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Mostly on my Lemmygrad and Hexbear accounts. But still like Lemmy.ml and the people on here. Not a liberal, conservative, or a fucking fascist! The masses need to wake up and see how much we have been and continue to be lied to by those that want us to stay dumb and hating each other!

  • I am guessing that (aside from getting rights to oil) the plan originally was for right-wing leaders, groups, and citizens to rise up and overthrow "the oppressive dictatorship." Then to "work with the new legitimate government" and send him back to Venezuela to be tried for "treason." Which I am sure would be execution, or have a big show about the lead-up before finding him have "killed himself to escape justice."

  • Seems like they should just make a movie that is only him doing dangerous stunts.

    "Hi, I'm Tom Cruise, welcome to Jackass"

  • If anything positive might come out of such a fucked-up level of open terrorism. I hope that it not only leads to the resolve of the people of Venezuelan people standing firm. And all of Central and South American nations to unite in mutual defense. Might not lead to a wave of jumping all-in on socialism/communism, but they all have suffered under the boot of the USA. Any nation that keeps placing USA interests above their own sovereignty only keeps things like this happening.

    The right-wing news outlets are already pushing for Cuba to be next. Literally nations that their talking points about "suffering under communist dictatorships" only happen because the USA is allowed to control how other nations can/can't trade with them. And any USA citizen and politician that can't wake the fuck up continue to have the blood of all other nations on our hands. This isn't just about Venezuela, it is also a massive push to further keep attention away from the active genocide that never stopped in Palestine.

  • Thanks for the link, I just voted for it! I am mostly on Windows for my main PC, but good to know for my Steam Deck and Pi.

  • “What happened to Maduro can happen to them,” he said.

    I hope that he and all the other politicians in the USA understand that this now gives the "okay" for the same to happen to them too. The USA loves to start shit everywhere else and we are groomed into thinking everything only happens in other nations across the world. 9-11 and even Pearl Harbor have shown that such false feelings of "no one would possibly attack USA homeland" are hubris. NATO is a thing, but if a NATO nation is the aggressor, the that Article 5 shit doesn't apply (to my limited understanding). And the other NATO states really need to stop placing themselves in the same agreements that lead to the first World War.

  • I am in the south region of the USA, so humidity is for sure something I need to be aware of. But I can bring it inside for periods of time if it gets bad enough before I print, and my filament is staying inside anyway. My dad also made sure I know where the propane heater is located for quickly getting the ambient temps well above good ranges for prints. Just have to make sure to be super aware of making sure to keep the side door cracked while I am inside and the other safety stuff. Won't be an issue in a few months once we finish a big sorting out and purging of other things in the room it will eventually live in. So glad I won't have to worry about summer humidity in addition to heat.

  • Even Reddit wasn't "popular" on the levels that it has been for over a decade. It is more about time and people finding it like they did with early Reddit (and Digg before that). New people will come as long as they see active instances and as more helpful (or even funny) posts/comments show up in search results. Kind of like how a lot of questions in search engines will show basically the same questions being asked on Reddit. Also Lemmy is a little bit confusing to new people that aren't used to how Fediverse/Lemmyverse sites work. Not very hard, but does feel a bit overwhelming since stuff they are used to are super centralized.

    For now most instances kind of feel like BBS/forums back in the 90s/00s, but with a Reddit (or similar sites) kind of layout/interaction style. Which I like since I had a lot of great times on old forums. The subs are still small enough to actually see familiar users show up and have better vibes on them. Though it does mean that new/niche subs have the chance of not getting enough people to get going, and have more people join and post new things.

  • Thanks! I will definitely make sure to give it a chance to get warmed up slowly before my next print. Once the space frees-up in the house, the next step will be putting an enclosure together for fumes (and get a dryer/heater for filament).

  • Thanks for the reply! Would have been pissed if I bricked it thinking it would be okay without asking around.

  • The extent that pigs will go to in order to put literally anyone away should cause everyone to want to revolt/hunt all the fucking pigs. Too many people are completely fine with giving up all privacy if it "stops even one guilty person." No one is ever innocent 100% of the time. They just haven't been caught for things (especially super low level shit) and only think about big level crimes as being what pigs/prosecutors/feds are going after. By their own logic, they better know every single law at every second of the day. They truly can't conceive of being forced to confess just so a case can be closed to keep arrest stats looking good.

    The recent-ish story about that one guy that was broken down so badly that he confessed to murdering his own father after so many hours of interrogation and threats made by the pigs to kill his fucking dog. AND they kept going towards that confession even though his father was found to be completely alive by the same pigs. That shit scared the shit out of me, and that is just ONE example out of the ones you mention and so fucking many others.

  • There’s a stereotype of Chinese brands being “low quality”

    That used to be how things marked "made in Japan" were stereotyped. Basically all the major industrialized nations carried that stereotype until they were able to develop. So China will eventually get to the point of the stereotype flipping at the rate they have been moving. They will still have plenty of truly cheap crap due to being so large in volume of factories and being super willing to make really really niche things. Always fun (and cool) to see the wild motherboards/PCs out of e-waste old parts.

    The only thing I hope to see is a push to stop outright ripoff stuff like the "2TB USB drives" that are really 32GB (or lower) with firmware that deletes data that is larger than the flash storage. I am fine with knock-off stuff as long as it is able to do the core thing. A knockoff bag that is able to still hold the same amount of things is fine and allows folks that want the look to be close enough. Even if the flash storage on a knockoff USB drive is super slow, it should be the real capacity.

  • All very valid things, but at least the parts that are people related can be reduced (I personally find that my friends and I are much worse about using phones when at a house). Going in the afternoon on a weekday (and not opening week) means fewer people in general. Also tends to mean older folks are more likely to be there based on my experience working at a cinema (albeit was over a decade ago so maybe boomers are also bad about phones these days). Could even luck-out and be mostly empty and help with the special extra loud candy packaging made for cinemas. Might save a few bucks of course, but doesn't help with the pre-roll stuff.

  • I have only really started getting into Freecell, but I do play it in the "Solitaire" app. Found that having Mullvad ad-blocking DNS or a VPN with similar actually causes the ads between games not load.

  • Solitaire and Minesweeper. Literally the best games for when I just want to play something that doesn't require a lot of attention (no story lines, long load times, or remembering what I was doing the last time I played). Just enough to focus my attention while waiting around, but able to close out when whatever I was waiting on is ready. Just really calming for the most part.

  • I think it has already been a dystopia. The only things stopping it from being so super obvious was just down to technology needing to advance enough to do it at levels that are more openly seen. And for stuff like the Patriot Act (not mentioned in the article but a good example) to be created early enough before people relied on stuff like the internet/smart devices (even if the device in the article is not a consumer product).

    It was easy to create the mass surveillance state while folks were still seeing using the internet/computers as just a fun thing, but not as important as utilities like power, water, etc. The amount of resources needed to do the data collecting was too great to really understand for the average person. Also the average person still (for some reason) believed that our government were the "good guys" and that our "freedoms" actually mean anything if said government really wants to bypass them.

  • I guess I lucked out when I bought my BD-R drive before I was aware that MakeMKV needed extra stuff like firmware. But my LG WH16NS60 is one that took the flash (never had to mess with firmware on an optical drive and was worried I would brick it). But the process was pretty easy and getting into ripping BR after so long meant that the easy option was around to handle the steps. Kind of considering getting a back-up drive to have around if/when the one I have dies (especially since big brands are dropping out or may do so in the coming years).

    While not as easy as just using torrents or other P2P. I have found it kind of fun to get back into ripping CD/DVD/BD and learn/re-learn how things work these days. Also nice to have all the options I can to be able to have access to media in the event any of them are down. The only super frustrating thing is that so much of modern releases don't get physical (or even purchasable digital) releases. And in some cases where a physical release is an option, they are DVD and not even a 720p BD. Digital options are even worse in a lot of random cases where a store might have just part of a show (or even episodes in a season not part of it).

    Currently the only real issue that I have is that I really really need to build a new main PC and finally turn my current PC into only being for ripping and hosting what I have. And to get large HDDs to replace the 2TB and 4TB SSDs I currently have for it all of course. I really would like to have good copies of 4K stuff without having to worry about going with bad encodes that look worse than many 1080p releases that my TV upscales.

  • I wonder if more people in testing have had issues with it like you did. Might explain why it is default false. Though it is good that you noticed that it happened after a big system update. Did you happen to notice if your Nvidia drivers also got updated along with the other system stuff? I am not a dev, coder, or anything that would give me special knowledge (just curious). Maybe the GPU or X11/Wayland might be the cause (also could just be with how FF was calling resources).

    I hope that if others run into the same issue (or similar) will share here and on any other places where the settings have been shared. Not that I expect Mozilla to see them, but could be helpful for folks to know that they might need to change it back. As it is very easy to not have issues for a while and not remember even flipping a setting if something breaks. Would also be interesting to see if issues are any more common depending on the GPU and/or the windowing systems (or OS if Windows, Mac, and BSD users also run into issues).

  • Would be fine if the person is having to BYOD as the phone is already theirs (which is how I took it at least). Obviously flashing a custom ROM of any sort without approval on a device that you don't own, and would have to give back to the company is a bad idea. The same would apply to installing a different OS on a work PC (which tend to have the BIOS locked to prevent changing things or being able to simply boot an install USB). But I think managed phones with the level of being able to wipe the device remotely would also already be blocking access to developer options. Along with other stuff needed to unlock the needed stuff for flashing other ROMs (though I haven't flashed a ROM in a while and never had a work phone so I might be wrong).

    But if the company tries to take "ownership" of your personal device that you pay/paid for without providing a company owned device. Then it would be best to try and find a different employer, and/or use an old phone you don't use or get a low-end/cheap phone while working for them. But only go with that option if they provide a SIM/eSIM for service that they are paying for.

  • I mean 4Chan was possibly able to convince at least some amount of people that iOS 7 update somehow made their iPhone gain water resistance that would trip a hardware "smart switch" built into the phones. Just a numbers game that at least a small amount of people would believe something long enough to not really think about. Though the same can also be applied to convincing folks that other folks were dumb enough to be tricked. Which is still the same result. ¯_ (ツ) _/¯

  • It isn't just Linux, the same is in the user AppData on Windows (would also guess Mac OS). Both a gift and a curse as I find that when I need to make a backup of peoples' data before restoring/clean installing Windows/Mac OS or moving stuff to a new PC. Those folders are pretty important to get, as you can have all their bookmarks, history, settings, and passwords just show up (though you need to sometimes have to change the profile if a new one still gets created). Same is true for Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers, but they tend to not bring passwords over the majority of the time (need to manually export and import if the PC is actually able to boot into normal/safe modes of whatever OS used).

    FF is easier in the cases where the OS is broken or pulling the drive to copy (though very few people use it to begin with). But it does mean it is a curse if the passwords aren't also locked (would imagine having a master password might help but haven't tried to see). While it would make part of my job harder with regards to FF data, it is odd that Mozilla doesn't break them most of the time when Chromium browsers are able to. Though I haven't had to help someone with Linux in the same way, so maybe it is just a Windows (and maybe Mac OS been a while since I needed to worry about FF so idk) thing for passwords.

    Last bit below is a general rant of a PC repair tech's daily struggle with customers that freak out when something bad happens before bringing stuff in for repair/setting up a new PC. Just had to get it out, but not specific to FF and just data in general (just kept typing). lol

    Would make my job easier if people at least signed into their browsers beforehand and remember their log-ins to get browser stuff working (which would at least give them other accounts/passwords back). But the folks that tend to freak out about their stuff tend to also not make their own backups or sign into their browsers (let alone even remember their passwords for crucial stuff) before anything happens. Password vaults would be the same issue even if they had them, but maybe less if they had to enter their master password daily at least once.

    For Windows (and even Mac OS in some cases) cloud stuff like OneDrive being turned on by default for the Documents, Desktop, and Pictures (or the defaults for other services) folders don't even help them. Because they literally don't even remember the email used when setting up Windows/services, or for whatever reason lost access to that account and somehow think that just using a different account with a different email will still give them their shit. Claiming that I or my co-workers "lost their data" when it isn't there due to just the stubs of files that were only in the cloud.