BCsven

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

As a young teen scifi nerd I enjoyed the world, and tech he built in that book. I read the 600+ pages pretty quick. I think I was too young to critique it as a literary work.
The movie was absolute garbage.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LOL. Try the Quran, it has the same characters and same stories but written in a way that makes much more natural reading

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Did you miss the recent security blunder with Government security and Microsoft? They didn't want to tell governments of a secuirty hole in case it meant lowers sales.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Not sure if there is a lighter weight version, but I used to run wax on motorcyles, it came as a spray can and went on almost like a clear plastic coating. Game changer for chain maintenance

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Even if they don't send data, it is a treasure trove for a hacker to get. Such a terrible idea MS came up with.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

I found the opposite. Even my obsure printer that needed tons of windows tweaks and drivers just worked on Linux.

The only device that needed help was a 6-axis 3D mouse. Linux saw it as a mouse/tablet xy input. But Windows needs drivers for it to function. They had a Linux driver for it, so I installed that to get the 6axis working.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For now, until MS locks that downvlike they have with other things

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I realize that this era makes it difficult, but that is why I would be cautious in projects, like Rustdesk dev was obfuscating the chinese location, and blobs, so I have removed that. My phone runs GrapheneOS so things are sandboxed, my home electronics are either totally blocked from web access, or certain IPs restricted. And of course Canada US would try to compel, but we have more transparency here than CCP shinanigens. I'm just saying, everyone blindy installing Ventoy that has more blobs than source code, and possible mainland connection should not be

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (18 children)

if you search Chinese Police Canada (or USA) there are tons of articles that are way more in depth, and describe encounters, etc.

I added that link so people don't think I'm making it up when my friends house is getting door knocked by two CCP police.

It does not directly relate to Ventoy, it relates to why I would not trust a chinese product as we have first hand witness here in Canada of CCP harassing residents or forcing them back to china. There is that much control, even when they don't live in China, that if CCP wanted to have widespread spying they would just pick a dev with family in the mainland.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (20 children)

Canada had investigated and started to shut some down here. they had actual office front building setup as Chinese police station. Smaller places it was decentralized Chinese pokice. Downvoters should read the news links https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rcmp-chinese-police-stations-1.6862336

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I tried Kagi but it becomes paid. Stract is free for now, maintainer said it will need ad support or fees at a certain level of growth.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Read my other reply in this thread you will see why/how CCP oversteps boundaries, and why you don't trust blob code you can't verify

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