user224

@user224@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I received a used product that was advertised as functional, but is defective, and now I feel bad about talking to the seller about it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps worse (like paying extra money or installing provided malware (at least seems like it based on VirusTotal)).

  I’ve checked the official guides. They’re awful as hell. They use some random programs, which are provided on there as exe files. Considering that the one I checked makes VirusTotal blink like a Christmas tree, they’re probably not good. Mind you, the card was still taped in with warranty void sticker.

  For restoring the image, they provide disk images as .pmf files, which I have trouble finding information about.

  They also talk about file access over SMB and SFTP. All is well, except that they show you to log into your router to find the device’s IP address to connect to it. Meanwhile, it responds to mDNS for emuelec.local. They don’t even know their own products? Right, they just copied FOSS software and sold it.

  Worst part now. The provided software to browse the SD card will mount it read only. As people report in YouTube comments, they had to pay for a license to mount it read-write and modify configs as the official guides follow.
  Guess what that is doing.
  Mounting ext4 on Windows. That’s it. Paying money to use ext4.

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• I received a used product that was advertised as functional, but is defective, and now I feel bad about talking to the seller about it
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨rant@lemmy.sdf.org⁩ | ⁨3⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From a deal on racknerdtracker.com (so RackNerd as the name suggests).
  But their panel is a bit limited. If you want a custom OS that isn’t provided, you have to open a ticket with them to get an ISO mounted. You can also boot into recovery environment, but that is outdated minimal installation of Debian 9 without working APT. I was still able to use it to install Arch Linux from bootstrap image though. I just had to decompress it on my PC, create a temporary partition for it and scp it over.

  And I am again mentioning Arch. It comes naturally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  racknerdtracker.com keeps all the deals that don’t expire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. And that’s without whois privacy.
  .com .net .org .us .me are $24.95/year
  .meme is $24.99/year
  .io is whopping $69.00/year

• If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations?
  Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨98⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  cupholder.exe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, but the argument above was for a regular user, who doesn’t know what Rufus is, who doesn’t know the concept of OS, who simply knows thinks the files are saved “on the computer” (while they somehow ended up on OneDrive).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I said personal experience. It could be individual.

  But I am not flexible enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Still, that’s just a theory, needs confirmation by personal experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Open Camera. Also let’s me select audio source, and there’s “unprocessed option”. Usually needs tune up with audacity to increase volume, but my phone’s audio processing sounds like 8kbps MP3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take the L 🐟⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You are both wrong. The salmon is silent, because it’s a fish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aspirations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The picture often looks better in viewfinder than when I finally snap it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Okey dookie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Learning Japanese⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nemecko
  Nemý

  Never realized that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about more extreme cases, say Castaway (movie) type situation. Stranded on an island in middle of nowhere.

  But conveniently, one of the packaged has a functional 2m battery powered radio and a Yagi too. There’s no one you can make contact with, except… the ISS.
  What if the ISS was the only station you could contact?
  “Hello International Space Station, I am stranded on an island after a plane crash. Can you help?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but surveilence child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked a lecturer some question, I think it was what happens when bit shifting signed integers.
  He asked an LLM and read the answer.
  Similarly he asked an LLM how to determine memory size allocated by malloc. It said that it was not possible, and that was the answer. But a 2009 answer from stack overflow begged to differ.
  At least he actually tried it out when I told him.

  But at this point I even had my father send me an LLM written slop that was clearly bullshit (made up information about non-existent internal system at our college), which he probably didn’t even read as he copied everything including “AI answers may be inaccurate.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have similar issue with Google.
  At some point I used to use Google Photos backups. I wanted to delete the backed up files, but there’s no way to do that. It would also delete them from the devices.
  And I guess it checks them based on hash, because even in the main view it always figures out where the files are currently stored, if on device, even after I moved them elsewhere. Otherwise these other images only show up in their respective folders, not the main view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t even do that after 3 years back in middle school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you pick her up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I scroll a comment further, and there goes my thought, already laid out by another person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am European.
  Here’s an image I took on Friday:
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy: Beans ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or…

  37 posts
  326 comments
  Banned from 23 communities
  Joined 2 hours ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always re-start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vienam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends.
  I am in uni, so a bit different, but there’s many sites that allow access to articles, studies, books, etc. to us based on source IP. And I guess it could be hard to route only those, especially if some of them decide to use Cloudflare or similar.

  Another option is doing so for easier monitoring of work devices that people will always try to use for things they’re not supposed to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate it when this happens⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how many references I am missing daily.

  I’ve watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail, and then started seeing references to it everywhere.
  I read 1984, and then started seeing references to it everywhere.
  I watched Idiocracy, and then started seeing references to it everywhere.
  I switched to Arch, and then started seeing references to it everywhere, btw.
  etc…

  And it doesn’t stop. This has to mean I still keep missing many. I’d probably scroll past this comment if I didn’t see that label on some Adata drive, since they don’t seem to be that common in EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨that is crazy!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  *untars

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer up:

  1. I get to see if the water is actually leaving and stops flowing when it’s supposed to, which often happens not to be the case
  2. It’s easier to put it up than down for me

  No. 2 might not make much sense, but I don’t like touching the seat. It’s far easier to put it up with the side of my sole than do the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop filling, stop filling, STOP FILLING, STOP FILLING, gluck, oof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Putting my kid on adhd meds.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was on ADHD meds I was just sleepy. All the time. Sleeping during classes was worse, so that was the last time I had any meds.