Theoriginalthon
@Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 1 day ago:
I actually want one country to ban VPNs just so every other country can see the fallout or complete lack of enforcement
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down 2 weeks ago:
Just wait until you get older, things that involve money get compounded, I made a decision at uni 2001 to not study ai, I decided bitcoin wasn’t worth it when that dude bought a pizza with it, bought a house too late and just before the financial crash. I did notice that bad shit was about to go down or at least the potential to at xmas 2019 with covid, not that there was much I could do about it. (Probably due to playing pandemic)
Most decisions in life are a gamble, and usually the odds are stacked massively against you, so don’t worry about it too much
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 2 weeks ago:
I can see ddr4 at that price not ddr5
- Comment on When Did VLC's Site Get Ads? 5 weeks ago:
Try actually downloading a binary, I only saw them after a download had started
- Comment on iPhone Pocket: $229.95 5 weeks ago:
Ah yes just what everyone needs an isock
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 1 month ago:
Just get a bit of plastic packaging or something similar. Cut thin long rectangle. Then cut a small chunk out near the tip to form a small hook. Scrape along the bottom of the port in all directions. Pull out fluff, then repeat until no more fluff comes out. Then go again as you won’t have got it all out even if it looks like it
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
But horses are measured in hands, average of 16 hands so 16000 hands, 8000 people. That’s like 1 electrical pixie per 11 people
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 1 month ago:
Anything but metric!
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 2 months ago:
Well the biggest steps I’m going to assume are having a satellite dish, knowing where to point it, knowing what to send, then hope that someone is listening. Much easier for a hooligan to throw a rock at someone or find a can of spray paint
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 2 months ago:
It’s probably hiding somewhere in the ribbon. I had the mispleaure of using word and outlook the other day, on someone else’s computer. Somehow I managed to save as an odt, somehow managed to attach end send it, only for the iPad not to be able to open the odt. Just said fuck it and went back to my lunix machine
- Comment on Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro? 2 months ago:
Just call it what it is fraud and a criminal organisation. Someone in the government or civil service authorised the payment for the goods after delivery. It’s not about returning the money it’s about sending a message, reclaim what you can an jail everyone involved. If this was anyone else for smaller amount of money and not linked to the government it would have happened already.
- Comment on wax on 2 months ago:
I assumed it was like cream separating from milk, only wax from honey, but to be fair I have never really thought about it much
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I was in hospital for a week with that once upon a time, would not recommend 1/10
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Not a doctor here, if it’s warm to touch it’s an infection, draw a line around it in pen with a time and day, then In a couple of hours do it again. If it gets bigger, starts leaking puss or fluid got see a like now.
Source: had a couple of skin infections before
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 months ago:
It’s also kind of squished on some racking, and with it been a 4u rack case full of HDD it’s quite heavy. If you have made it this far in to the garage, you not only have done well but passed the beer collection and numerous cordless power tools. It also has a sign saying beware of the leopard.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 2 months ago:
Door lock and house alarm, also mines at the back of the garage with plenty of more easily stealable things in front of it.
- Comment on yin yang 2 months ago:
For further maths at A level we started with about 10 people, one “normal” maths class and one statistics class later, we had dropped to 3 people
- Comment on “Filling a Gap in the Market: Genetic Modification of a Carrot with a Flared Base” 2 months ago:
Farm to table or farm to anus
- Comment on CATL says next-gen sodium-ion battery supports 500 km range, readies for 2026 mass production 2 months ago:
But it’s all stupid people and marketing people understand more=better cheaper=better. I think it’s why ev adoption has been so poor, questions I get asked are what’s the range like? Doesn’t it take forever to charge? And aren’t they really expensive?
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 3 months ago:
You could but you know there is nsfw content right here on Lemmy
- Comment on What I host myself 3 months ago:
Depends what you mean by “security”
- Comment on What I host myself 3 months ago:
Out of interest what are you using? I was postfix/courier for a long time, with a must migrate to dovecot 10 years ago. Finally migrated this year and the performance difference is noticeable
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 3 months ago:
It’s like that time they tried to ban torrent sites, sure a few will fall, however more or more will rise up.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 3 months ago:
It’s not guns that are the problem, it’s bullets, just ban selling bullets, let everyone keep there guns, problem will sort itself in a year or 2
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 3 months ago:
Industry first to use this specific part in this specific way
- Comment on Remote Learning Accidentally Introduced a New Danger for LGBTQ Students 4 months ago:
As soon as the kids are the school find this out I guarantee every single one of them will write queer or trans on the laptop, the system will get flooded and they will have to stop
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 4 months ago:
Have you tried been a spambot?
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 4 months ago:
Wtf are all these rules that I didn’t agree to when getting a bank card?
- Comment on Cybercrooks use Raspberry Pi to steal ATM cash 4 months ago:
They hooked a raspberry pi up to the network switch. At this point i think they fucked up security pretty bad
