vanontom

joined 1 year ago
[–] vanontom@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

When relentless coverage of terrible people, and their insane words/actions, results in said people winning fair elections, I think the intelligence of the electorate might be the biggest problem.

But yes, that's beside the point, as is their growing mental illnesses and instability. The wealth/power they've been allowed to accumulate will always make them a danger/threat that should be taken seriously.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hope enough teams can band together and file jointly, combined with decent fundraising and fair lawyers.

Fuck these Unity execs and their ilk. I guess they need more motivation to run a business properly, and not be rampaging sociopaths and enshittification experts. Perhaps some lawyers and lawmakers can offer them some humiliation and fear of personally feeling the consequences of their actions.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The exact same thing was said about Reddit execs like Huffman. They never cared enough to compromise. We'll see if the Unity execs are similarly terrible people, whose greed will destroy the company. Seems like the trend these days.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to have to protest the fact that my cat's top two strategies of "throwing up" and "covertly pooping (for maximum smellz)" are not available.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yup. pats the old camera softly It should've been retired 5-10 years ago. Instead, it will work until death, like most things in "the richest country on Earth'". Sad.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stay Wendy's(R) Frosty(R).

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago

I used to love the WU app, it was beautiful and accurate. A few years ago I started noticing more and more puzzling changes, before I realized IBM had purchased them. They ruined an incredible app. Seems like they just outsourced development to lowest international bidder.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

Everything can be fine 97% of the time, but it only takes a second to get fucked up by a cat's razor-sharp claws or fangs. Then it takes weeks to heal. Fewer declawed cats now, too.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's... actually not a bad idea? Fleeing would solve as many problems for the country as anything. Would love to see him run to Putin or Kim or some other dictator idol; One for the history books! Unfortunately, he'll probably need more humiliation and losing to get to that point.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 2 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden has 2FA (for paid tier, like $10/year). I don't consider it "real" 2FA, but it's more secure than just a password, and super quick to copy code using browser addon. Useful for certain sites, that don't stay logged in, require every time, etc.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. I've only had one brand of SS/flash drive actually fail (ADATA UE700, and replacement). But most of mine seem to heat up very quickly, then soon throttle the speeds (probably to mitigate further heat or death). The T7 will be my first portable SSD for larger backups, and I hope it handles heat much better.

I am/was using mostly WD Passport HDDs for backups, which I disconnect and put in a safe. Shocked that this newest one has only 30 hours usage, very gentle handling (same as others), yet it's apparently failing. (So tired of worrying about tiny fragile spinning disks and mechanisms!) Will backup, and try deleting some files, hoping maybe it just hates being nearly full (about 70-80%). SMART data says it's healthy, but maybe would until it's too late.

[–] vanontom@geddit.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this referring to firmware?

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