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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New UEFI vulnerabilities send firmware devs industry wide scrambling⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PXE, or network boot. It is basically never used (and rarely enabled, if ever, by default) by the individual, but can be helpful in, for example, a large scale OS deployment. Say IT has to get their corporate image version of Windows 10/11 installed on 30 new laptops. They could write a ton of flash drives, but it'd be easier to just host a PXE boot server and every laptop just listen to them.

  V6 specifically in that instance would just be for the reason of "we need to move away from v4 anyways"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you not ever have to have a controller plugged in the host and Link per player? That's a quirk I've faced using my laptop as the Steam Link device, streaming from my desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How reliable is the mobile service, and how much are you paying for it? I've found Tmo shoddy at best for anything more than my phone...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tv box recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's annoying. Part of the reason for local media is reducing the amount of monthly bills

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tv box recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What's the state of apps like kodi or other methods of local streaming on Apple TV?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tor Project removes relays because of for-profit, risky activity⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Selling the data, presumably

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alphabet's monopoly is bad, make no mistake.

  But they aren't controlling all electronic means of communication for 90% of the continental United States, as AT&T did in the ma' bell and pa' bell days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you browse to a website, your browser passes info about itself to the server hosting that site. This info is intended to help the server provide the best rendering code for your browser. This is called your User Agent.

  However, Google is using it here to identify Firefox users, and is apparently choosing to lump them all in a box called "adblock users" instead of trying to identify an ad blocker more accurately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As others have said, don't buy TVs for their smart features. Just use a streaming stick. They are easier to replace as software changes, and there's practically no real benefit to ever putting a TV online in the first place.

  Also, LG panels are the best visual quality. You're doing good going the LG route. Just keep it offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be too late for that, but BOY do I have a bridge to sell you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been subscribed to the same family plan, since about 2014ish. I like it, but really don't appreciate that they raised the price for basically fuck all. Only reason I haven't canceled it is that creators I watch on YouTube get far more from me as a Premium user than ad-based viewership

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The restaurant nearest Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, an argument can be made that this is the evolution of the number of companies that used a variance of "AAA" to appear first in the phone books of old

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "Valleys" was the key word there. Even if the distance isn't bad, a mountain between you and the broadcast tower can make 20 miles look like 70 in terms of signal

  Source: am Appalachian resident

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm his biggest fan!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpopular opinion, but I thought his single, Oh Fuckles, It's Knuckles, was a masterpiece

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

  Congrats from across the pond. I hope we in the US might soon see similar figures...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity ...It Just Keeps Get Worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter 3.0?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I've seen the "Microsoft should just buy Unity" argument a lot lately. And while I think it's probably a better management than current, I imagine Microsoft is hesitant having only just come out of a, what, 6 month long legal battle in US and EU courts regarding acquisition of ActiBliz? So a good idea, but one I can imagine might not happen...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield (Zero Punctuation)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This may be controversial, but I think this is art least part ways intentional. People love to drag the main storyline of fallout 4 through infinite mud. But praise BGS on the small stories, the little things you get to see in random encounters, that sort of thing. And love the worlds.

  Perhaps this is just BGS finally leaning far more into "hey modders, here's a new base 'world', go nuts"?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The lengths we have to go to⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Import python.Joke.ShellProgramming()

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite tech podcast?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the same vein, Malicious Life is also good, though Ram is a bit difficult to understand.

  I also love Smashing Security and Having Humans for the news side of Cyber Security

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Leave it. The dumbass just keeps ignoring actual experts and ruining what was a decent-enough platform.