I honestly don’t mind as long as it’s down with permission. At least Microsoft are trying to do something interesting, computers are so boring nowadays. You could take any of the operating systems and wind them back five years and I probably wouldn’t notice.

Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.

The newer one’s not too bad though.

I think they just date from the circles they hang out in. I don’t think rich people hang out with poor people in general, I guess they don’t have much in common given that they have different problems. Rich people go to rich people schools, rich people gyms, etc.

Printers are sold at a loss. If you want cheap toner you’d end up paying more for the printer. If you want to be ethical you probably need a second hand one.

The flooding a network thing really isn’t an issue, they’ll only flood for the first packet just to find the way and then it stops. Fire up Wireshark on a different machine and transfer a file between two other machines, you won’t see anything. I don’t know too much about WiFi but it probably does the same, it’s just a bridge to the same network.

Wired is probably better because machines can estimate your location from the SSID and they can leak the password giving access to the network.

Switches will flood a network when they don’t know the location of a MAC address but this should only happen for the very first packet which is more likely to be DHCP or some boring background thing like that. As soon as the correct devices get the packet and replies then each switch along the way will update its MAC address table and they’ll know exactly which port to use until it expires (which depends on the switch, I don’t have a ballpark idea).

I always thought this was the weakest one. I loved TFE and TSE.

I just browse All the subscribe to communities I see and like. One thing you’ll find on Lemmy is that a lot of the communities are just Lemmy equivalents of Reddit subs, so if there’s one you like you can just search the name of what you like. It’s usually a case of find the version of the sub you want that’s the most popular. Because this is Lemmy and there’ll be different instances of the big subs, like if you want funny you might find [email protected] or [email protected], and more. There’s usually one instance which is the one to use. I understand they’re in the process of fixing this by having it so that they all sort of subscribe to each other and you can just follow one to follow them all. Unfortunately doing this involves using the search which I also find pretty terrible but I understand it’s also a priority issue they’re fixing right now.

You don’t have to stay at that job but I wouldn’t go back to the old one.

This whole thing seems inaccurate. I literally never get even remotely excited about a Linux update, it’s always boring stuff that means nothing to me. I don’t Windows updates because I feel like it delivers them in a big lump and lets me install as I shutdown, which is easy. Apple hasn’t charged for updates in well over a decade.

I’ve been doing this for years now. Over the past ten years I’ve probably only bought about five games that were over £15.

When/where was this?

I’ve never been asked for any of this stuff but I think it’s literally because my email account is so old.

I feel like there’s more going on now.

No. This place is an echo chamber and I like diverse opinions.

Between the ugly lump on the back of these and the horrid Liquid Ass interface this is possibly the ugliest iPhone they’ve ever released.

Aside from install and the first welcome screen I don’t recall seeing anything.

It used to be possible as networks could advertise that they owned IP ranges that they didn’t actually own using BGP, which is what’s used for high level routing. This is what China did around 2010 where they allegedly routed all the internet traffic in the world through China for like 10 minutes. I guess somebody could do that and then just drop every packet.

I expect that’s not possible anymore though, but I’ve been out the game a while so I don’t know for sure.

I use Fedora and openSUSE but I’m not sure if this graph is taking the piss.

I was in France the other day and a restaurant on the beach started playing it. Not sure they understood English around there. You’d think they’d know the word Christmas though.