Totally get that part.
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As an aside, this is the blessing and the curse of skimping on your own hardware implementation. Why engineer your own hardware hub when you can just hire more software people to use someone elseâs cheap gear? Works great until that cheap gear isnât available for months at a time, or isnât so cheap.
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The yin and yang of buying a new PC back in the day was you had to open it up to swap out substandard parts and that you had to open it up to swap out substandard parts. Nowadays everything is designed to stop you from doing that (although I have messed with the drives on a couple of iMacs).
These days, when I buy a car, I donât even bother popping the hood. Iâm currently using an off-the-shelf Mac Mini for all my home and work needs. I also have all the skin on my knuckles.
Thatâs kind of like the idea of letting all of your semiconductor manufacturing migrate overseas because itâs cheaper there. Works great until international supply chains get screwed up (although, in fairness, thereâs no guarantee that the precursors that the fabs depend on wouldnât be equally screwed up) or, say, China decides to put the squeeze on Taiwan.
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I think someone overclocked this thread
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Tesla was criticized for its vertical integration when it started up, because thatâs not how cars are made. That vertical integration allowed Tesla to continue to pump out units while all the legacy car manufacturers were building cars and then stacking them in massive parking lots awaiting the chips they needed.
The trick was that Tesla writes its own software, instead of buying sealed boxes from third party manufacturers, so they were able to buy whatever chips were available and rewrite their software accordingly. They have the same advantage with batteries which, for example, allowed them to start building Long Range Model Ys in Austin with 2170 batteries when the supply of 4680 batteries wasnât cutting it. Ford were shipping cars without chips to run the non-essential features (like heated seats).
This isnât to praise Tesla so much as to highlight how the philosophy of outsourcing component manufacture and âjust in timeâ supply chains have left huge US companies stuck in a mud pit of their own creation.
I just got out of the recliner, pulled a cord on the ceiling fan, walked into the kitchen, set the sous vide on (Iâve never pre-cooked drumsticks before frying, weâll see), pulled another fan cord, and then sat back down.
My home is crazy smart.
Just had a bolt of lightning land maybe a couple of dozen yards away. Nary a flicker on my screen.
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Wires all clipped up on the new desk. The one you can still see is the power cord to the UPS thatâs not long enough to tether to the legs when the desk is raised. I need to get a short extension so I can do that, and then youâll barely see any wires.
Is that a UPS or a 10,000 kW generator?
Serious ultrawide goals.
Itâs a filing cabinet. The UPS is slung under the desk.
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I love it. And itâs on an articulated mount so I can move it it all three planes.
Now thatâs a clean desk. Limey, you become more a superhero everyday I read your posts.
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Some very important questions and comments:
- whoâs signature is on the signed ball?
- nice double decker bus. I would have expected nothing less
- what is the WBS on work/gaming on the fancy monitor?
- dude, u need some artwork on those walls. And, maybe a houseplant.
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Biggioâs
I donât game but I prefer it because I have to have so many windows open for work that the flexibility of a single monitor makes sizing/placing the windows much easier. Also, as itâs running off my Mac mini, a four-finger swipe to the right on the mousepad moves the whole thing away and brings up my personal desktop.
Now that I am getting the functionality sorted, the accoutrements will follow. Couch coming this weekend and then Iâll add a rug, artwork etc.
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Haha.
Right now it has a cat sleeping under the monitor. Not so cleanâŚ
Whatâs my cat doing on your computer?
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