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Ajen

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Best Buy Membership "discount" (lemmy.world)

So I was shopping with my wife today and I said "oh let's see if my membership helps out." So we went and added the same item to each of our carts, and to our surprise, the total was the same! So what is it exactly that I'm paying for in this membership if the items "original price" is higher for me than it is for regular...

Ajen ,

Is Newegg really any better?

Ajen ,

Datasheets are copyrighted by the silicon manufacturer, not the product manufacturer, and usually covered by an NDA. Spotify probably couldn't release them even if they wanted to.

Ajen ,

In what way is the Linux kernel proprietary?

Ajen ,

Some routers have USB ports that support printers. Or, if you know Linux, you could set up a raspberry pi to make the printer available on the network.

Ajen ,

“Fruit cup" = a queer person

I thought that was a pretty common slur?

Ajen ,

Por que no los dos?

And those aren't the only fruity slurs, either.

Ajen ,

Are they a good choice if you only need to print a few times a year? I thought laser printers are better for that since there's no ink to dry out.

Ajen ,

Looks like it's last official version was released in 2007. Are you using a version from gimpshop.com with added adware/spyware? The wiki for gimpshop is pretty eye-opening...

I originally created Gimpshop, but I'm not the jerk who owns that domain and added adware & spyware to the source. Sorry about that. I hate that this guy is out there making my fun little project into an abomination.

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

Ajen ,

Yep, they'll probably stop updating the Affinity product and launch a new product line with annual subscriptions. Probably cloud-based.

Ajen ,

Yeah, it's kind of like crowd-funding. The early customers get a great deal, but also have the risk of the company going out of business.

Ajen ,

How much software is standalone these days, though? It seems like most companies are shifting to SaaS.

Ajen ,

Nextcloud isn't SaaS, unless you're paying someone else to manage your server. Self-hosting is never SaaS.

Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

Ajen ,

Where did you hear that? Can you share a link? It's not entirely true, but it does apply to most IoT products.

Ajen ,

Right, that's true of cloud-based services, but not "anything that connects to the internet."

Ajen ,

Exactly how do Glassdoor expect people to give earnest reviews of their employers

They don't. The enshitification has begun and they only care about short-term profits now that they've built up a user base.

Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)

NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday....

Ajen ,

How did he become a billionaire? From what I've heard his parents were connected and well-off, but not billionaires. And he doesn't seem old enough to have made billions on his own before FTX. If he only became a billionaire by temporarily scamming people, I don't think that counts.

After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines (www.opencampusmedia.org)

Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020....

Ajen ,

It's a vulnerability, not a breach. As you pointed out, no one attempted to breach it.

Ajen ,

Here's my use-case, I'm pretty sure the first 2 are pretty common (common enough to be supported by most OEM firmware):

  • main LAN
  • guest LAN (isolated from "main" but can access internet)
  • IoT LAN (isolated from internet, can be accessed from "main"; prevents devices from phoning home)
Ajen ,

"Necessary" is a little ambiguous. You could argue that wifi is unnecessary for a normal home network.

Ajen ,

None of my mobile devices are "necessary," though. Honestly, I could live just fine without an internet connection. Not that I'd enjoy it, but that's not necessary.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

Ajen ,

You need your original purchase receipt to opt out? I hope that's not legal. I wonder if roku could be subject to a lawsuit over this...

Ajen ,

IANAL, but the answer to your question would depend on the bolded part of the clause ('if applicable')...

It also depends on whether that clause is enforceable.

otl , to Selfhosted
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Another successful OpenBSD setup

I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.

@selfhosted

Ajen ,

Openwrt works great for gigabit networks with simple firewall rules and no IPS. But used 10-56gbps enterprise equipment is getting pretty cheap, and more complicated firewall configurations need more powerful hardware than the typical openwrt router.

And 56gbps on a home LAN might be overkill, but that's not important.

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