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Would you say the same thing about Apple?
The "replaceable" SSD in the M4 Mac Mini is proprietary and will not accept a standard M.2 module. This was a deliberate choice.
Assuming you locate an exact match, you need a second, working, Mac to provision it.
The entire process is user-hostile from start to finish yet the criticism is few (and I've even read praise of this practice on Mac fan sites).
Which is more likely, your barista collecting this data for nefarious purposes, or your ISP?
I definitely want to know if they are involved with any tech I'm using so I can avoid it
Are you going to stop using Linux because the NSA is a major code contributor?
Huawei is too, and they were founded by a guy from the PLA.
The author theorizes that games are an ideal malware delivery vehicle but... aren't games typically connected to a user's headset/mic regardless?
I'm a bit puzzled how "secure environment" has a direct connection to "data collection" and "adversary".
Well they must give the stateside CSRs a different script because whenever I win the lottery and get an American on the phone it's a night and day difference. Notably they seem capable of solving complex problems without lying or smoke and mirrors.
An actual example, I recently had an issue that while straightforward and not that difficult to solve, was likely "off script". After being handed off between 4 different chat agents, and subsequent phone calls with two different Indians (who lied and made promises that weren't kept), my problem was not solved. At my wits end (and nearly 2.5 hours of my time wasted) I called back one more time. Inexplicably, I got a lady with a Southern accent. She solved my problem in under 10 minutes (and that included the approval she had to get from her supervisor).
Everyone is so preoccupied with losing their minds every time Trump trolls the media with some new nonsense on the socials that they're ignoring the completely insane things going on in the UK right now. Like arresting people for using naughty language online.
20 years ago this would have been daily outrage on Slashdot's YRO section but I get the feeling no one cares enough anymore.
I love that many of the scripts in the OpenBSD base system are written in Perl.
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I'm in awe at the number of people that will go to bat for things like artificial dyes in food, only because the policy is coming from the present administration. It's just common sense. We don't need to be ingesting this shit. It's cosmetic and not needed for nutrition. Why are you feeding your child Fruit Loops and not Cheerios?
I personally have known people who develop migraines after eating food with artificial dyes. We can sit here and snipe and play semantics and argue over pointless details but why bother? Just get rid of them all.
It's extremely presumptuous of you to assume that everyone who shops at Walmart are uneducated simpletons.
Maybe they're smarter than you with money. The same box of cereal that costs less than $2 at Walmart is almost $6 at Whole Foods.
Took 10 seconds to find:
https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/02/29/why-is-the-btrf...
We had a few seconds of power loss the other day. Everything in the house, including a Windows machine using NTFS, came back to life without any issues. A Synology DS720+, however, became a useless brick, claiming to have suffered unrecoverable file system damage while the underlying two hard drives and two SSDs are in perfect condition. It’s two mirrored drives using the Btrfs file system
Because every time btrfs is mentioned, 5 more people come out of the woodwork saying that it irreparably lost all their data. Sorry but there's just too many stories for it to be mere coincidences.
Your statement is misleading. No one is using btrfs on servers. Debian and Ubuntu use ext4 by default. RHEL removed support for btrfs long ago, and it's not coming back:
Red Hat will not be moving Btrfs to a fully supported feature. It was fully removed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
This is DOA not because there is anything wrong with the app, but because iDevices make objectively poor baby monitors.
Babies sleep a lot. A LOT. Any halfway decent baby monitor needs the ability to see in the dark (IR illumination) which iDevices don't have, so unless it's relegated to monitoring play areas during the day, its usefulness is limited. That doesn't mean the software isn't well designed, the hardware is simply not fit for purpose.
As is, I still prefer Airbus when I get a choice
Better pack a toxic fume respirator in your carry-on:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/delta-engines-airbus-toxic-fume...
AFAIK this is all based on hearsay. I rarely if ever have seen thin plastic bags "in nature", no one is chucking them out a moving car window.
Anyone who litters single-use bags is also littering other trash elsewhere, most people can be trusted to place them in a responsible place for rubbish.
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (which is often cited in defense of bag bans) is mostly Chinese trash.
Grocery bag bans are a feel-good distraction that makes no measurable environmental impact.
"Reusable" bags also have some fewer use cases for reuse; for example truck drivers are known to poop in the single use bags. Can't do that in a reusable bag.
Reusable bags are a farce that ignores the use case of reusing singe-use plastic bags as trash can liners, so you're already getting reuse out of them, and the thin bags will likely decompose faster in the landfill.
Meanwhile nearly every feel-good measure that banned plastic bags from municipalities allows paper bags, which require more energy and water to manufacture, and cannot be used to line trash cans.
So I now have to buy plastic trash bags, made out of thicker plastic, so I can throw out the paper ones.
No one has mentioned that "hacked" appears nowhere in the tweet and seems to be editorializing on the part of the submitter.
Sounds like boomer-speak for they sent one of those full-screen SMS messages (aka 'flash SMS') with a link to a livestream.
You guys read too much Tom Clancy.
If spammers can do it and send me links to phishing sites so can one of the most technologically-proficient governments. You really think they would waste multiple 0-days on some bullshit like this?
What do you authenticate against? Your shadow file is in the unencrypted area leaving it susceptible to offline attack.
With the TPM you can fully disable password auth over SSH.
Friendly reminder that you've been able to automatically unlock fully-encrypted Linux systems via TPM for years since it was added to systemd...
(Here's a nickel kid...)
Debian is known to have made similar monstrously stupid decisions.
For example, they patch OpenSSH source code in a way that makes defaults behave differently than upstream. In the name of backwards compatibility of course.
I assume this will continue until it doesn't anymore, and the only notification you shall receive from the ivory tower is a cryptic one-liner buried in a changelog somewhere.
The iPhone can replace all of those functions you listed
It does not have an AM/FM station
You don’t have literal CB
You can’t play the literal CDs
So not the same function, got it.
As for your last example, you might as well replace "iPhone" with "tape deck".
Waiting for someone to explain that iPhone has replaced this too (via streaming), completely unaware that the origin of the stream is likely a 3.5mm jack on... an actual scanner.
All weather personal stereo
AM/FM clock radio
In-Ear Stereo Phones
Microthin calculator
Mobile CB
Deluxe Portable CD Player
Maybe I missed the rollout for the iPhone that performs all these functions, but no iPhone has ever:
• Picked up AM/FM radio (even though throwaway Nokia mobiles could do so)
• Allowed you to talk to truckers on the CB band.
• Played CDs you already own.
iPhones no longer come with earbuds (so they can sell you overpriced wireless ones), and a wayward update to the Calculator app kept it from functioning like a traditional 4-function calculator ever again. (Delete button? Really?)
Considering this article is nearly 12 years old and there have been no improvements on the above I declare this list dubious at best.