The switch 2 is overall a real bummer. I don’t understand why people are buying it, the only real “reason” is the exclusive games, but I’m happy to wait for emulation to be available. I can already play the original switch games on my steamdeck.

This article isn’t about that, so clearly you did not read the article.

I remember about a year ago, people, even here on Lemmy, were defending Starlink (mostly related to its effect on ground based astronomy) and arguing that the pros of the service clearly outweighed the cons. Is that still something that people believe?

We should have been funneling that money into expanding municipal fiber instead. It would have cost less, had less emissions, much less latency and much more bandwidth. If we genuinely need satellite coverage for remote areas, why are we handing billions to private companies instead of building public satellite networks? Why are we trying to escape the problems of shitty private telecom by turning to shitty private telecom?

Of course, we don’t live in a perfect world where our government is competent enough to not fall to corruption, and I don’t deny that Starlink has helped some people get connected that otherwise would never have fiber access due to remoteness or geography. But I guess my point is that many more people in general would have much more reliable internet access if it weren’t for the government funneling money to private companies for inferior service (such as Comcast and Starlink).

I’m lucky in the sense that it didn’t prevent my county from continuing expansion, and my neighborhood now has cheap & reliable public fiber available. But many weren’t so lucky, and instead have their taxes being sent to Musk for a slow service that they can’t afford anyway.

I jailbroke my Kindle and use KOReader on it which made my Kindle 10x better. But you’re right in that I’d support mom & pop before Amazon.

I mean, that’s fair, but the 285k has a TDP of 250 watts compared to 120. In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that’s what these will be used for anyway.

For comparison’s sake, the EPYC 7702 is a 64 core (hyperthreaded) server CPU, and it has a lower TDP. The 285k’s TDP is absolutely bonkers.

Didn’t they do layoffs recently as well?

They could just ask me, I’d let them know when and where.

The party of “states’ rights”

Another vote for Mullvad.

In this vein, Google LOVES to hardcode their DNS into their apps. So, like you said, even if you use a different DNS provider, your phone will still be hitting Google servers.

Graphene is the way.

Sorry, I didn’t mean package pickup. I meant like ordering from the supermarket, for curbside pickup, for instance.

I don’t necessarily do it for all online purchases, but I definitely do it when I can pick it up myself.

Criminals targeted our customer support agents overseas. They used cash offers to convince a small group of insiders to copy data in our customer support tools for less than 1% of Coinbase monthly transacting users. Their aim was to gather a customer list they could contact while pretending to be Coinbase—tricking people into handing over their crypto. They then tried to extort Coinbase for $20 million to cover this up. We said no.

Don’t forget Crazy Erik’s in Bremerton!

slightly off topic but the first time I got “stuck” in a black hole on SpaceEngine was scary as fuck

Does commercial drone flying pay well? I’ve been thinking about getting my part 107, mostly for wikipedia and OSM contributions though.

Yeah, but worth it for important backups since they take a long time to degrade!

I still use them (in M-DISC blu-ray form) for encrypted backups.

Who could have predicted this?!

In no way does Signal prevent conversations from being archived. For all you know, a recipient could be screenshotting all of your messages, and they could even be using the official app when doing so.

If you don’t trust your contacts, probably shouldn’t be messaging them anything sensitive.