Also, wipe your hard drives before you throw out computers. Folks throw PCs out all the time in my office building, and I pick them up to refurb and ‘freecycle’ them. More than half the time, I’ll plug it in to see if it will boot it up, and the drives are still intact, and loaded up with personal data… Then I plug in my DBAN USB stick and wipe the drive(s) 3x.
In military jets that can fly vertically, it’s because the engineers prioritize performance and capability over efficiency. Passenger planes prioritize efficiency over acrobatic ability.
As a consultant, my superpower is having read all the READMEs that come out for the software I specialize in, and re-reading them each time a customer calls and complains about a specific bug on an old version of the software.
Wasn’t it reported that he was ‘killed’ previously, but resurfaced days later? And really, would you be stupid enough to get on a plane to Russia and declare it on a form, or would you swap places with someone on another jet?
I mean, knowing who he is and who he pissed off, I wouldn’t want to be in the same 1km wide grid square as this guy.
Monterey still gets security updates. :)
Really? I just handed down a 2017 MacBook Pro – still supported by Apple, meaning it runs the latest OS, and gets patches.
Can you give me an example of any other device with longer software support from the original vendor, at no cost to the end user?
Uh, in what world does this guy think he doesn’t owe you for the parts you gave him?
But they were restoring all my posts and comments for weeks after I deleted them.
This is what Superchargers are. The snag is that during busy weekends, the batteries eventually hit zero, and everyone is capped at 72kW, because that’s what the AC/DC transformer can provide.
Uh, no. A decent UPS is $300-500, and replacement batteries can be had for under $100, and if you keep the unit cool and clean, batteries should last 3 to 5 years.
Also, if your UPS has 12V 7Ah batteries, you can sometimes find 12V 9Ah batteries in exactly the same form – so you get slightly longer run times after you replace the batteries the first time.
This is dumb anyway - nobody is going to pump 1MW into a car, the grid can’t support it, never mind a supercharger-style station with between 8 and 20 plugs. A 20-plug Supercharger needs around 1.5MW to serve each station with 72kW.
And really, when I’m on a road trip, after 3h in the car, I need a break that’s long enough to hit the bathroom, grab a bite to eat, and stretch my legs. The car is usually charged to 90% in under 45 minutes anyway, even if I roll into the charging station at under 5%…
Spez thinks that redditors are junkies who are hooked and can’t leave. It was easier than I thought it would be to leave. I only log in once a week for 5 minutes to delete any posts or comments they’ve restored against my will.
I call this attitude “outrage porn”… There are people that are addicted to it and ready to believe anything that makes them angry. It’s even more sad than the ‘hot milfs in your area’ ads.
I’m going to test blocking YouTube for having unskippable ads. :)
I’m truly surprised there hasn’t been a successful YouTube competitor in the last decade or so.
I suspect the problem is that people wouldn’t even pay a penny per video to content creators. From what I’ve seen of other competing video sites, there’s a really serious moderation issue stopping them from wide adoption… So many of the competing sites are full of flat earth / anti-vax / pro-fascism content…
It still exists? Weird. I played with it for like, a weekend, and that was plenty.
The best part about this is that the more they do this, the more it costs them. Every action, especially disk transactions, cost them money. Just log in every day, run your deletion utility, and cost them a couple bucks more for being pricks about it.
Oh, and I had a thought about their methodology - the screen recording software only works when it’s booted from the internal hard drive. Boot with a USB stick with a Linux live image, mount the internal drive as read-only, and you can copy the entire thing, and nobody will ever know.