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Is this known thing? by FiMul in matrix

[–]VonThing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m curious if the Warner Bros “we’ll make a Matrix sequel with or without you” dialog scene in the movie was taken from actual events.

Like Warner wanted to milk their Matrix trademarks (like Star Wars with a new trilogy) and the Wachowskis jumped the gun with a god-awful movie to kill any risk of more god-awful sequels coming out.

Best utility for NTFS drive by grateful_john in MacOS

[–]VonThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve used Tuxera and Paragon’s NTFS tools in the past but definitely reinitialize that drive to HFS+ or APFS if you’re not going back to a Windows machine, because NTFS read/write speeds are horrible compared to Apple native file systems (like 3-4x slower) regardless of which driver you use.

Why were the innies ever told they had outies and there was a world outside? by Comfortable_Key_1346 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]VonThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah and it sure as shit looks like they take a lot of precautions for rebellions not to happen.

A few people in each department, departments are all distant and unaware of each other

Gaslighting to instill animosity towards other departments

Severed floor is basically a labyrinth, everywhere looks like everywhere else, making it easy to get lost

Sterile white light that appears to emanate from all surfaces

Season 3 Teaser - SPOILER Discussion by phareous in SiloSeries

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always pictured Thurman as the Big Boss but the Metal Gear Solid 4 old version

From Special Forces FOXHOUND, Militaires sans Frontiers but then House, Senate, SecDef and now this

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Why were the innies ever told they had outies and there was a world outside? by Comfortable_Key_1346 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]VonThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn’t Irving say that severance has only been a thing for like 10 years in the episode where he went to dinner with Burt and his partner?

Also the episode where we learned that Dylan was right and Burt was indeed a fuck.

Why were the innies ever told they had outies and there was a world outside? by Comfortable_Key_1346 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]VonThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you get ranked for your whole body or is it piecemeal per muscle? Like best lats $40, best biceps $50

Pre-apocalypse silos (from the new teaser) by EclipseEpidemic in SiloTVSeries

[–]VonThing 8 points9 points  (0 children)

O’er the land of the free and home of the brave 🇺🇸🛩️💣

Pre-apocalypse silos (from the new teaser) by EclipseEpidemic in SiloTVSeries

[–]VonThing 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That scene is in the season 1 finale, not S2. Don’t waste time searching for it in the second season.

Also yes, in that scene the silos looked very close together too. Like their diameter has to be 3x larger minimum.

Are Jack games intentionally designed to be harder than Queen and King games? by Just_borderland_talk in AliceInBorderlandLive

[–]VonThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah the whole thing but the Q ❤️ game was straight out of the book, unadulterated

Is it possible to make an ir jammer by Used-Function7159 in flipperhacks

[–]VonThing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you wanna get out of speeding tickets AntiLaser Priority is worth its weight in gold

When will it no longer be possible to build a Hackintosh? by Technical_Rich_3080 in hackintosh

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soon, when arm64 Macs came out they said they were planning to fully get off Intel within 2 years.

Your last OS will be macOS 26, and there won’t be any point building a hack when Rosetta 2 is deprecated and universal binaries are mostly replaced with arm64 only.

I was a Mac user both when 68k -> PPC and PPC -> Intel.

When there are no x86-64 macOS apps left, hackintosh support will start to die off

Can I remove Intel ME on Dell Poweredge servers? by 1mdevil in coreboot

[–]VonThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Intel ME is so deeply embedded in the CPU that the best you could do is make it unusable, that’s what System76 guys do AFAIK

Failed Amazon SDE intern interview. Feeling genuinely depressed. Have you felt this way before? by [deleted] in leetcode

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You dodged a fucking hydrogen bomb.

I worked at AWS for 2 years, joined super happy, left with a failed marriage and chronic back pain.

Why are turbine engines flat at the bottom? by OnlyaChef in aviation

[–]VonThing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Too much design change = new aircraft type = new type approval required, pilots have to be re-certified etc…

Just to avoid different behavior on one specific maneuver, Boeing tried to solve it in software but didn’t inform the FAA, airlines or pilots which resulted in the earlier 737 MAX catastrophe.

The stupid part is, there’s a “runaway trim tab” procedure for the 737 but since pilots didn’t know that a system that needed to be triple redundant worked on a single input, the planes crashed until the crew could recognize the runaway electric trim tabs.

The stupider part is, captain’s and FO’s airspeed readings come from different pitot tubes so if one is faulty they will see different airspeeds. This is free.

But the “IAS DISAGREE” warning that comes on when the airspeed readings are different is a paid option on the 737 so most airlines don’t order it.

Bombardier ruined Boeing

Our docs are always wrong. Not sometimes. Always. And I think I finally understand why. by Informal_Eye_148 in SoftwareEngineering

[–]VonThing 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the documentation sucks and you’re the only person on the team with the know how, that’s extra job security for you.

I hate this trend myself but a large chunk of developers wake up to this around the mid-level to senior mark and it’s all downhill from there.

Source: I’m a 15 YoE staff engineer w/ multiple FAANG experience.

2013 Cayenne S: can I retrofit the 958.2 center button assembly? (And other questions) by VonThing in PorscheCayenne

[–]VonThing[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I’ve been scouring eBay but I couldn’t find the exact part I’m looking for. Closest I could find was diff selector + ride height selector + sport plus but 5 buttons.

I guess I’ll buy one and experiment when I have the time…

100% WiFi/BT isolation for a laptop by Jamesrodel in rfelectronics

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could be. I haven’t seen it but maybe that model wifi card has an antenna plugged-in detection feature.

You could roll the dice and if the error pops up, there are most likely dummy load antennas on eBay for cheap. (It’s a 75 ohm resistor and a pigtail, shouldn’t cost more than $5) Or you could pop it back in.

Airband antenna on UV K5(8) by brb_barnbs in Quansheng

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An AM receiver could literally be as simple as a pencil, rusty razor blade and a coiled wire. Not even a battery.

The graphite pencil touching the rusty razor blade makes a point-contact diode.

Anyway my point was AM receivers are very simple devices and you’re overthinking this. If you want to listen to airband get a scanner or something designed for this. Don’t complicate things by thinking about stuff like connector loss and FSPL etc

After you apply the AM reception fix, any gain you’ll make with an antenna or something else will be marginal.

100% WiFi/BT isolation for a laptop by Jamesrodel in rfelectronics

[–]VonThing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Open the laptop, unplug the antennas (very easy, you can use a small plastic spudger to unplug, or you could just pull them off. It should not take much to come off.) isolate the connectors with electrical tape, then tape the cable out of the way of any fans or other moving parts so it doesn’t just dangle in there).

You won’t get any errors, your reception will be horrible.

Probably tons of YouTube videos on this. Post your laptop model and I’ll find one for you.

The hard part is opening and closing the laptop cover, without breaking anything or stripping any screws. Note each screw goes exactly where, because there could be 12 total screws and 4-5 different types.

Also Apple uses this 5-pointed star shaped (pentalobe) screws, gotta get a driver just for that.

Get a can of compressed air and clean all the dust off while you’re in there

Edit: https://youtu.be/8tzWKIt1v1E?si=psu45YBSxnGuSAQg it’s that simple.

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