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NateNate60 ,

In the United States where TikTok is based, contracts can include “severability clauses” that state that in the event any part of the contract is deemed unenforceable, the other parts are still good

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I think it’s important to remind people of the historical context behind police states. Ming-dynasty China is considered by many historians as the first real police state.

The Ming court had a secret police force known as the Jinyiwei (“jin-yi-wei”) which had the power to circumvent the Imperial bureaucracy and arrest anyone suspected of a crime. Their power extended to everyone below the emperor, including the imperial family. The Jinyiwei’s investigation findings could overrule judicial proceedings and had complete authority to do almost anything they wanted. It could impose any punishment up to and including death. Don’t look up Chinese execution techniques. It operated in secret, and once the Jinyiwei came for you, you’re as good as dead.

Whether you were a lowly peasant or the Grand Chancellor, if you got wind of the fact that the Jinyiwei was looking into you, you slept with one eye open.

It was peak efficiency, and it wasn’t used solely for fighting crime. Most emperors used it to suppress rivals and it played an important role as a tool for members of the imperial court to use on their enemies and rivals.

NateNate60 ,

Some localities allow ballot initiatives that all legislation to be enacted by referendum. See if there are any ballot initiative petitions for that in your locality and sign them. If not, start one.

Be the change you want to see.

NateNate60 ,

In the end, it doesn’t matter too much whether people support Ukraine. It’s whether their governments support Ukraine. I doubt pulling back support for Ukraine will be a popular election tactic, especially in Europe.

NateNate60 ,

“We send £350 million a week to the EU, let’s fund our NHS instead”

Narrator: they did not fund the NHS

Donald Trump's lawyers again ask for early verdict in civil fraud trial, judge says 'no way' (www.pbs.org)

Donald Trump’s lawyers rested his defense Tuesday and sought anew to immediately end the New York civil fraud trial that threatens the former president’s real estate empire. The judge said “there’s no way I’m going to grant that.”...

NateNate60 ,

It’s like when you are presenting random evidence in Ace Attorney because you have no fucking idea what’s going on, except the judge isn’t legally allowed to just throw his hands up and say “fuck it, guilty” after you fail five times

NateNate60 ,

Using fecal matter as fertiliser! How disgusting! If only garlic cloves came with some kind of natural barrier—a “wrap” or a peel of some sort to protect the part that we actually eat!

NateNate60 ,

YOU WOULDN’T STEAL A PURSE

NateNate60 ,

Texas and Florida are pretty well-known as the shitholes of America. Run by populist idiots who cater to the uninformed and gullible voter. I’m sure there are places like that in every country.

NateNate60 ,

There is no data loss on Google Drive, and there is no war in Ba Sing Se.

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The state of consumer protection in this country

NateNate60 ,

This is Linus Torvalds, creator, namesake, and supreme dictator of the Linux kernel. It’s from a video of him talking about his frustrations in working with NVIDIA. Essentially, NVIDIA treats Linux like a second-class citizen and its components don’t play nicely with the rest of the Linux code base. In this scene, Torvalds shows his middle finger and says “NVIDIA, fuck you!”.

NateNate60 ,

Many major Star Wars main trilogy and prequel plotlines have real-world analogues.

  • Main trilogy plot line: French Resistance
  • Prequel plot line: Hitler’s rise to power
  • Palpatine gaining emergency powers from the Senate: Reichstag Fire Decree
  • Dissolving the Old Republic and forming an empire: First French Empire, Augustus’s rise to power as Roman emperor
NateNate60 ,

Not the same as apt, but there’s Chocolately, which is actually a legitimate package manager for Windows.


<span style="color:#323232;">choco install firefox
</span>

There’s also a package called gsudo which allows you to preface a PowerShell command with sudo to run it as an administrator. It will cause a UAC prompt.


<span style="color:#323232;">sudo choco update all
</span>
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100 GB is a pretty small amount of data.

Want to minimise cost? 128 GB USB drives can be had for around ten dollars. Fifteen dollars will get you 256 GB. Stick with a cheap but reliable brand like SanDisk or PNY. It will last you years with proper care, even with regular use.

I do not really see a reason to invest in a “real” hard drive or external SSD for your use case. There isn’t enough data to justify it and USB drives can take a lot of abuse and still work.

Edit: There are a lot of fake USB drives sold online where the controller has been hacked to report a higher capacity to your operating system than actually exists, for example, reporting 512 GB when there’s actually only 64 GB of storage. If you try to store more than the actual capacity, your old files will be overwritten with the new ones. That’s why you should be suspicious of very high capacity drives (1 TB+) sold online for low prices. I would not buy any USB drive online that claims to have a capacity greater than 512 GB.

NateNate60 ,

OP already says that multiple backups and cloud copies exist. I do not recommend mechanical hard drives because they’re inherently fragile. If OP really needs high-quality long-term archival storage that is robust and lasts forever, I will recommend a tape drive and do so with a straight face.

Bit-flipping is, frankly, a non-issue to such an extent that even considering it seriously is moving into tinfoil hat territory.

NateNate60 ,

On its own, no, but it can be used, like any cloud storage solution, as part of a robust backup strategy. Particularly, if the desktop sync feature is enabled, every client machine that has the sync application installed will download and synchronise the contents of the Google Drive locally. If the Google Drive servers go kaput this still means you’ve essentially got several off-site backup copies of the data on Google Drive.

NateNate60 ,

I don’t think there are really any fake 256 GB drives on the market. The real drives are priced low enough that there’s really not much profit to be made from selling fakes. It’s just not that much cheaper to make a 32 GB drive and flash fake firmware than to actually make a legitimate 256 GB drive. Or buy the AmazonBasics brand since only Amazon makes and sells them.

Micro***t Word on Linux and alternatives

Are there good Microsoft word alternatives that support Linux (I don’t mind closed source)? Libreoffice is meh and only office is quite good, but are there any better ones? Also, is there a way to install word on Linux using wine? When I do that my laptop just overheats and loses internet connection.

NateNate60 ,

What is it with Microsoft Word that makes you prefer it to others?

  • LibreOffice and OnlyOffice are pretty much the only free software office suites that really hold a candle to Microsoft Office’s functionality. LibreOffice defaults to the Toolbar interface but changing it to Tabbed will make it look like Microsoft Office. It takes some getting used to and isn’t as smooth but once you start using it for a few weeks you will get used to it.
  • WPS Office is a Microsoft Office clone that works fine on Linux. It’s a pretty common Microsoft Office substitute and is nearly identical in most aspects of its interface. It’s made by Kingsoft, a Chinese company. The software is closed-source and there is a free version that contains advertisements.
  • Microsoft Office Online is available through your browser free of charge at portal.office.com. It contains Word, PowerPoint, and Excel but only has basic functionalities. Collaborative editing is still supported on it which you might care about.
  • Microsoft Office can be installed using WINE but in my experience, it is usually not stable enough for daily use. I would not bother with it. You should not install things manually using WINE. It’s highly recommended that you use some wrapper software like Bottles, PlayOnLinux, or Lutris (common for games).
NateNate60 ,

Dear God, anyone who doesn’t already use LaTeX should not be told to use LaTeX. It’s really a great departure from traditional word processors and I firmly believe that people really need to discover it on their own, or else they will just be confused and think it’s an arcane, dated, and useless piece of software.

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I actually don’t remember seeing adverts on the Linux version when I tried it out a few years ago. Maybe that’s changed, or maybe they just don’t run adverts on the Linux version.

Disabling WPS’s Internet access will remove the advertisements. Strangely enough, the WPS blog gives instructions on how to do this in Windows.

should my next browser installed be Microsoft Edge?? (lemmy.world)

I have installed the big 2 browsers on my Ubuntu!! I love them!! I use Google Chrome more of course n.n but I was wondering if I should get Edge now, I like the cute design + AI integration, but I don’t think it’s necessary because I already have Chromium, which is just the baseline for Edge, but still it could be a nice...

NateNate60 ,

The fun part about this is how everyone thinks they’re the only troll in the room

NateNate60 ,

Is Flatpak, from a technical standpoint, capable of running VPN applications?

Providing .ovpn configuration files would be equally cross-distro, and in fact, would be cross-platform since almost every operating system supports importing OpenVPN configurations or supports a piece of software that does.

NateNate60 ,

I ask because to my knowledge, Flatpak applications don’t get access to the system interfaces that are needed to control VPN connections. There isn’t a portal for it to the best of my knowledge and the way that VPN connections are handled differ between distros.

NateNate60 ,

I cannot agree more. I put my grandfather on Linux Mint and he got up and running in minutes. He said it reminded him of Windows XP.

This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several... (grist.org)

This Southern California solar farm is using retired EV batteries for storing the power and then send to the grid when needed. This way the retired batteries can extend their usefulness for several…::A Southern California company is showing how repurposing EV batteries for stationary storage can extend their usefulness for...

NateNate60 ,

A Tesla Model 3, for example, has a battery capacity of 50 to 82 kWh. Let’s assume the lowest capacity of 50 kWh. A car battery is basically unusable long before it has lost around half its capacity. So 25 kWh. American households on average consume 10.6 MWh annually or about 29 kWh per day.

So an old Tesla battery still provides enough electricity to power an American household for nearly an entire day.

NateNate60 ,

The way lithium batteries work, they wear out less if you only discharge and charge them slightly. So a battery that is charged to 60%, discharged to 40%, and repeated like that will keep most of its capacity even after years of prolonged use. On the other hand, charging a battery quickly, until it is full, or discharging it until it is nearly empty will reduce its capacity over time.

A Tesla Model 3 has a battery capacity of at least 50 kWh. Even if it has lost half of its capacity, the 20% capacity difference between 60% and 40% charge, or more realistically, the 50% difference between 75% and 25%, still represents 12.5 kWh of capacity. Suppose you had an array of 1,000 such batteries. That would represent 12.5 MWh of storage capacity, enough to power ten thousand homes (at 1.2 kW each) for an hour. Certainly nothing to sneeze at.

NateNate60 ,

Kubuntu removed Flatpaks in favour of Snaps

NateNate60 ,

American governments often fail to realise that they literally hold all the cards. At any time they can dissolve or threaten to dissolve a company for flagrantly disregarding the law, and yet this rarely happens.

NateNate60 ,

Believe me when I say that a dissolved company can’t fundraise shit.

NateNate60 ,

This article essentially says “These protests are unlikely to change government agendas because governments currently don’t support a ceasefire.” it doesn’t explain why this is the case.

That point is neither enlightening nor interesting.

NateNate60 ,

Or, perhaps… an amateur filmmaker wanting to produce their own films?

NateNate60 ,

American legislatures are surprisingly civil historically speaking when compared to other legislatures. We’ve had TWO incidents of legislative violence (Sumner slavery incident and 6 January incident). Meanwhile, in Britain, Parliament devolves into a shouting fest every week during Prime Minister’s Questions and don’t forget how happy Parliament was to send people they didn’t like to the gallows in the past. The French legislature did the same.

Taiwan’s legislature turns into a free-for-all fistfight whenever the government presents a controversial bill. Japan’s National Diet members will literally eat the paper to prevent a bill’s passage.

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Yeah, there’re even YouTube videos about it that get hundreds of thousands of views on the regular. How many channels that feature Congress Cam can boast the same?

NateNate60 ,

youtu.be/9Ps88fzLMQc?si=3AVRWGoaHBqWzfTq

1.4 million views

NateNate60 ,

Nobody said that.

NateNate60 ,

By tradition, the service charge is supposed to be paid to the staff. Therefore, it’s not customary to tip when you’re assessed a service charge, although many restaurants choose to ask for a tip anyway.

If you work in a restaurant that charges a service charge but pockets it… you’re being robbed.

In a rare move, Pope Francis forcibly removed a Texas bishop who had called him too progressive (apnews.com)

Pope Francis on Saturday forcibly removed the bishop of Tyler, Texas, a firebrand conservative prelate active on social media who has been a fierce critic of the pontiff and has come to symbolize the polarization within the U.S. Catholic hierarchy....

NateNate60 ,

The Catholic doctrine of papal infallibility means that the pope has the power as head of the Church to declare something an unquestionable part of Church doctrine. This was last used to declare “the Virgin Mary went to heaven” as part of the Catholic doctrine. The “infallible” part of “papal infallibility” means that the pope’s decision on the matter is final and that is the end of the discussion.

NateNate60 ,

The Vatican is only all-powerful in theory. The internal politics of the Catholic Church unfortunately are still a big consideration. They can only send out so many inquisitors and upend so many clergymen before internal unrest starts spreading. The worst-case scenario for the Vatican is for there to be another schism in the Church.

Many of the Church’s institutions are thousands of years old and the Church is the oldest surviving Western cultural and political institution. It has a lot of baggage. I am not Catholic, but I still respect that Pope Francis has at least acknowledged the Church’s wrongs and is trying to nudge it in the right direction. There is so much inertia that even the Pope can only nudge, not steer. That’s why the doctrine of papal infallibility is only used in the way it is.

NateNate60 ,

Yes, it is. That’s because companies like trying unpopular policies in America first before moving them to Europe.

NateNate60 ,

Yes. You have to pay for postage. Americans pay nothing and Amazon forced them to pay one dollar. I’m sure retailers would happily trade free returns for a 14-day return policy that makes the customer pay for postage.

NateNate60 ,

That’s usually how it is in America too. Amazon started charging $1 if you took it to a courier office instead of a Whole Foods (Amazon-owned grocery store chain) if the Whole Foods was closer to you.

NateNate60 , (edited )

It’s just a regular grocery store, albeit a rather expensive one. They give discounts for Prime members. In the back, there is an area where workers accept Amazon returns and you can also pick up orders there in the odd chance you would ever do that instead of having it delivered to your home at no extra cost…?

Edit: I remembered that some people might want packages delivered here if they’re frequent victims of package theft

NateNate60 ,

I agree. The US Federal Trade Commission is actually taking legal action against them for anticompetitive monopolistic practices right now, which could result in the company being broken up.

NateNate60 ,

It depends. If the company dives in headfirst with anticonsumer practices in the EU, you’re correct; EU institutions will regulate them out. But there’s a much smarter strategy that works more often than I think you’d like to admit:

  • Start said anticonsumer practice in the USA
  • USA is slower to enact legislation against it
  • US customers get used to it
  • Inch EU customers into said practices
  • When confronted, point to the USA and say that the Americans are fine with it so it must not be that bad.
  • 50% of the time EU regulators respond with “oh, alright then”. The news of said practice being introduced into the EU appears on The Register for a day and then everyone forgets about it. Most EU consumers don’t realise it happened.
NateNate60 ,

Honestly, Whole Foods sold overpriced crap before they were acquired by Amazon and continued to sell overpriced crap afterwards. For comparison, a box of store-brand macaroni and cheese, obviously an American staple food eaten on a daily basis, costs twice as much at Whole Foods compared to a regular grocery store (Walmart, Kroger, &c.) and triple what it would cost at a cheap grocery store.

  • Pound of chicken breast at Whole Foods: $6
  • Pound of chicken breast at Walmart: $3
  • Pound of chicken breast at WinCo: $2

and

  • Frozen pizza at Whole Foods: $10
  • Frozen pizza at Walmart: $4

It’s like this for basically everything. If you’d normally spend $80 a week on grocery, you’d instead spend $150 at Whole Foods. But at least the food is organic, right??

NateNate60 ,

Yes, it would. The law says that the cost of the return can be borne by the buyer. So making customers pay for the cost of return postage would not be against the law. The company is not required to provide an absolutely free return.

NateNate60 ,

If you want to call it that, you can. The State spying by proxy (paying or asking companies for info) is legal and not prohibited by Amendment 4. Amendment 4 does not protect the subjects of information. It protects the controllers of information (which would be the car company).

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