Appoxo
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Usually a lurker. If you want to talk to me you can usually find me of Discord.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 1 day ago:
So has Twitter, Youtube, Insta, Facebook and Lemmy.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 1 day ago:
Both. Depends on what you want to achieve
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 days ago:
Peobably also comes down to not many softwares deciding to fuck with systwm files.
Recently had a borked Win7 -> Win10 install that was unable to keep the Win11 upgrade stable.
After an update and reboot it stopped working.Probable reason why: Some McAfee drive encryption driver embedded in the system files.
The drive wasnt encrypted. All files were externally readable by our backup software.
But removing the files from system32 borked the system and resulted in BSODs.Is it this invasive on the mac side?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 days ago:
Fully overwriting an SSD is so archaic.
Example from hdparm:
–trim-sector-ranges For Solid State Drives (SSDs). EXCEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!! Tells the drive firmware to discard unneeded data sectors, destroying any data that may have been present within them. This makes those sectors available for immediate use by the firmware’s garbage collection mechanism, to improve scheduling for wear-leveling of the flash media. This option expects one or more sector range pairs immediately after the option: an LBA starting address, a colon, and a sector count (max 65535), with no intervening spaces. EXCEPTIONALLY DANGER‐ OUS. DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!!I think the all caps warnings say it all.
This is only for the trim sectors of the disk but I can’t imagine it being much different overwriting a whole disk.
Not to mention, as OP said, an old and very used disk.
Quick formatting should be enough to prevent any normal user from extracting meaningful data from the flash storage as only the controller knows how to piece together the flash cells to a file.
If the controller forgets it, the files are toast anyway.
At best write some random data to a quarter of the disk or something lile that.File recovery may only be possible if you give it to a drive recovery facility. But remember: Those ain’t exactly cheap.
A client paid some 4 figure price because an HDD died. Just for a small amount of files. - Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 days ago:
Windows bad because I made a user error >:(
Hm…Weird way to shift blame.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
Really? I am using Firefox on mobile (Android) and I’d say it’s pretty much fine for most of what I use it for.
Plugins (DarkReader, ublock, TWP) work very well and the overall experience is totally acceptable.
Recently even 3rd party passkey support was enabled, stopping google from intercepting the requests. - Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
Wasnt aware of that. I believed they were an alternative to gitea, github, forgejo, sourceforge
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up to date, selfhosters? 6 days ago:
You alao could do the DNS challenge instead.
That way you wouldnt even need to publish port 80. - Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
If you know, why still use it?
Not like theres a bazillion other chrome browsers and you could probably use any other browser (depending on the add-ons you really need) - Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
Another git repository is hosted not on itself?
Seems like a weird choice.That’s like the CEO from Microsoft going on stage with a MacBook.
- Comment on FFmpeg moves to Forgejo 6 days ago:
YoForge
Read like “Science, bitch!”
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 6 days ago:
OP may was a bit too direct with the question but juat reading the question for what it is it’s just a request to know “What makes this important vs any other person doing the same?”
- Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 6 days ago:
Not what he has done right now.
I mean in general what makes him notable?
Is he an important artist, does he engage in something meaningful, etc. - Comment on Neil Young Leaves Facebook & Instagram Over “Unconscionable” Policies for AI Chatbot Conversations With Children 6 days ago:
It would help to know why one should care as not everyone is in the know what this person is about.
- Comment on Anyone tried cloud gaming? 1 week ago:
Well…The cloud is just another persons pc.
- Comment on Anyone tried cloud gaming? 1 week ago:
During the free time of Geforce Cloud (forgot the name), I tried the free tier.
It was neat but unremarkable.Also tried the offering from Microsoft to play Halo 5 on my phone with an xbox controller.
It was a bit laggy but still doable in the campaign.Nowadays I’m not so sure. Not even sure if my tries were so laggy due to my home infrastructure or because the datacenters were more far away increasing lag.
As per Youtube videos: Should be pretty neat if you can stomach the minimal lag - Comment on xkcd #3128: Thread Meeting 1 week ago:
Depending on the purpose of the account: Sometimes yes.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 1 week ago:
Wrong.
You can request deletion of archived pages. - Comment on Immich server is not reachable 1 week ago:
Anything helps. If we need more, we’ll ask for more ;)
- Comment on Immich server is not reachable 1 week ago:
Best way to solve it:
Reflect what you did and maybe post it here again.
But remember: We are like your parents/SO/friends/whatever and have absolutely no knowledge about what you did at home.So give us everything you can so we can acrually help you.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 1 week ago:
Arent their dGPU supposed to be pretty good?
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 week ago:
Gen Z sure do know about Roblox (as in heard of it).
It’s just that most either play(ed) Minecraft or never were fond of those games in general - Comment on Transgender, nonbinary and disabled people more likely to view AI negatively, study shows 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like confirmarion bias.
I’d like to know the industry sector they are working in.
I’d say a high amount of them work in Tech and IT. - Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 2 weeks ago:
The fact that the extended coverage is locked behind the windows account paywall is known for a pretty good time already…
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 2 weeks ago:
The default is to keep every file open (like notepad++).
Thing is: Most use it as a temporary clipboard buffer. So now you have loads of passwords on some computer or PII.
- Comment on Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives? 2 weeks ago:
Whatever floats your boat.
- Comment on Leaving GitHub. Music server alternatives? 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin
- Comment on Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way. 2 weeks ago:
Nope.
I am typing on a slab of the biggest AI alop search machine with a Captial G - Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 2 weeks ago:
Halo 1, 2 Reach
Animal Crossing (personally Wild World and New Leaf)
Mario Kart DS, Wii, 7, 8(D)
Bionicle Heroes DS
Art of Balance
Ghostrunner 1 and 2
Midtown Madness 3
Pokemon (Any gen)