UFO64

@UFO64@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask Texas how that’s goin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Right-to-repair is now the law in California⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  statista.com/…/only-5-countries-have-a-bigger-gdp…

  It’s gdp is more that france

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After USB-C win, EU tells Tim Cook that Apple must 'open up its gates to competitors'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, so long as people keep buying their phones they really don’t care about this kind of stuff. Sure, it was a way to drive up margins for a while, but they will just move onto their next bag of tricks to make it hard to leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have successfully completed our migration to RAM-only VPN infrastructure - Mullvad VPN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This can be handled a few different ways.

  • You can boot from a HDD and then just not ever write data back to it. This would be the most trivial solution, and it’s something people do with their Pi’s a lot to avoid SD card failure.
  • You could network boot, pull the OS from the network at startup. Fun fact, this is how some rockets fly! No onboard persistent storage needed. Everything boots into and runs from ram the whole 10 ish minutes of operation.
  • You COULD do a ROM as you suggested, but that’s a LOT of ROM. Seems odd to do imho.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like lack of ownership of more and more things in our lives is a sign of problems. Sure, this is just a silly game. But this kind of shit is already hitting cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why we need meaningful consumer protections around this. Something with teeth to force publishers to back these sorts of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Aye, but forcing them to put a clear “We support this until this date” label will make that a mandated part of their marketed.

  That or, you know, force companies to release server software when they sunset support for their product. That would also be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Provided the pressure is maintained from the outside, mine would work fine with a match.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the watts-per-search of google?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Let’s see this pass rigorous muster first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That and insane production budgets. A lot of stream services are dumping hundreds of millions into shows that… Really didn’t need that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I seem to be out of the loop, who’s that and what did they do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommended hard drive monitoring (Ubuntu server) options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So just as an FYI to those who trust these sorts of things, SMART technology is a self reporting thing. The hard drive is more than capable of lying to the data in that system if it protects the manufacture from responsibility of replacing faulty drives. Whats more, it’s actually pretty rare that SMART reports and issue before the drive just sorta… dies someway or another.

  It’s not useless technology, but it’s pretty damn close. I don’t even both with any of my setups. I test it by monitoring if the server has issues reading/writing. SMART wont tell me anything before that will.

  Source: Was a firmware engineer on hard drives for 10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Period tracking app options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple’s systems are designed so that they don’t really have a choice in the matter. The end user holds the only master key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Period tracking app options?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This could 100% happen in the US today given the reproductive laws being passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter’s Surge in Harmful Content a Barrier to Advertiser Return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s the long term plan for server costs? This thing isn’t free