https://zipline.diced.sh/

I wonder if someone will be able to actually remember that during duress

My home alarm has a duress password but I’m never able to remember it

Fun fact: tencent removed any kind of cloud backup from WeChat, even if that data would be so valuable for ai training. Or they could monetize it by having users pay for storage. Probably they got fed by too many government access requests. Btw I’m sure that the ccp is simply siphoning all the unencrypted chats (the app of course doesn’t offer any kind of e2ee) at the server or network level and doing automatic “backups” in real time for every citizen

Why windows 11 silently and automatically sends back to Microsoft servers the decryption key for bitlocker?

Why WhatsApp is asking every fucking month to enable unencrypted “backups” on Google drive?

Users have the convenience of Easy data recovery but also someone else.

Where’s the AI? It seems to be “if it moves, then it’s a target”

I use cachy on my laptop but I wouldn’t call friendly an arch based distro that during setup asks the user “which of those 19 desktop environment do you want? Choose wisely only one”

It doesn’t even have a gui to install new software (at least, I am not an expert, I chose hyprland and it didn’t install that, and when I manually installed KDE Discover and the GNOME software manager, they only show and install flatpak apps - but because I’m not an expert I might have messed something up)

There’s a chance it will happen outside the USA.

Deciding to send to the landfill every PC sold after 2018 is a decision that they saw analyzing only numbers from big American corporations. “Anyway they lease the computers and have a refresh every 3-5 years”

But the rest of the world?

Here in Italy I still see people on Windows 7

When I traveled in southeast Asia I saw people using windows XP

Or Brazil, where the import taxes make a windows 11 compatible PC ultra expensive

Regular people and small businesses , especially outside the USA won’t simply buy a new PC just because Microsoft and Intel needed the line to go up.

afaik the lidar data is crunched locally, then sent to the remote server for easy consumption

when those vacuums are flashed with valetudo, they can still make the map with lidar without internet connection

I bought a drive like that from Amazon Germany for that price, found it using diskprices.com. It was “brand new” and indeed the smart reported 0 hours, but it died within a few hours when I sent a dd wipe operation to stress test it.

Conclusion: it was a scam, the drive was already dead and had thousands of hours of life in a server. They used some low level diag tool to reset the counters and make it look like new instead of having 50k hours of life

Fun fact: they shipped it in a paper mailer, completely inappropriate for an HDD. Probably in this way they can blame Amazon warehouse “it’s them, they packed it like that!” if someone reports is as DOA. If instead it still works after 50k hours of 24/7 abuse and shipping it across Europe in a paper mailer, then it’s indestructible and will outlast the user.

Not every night but twice a week I got social pressure to go to the bar to drink. I hated it because those were eight perfect hours that could be used for playing with my PC 🤓

Nowadays I couldn’t afford it anymore even if before I was a broke student and now I have a job

Why this people never get cancer or horrible accidents?

no but i mean that if the user internet is down, the same problems would came out

The fix is investing in redundant internet at house from multiple providers. Satellite+fiber and achieve 99.99999% uptime so the bed won’t Crash and allow you a good night of sleep.

Because it’s unacceptable to send commands directly from the phone to the bed located in the same room, they need to transit between a dozen server farms to gather the delicious telemetry

Also: local=no subscription and that’s so bad

As an user that paid for windows home server, why windows home server 2(011) was a complete failure

1. Updating to whs2 required a full wipe - unacceptable by everyone
2. Updating to whs2 required to pay full price and not upgrade price - lol
3. The system drive wasn’t covered by redundancy and you would lose all the settings if the drive died
4. The data drives also couldn’t get any kind of redundancy as they REMOVED the feature from the server and moved it to clients! What the fuck? It was the main selling point! Easy raid for everyone. What’s the purpose of the “home server” if it couldn’t pool drives, while the clients with Windows 8 home instead could set a massive, redundant, pool of 10 drives???
5. They removed the useful feature that backed up automatically all the windows computers in the network
6. They removed the basic features like the media gallery and such, to see that you would need windows media center… but 6 years after they killed windows media center

They had the right product at the right time. No other free or paid alternative was that user friendly in allowing laymen in mixing and matching multiple disks and having redundancy

Doing that with pure Linux command line at the time it was inconceivable for 99% of users (at most a raid1 with mdadm over two drives could be easily attained) and windows home server initially was an alternative but Microsoft was completely misguided and “improvements” in Windows home server 2 completely killed it

Then they added docker support and it was even easier to self host everything.

But if they tried to launch today, with how mature are free alternatives, they would never reach critical mass adoption to be sustainable.

For example, I don’t think that the paid fork of truenas that LTT has economically backed is going to be successful

That seems nice, it’s even on gog

That sticker “pressure tested” on the camera housing is not lying

They seem to not care, some methods are even server side, they could have patched hwidgen a decade ago

Yes the stores are filled to the brim with low effort mobile games ad viewers

Even in China, where you’re basically forced to login with mobile (+ otp verification) for almost every service, there’s no such requirement for downloading apps from app stores