FriendOfDeSoto

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[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

If you can't read Japanese, one of these options disqualifies itself. You used euros a a currency so you're probably on 220V or thereabouts and the Japanese one will not be. But I don't know if you could recycle older switch 1 cables and the dock if you have those already.

The EU model will probably not be hot swappable and what I heard on the rumor mill you'll still need to unscrew the back of the console. The idea is that users can replace the battery so the manufacturers can't drown it in glue or use proprietary fastenings unless they provide you also with the tools. But it won't be like mobile phones when Nokia was the shit.

In the interest of longevity of the device and to save yourself a possible inflated battery replacement bill in the future, I'd get the new EU version.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is an etymology section in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk but it will leave you disappointed unfortunately. It's a lot of could be this or could be that but mainly eff knows.

A word of warning about Ente: I chose them as what I thought would be a good alternative to Google Photos based on a thread like this about a year ago. I've had nothing but trouble with them to the point where I can say the only thing that works is the automatic backup function. That's not nothing but also none of the fluff on top they say they can do. Sharing is a nightmare, especially if it includes videos. They don't have the server capacity of a multinational tech conglomerate so they offload a lot of processing onto your devices. If you don't always get the latest and best phone and use older laptops etc. I would not sign up for them.

I share your view on humanity. I'm glad you said something. Tone is tough to transport online.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I should have added /s.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Voting is better than not voting in my opinion. That being said, this is a topic I would not throw to the internet to help you decide. The way you have written your post you're opening yourself up to a lot of partisan replies from the good people of both sides that will probably not aid massively in your decision making process.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

From my Monday morning armchair, I think it's a fair assumption that their business was already in a downward trajectory. The automobile industry used to be the plow horse of the German economy and plenty of businesses down the supply line have suffered for their inability to move with the times and ditch internal combustion engines. Automobile gets a mention in passing but thanks to various more or less elected madmen doing their mad things in various crises on this planet I doubt any of the other fields mentioned were putting them in a better position. So either they were dumb about their IT security or the diminished security was due to their economical situation in a confounding clusterfuck.

I find it fascinating to think that you could ruin a competitor now simply by hiring a ransomware as a service outfit. If you know they're on the ropes, they probably cheap out on IT. Send the bitcoin fueled North Koreans in and soon you can buy it up for cheap. I don't think that's overly paranoid to consider today.

Wait a minute... ಠಿ⁠_⁠ಠ

It's probably worth paying attention to this to see what information they release eventually. However, if there was indeed a hacker attack of some sort, it was probably illegal to do, and it's also very possible that their infrastructure wasn't up to par and they were aware of that - these are just two legitimate reasons why they were counseled to be tight lipped about this at this time by the police or their lawyers respectively.

Since there is a power imbalance, I would not put much stock in praise like that. People not wanting to leave, not calling in sick a lot, not going to HR to complain are probably some better indicators, with the caveat that every job is different and those are not universally applicable criteria.

The gained advantage in your theory lies in drivers being unaware that they're being "scanned." They are not doing a great job at hiding this then, are they. A motorcycle could evade this all together, a car might also be able. And the solar panel could better be used to power a camera and/or a license plate reader if they wanted to know who is passing.

I'm sure if we put enough lab coats on the task they can come up with a system that can ID a model by the reaction in the coil. But at what cost? A light switch is cheap. A light switch that can tell who is using it surely isn't. And why go to this length and not just do the cameras? Ockham's razor.

You're answering your own question.

[–] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For an immediate fix try "00" in place of "+"

In North America it may be "011"

And either way, followed by the phone number omitting any leading zero on the area code.

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