[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Been doing that for the past 15 years or so, being able to use group policy is essential with Windows. I'm pretty sure my son really wants to upgrade his last computer (to Linux), but I may have more work to convince the wife.

I always just bought grey market keys (for Pro/Enterprise), in nearly 20 years I never had one fail or quit working randomly.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago

Check out Avenue 5, hearing him switch between accents constantly is odd but fun.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Do you mean the Cisco iPhone from the 90s or the Brazilian iphone from the early '00s? I'm totally just taking the piss though, I know you mean the Apple one from the later '00s but it wasn't that rare to have mobile internet before it, they were just riding the wave that was already breaking across society.

Apple had a major advantage though, lots of people were already eyeing their popular mp3 player, if a phone could be a phone, internet, and a good music player you can sync easily, it won for a lot of people. I couldn't justify the price and really liked physical keyboards, by the time those became rare I disliked Apple too much to try them.

Somewhere I have my old BB 8320 from 2007, it was awesome because it had WiFi so much better speed when WiFi was available.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 2 months ago

Just glancing at the two articles that were posted, they seem a bit different from each other, OPs definitely has a clickbaity title, but it does mention multiple settlements. Is that a city? Not by today's standards, nor the standards of any other well recorded period of history... times change though. The town I live in has a population of roughly 250k or so but is not much of a city at all, village would be more appropriate for what is available in my mind. We have food and junk shops, but no real services... Its a bit of a shithole town though.

Thank you both for having enough discourse in the comments to make me engaged enough to learn about some ancient shit! Thanks!

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 5 months ago

I used to unlock my desktop with my face a long time ago (20 years or so)... No clue when it came to mobile devices, I could totally see Apple bringing that to mobile first.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna be the guy seconding it. It actually makes it feel like your own device. My favorite part is how each time you go to install an app it asks you if the app should have network access before it ever installs.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

While I agree in spirit, any law surrounding it would need to be very clearly worded, with certain exceptions carved out. Which I'm sure wouldn't happen.

I could easily see people thinking something was of them, when in reality it was of someone else.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

Silly to even mention it but... Early game consoles could be used wirelessly depending on how good of an antenna you had and if you were willing to ignore silly FCC rules regarding transmission power. As they literally broadcast a standard frequency (for channel 3 or 4 depending on your switch position), it could pick it up OTA.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 6 points 8 months ago

Just to add; prior to the coax we had two screws into the back of the TV for an antenna. You would attach a pigtail to that, which would give you a single coax connection. VCRs were game changers because most of the ones I saw had built in tuners so the more tech savvy could hook those up to the antenna and TV, then use the VCR remote to change channels without getting up (volume was another story). A lot of VCRs also had a power outlet on the back so you could plug your TV into it and be able to use the remote to turn the TV on too.

Man old tech was great.

[-] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Personal opinion, but it should show a single state and if it is active.

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