Absolutely nothing a human can do will defend you from weaponized robots with existing technology let alone any future improvements.
Have you seen the crowd dispersal microwave guns? They point at you from meters away, you're now getting so hot if you don't move you'll get burns. All they need to change them from "crowd dispersal" to "kill you" is a few extra watts or a narrower beam.
Slap one of these bad boys on top of any bad robot that can move towards targets and you're good.
What kind of HDD? for what purpose? For what budget?
"Don't buy used" is a dumb tip because it means nothing and addresses nothing.
I use a WD Enterprise HDD from 2012. I bought it used. It passes all tests with flying colours, zero issues so far... it keeps a mirror of my backup. It's not my main backup, it's a copy of a copy. Guess what? I paid an extremely low price for it as a student on a budget, yet it was already proven useful many times both for the backups but also to keep my torrents seeding for longer, and it if does indeed fail... no biggie, not even my backup is compromised.
There are excellent refurbished HDDs too. Either way, "don't buy used" is the kind of blanket statement somebody cosplaying as a infosec home lab data specialist comments on Lemmy, but means absolutely nothing and offers no useful advice.
Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD
That's not a good tip.
but traveling to the United States right now from literally any foreign country is a terrible idea.
It's always a terrible idea.
Cool - so you agree they're not clicking Copilot and therefore it's not converting?
I'd also remove the frequent transphobic jokes
It's quite easy, really. AI makes dumb people feel smart. That's essentially it, they lived life looking at people who had specific knowledge, or could write well, or be creative, and they never could. Now they press a button and feel like they have talent.
Guess the type of people most often found in management positions...
There's a Copilot button on the taskbar, notepad and paint. If you still can't convert users you're doing pretty bad.
I'll do what I always do: sigh and add another brand to my "do not buy from" list on my pocket notebook, which was meant to be a single page and is now filling three
This comment thread is not only a perfect example of a joke, but it gets to the core of what humour truly is! Do you want help crafting a poster for you to present your jokes at a conference?
He also loves pretending he developed every single Windows dialogue box, tool, application, default software and interface element, when the truth is more like:
"I DEVELOPED MS PAINT WHEN I WAS AT MICROSOFT" from a thumbnail means "I was one of three people working on a .dll that helped align toolbar elements, and MS Paint later used a version of this DLL"