Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on ADVICE: Running out of storage 21 hours ago:
I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany, it was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died halfway during a dd wipe operation within the “first” day of life.
Conclusion: the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life
Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 21 hours ago:
Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓
Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job
- Comment on Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really. 3 days ago:
Why this people never get cancer or horrible accidents?
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
no but i mean that if the user internet is down, the same problems would came out
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 4 days ago:
The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won’t Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.
Because it’s unacceptable to send commands directly from the phone to the bed located in the same room, they need to transit between a dozen server farms to gather the delicious telemetry
Also: local=no subscription and that’s so bad
- Comment on do it cowards 6 days ago:
Because now you need an app to know if you have diarrhea
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 1 week ago:
As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure
- Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
- Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
- The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
- The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
- They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
- They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center
- Comment on Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? 1 week ago:
They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy
Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it
Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.
But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.
For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 1 week ago:
That seems nice, it’s even on gog
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:
That sticker “pressure tested” on the camera housing is not lying
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
They seem to not care, some methods are even server side, they could have patched hwidgen a decade ago
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
Yes the stores are filled to the brim with low effort mobile
gamesad viewers - Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
Even in China, where you’re basically forced to login with mobile (+ otp verification) for almost every service, there’s no such requirement for downloading apps from app stores
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Those fingers are definitely human fingers
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
Here’s is how to get 3 extra years for free: massgrave.dev without Microsoft account login
- Comment on Built to last 1 week ago:
I bought it 20 years ago it was already yellow lol
- Comment on Built to last 1 week ago:
Probably it’s like the Nintendo 3DS, the user facing clock is just an offset to the official internal timer, so when the user changes time, it’s just an aesthetic change and has no effect to time/date game unlock mechanics (mostly lPokemon games). When CMOS dies, internal clock resets to 1970, a clearly invalid date where all the signing certificates are invalid, and the user can’t set internal clock without hacking the console
- Comment on Built to last 1 week ago:
To be fair, there are tio many arcade boards from that exact era that have draconian DRM measures where if the CMOS dies, the decryption key is irreversibly lost, and it becomes ewaste
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 2 weeks ago:
but they need to show the shareholders that they can also have the “move fast and break things” style of updates like tesla that pushes ota updates automatically without user consent
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
It might be the same situation of me. I’m not a fascist and I use hyprland, I just was unaware until now.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
And can only use that 15% off in their boutique store where stuff is more expensive than other outlets
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
9.5 years is ancient for smartphones, not for something that is supposed to work indefinitely like a switch
Also, that time is the best case scenario. When they stopped selling those switches? 3 years ago? Unless they discontinued them almost immediately after launch, there are customers with a much shorter timeframe
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I read the title as "Logitech will bring new smart home buttons on October 15” and I thought “hmm new proprietary iot shit, I wonder when they’re going to brick them”
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
ah you’re right, ruffle documentation isn’t clear if it can open fla file instead of the compiled
- Comment on Sora AI Slop is here 2 weeks ago:
And of course the description of that insta post is the usual bot scam
Get your Amaz0n g!ft card from my bí0
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
Even in 2004 using adobe flash to control some industrial system was an ugly hacks
When the developer cares way more design than function
I saw some ultra fancy quotation tool that was simply a PDF with JavaScript, and it would just open adobe reader in full screen. Yes, you made it so fancy because you could use complex vectors in the background and multiple pages, and by doing this the fancy UI part was done way faster, but good luck maintaining that mess over the years
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
Ultra bad advice, flash player was installed at system level and it opens a huge security gap on the system (although I think it would not install at all in modern systems)
Plus when it calls the adobe servers, it downloads the “final” update which automatically disables/uninstalls it
Alternative interpreter: ruffle.rs/downloads
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
with the new system, you must go online to check if the license for that app is still valid or revoked. But the current system works almost the same: if there’s an internet connection play protect checks the signature against an online malware db and prevents installation.
From a couple years ago, google has the power to remotely install/uninstall any apk on your phone without your consent
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 weeks ago:
yes, of course malware is distributed via apk.
But what’s the difference between:
- malware that signed anonymously and then, when its signature is identified, it’s removed via play protect
- malware that is signed with a stolen identity and then, when its signature is identified, it’s removed via play protect
?
Does not change anything for malware distribution, except bother them for a dozen minutes meanwhile they “verify” their stolen ID