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aphlamingphoenix ,

We recently went through a nuke-n-pave on my kids desktops. I plugged in an external drive for them to do backups, and we walked through the process. This was in Fedora with pretty much default Gnome tools. They came away understanding the process and how to track it, but I think they still don't really understand file organization.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I've been running a Numenera table for a few years. Love it.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Custom built. Right now we're running around the Nebalich area. Before that we were investigating a million-year-old tree in Ephremon infused with nanobots and the nefarious religious leader who sprung a cult up around it.

aphlamingphoenix ,

It means what you're building fires a projectile. The instructions are warning you not to shoot your eye out.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Does the Pope shit in the woods?

Dell responds to return-to-office resistance with VPN, badge tracking, and color-coding of employees (arstechnica.com)

After reversing its position on remote work, Dell is reportedly implementing new tracking techniques on May 13 to ensure its workers are following the company's return-to-office (RTO) policy, The Register reported today, citing anonymous sources....

aphlamingphoenix ,

I still remember having to operate on their old desktops with the snap-down clamshell design. Infuriating.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I think container tabs, which is currently an official Mozilla extension, should be native.

aphlamingphoenix ,

iirc, you install it via an extension. It's simple enough. I just love the feature.

aphlamingphoenix ,

There's a trust issue here as well since AI only works if you train it and we are training it with our activity, reported to private companies who can do whatever they please with it. I don't trust anything Microsoft does.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Since the act of writing to an SSD is an act of wear that will eventually lead to a broken storage device, using an SSD for swap is a uniquely bad idea, right? Are Macs still designed so that you can't replace your own hardware easily? I've never owned one, but I was asked to service one many years ago and it was a real pain.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I did the same thing. It's one of the cheapest upgrades you can get for a PC, but Apple will charge triple the actual cost to maximize profits.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Jorch is only 17 but sometimes he can score you a six pack anyway.

aphlamingphoenix ,

For real, get high and go to a glow in the dark mini golf course. There's one in every failing mall in the USA.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

aphlamingphoenix ,

In general, I agree. I'll add two things:

  • Android allows you to use third party launchers if you don't like the one that comes with your phone. I use Nova Launcher, for instance. I'm not an Apple person, but to my knowledge that's either not possible or a pain to do on an iPhone. It also lets me buy from different Android device manufacturers and keep a consistent UI across all of them.
  • Android has some serious UX issues in a few places. The one that gets me the most is when you share something. The interface you get differs based on the source app, sometimes only has a handful of visible options with no sorting or recency options, and it hides the fact that's you can scroll to see more, but never more than about four at a time.

Still, I'll take it over an iPhone any day.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Yeah I just familiarize myself with the city I live in.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Mine uses SMS 2FA AND had a 16-character password limit. I need to switch banks already. Any suggestions for a decent bank or credit union that uses modern password cryptography and app-based TOTP?

aphlamingphoenix ,

And you gotta dump your potential explosives out right in the middle of everyone else bundled up close in the security checkpoint.

aphlamingphoenix ,

What if my $1500 PC built 5 years ago has been more capable than multiple generations of consoles that have been released since? My brother has bought like 3 XBoxes in the same amount of time and my PC still outpaces it by a pretty wide margin.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Didn't they release several different versions of the Xbox in that time? Like technically the same "generation" or whatever but upgrading a few minor things like storage and such?

aphlamingphoenix ,

Here's what I'm talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox#Comparison

The XBox One came out in 2013, but then starting in 2016, they started releasing a series of other XBoxes with incremental upgrades. The "One S" and "One X" within a year of each other, then the "Series S" and "Series X" in 2020. It looks like the CPU and GPU get upgraded along the way, but none of them is nearly as powerful as the PC I've had through that time period, nor as capable considering I can do more than play games on it.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Was just gonna say I've put an embarrassing amount of hours into Satisfactory, which is an "early access" game I paid like $20 for. Nothing wrong with it. It's not an abandoned product, but even if it was I'd have a hard time complaining about it.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Yeah it's alpha software. Even fully developed AAA titles ship with bugs. My point is they haven't decreased my enjoyment of the game at all, and that's a counterpoint to the meme.

aphlamingphoenix ,

🫂

aphlamingphoenix ,

Same. I've hired for a number of entry level DevOps type jobs, have read through hundreds of resumes, and have never once clicked on a LinkedIn profile. I don't know what point it would serve, considering I expect it to be every bit the carefully manicured presentation that the resume itself already is. If you give me a GitHub link I might take a look, but I don't hold it against anyone for not giving me that either.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I would be happy to at least read that resume among an ocean of dull ones that all read the same.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Sure, but the Christian/MAGA view of morality is a shit one that I don't subscribe to. They can fuck off with their moralizing of my decisions.

23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked (www.techradar.com)

23andMe admits hackers stole raw genotype data - and that cyberattack went undetected for months | Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked::Firm says it didn't realize customers were being hacked

aphlamingphoenix ,

Do we know they delete the data when you do that? A lot of software is designed to "soft delete" data, where you mark the record with a "deleted" flag that excludes it from future queries. This data still lingers in the database and would still be accessible by anyone who can bypass the application logic, such as someone with a direct DB connection and read privileges.

aphlamingphoenix ,

Right. Some people handle this well, others are not open to it. Willingness to adhere to monogamy is a thing that varies from person to person and must be discussed in any relationship. Ethical nonmonogamy is a thing, but it's not for everyone, and it is a lot of communication and intimate work.

aphlamingphoenix ,

I think ethical nonmonogamy casts a wider net. I wouldn't call myself a swinger. I don't do parties or anything like that. But I'm still not monogamous and it's still not cheating since my partner and I have an existing arrangement and regular check-ins.

aphlamingphoenix ,

It's ironic (I hope). He was an awful president. Until Trump, he was sort of the model of the dumbest a president could get.

aphlamingphoenix ,

The article asks what is the politically neutral answer to the question of whether a trans woman is a woman. I wonder why this is a political question at all. Send like a question for scientists - biologists and sociologists and such. Seems they have achieved something like a consensus on the matter. I don't see anything inherently political about that, except that folks of a certain political bent have made it political. It's not a matter of "what do we do in public policy about trans people" but "fascists refuse to accept trans people in society and have decided to lambast and punish them".

In case my position isn't obvious, trans people are people and trans rights are human rights. If there wasn't a group of people trying to make them into a second class group of citizens (or a group of "eradicated vermin") we wouldn't be having a political conversation about this at all.

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