SMS is now 11 cents, better, but not free. There are a bazillion more apps that do free messaging but everybody, even companies expect to have WhatsApp

As one of those adopters 15 years ago, it was a no-brainer. I could either message my wife “free” or send SMSs at 20c each.

Why limit it to a specific OS? Open it up and inline a resistor, say 680 ohm or so.

Or wire a simple on-off switch. Or both ;)

Make churros. Mix same amount water and flour with a bit of salt. Press out with a churro maker, fry for 2 minutes, cool, sprinkle sugar and serve with hot chocolate

I’m all for replaceable batt but it is usually at the expense of being more costly and/or less water proof.

Misha (ring youtuber/racer) recently drove a Xantia with the active suspension and said it was the best handling ever. And he has driven some exotics…

Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.

Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.

Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.

In the region of Albacete (Spain) we have a similar word… and no, it’s not related to the video game giant:

Ea.

37.5 hour work week

Not sure in Linux, could be a driver or kernel configuration. I don’t know a way to double check it. When booting into windows it’s at x16. So not a hardware or bios issue.

Hardware info (hwinfo) or similar. Be able to check all voltages, speed and temps while testing new hardware. For example my ARC A770 has little to no info, and shows running at pcie x1.

Edit: mistakingly thought link width was x4, but looking at it again shows x1

ViRGE 3D, upgraded the memory with 2 chips to play Tomb Raider.

We have all heard this song before and know how it ends.

Well, it was addressing the pay issue, and it is the most secure path to higher paid position fast. Moving on to new stuff comes naturally and the industry will push you to their next hotness, so not really a problem.

If your goal is to make yourself more valuable to employers/clients the best path is to specialize in some critical and niche enterprise tech. People that are good at stuff businesses were lured into using get paid very well. In my case it was SharePoint, but that’s just an example.

Knowing your way around the OS is taken for granted in these positions, so you have one piece of the puzzle, which is great, but you need the other pieces.

But be careful, if I have to choose between two experts, one with basic win+linux and the other only linux, I’m choosing the former.