r_deckard

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Destination: Las Vegas

Ford car: "Visit Hard-on Henry's for hookers and blow"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd say you didn't actually remove the garbage. "Settings, apps, uninstall" doesn't really get rid of it, the deployment package is still hanging around.

You need to use powershell to de-deploy those packages.

It's a bit like the difference between "apt remove" and "apt purge"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There's always the Microsoft telemetry blocklist in pihole. If you can't stop the computer collecting the data, you can stop MS getting hold of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Do you tolerate the TPM/fTPM in your computer? Can you deactivate it? Can you query it? Can you tell it to do something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

The fellow who built my house in the early 1990s was thinking ahead. Dual circuits, one for lighting on 24VDC and one for power on 240VAC.

If you're referring to 5VDC circuit for USB devices, you can get GPO plates with USB power sockets: https://www.sparkydirect.com.au/power-points/usb-powerpoints

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've got a fire suppression system. An agricultural sprinkler on each of the two roof peaks, fed by a pump from storage tanks. We're off-grid (no mains) and already have the storage tanks - 2 x 22500litre/5000 gallons. With full tanks, the sprinklers should operate for ~7 hours, which is way more than necessary - three to four hours would be enough. The sprinklers "throw" interlocking circles of water, they intersect over the roof and saturate all the ground and foliage out to about 15 metres/50 feet. Water falling on the roof goes back into the tanks. The pump is electric, but being off-grd, we've got big batteries and a backup generator, so I'm confident the pump would run long enough for the fire to pass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And JPEG2000 is what's used in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - that's the file format used to distribute feature films. That's not going away soon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Firefox extension "easy youtube video downloader express" Silly name, great product.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

What I'd like to know is how the hell do they manage corrosion in all that salty air? Sure, the op centre is probably filtered and air-conditioned, but if there's one thing about marine environments, salt corrosion will happen, and you can't put 30 coats of paint on a floppy drive's components.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I was system operator for an IBM System/36 in the mid-late 1980s and that thing used two 10-slot magazines of 8" floppies for backup.

It was replaced in 1989 with an AS400 that used half-inch tape.

And that backup solution was replaced with an LTO library.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Didn't someone get Debian running on a Talos II workstation?

Granted, that's tinkering, but getting Debian to a workable state.

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