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vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto Technology@lemmy.world•Why Microsoft is a national security threatEnglish191·1 year agoTime for linux
vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I feel proud of myself to recognize that this iconic dude is not at a 'computer', rather, a [dumb] terminal! ]Or...?]21·1 year agoHere an image of an old IBM-PC: https://www.7dayshop.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Ibm_pc_5150-1024x951.jpg Note that The dark area here is for floppy Disks. One to boot from and one for data, so it probably doesn’t have a hard drive. I think it looks pretty much like the one in the meme. Also, computer desks like this were back then very common at home and probably not in offices or universities. Furthermore, he has several boxes with floppy disks beside the desktop. A dumb terminal would have no need for floppy disks, but one of the old PCs would need a lot of them.
So all in all, I think it is most likely a real computer.
But bananas are healthy.
vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto World News@lemmy.world•At Indonesia’s biggest bank, customers’ savings can vanish with a click | Business and Economy | Al JazeeraEnglish5·1 year agoIf clicking on a simple link in WhatsApp can make the banking app transfer money then it is obviously not secure.
vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto Privacy@links.hackliberty.org•Which US states respect voter’s privacy? (I’m a non-voter in a privacy-hostile state)6·1 year agoI am from Europe and I did not know any of this. Your voting system is even more fucked up than I thought…
vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto World News@lemmy.world•Russian lawmakers approve bill to confiscate assets of people who 'discredit' the armyEnglish5·1 year agoI think the assets of rich Russians are still just frozen. Time to use them to support Ukraine.
vaseltarp@lemmy.basedcount.comto World News@lemmy.world•Alliance must stop aggressive rhetoric and actions against Belarus if it wants to cooperate / The New Voice of UkraineEnglish31·1 year agoThy probably just want to blame their non cooperation on “aggressive rhetoric and actions” by NATO. Whatever that is supposed to mean.
Syncing the calendar db and Todo.txt file with syncthing should also be possible and would be a solution that doesn’t need a server at all.