Shdwdrgn

joined 1 year ago
[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

Putting the "dumb" in dumber. I don't know how people can be so wasteful. I mean when I buy a car, I expect to not have to take it in for work for a very long time. Imagine my surprise today when I went to get an emissions test and found out the back end of my exhaust pipe has rusted off. The last time I had any work done on it (other than oil changes) was before COVID, when someone hit me. I drove my previous (first) vehicle for 24 years before deciding I needed to get an SUV for towing capacity. Man if I had that kind of crazy money to blow on a cheap cybertruck, I'd be using it for donations or something. I can "prove" my worth by the smiles at the children's hospital.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, did I hit that one or what? And it's just so sad.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 25 points 3 weeks ago

At least the Delorian had character. You can't say that about this abomination.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 70 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

His whining at the beginning certainly had me wondering too.

And then there are the comments -- "There just haters there mad cause they can't afford one them self's..." Like really, did you even make it beyond third grade? And this is the kind of person who is sticking up for Cybertruck owners? Maybe there are a number of reasons why we point and laugh...

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 3 weeks ago

Are you sure this is new? I'd swear all the M-series iMacs I've ordered for work over the last few years recharged the keyboard and mouse through USB-C

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 13 points 3 weeks ago

Seems like a good opportunity to remind folks about the Kiwix project, which allows you to download local private copies of select information such as Wikipedia. It was originally created to provide offline access to content for countries that were otherwise blocked, but events like this have sparked some recent discussion about archiving older files to preserve history.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

That's a shame to hear, but yeah they've certainly changed since I signed on. Not that I expect any other to be better at this point.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's weird to see T-mobile taking this stance. I switched to them years ago because they were one of the few that supported unlocked phones, and even offered them for sale. Their policies might have changed on this, but I just bought an unlocked phone off Ebay this Summer and all I needed to do was pop my sim card into the new device. Hell I had to specifically install the visual voicemail app because there wasn't any bloatware on the phone when I got it. So I guess I'm not following what their complaint is about?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz -2 points 1 month ago

"For only $1000 in bitcoin we will decrypt your files until the next time we fsck you over."

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most of us can't afford the sort of disk capacity they use, but it would be really cool if there were a project to give volunteers pieces of the archive so that information was spread out. Then volunteers could specify if they want to contribute a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes of drive space towards the project and the software could send out packets any time the content changes. Hmm this description sounds familiar but I can't think of what else might be doing something similar -- anyone know of anything like that that could be applied to the archive?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 26 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Discrediting someone usually has a goal of pushing customers to another source though. There is no other source of this information, so what would be the point?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Just... wow. I don't even enable notifications that I've opened an email.

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