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HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

axo ,

HP notebooks can do that too though

axo ,

That problem has every consumer laptop. Lenovos Ideapads and Thinkbooks do the same. As well as the Asus, Acer, etc notebooks from the cheaper end.

I do those hinge repairs from time to time for customers and its rarely a thinkpad, elitebooks, probook, etc.

axo ,

Love my samsung buds 2. Got them for 45 on ebay I believe and even have some ANC

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

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For airtags that was, at least until recently, the case. You could only detect “lost airtags”.

Which makes sense, since only then they are relevant for stalking etc.

axo ,

That would be awesome!

axo ,

At least in the EU, you xan easily change search engines on chrome on android.

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Everyone…? KIA, Mercedes, BMW, etc, etc

Their modes are just not as “confident” as teslas, when its auto pilot feature is running over a child.

axo ,

Accoring to the math in this video: :

  • 150 000 000 miles have been driven with Teslas “FSD”, which equals to
  • 375 miles per tesla purchased with FSD capabilities
  • 736 known FSD crashes with 17 fatalities
  • equals 11.3 deaths per 100M miles of teslas FSD

Doesnt sound to bad, until you hear that a human produces 1.35 deaths per 100M miles driven…

Its rough math, but holy moly that already is a completely other class of deadly than a non FSD car

axo ,

Working fine for me

axo ,

Putting hard drives to sleep when not in use can akso drastically decrease power consumption. But for that to work, the OS cannot be on there and things that potentially get accessed rather often neither.

Want to improve my system by doing exactly that and spinning the hard drives only up, if one watches a movie from plex. Nextcloud is on a ssd and should not make any problems anymore :)

Finally got a UPS

Keeping tradition with doing things backwards, I’ve finally got a UPS for the rack (mounted in the bottom of the stack). Got a PowerWalker VI 2200R. Its a 2U unit which is all the space I’ve got left in the rack. Decent price and decent I/O with USB, serial and a slot-in for network expansion + 4 IEC outputs. Its powering...

axo ,

Never heard of anything like that. Do you know anything where I can read up on it? Is it dependent on the country you live in and the stabliness of the powergrid? Because I do not even remember the last time I had no power, probably 5-10 years ago.

axo ,

But tgats stupid, since no manufacturer has parts available for that long. And fairphone released an update for the FP2 after 8 years of being available. Thats crazy! I think it got out around the same time as the Samsung S3. Try finding a genuine battery for that thing.

And also the FP1 and FP2 were sold in really low quantities. The FP3 was the first proper product, which therefor has much better support and will have parts available for much longer

axo ,

They make the problem of their supply chain clear. And still, it is probably the most “fair” phone you can get, so I dont understand the critizism really.

Why arent you criticizing all the other manufacturers, that dont even try to do anything positive? Its always the small companies, that try to improve on things and then get shitted over for not going all the way. I dont understand it…

axo ,

Well, android itself is only 15 years old. To put that into perspective.

But yes, I would also be hella mad if they stopped supporting the FP4 or FP5 after “only” 8 or 10 years.

axo ,

My switch died after about 4 years. A capacitor burned, tried to replace it, but still nothing happens… dont know if Ill get it to work again

axo ,

Its legal in the EU. You can sell your windows key for example, despite the windows eula disallowing it

axo ,

But firefox still has PWA support, doesnt it? Atleast the fdroid Fennec build has it

axo ,

Ah, yeah thats true. Firefox desktop does not seem to have a proper PWA implementation

axo ,

The study found that ddg was worse than google though. But they only searched for products, so nk complete “test”.

axo ,

Fusion is so dump. Were at least a couple decades away from brake even in the fusion reaction, but still people believe it will help solve the climate crisis.

Atm we put about 10 times nore energy into the whole system than we get out. And it generates nuclear waste because the wall materials absorb neutrons and get radioactive. And so many other unsolved problems… this technology is a nice research peoject, but none of us will ever see a commercial reactor in action, because it is so far away, if even possible.

axo ,

No. Renewables are available and super cheap.

axo ,

Cant you use gadgetbridge?

axo ,

Dont use SSDs for offline backups. The flash storage can experience random bit flips if not powered on every now and then.

axo ,

My professor told me this fact in class, but upon searching for papers I did not find anything to support it.

So probably you are right.

If you love piracy you should consider voting/joining your local Pirate Party (pp-international.net)

From wikipedia: “Pirate Party is a label adopted by political parties around the world. Pirate parties support civil rights, direct democracy (including e-democracy) or alternatively participation in government, reform of copyright and patent laws to make them more flexible and open to encourage innovation and creativity, use...

axo ,

Also the german pirates are often incredibly sexist. Overall really not voteable

axo ,

Not really what you asked for, but here in germany exist networks of big telegram groups where people give away their stuff for free. Maybe something like it exists also where you live.

Here theyre called “natural ressources”

axo ,

Used Deezer for two yeers. It sucked ass, cause half the time it didnt work (deleted offline songs, had a too low limit for how many songs could be downloaded, app in offline mode was nearly useless).

In the end I switched to spotify. Only miss the mixing stuff, that was kind of nice.

Blood test findings by Toronto doctors can detect cancerous tumour before it develops (toronto.ctvnews.ca)

Blood test findings by Toronto doctors can detect cancerous tumour before it develops::Doctors at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and The Hospital for Sick Children are helping detect cancer in some patients before a tumour develops or shows up on a medical scan.

axo ,

This is just stupid. Most tumours arent deadky, especially those found early.

I can definitely recommend the video from nedkife crisis about wrong and too early classicmfication of tumours: youtu.be/yNzQ_sLGIuA?si=spAHEmT8C6wk5VGx

axo ,

It sure is, what would make you think otherwise? It has enough VC money to burn

axo ,

Is there a difference to the calibre plugin (github.com/Leseratte10/acsm-calibre-plugin), besides being an independent program?

axo ,

Not in the consumer business anymore, but they are doing well in commercial.

They own QNX, a Real Time and Micro Kernel based operaring system for embedded, used in “235 Million vehicles”.

axo ,

Signal for private conversations and for larger groups Matrix. Matrix can also be bridged to telegram effortlessly.

axo ,

Well, thats also easy since telegram clients dont do much more than displaying messages stored on a server. Its more a viewer than a full client.

And that compromises hard on privacy and security, which Signal and Whatsapp dont do, they have proper Clients that have to really handle and store incoming messages. And the E2EE makes it harder, developing an independent desktop client, like Signal always had and Whatsapp recently got. But both are mediocre at best, sure.

Alternative ways to run Plex?

Context; So… Just bought a brand new TV and life is good, but I should have done more research before buying it. I primarily want to use PLEX for watching media on the TV. However, due to “smart TV’s” not being smart and being rather slow because most current TV operating systems are either bloated or just riddled with...

axo ,

Can it do transcoding and subtitles?

axo ,

That would work for plex. But if one also wants Disney Plus, Netflix or Prime, that wont work (or with really limited quality)

axo ,

None of these services provide 1080P through a browser. Netflix can be hacked todo so with a different use agent and does play up to 4k on MS Edge on some windows Laptops, but other then that its 480p or 720p, depending on service.

axo ,

Yea, docker only eats up storage. And not even much, if you share the same base image.

Not really any CPU or RAM overhead

axo ,

A good start, but not proper investment in public transit. DB is still massivly underfunded and the road infrastructure, again, got more money to spend than the rail infrastructure, despite claiming the Ampel would do it the other way around… :/

axo ,

This is just false.

axo ,

There are low latency codecs available

axo ,

No. After the pairing process Bluetooth is of course encrypted. If you can tap in before that, well then you could maybe do a mitm or something

What do you think of our lord and saviour Odysee.com?

Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an...

axo ,

Sorry, but “nazis and antisemitism” is not politics. It is racism. Saying something like this is nazi-speech one should not repeat

axo ,

“Nazis is politics” is here in germany often used in a paraphrased way by far right people to justify their point of view, since nazi symbols and thing like that are forbidden by law.

By adopting such prases, even if unintentionally, one reproduces and legitimates such thinking.

axo ,

Only have heating, no AC. So 19C over the day and 16 at night for the winter

axo ,

Consent-o-matic doesnt really work though. Have been using it for a year but went back to the community i dont care about cookies addon

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