LEMMYS:
Lame Eccentrics Mostly Making Yapping Sounds
Local Ernest Morons Monologueing Yearningly Sometimes
Lighthearted Edgy Magnificent & Marvellous Youths Swearing
Lovable Ethically Mediocre Miscreants Yellowing Slowly
I could go on, but it’s getting late.
Isn’t ‘True North’ a far right conspiracy blog pretending to be a news site with murky sources of funding? i.e. propaganda network?
The cool kids have left the building and moved on to building the next thing.
Monterey still gets security updates. :)
Really? I just handed down a 2017 MacBook Pro – still supported by Apple, meaning it runs the latest OS, and gets patches.
Can you give me an example of any other device with longer software support from the original vendor, at no cost to the end user?
Uh, no. A decent UPS is $300-500, and replacement batteries can be had for under $100, and if you keep the unit cool and clean, batteries should last 3 to 5 years.
Also, if your UPS has 12V 7Ah batteries, you can sometimes find 12V 9Ah batteries in exactly the same form – so you get slightly longer run times after you replace the batteries the first time.
Just to delete the comments that reddit restored after I deleted everything in my account.
I work in IT. Most systems have laughable security. Passwords are often saved in plain text in scripts or config files. I went to a site to help out a very large provincial governmental organization move some data out of one system and into another. They sat me down with a loaner laptop and the guy logged me into his user account on the server. When I asked for escalated privileges, he told me he’d go get someone who knew the service account passwords.
After a few minutes, I started poking around on my own… And had administrative access within an hour. I could read the database (raw data), access documents, start and stop the software, plus, figured out how to get into the upstream system that fed data to this server… I was working on figuring out the software’s admin password when the guy came back. I’m sure that given some more time, I could have rooted the box because the OS hadn’t been updated in years.
Oh, yeah… But you have to admit, it kinda explains the behaviour in a concise and plausible fashion though, based on the facts we do know.
Heh. Can you tell my parents? I’m pretty sure both of them would suck this guy’s dick if he showed up at their house. I’ve tried various ways to explain that they’re in a cult, but yeah, they’re in way too deep.
Strange how people can be so oblivious as to the role they play in the consumption of energy and materials…
I’ve recently started to believe that the only way climate change is going to end is if a very, very large percentage of the human population dies off very quickly… like… 70-80% or more. One billion people still seems like too many.
Yes, in very poor countries, they subsidize the data usage for WhatsApp, so that it’s free to end users. It’s extraordinarily popular in Asia and Africa as a result.
And now Meta knows when she’s having her period, the phone number of her gynecologist, and what period products she buys… thanks to the app spying on her health and fitness, contact, and shopping data.
#WTF
Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can’t leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they’ve restored against my will.
WAS from users on mobile. Was.
I’m going to test blocking YouTube for having unskippable ads. :)
I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.
I suspect the problem is that people wouldn’t even pay a penny per video to content creators. From what I’ve seen of other competing video sites, there’s a really serious moderation issue stopping them from wide adoption… So many of the competing sites are full of flat earth / anti-vax / pro-fascism content…
It still exists? Weird. I played with it for like, a weekend, and that was plenty.
The best part about this is that the more they do this, the more it costs them. Every action, especially disk transactions, cost them money. Just log in every day, run your deletion utility, and cost them a couple bucks more for being pricks about it.
I just looked it up, and while I’m not going to link to it, it definitely a far right shithole propaganda site. I’d want to avoid any indication that could be mistaken as a relationship.