We're the polar opposites. I used email from m.kuku.lu on Lemmy because their app gets me notifications immediately while Gmail and Aol take a while. I also get all email notifications on my MiBand.
(High school, approx 1 year ago) Not particularly trouble, just a bit of scolding from school IT admin.
The school network blocked certain sites and services. I also wanted to convert a few videos to AV1, but I had a shit laptop, and the school PCs were pretty fine.
So, in steps:
One of the teachers with admin rights created accounts for us on the most powerful PCs with RDP access to use them from other, shitty PCs.
I wanted to extend this access, and in the end went with AnyDesk since that didn't need admin rights, but could still do port forwarding. This was important as AnyDesk could run in background, but wouldn't show anything without being logged in. But I could port forward to the computer's RDP and connect to that.
There was VirtualBox. Cool. I installed Arch for the video conversions, and Ubuntu server for playing around.
I've experimented with remote access via ssh-j.com (SSH jump server), but didn't particularly like that. I wish I had known about Tailscale at the time. I only used AnyDesk for port-forwarding to the VM SSH.
I've installed tinyproxy (simple HTTP proxy server) and OpenVPN (later switched to Wireguard) onto the Ubuntu server VM. I've set it up as a proxy server that would connect to a VPN (ProtonVPN, later Mullvad) and share that connection over the HTTP proxy on LAN.
I've distributed the proxy server details and instructions on how to set up a computer to use it to other students. They confirmed it bypassed blocking, and even online games worked fine over it.
The school IT admin came into the class with that computer (when I was there which was a coincidence), and asked who was using Wireguard. Then he told me he'd block it by the end of the day, and to finish whatever I was doing.
Specifically Wireguard didn't work on any ports, so I assume it was DPI based blocking. However, there was an exception, port 123 used for NTP. Proxy back in service over 123.
Later on he was quite clear that I am not allowed to use the school computers for personal stuff like video processing, that I very much shouldn't be helping others evade the blocking because it exists for a reason, and then got a bit mad when I also mentioned the remote access, because yeah, a bit of security hole.
I personally wouldn't trust AnyDesk for access to my network, but that was all I had. I use Tailscale now.
Welp, next year they upgraded the setup, and now computers don't have local accounts anymore and use some login via e-mail. But I also just finished HS, so not my problem anymore.
uuuuh, yeah. I usually assume that if I get a lot of downvotes or a comment I agree with gets a lot of downvotes, then my opinion must be wrong.
On the other hand, if something I am not sure about gets upvoted, then it's probably good. I trust others more.
Probably not a good thing, but I don't trust myself with opinions. Though it's not completely black and white either. It depends on where it is, who's giving majority of replies, and some bit of reconsideration (e.g.: is it logical, is it harmful).
But in the end, it does shape my opinions into what I believe is "more correct".
Certain (more serious) decision-making for opinions may however take me 24 hours or even more. This helps me to balance out the effects of morning vs night-time emotional state, which differs more with lack of sleep. If even then I am undecided, the upvotes win it and I take it as my own opinion.
More battery drain with anti-skip.
The tables have turned later on. The anti-skip would extend battery life. It would get enough buffer allowing the CD to spin-down and then it would spin back up when needed. This time could be even longer if playing MP3.
For example, my Panasonic SL-CT520 does 100 second "anti-skip" (at this point it's not really just anti-skip), and with MP3 cites up to 155h of playback time. Unfortunately, the unit I have can't play CD-RW (it is mentioned in the manual) which probably means a degraded laser.
But even with CDDA, my Sony D-EJ000 cites 16 hours with anti-skip and only 11 hours without anti-skip. Unfortunately, in this case the anti-skip also reduces audio quality slightly since it uses lossy compression, so I keep it off.
At least I think that's what the manual is trying to say
Perhaps a problem in museum, but at least where I live any highly portable CD player like this gets called "discman" same as with portable cassette players being called "walkman".
Yeah, I've seen such stuff on old forums. Unfortunately, a replacement GPU would cost around €50, and that is just not worth it to try obviously.
The CPU was €1.38 on AliExpress, so that was worth a try, but for the most part it just produced more heat
Some different GPU would probably work there, but then again, I don't know if it is a GPU issue. It wouldn't even show any drive activity when attempting to boot.
Perhaps early Windows 11 was a bit different. Plus I disabled Superfetch and BITS which would otherwise max out CPU, and when still on HDD, that too.
Though I am not entirely sure if I also disabled something else.
It could idle at around 5% I believe.
Also, unused RAM is wasted RAM. Just because it's used doesn't mean it's unusably full. Linux too will eat up entire RAM for caching, but it can be freed when needed.
Maybe. The way I understand it:
Normal is something that's basically the way it should be, while common just refers to being of higher frequency of occurence, regularly seen.
For example: "Is police brutality normal?" vs "Is police brutality common?"
No and yes.