“Treat every computer like you’re in a library and the head librarian is stood behind you with someone in a very plain black suit next to them”

Pretty much another bit of “Don’t put anything personally identifying on the internet, you don’t know who wants that information or why, but you know they’ll be able to take it if they want to” kinda advice. (Thankfully haven’t learned that one the hard way, just heard it and now it’s stuck.)

The frame rate on high refresh monitors

I’ve got friends that say they can’t tell the difference, who’ve only ever used 60hz

Do you think there will be safe places on the internet?

If it’s connected, it’s accessible. Won’t matter what human level security we put in place when the datacenters these clankers run on have enough GPUs to brute force their way through.

Offline communication will make a resurgence, and will become indespensible when the resource wars the billionaires are funding reach the rest of the world.

Well. Shit. Now I’ve got no excuses.

Maybe it’s time to start taking baths instead of showers.

To be fair, the last multiplayer game I was massively into was Warframe, but haven’t been on that in years at this point (if No Mans Sky doesn’t count lol)

I’ll probably end up loading Bazzite just because gaming and general browsing online is all I use my rig for these days (I may branch into freecad at some point for the fun of it but we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it)

Heard good things about Bazzite, how does it work out with .exe game files off the internet etc?

Ive got a boat load of games that aren’t on steam/are from GOG or itch and run as their own files instead of being run off a service

After spending the past ten years or so being exposed to videos of Ukrainian, West Papuan, Hong Kong and Palestinian civilians being brutalized by their neighbouring countries, it certainly felt like a foregone conclusion that I was going to come across the video at some point.

It was one of the reasons why I left Reddit back in the day, their userbase’s obsession with posting, upvoting and even celebrating uncensored snuff shit (especially during the 'rona times when half the posts were people celebrating the deaths of antivaxxers and random members of the American public that’d fallen for the antivax propaganda.)

Even with the ‘this contains sensitive content’ filter being put on almost every insta post, one account straight up played it uncensored in the middle of a few memes, so now it lives alongside countless other fucked up things I’ve seen over the years of being online.

It’s almost like these social media companies know what they’re doing, and they’re doing it intentionally. For what purpose, I can’t begin to speculate on without either sounding like some kind of schizotypal tinfoiler, or diluting the real societal problems by failing to address the millions of issues that have compounded until we got here.

Hey linuxmemes, I’ve got a question, can I straight up install linux on a windows computer and have access to all my files as they’ve been laid out by windows, or am I going to have to use an external backup to move my files ‘out of windows’ and ‘into linux’?

Like I’m getting sicker and sicker of windows pulling their whole attitude of " Weve got an update for you, give us all your data. Give it. What do you mean “right to privacy”? That’s only for companies and billionaires."

Fuck this then. I guess I’m going for linux

So they’re using the same programs that the three letter agencies of the world have been using to crack phones since before touchscreens existed?

Unfathomably based

They don’t want to show both because that would show readers exactly when a couple thousand new accounts all start talking about one polarising topic to get everyone agreeing.

Ahh that makes a lot more sense

Cheers for the clarification

Oh nice one, that’s kinda cool

See I thought the curie temperature was a ‘one and done’ sort of deal where you have to go through the process of remagnetizing the magnet after it had gone beyond that point.

Not sure where they said they “did an entire presentation on this thing” or where they got their information from. I’m only adding some context to what I know of how thermostats work. I would gladly admit I’m wrong if provided with some evidence.

If you want a visual demonstration of a thermostat working here’s a video.

https://youtu.be/eRnYp8foJks

(For context I don’t mean to come across as one of those “well ackshually” asshats, I just like watching people take apart electronics (was also slightly obsessed with magnets as a kid. MANY hard drives were sacrificed to my curiosity lol).)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie_temperature I doubt they’re using magnets, especially considering how hot they have to get to lose their magnetism as you suggest.

Most thermostats in electronics such as kettles and cookers use a bi-metallic strip inside, where the two metal layers expand at different rates. The contacts in the switch are physically pulled apart by the strip bending when the desired temperature is reached. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimetallic_strip

I don’t know, everything I do could be silly, but it’s normal to me

Ah yes, thank you Times of Israel for your unbiased and fair look into the thoughts of the people fighting against complete eradication by the hands of the country you are propagandists for.

Wouldn’t that be the gpt user that posted this screenshot? Someone making some kind of “I’m getting back at those pesky AI companies by costing them money” … by pressing the "push to run a machine that burns the planet’ button?

Or worse yet, it’s an accelerationist willingly pushing the button.