Oh, things are way better now than they were back then. I’d still confirm via documentation that the interfaces are compatible :)

I was a poor college student and had access to engineering samples from a local manufacturer. Discarded parts gave me twin 15" LCDs for free in the mid 00’s. Also, to see if I could. It was a fun challenge. These are different revs of a controller that were outfitted in several slot machine prototypes. They gave me many years of service. I probably still have inkjet prints of the pinout and signal diagrams, somewhere.

I have rematched controllers to displays in the past. It’s neither simple nor easy. You’ll need to dig through spec sheets to ensure you’re sending the correct signals over the correct pinouts, at the correct frequencies and voltages. Be prepared to read some IO documentation for the sending and receiving chipsts, then verify pinouts with certainty. They are not always standard.

Here are 2 identical LCDs, with 2 very similar, nearly identical looking controllers. Note that one needed to be re-wired. It is not fun butt-connecting 2 dozen 28ga wires.

I’m not sure he’s a Turkish Van, I think he’s just a regular American Shorthair. His back has large splotches of orange, he’s not all white, despite looking so.

You think they’re going to send notices to ex-customers? I was an ATT customer for 2 decades and switched a few years ago. I’m wondering if I’m compromised, but won’t get notice because I’m not technically an active customer.

Probably “big food dumbass”

My understanding is that Google “rates” its leaders by the number and types of projects they develop. Ergo there are a lot of people working on disparate items that often overlap, because it’s “their” project. Once the project completes, they get their credit, stop caring, and move on to the next. It is said this is why google creates then kills so much. It’s by design, essentially. The products they keep are the ones that make the most ad revenue.

Yeah. Even legacy stuff. Want to fire up that old server? Need new firmware for it? Guess what. Now it needs to be on contract or HP won’t lift a finger to give you old software they already have.

The day HP locked all firmware and driver downloads behind active contracts was the day I stopped buying it.

I can go on Dell’s website and download drivers for a server I bought in 2004. For free. By just putting the service tag in.

Don’t even get me started on HP’s partsurfer or warranty websites. It’s a mire of hundreds of subdomains, none of which are actually managed properly.

It’s no wonder they’re swirling the drain. They are blatantly anti-consumer and anti-corporation.

Yes. That would be in the past, making it foreshadowing.

Hard disks, WD/HGST.

I’ve had good luck with EMC and NetApp for enterprise solutions, Synology for SMB class NAS storage, and rely on TrueNAS/ZFS on supermicro hardware at home, which has been rock solid for years and years.

Their success with apple maps / navigation foreshadowed this event. They couldn’t even figure that out.

Type 1 runs on bare metal. You install it directly onto server hardware. Type 2 is an application (not an OS) lives inside an OS, regardless of whether that OS is a guest or a host, the hypervisor is a guest of that platform, and the VMs inside it are guests of that hypervisor.

Perhaps if the ceo wasn’t making like 200m a year, it would show some profits

It was more like “We need to closec the api in order to protect our profits from the use of your data”

A few more I really love. I’ll add more as I remember them (there are many and I can’t remember them all now)

Orphan Black

DARK

Midnight Gospel

Dexter

Fringe - All openings

Gravity Falls

The Good Place

I would be skeptical that it wouldn’t become a dumpster fire overnight.

It’s the best movie you’ll watch once and never again.

If someone develops a weed-nade, I need to know about it!