competency test, and your results dictated who you got support from.
Nailing dense questions about network infrastructure? You get to the engineering team.
Failing to know what the "G" in 2.4GHz means? You probably just need someone to tell you to restart your router.
Relevant xkcd:
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Let's not get started with that... those same people also say "viertel vier" to mean 3:15 (one quarter of the "fourth hour" has passed), which is really confusing to the uninitiated, so "viertel nach"/"viertel vor" is preferable IMHO...
It does make sense though (once you know where it comes from):
Before the ubiquity of watches, time was announced using church clocks and bell strikes. There's a big bell for hours (low pitch) and a smaller one for announcing quarters (higher pitch).
Signalling zero is not possible using "zero bell strikes", so 00:00 is signalled by 4 strikes of the quarters bell and 12 strikes of the hour bell.
Thus, the sequences go like:
11:15 1x quarter bell
11:30 2x quarter bell
11:45 3x quarter bell
12:00 4x quarter bell + 1x hour bell
Basically it makes sense then as all the quarters belong to the same hour.
Those are designed to have a service contract for continuous maintenance. Not the best idea for a home.
That and the professional gear is optimized for operational speed (e.g. a glassware dishwasher that has a 10min cycle for a bar. Guess how much water/electricity it needs).
I wonder how easy it would be to make a practically indestructible, everlasting Wikipedia reader.
Something using solar for power, with a rugged and water-resistant enclosure, made of extremely high-quality components that won't break for hundreds of years at least. Maybe add an IRDA port for good measure, to make it possible to transfer all the data out somewhat quickly.
You could make hundreds of these and put them in hard-to-reach locations around the world, to make sure at least one survives whatever calamity might befall us in the future.
Aard2 for Android exists since at least 2015:
https://f-droid.org/packages/itkach.aard2
I have many current and old dumps and can switch between a few years. Very nice in case of deleted articles or to check old time stamped versions. It also supports more than just Wikipedia like wikiquote or wikivoyage or cooking wiki. You can compile own mediawikis too
ce4 commented on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update us.community.samsung.com/... · Posted by u/ftufek
what bother's me even more is that they are constantly spying on me (phone home, what am I watching, ...) and pushing advertisements to my TV. My next TV will probably not be connected to the internet.
Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?
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