Need to look busy at work? Ping -i.2 <your IP address> will repeatedly ping your own router. Tell your boss it’s running a diagnostic or something.

Thanks! Yeah I like it. I’m just dipping my toes in Linux for now, hence using old machines that I’m willing to wipe and start over with

Aw! Well, right before I read this I started installing Ubuntu on the Mint machine.

I have a third laptop I want to do this with, but I have to find a charger. I’ll try Mint again when I get to that.

I’m just trying to set up my buddies with OpenRA so we can have LAN parties like it’s 1999

This past weekend I installed Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop and Mint on an old Toshiba. I just want to be able to play Open RA with some friends.

It runs on Ubuntu, but not on Mint. I don’t have the specs of either laptop handy, but is this a software or hardware issue?

You can use any apple device to use iMessage, your account isn’t only usable on your device. They were effectively stealing people’s machine IDs to provide this service. That’s fucked up.

Except it’s not a solution that works for everyone. It’s 9 solutions. If it were one it would be a lot easier.

7 once you take out the ones owned by Facebook.

Lots of sarcastic comments in here, but Beeper’s method was to literally spoof the serial numbers and whatnot of real machines. Do people really not see how that would be a problem?

Here’s a feature iOS has that android doesn’t:

Guides in maps.

I don’t use it for its intended purpose, but as a school bus driver it’s great for keeping track of where the stops are without maps trying to direct me.

I can set up a route in Google maps, but it insists on directing me and I can only put in 10 stops before having to start a new route.

I don’t need directions, I just need to know if it’s this corner or the next one.

Probably a phishing site.

It goes, “Oh you don’t have a fingerprint scanner? Enter your Facebook password.” and suckers fall for it.

Especially when the phone doesn’t seem to have a finger print scanner

As a player of the Early Access I gotta say: yea, this game is worth the price. I’m waiting until my day off tomorrow to start the full version.

There’s no MTX and they’ve stated that there won’t be any. The game is beautiful. They care and it shows.

Pay the money. Support good game developers. Pirate EA and the like’s shit til the cows come home IDGAF.

Ahhh gotcha! You should document and post the process. I’d love to see it!

Question: How do you run this without destroying your walls? I’m not planning on doing it, but I have an Ethernet connection that my landlord put in when he redid the basement, but I can’t picture how it would be done otherwise.

Oh, so this third party would rat you out for having an adblocker and websites would be like, “naahhhhh”

I say no to this.

When I was in school for radio I was outputting the Spotify player to the rack then bringing it back to an input to record through audition.

Kind of tedious, but it worked.

As a stagehand/TVA I also find this quite amusing.