Tatters

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I didn’t even know that was an option until I read this thread. I would need to check what my BIOS supports. This is a recent Gigabyte motherboard and latest BIOS, so I imagine you can do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Corsair software allows you to create a custom curve for fan speeds by CPU temperature, which I use. It also has a lot of temperature and speed monitors which are sometimes useful, and RGB effects, which I never use. I believe there are others ways to achieve the fine grained control of fan speeds in Linux (or maybe the BIOS), but it is something I would need to get to grips with before considering moving to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Can't Stop Being Annoying About OneDrive | They make you take a survey every time you close OneDrive on your device.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to try Linux Mint, but there are no Corsair drivers for my CPU AIO cooler. There are workarounds, but it is not ideal. It is a choice between how much Windows annoys me compared to the lack of hardware support in Linux. Currently Windows is still winning. Maybe when Windows 10 is out of support I will switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boris Johnson asked experts if you could kill Covid by blowing hairdryer up nose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Johnson has been vaccinated against COVID several times, and it was on the news at the time. The hot air thing was probably before vaccines were available, although this article does not make that clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, common tittle-tattle is now technology news?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britons have started handing in XL bullies to be put down, MPs told⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If banning does not work, how do you explain the significant drop in attacks by breeds that are already banned, whereas XL Bullies, previously not banned, account proportionately for far more attacks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple will no longer fix the $17,000 gold Apple Watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The big luxury watch brands will service their watches for many decades; a Rolex will last a lifetime, if not longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russell Brand admits ‘extraordinary and distressing week’ and floats media conspiracy over sex assault allegations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He has brought it all upon himself, by his past behaviour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I had not seen that particular accusation from “Alice”, but the story is evolving and there are many people coming forward with different allegations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keir Starmer set to reject EU overtures to join revamped bloc as 'non-starter'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is tricky. My assumption was the opposite, that this would help Labour win the next election, which is why Starmer is doing it. But what do I know?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AITA for missing my brothers gender reveal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, simply declining an invitation because of a prior engagement now warrants engaging the AITA collective social mind? Get a grip!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully support them being illegal, why would you think that would be bizarre to me?

  I merely pointed out, in the case of the 16 year old schoolgirl, she was not legally underage, no matter how shocking and disturbing we may find Brand’s behaviour, which I do. I don’t think she has made any claims of rape or assault against Brand, but others have. I don’t know what laws, if any, apply to his treatment of her, but I don’t think underage sex is one of them.

  If we think something is already illegal when it isn’t, then it reduces the incentive to change the law - why make something illegal when you already think it is? Possibly the UK needs new legislation to vary the age of consent depending on the participants, as in other states.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  16 is not underage in the UK, where this is alleged to have happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 59% of the National Grid's electricity demand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I should sleep more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not sure. This was mostly a case of human error in not properly securing urls/storage accounts. The lack of centralised control of SAS tokens that the article highlights was a contributing factor, but not the root cause, which was human error.

  If I leave my front door unlocked and someone walks in and robs my house, who is to blame? Me, for not locking the door? Or the house builder, for not providing a sensor so I can remotely check whether the door is locked?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And take a huge risk of not winning the General Election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Road casualties have become normal in Britain. But there is another way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The B roads the poster mentions are very likely rural and not residential, which default to the national speed limit of 60 mph for singe lane roads. Residential roads in the UK are usually 30 mph, sometimes 20 mph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No evidence that UFOs are aliens — NASA attempts to make conversations about aerial phenomena more scientific⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So much time and money being wasted on pseudoscientific bunkum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Several Lemmy iOS apps look to have left TestFlight!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anarchy revealed inside prison-break Wandsworth jail where prisoners call the shots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone fancy a day-trip to Wandsworth Prison Museum?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing Prisoner Daniel Khalife arrested by police in Chiswick, West London⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Super solder” is such a niche super power to have - he can fix your circuit board up, lickety-split.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. Do you have a source for that, please?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it seems to be trendy to use this as a reason to switch to Firefox, but surely you can just totally disable this new feature in Chrome? The article even tells you how to do this. I guess people are switching as a protest?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lords to debate mandating swift bricks in new homes in England⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more expensive, and how would you guarantee that it had been sustainably sourced?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  All of that applies equally to aeroplanes and boats. I don’t see how a car is any more like a helicopter than e.g. a small aeroplane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The flying car completes first ever inter-city flight (Official Video)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How is a helicopter remotely like a car?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Selects Geology Team for the First Crewed Artemis Lunar Landing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No one on this geology team will be going to the moon, they are not astronauts. There are no geologist-astronauts on this first mission. This was one of the criticisms of the Apollo program, especially from scientists. Harrison Schmitt is the only geologist to have been to the moon, on Apollo 17, the last Apollo mission, in 1972, and he is the last person to have walked on the moon.

  I hope in future the Artemis programme sends more geologists to the moon for some proper science and not just trophy collecting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Museum curator, 56, sacked after gold jewellery and gems worth tens of millions disappeared was world authority and one of institution's 'Monuments Men' who helped fight international looting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I could not find this story on the BBC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Total War. The campaign is turn based; although battles are real-time, you can auto-resolve them instead, which will remove any real-time elements from the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you? Can you move?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “If a person is resurrected” then they are Jesus, or proof that there is an after-life, and miracles do happen. On the other hand, people are *resuscitated” all the time by modern medicine.