Majestic

joined 2 years ago
[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 hours ago

Kids whose schools set up their chrome books inadequately and who found a way around the strict controls to watch porn.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 1 points 21 hours ago

Presumably given they’ve all been released in the past few years and are still getting updates the manufacturers would release an update disabling the functionality to comply with law. Same with end user devices removing the functionality via software update.

You’d have a small percentage of holdouts who have auto updates off and also refuse to apply it manually and who also have non-updated computers or smartphone. They’d leave it up to whoever buys the spectrum to locate illegal use like this based on detected interference in their usage, report it to the FCC and they send you a nasty letter followed by debilitating fines and a legal order to seize your equipment if that fails.

In practice people who go out of their way to avoid the updates that disable it will probably see no consequences but decreasing benefits as well and will eventually update or replace devices.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah real punk bands should speak up every time this happens (deplatforming) until it's simply not possible to organize punk festivals without inevitably a performer doing something that enrages the zionist lobby in retribution for these cowards bending the knee so the choice is either cancel punk festivals or stand up to the zionist lobby.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Those are the ones that actually work, yes! It's just most of the buns aren't that and even some of those aren't so good.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)
  • Mustard, lots (none of that Frenches garbage, either a good dijon or spicy brown),
  • diced raw onions,
  • finely diced garlic
  • dill relish,
  • peppers (cayenne or jalapeno)
  • sauerkraut
  • chili sauce (optional overload topping)

It's a real challenge getting hot dog buns that can accommodate all those toppings, I swear the manufacturers either expect really skinny dogs or hate toppings. Only a few premium brands seem to carry buns that will bear it all, the store brands and things like ballpark are hopelessly inadequate for more than mustard and one other topping at best.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It'll be greatly missed. It was nice to have an instance with a reasonable defederation policy where I could interact with anyone basically.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not even a choice.

If you choose over 100F you will see electronics failing more often, working harder, less efficient, working badly, etc because the heat is causing them to throttle in various ways. In the modern world it is far, far easier to heat up a space with a house full of electronics and humans than it is to keep it cool. The energy required to raise the temperature from say 5 degrees F to a more comfortable 40 degrees (35 degree change) pales in comparison to the energy required to keep yourself and your devices cool a mere 10-15 degrees less to around 90 degrees which is still uncomfortably hot and sweaty.

I'll note that a constant 100 degrees is more than hot enough to cause various foods, medications, substances to break down and go bad. Check your medicine cabinet, most of your pills including over the counter are only rated for storage at up to 86 degrees. Your medicine will lose efficiency or go bad in some, perhaps many cases. Your food outside your fridge will spoil more quickly, mold and bacteria will grow more quickly and readily. Your fridge itself will work harder and die sooner.

The tap water will run hot or warm most of the time meaning a shower won't necessarily cool you off much.

The colder temperatures are cheaper all costs considered, feel better, can be negated at a moment's notice with socks, a jacket, and a blanket.

It's easy to insulate a home against extreme cold and just retain heat you generate inside including by your body and devices. It requires a lot more effort to keep the inside cold when both the outside and things inside are generating heat and trying to warm it up.

This is a reason why climate change is a nightmare not just for human comfort but on so many levels. Our electronics are going to operate less efficiently in a warmer world and draw more power to do so.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)
  • He used to follow (probably still does) open white supremacists and Nazis of the Richard Spencer/Lauren Southern type and got called out for it and privated his follows on twitter. That was many years ago but given he's never done a u-turn and say started attacking gamergate and other reactionary gamer politics or loudly supporting broad coalition progressive politics I think we can assume he still holds those politics and more importantly he dog whistles and is part of a pipeline of radicalizing young men, specifically gamers into hate.
[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Veracrypt has back-up headers located elsewhere in the volume that are unlikely to have been overwritten.

First thing's first I would strongly recommend copying the drive as it currently exists bit for bit to another drive of equal or larger size. Don't work on the original if you can help it.

Now with this copy, you should try to check the option to use the backup header when mounting and try again. If the partition is gone and veracrypt doesn't see it you'll need to try using something that recovers partitions and doesn't mind encrypted partitions or partitions or file system types it doesn't understand and use that to ON THE COPY recover and recreate the partition (this will write data and can cause the possibility of further loss or worsen your ability to recover which is why it is important to perform it on a copy). Testdesk may work for this but there are other options that probably are better.

See this list: https://old.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/wiki/software and choose something from there if this data is truly important. Again only work on a copy on another drive. Some of these software examples actually work against the original drive and make a copy elsewhere and should be safe to use on the original drive so long as they have you select a target drive to push the recovered data to but read the documentation. Testdisk absolutely must be used on a copy.

You will incur data loss and likely should run one of the file recovery software mentioned on the drive once successfully mounted in veracrypt to attempt to recover as much as possible.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

And Syria took a decade to crumble after Obama started in on it.

The US didn't give up in Vietnam until it had been involved for over a decade.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

I remember Fox News talking heads (that judge guy in particular I think) yelling about Obama "acting like a king!" and that was their kind of attack on him for a bit so it's just a rehash of that in a way.

Why not "no dictators" or "no to fascism"? Or something about civil rights or upholding the constitution. Kind of sus.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Apple TV: No ads. Been around for over a decade.

Google TV: homescreen ads for a decade+ and even pushed onto Nvidia shield owners who originally may have bought the devices because Nvidia made a premium customized version without ads until they got tired of that and put ads in.

Apple has problems but ads aren’t a big one.

Neither big company is your friend. They both exploit workers and are both bad.

It’s just Google tends to be better at cutting edge bad like enabling genocide with their products and stuffing ads down the throats of people while Apple tries to maintain a crunchier appearance and vibe and is fine reaping 30% App Store fees on all transactions and making side loading very hard.

Apple rips you off on low storage and high costs to upgrade compared to Google/Samsung it’s definitely true.

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