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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

It is. There are two. Raspberry Pi Os, and Raspbian. The former used to be Raspbian. I still get them confused.

Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

If shit like this keeps going, soon my car is going to be homemade out of 2x4s and a backyard-forged 2 stroke engine, while I try to turn sand into chips so I can stay connected to the Internet...

No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Force of habit. I've been working with Pis for a while, long before the name change.

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No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

It's very easy to remove that and ask for a password on first boot. It could literally be one line in a shell script. They could put it in a text menu if they want to get fancy.

More professional (non-hobby) RP based devices probably aren't using stock vanilla Raspbian anyway.

Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 8 points 7 months ago

As a large language model, I've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty.

In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Looks like every time I try to play slot cars. Soon as I try to speed up and get crazy I fly off the track.

ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Me, an American, to my German cousin:

"So, yeah, I'm changing email addresses, here's my new one."

"Email? Are you using WhatsApp?"

"Er, no, how about text?"

"We all have WhatsApp."

"Okay, maybe Google Chat?"

"WhatsApp? WhatsApp."

Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Already got my NEW 12-core machine before prices go up, running Debian 100%. With my 25 year history of using Linux and pirating Windows, MS never saw a damn penny from me, and I'm proud of that fact. Not even an OEM license (all my laptops I ever had were work supplied and I build my own PCs)

The Starlink constellation hasn't increased for 4 months. Over 1,000 satellites showing inactive. NASA scientist says enormous amount of SpaceX satellites burning up could erode atmosphere killing us. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What in the Flat Earth Timecube Magic Healing Crystals Illuminati Chemtrails kind of post is this?

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡 in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah now they do. Back in the early 2000s, I only remember Ubuntu having just a single option to install everything needed to be up and running on first boot. Everything else needed some tweaking of configs and quite a bit of domain knowledge to get started at the time. It's what jumpstarted me into PHP development.

I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡 in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It was awesome back when during the install you could just select "LAMP", and a full stack web server suite would be automatically set up and configured correctly out of the box. But those days are long gone.