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RAB El nou món digital 2022-05-02 [CA]

Aquest és l’extracte del meu programa de ràdio de Dilluns 2022-05-02 14:15 Irish Time / 15:15 Zona horària Catalunya / 06:15 Pacific Time.

This is the excerpt of my radio program Monday 2022-05-02 14:15 Irish Time / 15:15 Catalonia time / 06:15 Pacific Time.

May the 4th

El proper 4 de Maig és el dia (informal) d’Star Wars. May the 4th que sona similar a May the Force (be with you).

Tots els fans celebren aquest dia mundialment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Day

Videojocs / Video games

Disclaimer: Treballo per a Activision Blizzard i comparteixo les meves opinions personals com a persona que juga a videojocs. I work for Activision Blizzard and I share my personal opinions as human being that loves video games.

Avui parlo de jocs de Nintendo, un altre dia parlaré d’Xbox, de Pc, de Sony Playstation etc…

El dia 29 d’Abril es va posar a la venda el Nintendo Sports.

És la versió actualitzada i millorada del popular joc Wii Sports. Que és un joc molt casual, poden jugar nens, adults que mai han jugat a un videojoc perque es controla amb el moviment.

És un joc molt popular i divertit.

Però poseu-vos la corretja o podrieu trencar la televisió si surt el comandament volant.

Els gràfics són senzills però per a mi el punt fort de la consola Nintendo Switch és passar-ho bé amb més gent.

Te la possibilitat de jugar en línia amb altres persones random, o amb els nostres amics, sols o fins a quatre persones a casa amb la mateixa consola.

He provat el bowling, on 18 persones es van eliminant, i el volleyball. Un d’esgrima, un de futbol amb una pilota gegant i tenis. El d’esgrima és molt xulo perque quan mous la mà es mou l’espasa a la pantalla.

Ve amb una cinta per a lligar a la cama per a poder fer els moviments de xutar o al braç. És divertit.

Com controles els moviments movent el braç és una manera de fer una mica d’exercici també.

Altres jocs de la mateixa natura són el nintendo fitness boxing (i boxing 2), ace tenis, el ringfit adventure.

També són divertits el just dance i let’s sing (karaoke). :)

Estic segur que un joc de karaoke amb cançons en català tindria molt d’èxit.

Descompte jocs de nintendo fins el 5 de Maig

Nintendo també està fent una campanya d’estiu fins el 5 de Maig amb descomptes de fins un 60% en jocs de single player.

Per exemple el The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD es pot comprar online per 39,99€ enlloc dels 59,99€ habituals. Un 33% de descompte.

Notícies

  • Elon Musk ha comprat Twitter per 44Billion of dollars (44 mil milions per a nosaltres ja que en anglès un bilió són 1000 milions, no )
  • Netflix ha pujat la subscripció

A Irlanda The basic and standard plan will both increase to €8.99 and €14.99 a month respectively, while the premium tier will go up from €17.00 to €20.99.Netflix announced it would offer an ad-supported tier after 200,000 subscribers left the platform — the first such decline in over a decade.

A Costa Rica i al Peru, des del 12 de Març d’enguany 2022, es pot afegir a una amistat que no viu a la mateixa casa per una petita quota addicional al mes.

https://about.netflix.com/en/news/paying-to-share-netflix-outside-your-household

  • El CEO d’Intel va esmentar que el shortage de microxips s’allargarà durant el 2023 fins el 2024.

Degut al covid s’ha aturat molt la producció de microxips. Això s’ha vist reflexat en llargs temps d’espera per a comprar consoles com la Playstation 5, Ordinadors Mac, cotxes, o mòbils.

Nogenysmenys Intel està construint dues plantes gegantines a diferents indrets d’Estats Units.

https://www.engadget.com/intel-ceo-chip-shortage-continue-2024-141154415.html

Trucs

  • Starlink

Si viviu en zones rurals on no us arriba fibra, o teniu Internet de 6 Mbits, us pot interessar Starlink.

Starlink proporciona Internet molt ràpida, per satèl·lit, amb baixa latència.

És un servei create per Space X, és a dir, d’Elon Musk, el mateix propietari de Tesla, i ara de Twitter des de fa tres dies.

Operen a molts països. Alguns amics meus a Irlanda l’utilitzen i estan súper contents. I molts terminals van ser distribuïts a Ukraïna per a que no es quedessin sense Internet quan Rússia els va envaïr.

I Hawaian airlines vol oferir Internet amb Starlink als seus vols:

https://www.engadget.com/hawaiian-airlines-spacex-starlink-free-internet-131056087.html

L’únic que s’ha de vigilar és amb les possibles baixades de velocitat causades per… :)

https://www.starlink.com/

  • Alternatives al Microsoft Office

Alternatives a l’office

  • Google docs. I pots compartir documents amb altres persones, i actualitzar-los diverses persones alhora.

Jo amb el meu doctor, comparteixo les biomètriques en un Spreadsheet de Google.

  • Instal·lar LibreOffice enlloc de l’Office. I en anglès.

El currency, el locale, separador decimal, de dates, pot variar d’un país a l’altre. Utilitzo en tots l’anglès americà i així usi l’ordinador que usi no tinc problemes a cap. (la hora faig servir 24 hours i la data YYYY-MM-DD)

  • Els problemes del Software pirata, i els bots, keyloggers, lladres de comptes…
  • Jo m’instal·lo tot el Software en anglès americà, perque tinc les actualitzacions de seguretat abans, i les hotkeys, les dreceres de teclat no canvien.

Trucs de Zoom

  • Un Zoom és un sistema de videoconferència que s’utilitza molt en teletreball a les empreses.
  • Es pot compartir la pantalla. I es pot demanar control remot. L’altre t’ha d’autoritzar.
  • També es pot dibuixar a la pantalla de l’atri. La opció es diu Annotate.

Trucs de Mòbils

Fer una captura de pantalla:

Android: 

  • Cerca a Google per al teu model.
  • Prem tecla de baixar el volum i d’encendre el mòbil a la mateixa hora. I mantent-los pulsats durant mig segon.

iPhone:

  • 13 i altres amb face id: Prem: el botó del costat i el de pujar el volum a l’hora.
  • Models amb touch id: Prem el botó de home, el rodonet, i el del costat (power).
  • Els que tenen el botó a dalt, han de prèmer el botó de dalt i home.

https://support.apple.com/en-ie/HT200289

News from the Blog 2020-11-11

  • The latest drive enclosures have been a bit of a fiasco.

The small one (6 drives) fits perfectly in one ATX Bay, however, the SAS SSD are too height to fit.

I fit 1 SATA3 SSD 1TB and 4 SATA3 HDD 2TB.

The other one, the 3 Bay 5.25″ SAS/SATA enclosure for 12 drives did not fit in the Corsair Obsidian Series 750D case, and I had to install it outside. Doing a DIY, as I explain in my book about assembling, fixing and upgrading your own PCs and laptops.

However the 12 Gbps SAS SSD were returning Checksum errors in ZFS when I did copy information or I ran scrub. I’m afraid the enclosure can only provide 6 Gbps at max, or a poor connection. Cables or expanders use to be the reason. I ordered new cables to make a direct connection to the HBA Controller without the enclosure to validate my theory and the drives stopped showing errors.

There is something good in all bad: I have been able to document and explain how to troubleshoot, actual errors in ZFS, in my book and talk about the problems with the cables, and the advantages of using a SAS controller even if you use SATA drives.

  • I got my first Excellent in an Assignment in an Ireland university, which makes me specially happy. And I keep going on studying in Linux Academy, the last course I did was GCP and Terraform, even if I knew both it helps me to keep my skills sharp.
  • I share with you some offers and charity bundles that I enrolled and enjoyed a lot:

There is an offer with Microsoft Pass which is that we can use Disney+ for free during 30 days.

  1. I started watching the Mandalorian, Season 2, and is wonderfully displayed in 4K.
    The quality of the video surprised me. Not that many contents in Netflix are 4K and I really enjoyed the great quality of the image.
  2. Humble Bundle offers a pack of 8 VR games per €13.45.
    If you like Virtual Reality and have your headset, this pack is amazing, and the benefits go to charity: Movember. The games are downloaded from Steam and the pack will last for 14 days.
  3. Humble Bundle offers a pack of Java and one go books for €12.65, with a minimum of €0.84 for 3 books. Benefits go for charity: Code for America.

Don’t forget to balance how much of your contribution goes to every player.

Unfortunately by default most of the money goes to O’Reilly and Humble Tip and few to the Charity cause. You can change that from the web when going to to the payment.

News from the Blog 2020-07-19

I start this section to mention things that are worth.

  1. I read this article from Slack outage in May. It is really nice:

https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82

2. I read this interesting article about Netflix and Hexagonal Architecture:

https://netflixtechblog.com/ready-for-changes-with-hexagonal-architecture-b315ec967749

3. This new from Amazon is interesting for everybody in the sector:

https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/amazon-extends-work-from-home-policy-for-corporate-employees-until-2021-11594874878195.html

4. I updated CTOP.py to v.0.7.6 adding some command line switches to:

  • Limit the number of loops (like just getting the info and exiting, for scripting)
  • Work mode in black and white
  • Sleep time between retraces, to avoid flickering over SSH, and reduce bandwidth

5. I’ve been asked by an editorial to print my books in paper, for all the world. I’m thinking about it.

6. I’ve been asked to talk in a DevOps event.

7. I’ve created a new section in the blog, for adding the score of the videogames I played.

I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription

I was using a lot Amazon. Sending parcels to my previous job offices, and now to Blizzard offices, so I subscribed to Amazon Prime. With COVID-19 virus we were sent to do Remote Work, and now with the lock down basically I’m 99.99% of the time at home.

I did a test to see how it works sending to home during the pandemic.

I choose two different items, I reviews the order, they were going to be delivered separately, one day of distance.

I choose two items that will fit in my mailbox, separated or together. One USB3 3mts male female and a Blu-ray movie.

My surprise comes when I go to the mailbox one day before and I see that I have a paper from an-post telling that they pass by to deliver my parcel, and they did not leave because it doesn’t fit the mailbox and they did not want to leave it a common space. For my surprise both Amazon parcels were grouped and sent before time. Maybe in a bigger box. But the mailman did not ring my door.

The paper tells me to get my parcel in the middle of the city, during the lock down. No way! I’m not going to risk my health and specially from elders, just to grab a cable and a movie.

I had the chance to request re-delivery to an Post, so I do. I fill all the info, I inform my phone number, email, I indicate which door to ring, and two days after as promised… a paper from an Post!.

They did not even rang my bell again.

I go to Amazon to cancel the order, but the process is only created for if you got the items.

Fuck it. I’m not going to order anything else to Amazon until that COVID-19 passes.

I don’t know if the postman just avoids people for fear to contagion or the process of an Post is awful and he didn’t get any information. But I’ll not buy anything even if I cannot buy in other places cause the lock down.

I was going to maintain my Amazon Prime subscription, even if I know that I’ll not use it much with the lock down, but makes no sense. Also:

  • I use Netflix and my Raspberry Pi 4, I was not using Amazon Prime Video.
  • I use Spotify, I was not using Amazon Prime Music.
  • I like to read in paper, not in eBook, so I was not using the eReader options.

A nice way to loss a customer.