And more fun, lots of laptops have really goofy routing. I’ve got one where the DP alt mode on the USB-C ports are on the dGPU, but the HDMI ports are on the iGPU. And the internal panel is on the iGPU unless you switch it to be on the dGPU because yay mux.
Why? I don’t know. Too much meth while laying the board out or something I guess.
Everything is temporary, except for that 25 year old system that’s keeping everything running and can’t be replaced because nobody knows how or why it works just that if you touch it everything falls over.
I’m the same way. If it’s split license, then it’s a matter of when and not if it’s going to have some MBA come along and enshittify it.
There’s just way, way too much prior experience where that’s what eventually will happen for me to be willing to trust any project that’s doing that, since the split means they’re going to monetize it, and then have all the incentive in the world to shit all over the “free” userbase to try to get them to convert.
I’m not a huge fan of the email analogy, because nobody knows how email works who isn’t a tech nerd anyways.
See: people who ask what your gmail is, not what your email is.
I’ve started explaining it as picking a user and server name you like, and then that’s how and where you login to the ‘fediverse’.
Less tech people have seemed to follow that at least, since it’s a much simpler thing they can understand: they get what a username is, they get what logging in is, and they get that a username and a login lets you access something.
And before everyone comes in with why that’s a horrible explanation, I know. It’s terrible, but it’s terrible enough that I’ve got family members who can’t keep left and right clicking sorted out to understand what I’m trying to say and how all these things are related.
Fedora was always a bleeding-edge distro and never all that stable or reliable.
The problem is RedHat/IBM have been fucking with everything, and Fedora has suffered along with everything else and it’s just kinda decayed a bit over the past few years.
…Ubuntu went to shit at least a decade ago, if not longer.
You keep cloning and configuring shit on a Win10 instance because you can’t find the key?
That’s silly and you should just stop doing that: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts
There you go! One less problem to deal with.
Not voting was a vote for Nazis, so yeah, the ~40% that did not vote are being clumped in with them.
While I don’t disagree, I still think using a Kindle device is stupid.
No reason that they can’t just go ‘oh we didn’t sell those books, we should clean up all that unauthorized content’ at some point in the future.
Buy something that’s not made by Amazon, even if it costs a bit more or has worse features, because well, they’re not to be trusted.
(Or custom non-connected firmware if that’s a thing for Kindles. Never really looked so no idea if that’s a thing.)
many US citizens are that stupid
Most.
30% voted for this, 40% couldn’t be fucked to vote against this so we’ve got a base of 70% of this country being dumb as shit.
0.001 ElonCoin says that absolutely nobody will revolt against anything.
70% of the country either wants this or was too lazy to do a single thing to stop it, and the other 30% is too busy yelling at each other about how they’re the most pure.
Ain’t shit gonna happen.
If only there were some way to get books to read in a format where a billionaire’s trillion dollar company can’t gatekeep them.
Some sort of physical product, perhaps one made out of trees?
completely disable Windows Update
Since this is a work thing, I’d maybe check with whomever is in charge of your shit that you’re not violating any compliance shit by turning updates off.
If you’re not, cool, then whatever, but compliance bullshit is awful and sucks and it’s better if you’re not the reason you fail an audit.
Edit: for the OP, not you.
As someone who is shit with dealing with relationships, I get the appeal, I really do.
Problem is we don’t have a Lucy Liubot yet, so we are yet again let down by our poor quality technology.
Snapraid parity is offline, so that’s not strictly accurate.
You build the parity, and then until you do a sync/scrub/rebuild they don’t do shit, so there’s no reason to keep them spun up.
If the drive are slow spinning up, then this is probably not a fatal concern, but there’s zero details here.
Oh, maybe I wasn’t clear: this isn’t the usual mods doing mods, they were such bad posters the admins banned their entire sub.
Getting banned from a subreddit is easy, getting the admins to kick you, your friends, and your community off the site requires exquisite and well-developed shitposting skills beyond those of most mortals.
Hexbear is the big instance of people who are so fucked they tend to get banned even from there.
No, no. They’re a group of posters so awful they got banned from Reddit.
And let’s be honest, you can be pretty much the worst person on earth and survive in your own little bubble on Reddit, but, for whatever reason, they couldn’t.
Insert oh-no-well-anyway meme here.
Not just zoomers.
I’m a grumpy old-inneial, and I dumped them a while ago.
The big reason is they’ve become fucking awful exploitative shitshows. Paywalls for everything, nonstop popups to buy shit, push notifications about things that you should pay for, fake messages that there’s “waiting matches” if I just pay $39.95, and the dark pattern bullshit you expect off scam websites: limited time sales, limited volume sales, ‘act now or it’s gone forever’ nonsense.
And, if that wasn’t bad enough, what you would get, if you paid for it, is flakes, fakes, scammers, and catfishers. Like, while hovering in the free pity-zone you get, I got a ton of matches. I’d say out of ~60 matches, 25 were outright scams (Oh hello, I am kindly wanting to get laid, please contact me on the app I use every day, telegram!), 20 were fakes (quick reverse image search showed that shockingly, that image was, in fact, not someone who felt the need to actually use dating apps), 10 were people who had decade old pictures or very, very selective angles, and the last 5 were conversations that totally went to plans and then… nothing.
Now, I’m gay, so I already have a HUGE advantage over the poor straghts, because everyone is there to get laid, and thus the bullshit is usually a lot more minimal. Don’t have to convince a dude all that hard, or play the make-sure-you-answer-the-question-correctly shit my straight friends have to deal with.
But, even then, over the course of a month, it was just a case of being nagged to death to spend money, and every interaction being total bullshit, which doesn’t really make you want to spend the time OR money.
And before you assume it’s just me, I went on dates and uh, more, 3 times in the same month off people I met from Snapchat. From the random-people-you-should-add list. So, I’ll assume it’s not just me, and that those apps have rotted to the point they’re literally worse than random people on Snapchat, which is a hell of an achievement.
And I’ll 2nd the just meeting people at things in real life. People can’t play the stupid shit games if they’re standing in front of you: it’s hard to be a scam or a fake, and your ability to catfish is limited to trying to suck your gut in, which isn’t really something someone is likely to miss you doing.
I do think, though, that there were useful dating apps before they got ingested into the match.com umbrella, but they have been, so it’s just a wilderness of enshittified piles of poo as far as you can see.
Store full of fake merchandise uses fake postage to deliver it’s fake crap?
You don’t say.
(Don’t buy shit from Temu, Wish, or Shien.)
The EFF has had a couple of websites that would profile you on exactly this data, so you’re completely correct in that even the basic normal required metadata is more than enough to identify you pretty well.
coveryourtracks.eff.org is where it’s living now, and a quick glance shows that just using browser capabilities and such is absolutely enough to identify me.