towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 15 points 1 hour ago

I'm amazed it's France before Germany.
But I'm also so happy that this is happening.
The greatest war in history and all the horrors behind it should never be forgotten/hidden/suppressed/rewritten.
Everyone commited atrocities in that war. Nobody is without stain.
Document it all, and make it all widely available

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If that threat actor is building the technology, then yeh any threat actor could.

The concern is the unknown unknowns inside the tech that might be controlled by said threat actors. So you can take all the precautions and add in resilience, but if it's all from the same threat actor then all that is moot.

So the resilience and precautions comes from buying from multiple sources. Even developing our own production for it so what's inside can be known and regulated securely

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but they've put a fancy canopy thing over it to make it look like a seewiz

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

To me:
Window seat has lack of shoulder room - bad.
Middle seat had 2 arm rests that I have to shrimp to rest my arms on - bad.
Aisle seat has 1 (bad) arm rest, but has shoulder and leg room - good.

I don't care about window seats AT ALL

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

This is my favourite movie

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

The planned obsolescence is most likely a deliberate trade off rather than actual planned obsolescence.

If fast charging did do significant damage to battery life and this was known at the time of implementation, the decision would have been "users want fast charging phones" Vs "users want devices that last a long time".
In this instance, the convenience of fast charging absolutely would have won.

"Users want a clear and easy to use device" Vs "users want a robust device". Which is why we all have glass screens, and the glass technology had to catch up to further expectations.

"Users want easy wireless connectivity" Vs "users want fast and reliable network speeds". WiFi wins, and has to catch up to further expectations.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I like the extra challenge that it's over water!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 59 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There is a statue in Glasgow that always has a traffic cone on its head.
The council regularly removes it, and its always replaced.
It's had different variations over the years, from pride to independence to EU flags.
The council proposed a renovation of the statue including raising the plinth to make it harder to replace the cone. It was shot down with massive public outcry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_the_Duke_of_Wellington,_Glasgow

[–] towerful@programming.dev 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I hear that the US has oil and WMDs

[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Um, akshually it's a DNS issue not a router issue.
I think.
It looks like a router issue. But it's always a DNS issue

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I installed endeavouros on my windows laptop.
The installer guided me through the partitioning, setting up systemd-boot, and it was all great.
I had to disable bitlocker in windows (not that bothered about) and secure boot in bios (also not that bothered about).

Ran smoothly dual booting both for about 4 months.
Then a windows update hit, and fucked the boot.

Thankfully, this is a common enough thing that there are plenty of tutorials out there.
A liveUSB of endeavouros, some tinkering, and I was back up and running.

The cause seems to be FastBoot, where windows keeps the boot partition mounted. What I think happens is that bios tries to read the boot partition, which is configured/loaded for windows (because it never cleaned up after itself due to FastBoot being on) and boots into windows.
Since turning off FastBoot, I haven't had any issues in the past 8 months.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Steam took the cap off the toothpaste tube.
Microsoft is giving the toothpaste tube a good squeeze!

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