It appears that since Win10 is no longer being supported my Microsoft, it is now more secure than Win11.
(yes I know that there will be huge security holes in Win10 that will never be patched, but right now!? It appears to be the better option)
I may have to give up on Debian with Linux-Surface on my old Pro4 and revert back to Win10.
I will keep Debian+Steam on my gaming machine though…
So literacy is improving; Up to 73% from 72% 3 years ago!
#SilverLining #Sarcasm
Is that a strategically placed shadow or is the minifig wearing underwear in the bathtub?
Don’t get me wrong, I do like the promise of USB-C. I have retrofitted USB-C sockets on a few of my legacy devices already, but we are heading back to a time of wondering if something would work and then having no idea why it won’t.
Most of it comes from manufacturers being cheap. A 5W USB wall wart costs less to manufacture than a 30W wall wart, which costs less than a 100W wall wart, but the difference in price is negligible compared to the difference in user experience.
Same with cables. Thunderbolt 3 cables are much higher quality than basic USB-C cables, but much more expensive due to economies of scale.
I only buy quality USB-C cables, (often as gifts for family members and friends who don’t know why their device isn’t working) but I have already thrown out as many cheap not-fit-for-purpose USB-C cables as Lightning, 30-pin dock, micro-USB and even mini-USB cables combined.
We used to wear helmets whenever we rode after witnessing a fatality on the Great Victorian Bike Ride when we were teenagers.
Dude had his helmet hanging on his handlebars, came off at speed and skidded on his head. When the Ambos came (they weren’t called Paramedics back then), he was still alive, but his brain was exposed.
We never wore our high-vis vests though, they were loose and would droop off our shoulders and we would get tangled.
There was also the story about the dad so was fooling around with his kids bike without a helmet in the back yard; fell over, cracked his head and died instantly; (plausible, but unproven).
World leaders need to laugh in his face and say “do you understand how tariffs work?”
At least we don’t have the problem of DB9 and DB25 being used for both serial RS232 and parallel data, amongst dozens of other protocols.
However we have come full circle with the USB-C form factor.
So is everyone’s fascination with LLMs.
If I want someone to tell me bullshit, I would prefer real creative, human generated bullshit.
“company merged with two US firms” Bloody Seppos.
The old adage “Take only Photos, Leave only footprints” has not been drummed into kids these days.
If the tent came back missing a single peg, we would get a hiding.
If our campsite has anything but leaves and twigs after we left, we would be sent back the next weekend to do an Emu bob.
We also cleaned up after each other because of the story about Everybody, Somebody, Nobody and Anybody.
I feel really old!
The equivalent tent nowadays would be $600-$1200
The bottom end is taken over by crap that I wouldn’t let my dog sleep in and the top end are for prosumer/competitive cross country hikers.
Mid range pricing is either cheap crap (rebranded by scammers) or last years model or expensive product.
This relates to camping equipment and also hardware and electronics.
The worse thing* is that now they will all be known as “Australian-style”.
We used to be known for our electoral system and a variation of the butterfly swimming stroke. Now we will be known for a lame-arse attempt to restrict people’s access to content “for the children”*
*this is not actually the worse thing about this legislation; it actually puts at-risk children at more risk.
With the number of people who use their phone on the toilet: they should start calling them PhoneRooms!
And they call them “Bathrooms”!?
I wouldn’t want to take a bath with that sort of compromised privacy!
I reckon that is one of the reasons. Lemmy’s (and the entire ActivityPub/Fediverse ecosystem/graph) attracts people with a positive, progressive attitude.
Advertising is based on passive attitude and thrives on negative attitudes.
There was a lot of negative being accepted (and sometimes actively pushed) on some instances, but most other instances defederated from them.
Not the only case of this happening; Corporate Social Media providers do not want the Fediverse to succeed at all.
Instagram (and Fascbook, and WhatsApp, and Threads) all censor references to PixelFed.
If you cross post, it is best to watermark your photos with your PixelFed address.
Mission Failed Successfully.
They were sent in to “Move Fast and Break Things”. (AKA ruin everything). They did succeed this goal.
Sorry mate, your Astroturf is not going to grow, no matter how much bullshit spread.
Who knows the second verse of the national anthem?
(I do) “with boundless plains to share”.
Hopefully it is delayed because they are extracting every terrible UI change they introduced in iOS 26.0