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Patches ,

The quietest solution is passive but you won’t get very good performance out of that.

It’s all a balance

Patches ,

Yes exactly. Only a heat sink and no moving parts.

Patches ,

Eventually they will have no choice but to stop existing or cede worker demands

Patches ,

But Google Drive was my backup

Patches , (edited )

The rule to backups is 3-2-1.

3 Total Copies.

2 Different Media. Think Cloud vs HDD vs NAS vs CD vs Thumb Drive

1 Off-site. Typically the cloud but you can use another physical location so long as it isn’t likely to be affected by the same disaster (read: fire, flood).

If you follow the three rules - no single event can destroy your data.

But if you want to talk about probabilities - this is the one time Google Drive has lost a significant amount of data in 11 Years. Millions of local storage devices in the form of iPads and Computers have died while Google Drive has been alive.

Patches ,

RSS feeds?

What year is it?

Patches , (edited )

Hot take: Alan Wake 2 would have a lot of explaining to do if EPIC had a review system. My disappointment with that game was immeasurable and my weekend was ruined.

Patches ,

I’m just here for the free stuff.

Libby, Hoopla, Overdrive are all free and helps support the authors to make more books. Win win.

If you don’t like the borrowing format then just clone the epub after borrowing it. It isn’t difficult to do, and author still makes money.

Patches ,

The cables themselves do not use power. It is the brick.

Your radio being off would not push any power through a cable. Also your cigarette lighter being off would not push any power. Which is why plugging it in won’t do anything.

To continue the metaphor - your water is turned off. You can’t use up water that isn’t there.

The reason the brick uses power is because it is available 24/7 for you to plug something in - and when you do - it can ask that device how much power it wants - does it have fast charging? Etcetera.

Patches ,

He’s gonna blast em, and they will officially be On Notice

Patches ,

Except they can’t do the one other key function of a truck.

Tow

Patches ,

When we first talked about the touch-screen, the guys came back and said, ‘There’s nothing like that in the automotive supply chain,’” Musk said. “I said, ‘I know. That’s because it’s never been put in a fucking car before.’” Musk figured that computer manufacturers had tons of experience making seventeen-inch laptop screens and expected them to knock out a screen for the Model S with relative ease. “The laptops are pretty robust,” Musk said. “You can drop them and leave them out in the sun, and they still have to work.” After contacting the laptop suppliers, Tesla’s engineers came back and said that the temperature and vibration loads for the computers did not appear to be up to automotive standards. Tesla’s supplier in Asia also kept pointing the carmaker to its automotive division instead of its computing division. As Musk dug into the situation more, he discovered that the laptop screens simply had not been tested before under tougher automotive conditions, which included large temperature fluctuations. When Tesla performed the tests, the electronics ended up working just fine.

  • Elon Musk, ~2015

thedrive.com/…/teslas-screen-saga-shows-why-autom…

He still applies this attitude today in all matters.

Patches ,

It doesn’t have to be porn for people to not want to know what they are watching to be shared.

I’m sure the RIAA is ecstatic that Plex knows what MP3s you have on your server, and when and where you listen to them. I’m sure they’re all 100% legally acquired, and you have the proper documents to back their up.

I’m sure your bible-thumping racist nan would love to know you watched Roots, or MSNBC, or anything LGBTQ. That’ll go over well. Especially if you’re in the closet.

Patches ,

If you don’t do any self-hosting, or know anyone who does.

I don’t see why you would hear about it.

Patches ,

No but only because the RIAA is only concerned with music.

For movies Plex would provide your data to The House Of Mouse (Disney), Sony, Paramount, DreamWorks, etc…

I’m sure they provide your music data to the RIAA as well.

Why else would they store it?

Patches ,

What’re you callin her? Bubbie? Babushka? Abuela? Nonna?

Patches ,

There is an addon that does this automatically.

Some pages load weird like a pop-up on mobile that should take over your view window is a side bar instead. Still fully functional but slightly harder to read.

But you know what makes it way harder to read? Ads

Patches ,

I’m not sure if it’s better, or worse, than the cancer that was the dot come era. Pop-ups everywhere. Random fucking toolbars. So many toolbars. A clippy version of a titty dancer if you’re unlucky.

Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)

Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

Patches ,

Yeah and you didn’t really need any of them.

A smartphone from 9 years ago is still enough hardware to handle everything a smartphone needs to do.

Patches ,

You say that but there are Toyotas with 100k miles and 15 years old selling for 4k off MSRP of a brand-new vehicle. Which is to say way above original MSRP.

In pure maintenance consumable items alone - it’s a bad deal. It’s so a bad deal when you take consideration that new cars can have half the interest rate of a new one.

Patches ,

The frugal in me says Back up and then Factory Reset. Honestly the only reason I replace them is because they get too damaged. I wish I was nicer to my phones but I’m just not the type of person to baby them.

Patches ,

newborn son

In the short term you might regret that add-on but it definitely pays off in the long run.

Patches ,

Frequently Wipes

You’d think that but they remember everything. They are always watching.

It’s kinda scary once you notice all of the mimicry.

At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say (www.nytimes.com)

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states....

Patches ,

As someone who lied as a child to get in free (kids under 5 free) and who had a beard in high school so he could buy beer. All before the Internet.

This isn’t a “new quirky Internet Age”. People have been lying about their age since time immemorial.

Patches ,

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

  • Upton Sinclair, 1934
Patches ,

If it isn’t too late. Buy an absolute fuck ton of ice. It’ll keep the food cold enough.

Patches ,

With all the layoffs. That isn’t easy right now.

Thousands of applications per job.

Patches ,

Please drink a verification can

Why do all the new TVs expect me to have a platform AS WIDE as the fucking thing?? Fucking shit!! God awful absolutely dumb thoughtless design choice (lemmy.world)

luckily this is just a 32; i had a 70 from the same brand with the same INSANELY FUCKING STUPID STAND DESIGN that i had to find something for…literally at the most extreme edges of the thing, what the fuck is this? this is so fucking stupid, it cannot be meaningfully cheaper than a proper design and it looks fucking dumb as...

Patches ,

With how cheap, and ubiquitous VESA mounts are - it doesn’t make sense to expense $20/TV for a metal stand that everyone is going to throw out.

Patches ,

That is so in case it falls then it falls onto the TV Stand not a child.

They don’t expect you to do that - but too many people went ‘I didn’t know’ right after their baby head caved in because they didn’t child proof anything.

Patches ,

The other oil spills, the garbage, the global warming, the agricultural runoff, and the microplastics already killed >99% of them. So it’s quite possible there are not any more (Endangered Species) left in the entire ocean.

So yeah allegedly I mean potentially

Patches ,

It could only be a couple hundred gallons that have actually leaked.

Ah yes. Much better. Personally I prefer no oil leaked myself. But you know Capitalism and all that hub bub.

Patches ,

And just like that. It suddenly wasn’t my problem anymore

'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture (www.businessinsider.com)

‘Morale is at an all-time low’: Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and ‘eroded’ culture::An ex-Googler wrote a 1,500-word letter criticizing the firm and CEO Sundar Pichai’s lack of “visionary leadership.”

Patches ,

Is the Spam Filtering equally as good?

That’s the reason I went Gmail back in the day.

I get hundreds of emails a day. All filtered out properly.

Patches ,

When you’ve been on the Internet for 20 years it is inevitable that your address ends up on an email list, or two. They all share information with each other

Black Friday (files.mastodon.online)

alt textthree rows with a barbecue on the left and William Wallace in Braveheart on the right. In the first row, captioned Wednesday, the barbecue is labelled “$899.99” and Wallace says “hold”. The second row, captioned Thursday, depicts the same. In the third row, captioned Black Friday, the there is a label with...

Patches ,

The price decreased by $1.00

K

Patches ,

Does the price watch email work for you?

I have 2 Gmail accounts and I don’t know if Camel is broken, or Gmail filters them as spam. I never get any emails.

Patches ,

In 2010 Bill Gates was worth 50 Billion. He is now worth 117 Billion.

He ain’t exactly coasting. He just has a higher PR budget than he did back in the 90s.

Patches ,

And why is that?

Patches ,

Why did we give away an entire island to prisoners?

Judge finds ‘reasonable evidence’ Tesla knew self-driving tech was defective (www.theguardian.com)

A judge has found “reasonable evidence” that Elon Musk and other executives at Tesla knew that the company’s self-driving technology was defective but still allowed the cars to be driven in an unsafe manner anyway, according to a recent ruling issued in Florida....

Patches ,

truth in advertising laws exist for a reason

Now if only they were enforced.

Patches ,

Yes it’s called the entire public road system. Alpha test your product on your own roads!

Patches ,

Yes but when you said sounded like we needed to make protected ways. It should be them making protected ways.

Patches ,

Hi Wendy’s , I’d like one large 2 liter of Coke. Do me a favor and make it piss warm for me. Could ya do that?

Patches ,

Saves Valuable Time at High Labor Costs

I’m sorry. What?

Patches ,

You still get ads with YouTube Premium though…

Patches ,

Family Support

The Boomers can have exactly as much family support as they gave to those who came after.

“Your 17. Get the fuck out”. “Now I’m poor and elderly, and it’s your problem” ay lmao

Patches ,

I mean does anyone feel bad for Grimes?

It’s not like it was some big secret he was an egomaniac years ago.

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