Draconic_NEO

Draconic_NEO , 18 days ago to linuxmemes in Confound you, WSUS!

You have another slot most likely, it's just populated by the Wifi card, If you're willing to sacrifice that and use one of those tiny USB wifi adapters you can use that as your second slot with a little adapter to convert between E key to M key. Also have to use a 2230 SSD since the longer ones won't fit in the spot.

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to Technology in Male birth control breakthrough safely switches off fit sperm for a while

I find it strange that many people here are against this when the alternative is a surgical treatment that often can't be easily reversed, and even when it is, often lowers the likelihood they will have a kid.

Chemical solutions are way better in that regard because if they are done right they don't damage any tissue and their affects are temporary.

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to Technology in Google will use Gemini to detect scams during calls | TechCrunch

Also ways to disable the call recording prompt they forced into it. They force that even in one party regions where you can record your own calls without needing permission from the other person.

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in jk, we still love you Gitea ..for now

That is too bad, but also at the same time I kind of lost hope for Gitlab after they jumped on the AI hype train, if they're going full corporate they probably wouldn't be a good candidate for Federation (both because other people would defederate them and because they wouldn't want to because competition).

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple crushes creativity and its reputation in new iPad ad

Just thought I'd drop in to say, it's possible to play it with your feet.

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to linuxmemes in Types of OS

They usually run Older Windows or MSDOS too, definitely not their own OS category.

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to Technology in TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban

Yeah I don't think this person knows what they're talking about, they must either think ByteDance is hosting the source code on Oracle's servers or they somehow think that binaries are the same as source code 🤷

Draconic_NEO , 1 month ago to Technology in TikTok sues to block prospective US app ban

Where did you get the idea that Oracle can see their source code? That only applies if they host their source repository on Oracle, if they host the servers there chances are it's binaries that are hosted on the server not the source code.

Draconic_NEO , 2 months ago to Technology in Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps

Probably but they certainly don't want you to know that and almost certainly will say that you can't.

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

Obviously but it could become very hard to do that with Smart TVs dominating the space now.

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

I get that it’s probably technically possible to bypass

Not exactly a bypass it's more so destruction of property (your own property might I add, since there's no clause that says you have to return it to the company at some point)

it’d actually be illegal to bypass and almost nobody would do it.

Yeah we're definitely not at the point in time yet where it is illegal to vandalize your own things, hacking in some places, but vandalism of your own property not so much (exceptions only for rentals or leases, which TVs aren't since you never need to return them).

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

They already have that it's called click fraud or automated ad clicking, mostly though it's websites that earned money from advertisers who engage in this, as a sleazy way of making more money.

Though if you want to partake in it there are ad blocking extensions that also do it. It's not perfect but it is quite damaging to the advertising industry.

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

You can tear the wifi antenna off the board, and it'll never connect again (not just unplug it from the card, actually tear it off the pads), could also remove the shield from the Wifi module as well for good measure and it would never get a good signal ever again.

If you're feeling really brave you could even try removing or cutting the traces connecting the Wireless module to the main system bus, has diminishing returns though since it would be very easy to short or destroy the PCI bus rendering the system completely inoperable.

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads

Probably injecting the ads into blank screen periods.

Maybe we should bring back screensavers, would really fuck with devices like this that look for blank screen time that would simply never occur.

Draconic_NEO , 3 months ago to Technology in Please help preserve your 3DS and Wii U SpotPass data before it's too late!

Pretendo is open source.