cmnybo

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[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 5 months ago

It needs more information about what went wrong. That's about as useful as a windows BSOD.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Upgrade to Linux. It's free and not filled with spyware like windows.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago (12 children)

It's working fine for me. The onion site works fine too.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't even have a webcam on my desktop. My Thinkpad has a sliding cover on its webcam that stays closed when I'm not using it.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Just wait until someone trains an AI to recognize and skip ads.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You can zero out the free space on each partition then pipe the output from dd into gzip if you want to save space.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago

It's an Asrock board.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 5 months ago (4 children)

It's pretty ridiculous not to have a way of recovering from a failed update.

On my desktop, I just have to plug a flash drive with the BIOS image into a specific USB port and press a button on the motherboard. It doesn't matter if the BIOS is broken and it doesn't even require a CPU or RAM to be installed.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If I had a robot, I would want it to stay securely bolted to the shop floor. I certainly wouldn't buy one from any big tech company.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The LEDs will also fail from overheating. LED bulbs don't last long in fully enclosed fixtures that were designed for incandescent bulbs.

If the bulb starts flickering, that's usually a bond wire failure in an LED. When the LED heats up the bond wire loses connection and it will reconnect when it cools down again. The LEDs are in series, so if one fails, the entire bulb goes out. Flickering can also be caused by a capacitor failure in a switch mode supply, but most LED bulbs use linear regulators with a high voltage series string of LEDs now, which also increases the chance of a bond wire failure.

The early LED bulbs that cost a fortune had huge aluminum heat sinks to keep them cool. The few that I had all lasted until the LEDs got dim.

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 5 months ago

I always rip my CDs and blurays so I can stream them from my server. It's much more convenient and I don't have to worry about the disks getting scratched. The disks are only used as a backup or if I want to re rip with a different video codec in the future.

I will not buy digital media if access can be taken away from me.

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