For safety, never plug an unknown USB drive into your house.
At this point I think I would
Submitted 12 hours ago by phudgins@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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yesman@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
peregrin5@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
My house got hacked when I did this once.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
At least use protection mine got a hell of an STI.
whostosay@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I just tried it and now my front door won’t lock.
merc@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Did you know that you can 3d print a house in less than 24 hours? You can’t download the concrete, but you could download the plans.
We’re maybe slowly creeping towards a post-scarcity world. If we can avoid destroying ourselves or the planet in the next century, we might get there. But, the entrenched interests are holding on with their fingernails.
One awful example of this is library books.
In the before times, people had to go and take an actual physical book out of the library. Along came e-books. In theory, a library now only needed to buy a single copy of a book and they could lend it out to everyone. It’s no surprise that they didn’t do that, instead if they want to loan out 10 copies at a time, they buy 10 books.
What’s really stupid is that the publishers weren’t satisfied with that arrangement. They also want to simulate wear and tear on these digital ebooks, so it can be just like paperbacks. So, after 26 loans, DRM on the ebooks means they self-destruct.
functionIsOdd@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
That article you linked about 26 loans is from 2011. Do you know if they still do that or they decided to roll it back or something? I couldn’t find anything about it other then more articles from 2011
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
I don’t know if it’s exactly the same, but they definitely have a limited number of loans before the library is forced to buy another copy.
Here’s an article from 2023 by a librarian with more details:
Other titles are metered. This is essentially a lease. Libraries purchase a title for time, 12 to 24 months or by checkouts, usually 26. When the terms of the lease expire the item is no longer available and has to be repurchased.
toadjones79@lemm.ee 9 hours ago
Who the hell thought that anyone wouldn’t download a pirated house? How out of touch do they need to be?!
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
You’re either going to download it or burn it to the ground.
AreaKode@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Nah. It would just power up and have no data connection. Unless you bought it in Israel…
SeekPie@lemm.ee 11 hours ago
It’s 50/50.
HerrVorragend@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I totally would.
Problem is, too many greedy people would hook up so many storage drives to download thousands of houses that my house would not have any space left on earth to place it once it is finally finished downloading.
cmoney@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
If the outlet has an earth ground and you left the USB plugged in long enough, you would eventually download the earth, then it’s just copy, paste you got your own earth.
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 7 hours ago
I want the version with all the African fjords.
hopesdead@startrek.website 12 hours ago
No but would you let your hologram house maid date your single dad?
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
I’d download a house or a car in a heartbeat, and never feel the tiniest inkling of guilt.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I’m an electrician with a mind for crime and I’m stealing your kilowatt-hours
j4k3@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
thumb stick: “Face-down ass-up Apple Bottom.”
eezeebee@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
The boot drive with the fur (with the fur)
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Stop right there, criminal scum
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
I wish it was possible…
huquad@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Now I wonder what would happen if you put a USB killer into one of these.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
it depends on if the charger is just a standard 5v 5w supply or if it’s a fast charger i think, because a standard supply doesn’t have anything hooked up to the data lines that can be killed
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Pretty sure it’d fry the power supply. Thats my first bet, is that it wouldn’t even get through it.
If it did pass through, it could fry your electronics. A USB killer is a short pulse, and not at all strong compared to main, so I expect that it’d act more like if a neutral was floating, than an actual surge at the voltage a USB killer usually gets to.
No idea for sure though and I’m not an electrician.
huquad@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Time to go to a friends house. I have experiments to conduct.
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
I think that buying and living in a yurt would be a better option than trying to buy a house.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 31 minutes ago
Cat Steven agrees
SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 minutes ago
Big ol’ Yurt. 2 or 3 if you have or want to start a family
Solar-powered electric generator
Vegetable garden
Located near Lake Superior
I can definitely see myself living that kind of life.