Experimenting with AntennaPod I notice that quite a few podcasts use unencrypted HTTP over port 80. For example, podcasts from the BBC. AntennaPod itself offers no way to require TLS.
Also, AntennaPod does not strip the tracking information from podcast URLs.
Self-hosting a podcast server might not be a bad idea.
The best technique to do this, which I just used tonight is to use the Windows 10 media creation tool to create a USB installer. Then use the Windows 11 media creation tool to download the Windows 11 ISO. Then copy the install.esd from the sources folder of the Windows 11 ISO over the one on the Windows 10 USB stick.
That creates a Windows 11 installer that works on any PC that meets the requirements for Windows 10. At first this installer will even say that it's installing Windows 10, but it actually installs its esd payload, which is Windows 11.
I feel like I should create this on a USB stick right now before it stops working (they could change the tools). But I also have no incentive to ever want to install Windows 11, unless they drop the TPM requirements.
a more esoteric version is to boot to the windows 11 iso and use the command prompt to bypass the install wizard and manually install the system through DISM and related friends.
Comcast makes you downgrade to a business account if you want to get a reverse DNS entry from them. Reverse DNS is a requirement if you want to host your own e-mail and not have your mail categorized as spam. Comcast business accounts don't allow you to use your own DOCSIS modem.
You only need their Comcast Business modem if you have static IP's because they route them using RIP with a password that is set inside the cable modem with their custom software.
If you don't have a static IP with Comcast Business it makes it awfully hard to run a mail server, but then you can indeed use your own cable modem.
Latest stable macOS release is in the 11.x range. But it's likely that macOS 12 will be released before Windows 11, so GP's magical moment might not come to be.
The soundtrack to Full Throttle rules. At one point in the game, the radio plays a hilarious country song about a guy who loves living in the post-apocalypse.
The population is greatly decreased.
And now the odds are greatly increased,
that I may someday get a chance
to kiss your lips.
I thank the lo-o-ord each day
for the apocalypse.
Folks are mostly disfigured or dead,
but sugar, I wont let it go to my head.
My mama's face has dripped down into the dirt.
But I'm still chasin' chitlins, whiskey and skirt.
The article mentions Tim Schaefer having to tell people repeatedly that the game's setting isn't actually post-apocalyptic. I bet that song is the single reason why people assumed it was (it certainly was for me).
The song sets up the mood for sure, but I think there is a bit more to it.
The town where you (as a player) happen to crash doesn't seem to be fully populated. Maureen drops a line about people leaving, but doesn't clarify why, leaving you with assumptions. Wandering around the town you hear that song you've mentioned, that's a big one for sure. A bit later, you have to ride across a desert which isn't exactly post-apocalyptic by itself, but does radiate a certain vibe - the color palette is rather peculiar. And then you meet that cave-dwelling Cavefish biker gang which certainly doesn't help with brushing off (fairly established at this point) post-apocalyptic feel :)
I used a new computer to install Windows 11 onto an SSD, then I pulled out the SSD and popped it into an old computer with no TPM and and an unsupported third-generation Intel CPU. It works great!
For now. They seem to be somewhat upfront about the insider releases having relaxed rules for now, but that you will probably need to reimage with Windows 10 later.
The Broadcom SoCs used in the RPi's are not "good stuff" at all - they are one of the worst pieces of junk I have ever had the displeasure of using.
They are extremely unstable, and if you want any kind of moderately reliable deployment of an RPi, you need to use a watchdog timer to reset the device if it freezes. Except - guess what - the watchdog timer itself is broken on the RPi! (As of the last time I tried this, iirc with an RPi 4) Either it's busted in hardware or the driver is broken. Most semi-high-reliability devices built using RPis have elected to use external watchdogs, which is super annoying and would not be necessary on a correctly designed SoC.
Their clocking and boot schemes are also totally insane garbage, with random peripherals breaking if you change the GPU clock, and with the GPU silicon running the bootloader or something ridiculous like that.
I would prefer almost any other ARM SoC to the BCM used in the RPi.
And the lack of 3D accelerated video with rpi4. I wish I knew about these prior purchasing rpi. There is a good market for small form general purpose computer with 4g ram + decent gpu. I am still not sure if Intel’s NUC would worth a try in this category.
Broadcom "enabled" the Pi to be created because the SoC for the original RPi 1 was a flop. They wanted to use it for Set Top Box (Cable TV, Google TV etc) devices but couldn't find any buyers
One of the engineers who worked on it worked out a deal with Broadcom to simply reuse the design and market it toward education instead
And it boots with the GPU which is not 3D accelerated in version 4 because the whole project was done by one person who just left. This is one of most popular SBCs out there. I wish it was a bit better.
Are there any high performance single-board computers on the market currently? I use a lot of Rpi's in personal projects, and I've been thinking about a home file server in a super small form-factor. What I would like is an SBC somewhere on the size scale of a smartphone, with performance in the range of a current flagship phone.
