> I still use Btrfs because I know it is guaranteed to always be present on any Linux without any effort on my part.

Except RHEL. They don’t include it in their kernels.

Alma Linux started including it again though.

It can never be easy.

I think it’d really help on the highway with traffic.

I don’t need it all the time, but that doesn’t stop it from being useful.

I seem to remember being able to select all of the photos in iCloud in a browser and clicking download. It zips them and it worked.

I would imagine this doesn't work well after a certain amount of data. I’m also not sure they were the originals.

I think that I would get more enjoyment dropping $20 in the parking lot at a casino and seeing somebody excited to find $20 than going inside to gamble it away.

I was surprised that the “fix” for the failed storage module in my slim 4GB Xbox 360 was to tear it down and remove the storage module. It isn’t usually that easy.

I am also impressed they managed to use worse flash than the 15 year old $10 USB 2.0 drive I plugged in as a replacement.

Yes, it was one of those projects you see what you still have in the bin. Hey, this one is period correct!

unfortunately you need hot air for most slim motherboards if the 4GB NAND fails. only trinity revisions (early slims) have the pluggable module

Sounds like I won a lottery I didn’t know I was entering.

Most work for least pay is just business, I thought?

Beatings shall continue until morale improves.

I remember some panic and thinking I’ll just hope for the best.

With modern synthetics and my driving patterns, that is 1 jug for one of my cars, and 2 jugs for the other.

Maybe now wouldn’t be the worst time. It isn’t a lot of space wasted if I didn’t need it.

Wouldn't panic buying increase the problem for everyone else? Just like toilet paper in 2020?

I am using Tang and Clevis without a TPM on an Orange Pi 5. The key is stored on my Tang server. No TPM required.

It is either on my LAN with that server available, or you will need to enter a key.

It am only trying to prevent casual snooping if it goes missing from my garage though. Anybody more sophisticated can have my garage YouTube browsing history.

This. I'm not fighting against a state level actor. My concern is some crackhead burglar stealing my stuff and then my personal data ending up in the hands of whoever buys the stolen goods.

Exactly. Disk encryption simplifies a stolen device to a VISA problem.

As in, no problem, I will just buy another one. At these RAM and storage prices, maybe not.

In the last couple of years, my only contact with Zoom is the scam webinar invitations from month old domains.

At this point I probably wouldn’t realize a legitimate Zoom meeting was legitimate.

Wasn’t that was social media?

The risk of being punched in the mouth for your word choice dropped to zero, and suddenly all of these opinions were being shouted at anybody that would listen.

I suppose we can automate that sharing better now.

Yeah, the whole rise of the web has had that unfortunate side effect, but no one had treated it like a positive until now. Hell, Meta is showing off how to use their AI to jam up phone lines and bother call centers without having to spend time on the phone!

It’s unfortunate he seems to have gone around the bend, because there is so much that happens in our current unreality that reminds me of Mike Baron’s Nexus comic from the 80s. The “Trade War” storyline has the two competing marketplaces, run by Vooper and the other by a robot named Honest Crocus, get into an audio advertising war so all-consuming it winds up drowning out 911 calls and coming out of the plumbing when you’re in the toilet. Now we finally have the tools, we are going to make that happen along with a million other bad ideas.

It's not just that. Several social medias have evolved to the point where being a prick is mandatory or is rewarded. Chief example is X, where you get rewarded for agreeing with Elon; but see also the stereotypes of Reddit and Discord mods.

We have a ways to go before we hit zero, since we are inventing entire new ways to be a prick.

I think we are a year or so away from the first tik toks of humanoid robots walking up to people and punching them for views.

You could avoid it. AI slop is everywhere.

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