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BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Memes in I'm giving them a year until lifetime licenses start to mean nothing.

It looks like you can just ship the pen to them and request a repair or replacement. Maybe just ignore whatever the customer support rep said and follow this instead: https://www.franklin-christoph.com/pages/warranty

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Memes in Even paper glows

So you think tracking her down with forensic methods that objectively exist is farfetched, but accessing the print logs of every printer in America to figure out which one printed the document is realistic?

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Privacy in Are there services that can help you get your information taken down?

This is for finding yourself in and opting out of data brokers, and finding leaked credentials. They can't do anything about doxxing or defamation by a malcious party.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in That's why we need two ssds for dual boot

Oh please, half the time on most computers after installing stock Windows you'll need to install the NIC drivers from a USB stick because you can't download drivers locally without a NIC. With Linux, it pretty works out the gate. Significant driver issues haven't been a real issue with Linux in about a decade.

Nvidia drivers are especially weird to use as an example. Since the advent of AI, Nvidia Linux support has vastly improved since most AI use cases require Linux. It's enterprise-ready at this point.

As for the games that don't work well - the binaries were only built for Windows, so Linux has to jump through hoops to run them. That's not Linux's fault, it's the fault of the game developers. Thanks to the FOSS community those hoops are only getting easier to jump through. Most of the games that don't work at all depend on some sort of horrific anti-cheat rootkit that any tech literate person should consider a dealbreaker even if they use Windows as a daily driver.

And the games that do work, which is most of the games on Steam at this point, perform better on Linux than Windows on the same hardware because they don't have to deal with the bloat of a Windows OS.

I guess if you can accept ads crammed into every nook and cranny of the OS, constantly fighting with Edge over your choice of browser, reduced battery life and system performace due to OS bloat, having every single aspect of your computing experience built around corporate profits rather than user experience, and buying a computer every few years because of planned obsolescence you could settle with a bad OS like Windows.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in That's why we need two ssds for dual boot

It's always funny to me when people defend something by saying that it's "not that bad", because that still acknowledges that it is bad.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Technology in Apple co-founder calls out ‘hypocrisy’ of politicians calling for TikTok ban | CNN Business

$10,200,000,000 net worth when he died in 2011.

It would take Woz 4 million years to make that much on what Apple currently pays him

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Windows 10 and its shortage of "Never shove this screen in my face again" buttons

Can't wait to graduate so I don't have to run Respondus and keep dealing with this crap.

Install it on ReactOS, lol.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What do I need to separate devices to its own no-internet network and still be able to communicate with within the house and outside? (Diagram provided)

Not if HIP is a part of your network stack (adding a waist). Unfortunately this is not a plug-and-play solution unless you have the budget for my employer's product, which is not priced for consumers.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Technology in World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering

Not exactly inspiring any confidence trying to pass that AI-generated monstrosity as a photo of the device.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What do I need to separate devices to its own no-internet network and still be able to communicate with within the house and outside? (Diagram provided)

https://lemmy.ml/comment/9601780

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What do I need to separate devices to its own no-internet network and still be able to communicate with within the house and outside? (Diagram provided)

Oh man, uh, here's a primer: https://mkomu.kapsi.fi/hipl/index.php?index=how

I am most familar with HIP, but there are ways to isolate hosts so that they can only talk to what you want them to talk to in a distinctly different way than a firewall. You could have three hosts (A, B, & C) on the same subnet where A can talk to B & C, but B & C cannot talk to each other. Likewise, A and C could have access to an Internet gateway, while B does not.

So far HIP is the only protocol I have seen for microsegmentation that actually works in an intuitive way, but I suspect Wireguard could be used to the same effect with some creative engineering.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Memes in Money & Happiness Under Capitalism

"Money can't buy happiness" is a great mantra for rejecting the capitalist enshirining of wealth as a virtue. It's important to see happiness as something more complex than income.

The issue is that when interpreted as "poverty is no excuse for unhappiness", it loses all valid meaning.

See also: "Life isn't fair"

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What do I need to separate devices to its own no-internet network and still be able to communicate with within the house and outside? (Diagram provided)

This one of those questions I am overwhelmingly eqipped to answer, but only with the weird proprietary knowledge about software defined networking and microsegmentation that my job has endowed me with...

So I'll resist the urge to give you that overcomplicated answer and just say get a firewall like others have suggested.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Privacy in What phone brand do you like the best?

Don't exclude Pixel phones so quickly. They are one of the most versatile for custom ROMs, and they check all of your checkboxes. I love my CalxyOS Pixel 6.

BreakDecks , 3 months ago to Technology in Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts

1. The post you responded to didn't say that Twitter is "dead".
2. People who still use Twitter are, in fact, idiots.
3. NBC News does seem to be a more credible source than you on this topic.