What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ug.. so they are still having those problems.. that sucks!
When have they not had known issues? Back in the IBM days they were great, now they're known spyware on your network.
Well yeah, I know they were with superfish, but I had guessed they had solved that when they finally released drivers that removed that shit!
are you telling me they never became stable again after that crap years and years ago?
All that said - I continue to refuse to buy Lenovo stuff because of their history, so I have no recent experience with them.
Which drivers removing what? Remember that they had so many security issues so quickly that everyone got them all confused and assumed they fixed everything when they did not.
There was only one driver related issue that I recall - that was superfish itself. They injected shit into the driver that allowed them to see anything they wanted...
the other issue I recall from that time was BIOS to OS injection shit for lenovo updater, or whatever else they called it... sure some people call that malware, some call it a feature, meh, assuming that the software itself wasn't breaking security it wasn't an issue in my opinion... definitely not to the level superfish was.
My case, I had to install a completely different WiFi card to get a normal Intel provided driver to work in my lenovo laptop... completely bypassing their BS keyed driver.
They definitely had connection issues beyond their superfish issues. Just like failing connections kind of stuff.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ug.. so they are still having those problems.. that sucks!
When have they not had known issues? Back in the IBM days they were great, now they're known spyware on your network.
Well yeah, I know they were with superfish, but I had guessed they had solved that when they finally released drivers that removed that shit!
are you telling me they never became stable again after that crap years and years ago?
All that said - I continue to refuse to buy Lenovo stuff because of their history, so I have no recent experience with them.
They never did. We found that Windows never worked on some of the older gear. But Linux, no problem. It's all driver issues, it seems.
So you couldn't get a good windows driver, but you could get a good Linux driver? were they no longer keyed? or did Lenovo just release a good unjunked Lenovo driver?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ug.. so they are still having those problems.. that sucks!
When have they not had known issues? Back in the IBM days they were great, now they're known spyware on your network.
Well yeah, I know they were with superfish, but I had guessed they had solved that when they finally released drivers that removed that shit!
are you telling me they never became stable again after that crap years and years ago?
All that said - I continue to refuse to buy Lenovo stuff because of their history, so I have no recent experience with them.
Which drivers removing what? Remember that they had so many security issues so quickly that everyone got them all confused and assumed they fixed everything when they did not.
There was only one driver related issue that I recall - that was superfish itself. They injected shit into the driver that allowed them to see anything they wanted...
the other issue I recall from that time was BIOS to OS injection shit for lenovo updater, or whatever else they called it... sure some people call that malware, some call it a feature, meh, assuming that the software itself wasn't breaking security it wasn't an issue in my opinion... definitely not to the level superfish was.
My case, I had to install a completely different WiFi card to get a normal Intel provided driver to work in my lenovo laptop... completely bypassing their BS keyed driver.
They definitely had connection issues beyond their superfish issues. Just like failing connections kind of stuff.
Oh, didn't know that, very little exposure on my part - Good I guess... though back then I had connection with WiFi on windows with pretty much everyone, not just my Lenovo...
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
ug.. so they are still having those problems.. that sucks!
When have they not had known issues? Back in the IBM days they were great, now they're known spyware on your network.
Well yeah, I know they were with superfish, but I had guessed they had solved that when they finally released drivers that removed that shit!
are you telling me they never became stable again after that crap years and years ago?
All that said - I continue to refuse to buy Lenovo stuff because of their history, so I have no recent experience with them.
They never did. We found that Windows never worked on some of the older gear. But Linux, no problem. It's all driver issues, it seems.
So you couldn't get a good windows driver, but you could get a good Linux driver? were they no longer keyed? or did Lenovo just release a good unjunked Lenovo driver?
Basically. The Windows drivers were flaky. Linux uses the built in kernel drivers and they worked great.
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Nextcloud 20.0.3 RC1 time.
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Video editing.
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battling a sore lower back
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Nextcloud 20.0.3 RC1 time.
20.0.2 is on stable now. I only check about once a month. So could have been here a few weeks already.
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Shitting on the toilet. Did I do this right?
Just created my account here. How on earth did I not find this community before?
I'd really like 2 know how it came 2 be, pls link origin story kthxbye
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
battling a sore lower back
Maaaybe you need a good chair? I just bought a new chair for my home office and it has been heaven for my lower back. Where does your problem come from? Too much sitting or too much exercise?
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@helix said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Shitting on the toilet. Did I do this right?
No, you're supposed to shit into the toilet, not on the toilet. Fail!
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Creating and testing scenarios using
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Doing a Netdata rollout.
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wish I was like Bob Dylan. Oh, I need more money for my retirement. BAMM, there's a lazy $300mil.
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Editing video
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Editing video
My folks wanted me to find them a decent replacement for Pinnacle Studio. I came up with OpenShot. Any other good ones out there?
I checked out Kdenlive, but that one seemed to be more cumbersome than I expected.
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@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Editing video
My folks wanted me to find them a decent replacement for Pinnacle Studio. I came up with OpenShot. Any other good ones out there?
I checked out Kdenlive, but that one seemed to be more cumbersome than I expected.
I'm using Kdenlive right now after moving away from OpenShot. Mind you I'm not doing any kind of super complicated stuff. This (and most) of my edits are more of sequencing clips and removing pauses and such.
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rock up to site one this morning, they had a gas leak, back in the car & off to site two.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
rock up to site one this morning, they had a gas leak, back in the car & off to site two.
Too many baked beans at the office party last night?
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hey @siringo now that the borders are less difficult and stuff, you still planning on your epic drive?
The SA part might be a sticking point at the moment
