UFO64
@UFO64@lemmy.world
- Comment on ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US 2 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 8 months ago:
Ask Texas how that’s goin.
- Comment on Right-to-repair is now the law in California 8 months 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'. 8 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months 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 9 months ago:
RIP
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 9 months 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! 9 months 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 9 months ago:
What’s the watts-per-search of google?
- Comment on A biotech company says it put dopamine-making cells into people’s brains 9 months ago:
Right? Let’s see this pass rigorous muster first.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 10 months 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 10 months 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? 11 months 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? 11 months 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? 11 months 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 11 months ago:
What’s the long term plan for server costs? This thing isn’t free