TimLovesTech

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From a security perspective it seems 100% the correct call for the government sites filtering out traffic that is probably used for fraud rather than legit purposes 99.9% of the time. How are you doing any those the tasks you mentioned without inputting your personal information into the government website? And I assume you are, so then why are you using a public VPN at that point unless your just trying to make things difficult.

You can use a VPN to try and hide your activity from the government, but becomes a fools errand when you are purposefully interacting with the government.

I would argue that a battery powered bike is closer to a dirt-bike/motorcycle/mini-bike and should probably be looked at the same as those. I would not expect someone to be riding any of those modes of transport on a "walking path" either. And all 3 of those have current battery powered versions that do not change the rules around where you are expected to ride them, or even who can ride them.

I think bike manufacturers have made it this far because unfortunately the law makers in most countries are older, and slower to respond to regulating new technology until it becomes an issue "for the masses" (aka effects their votes). And I know the business side tells these companies to make as much money as fast as possible, but in cases like this, having some sort of internal group looking at regulation as an eventuality instead of a "we'll cross that bridge when we get there" should be something required. Because I think we all knew this day was coming in most countries once these bikes (and also the scooters) starting showing up more widely, and being proactive instead of reactive would do a lot to help themselves, as well as the customer base they have now put in a bad spot.

A very good point! As an adult I’m certainly more in the “brain adventures” column (not 100% though - I get fidgety when bored for sure), while as a kid I had that endless energy and hardly sat still. And I know some fall completely on the other side of things and just cannot sit still long enough to cast a shadow. And then many still fall into a little of column A and a little of column B.

And as someone who suspects that they also fall someplace on the spectrum, I often find my brain battling over certain things, as well as over-analyzing EVERYTHING (well truly more “dumb” stuff than “real” stuff) while doing things that conflict with one side of my brain or the other, fun!

A very good point! As an adult I'm certainly more in the "brain adventures" column (not 100% though - I get fidgety when bored for sure), while as a kid I had that endless energy and hardly sat still. And I know some fall completely on the other side of things and just cannot sit still long enough to cast a shadow. And then many still fall into a little of column A and a little of column B.

And as someone who suspects that they also fall someplace on the spectrum, I often find my brain battling over certain things, as well as over-analyzing EVERYTHING (well truly more "dumb" stuff than "real" stuff) while doing things that conflict with one side of my brain or the other, fun!

Well, not entirely true. They do it in the US based on your public voter registration data, giving rise to companies that only exist to suck up and sell that data to groups looking to game the system instead of giving people what they want/need/deserve.

[Disclaimer: I'm not Jewish] This seems more antisemite than boycotting Israel does, because this (IMHO taking into account the disclaimer) seems like someone that can't separate a government from a people, or basically "everything Jewish is the same". Similar to how many in government can't separate being Muslim, or Arab, from [insert US declared "terrorist country"].

on "Pro"gression · c/memes · 2 pts · 276d

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Never forget Contra, though I have forgotten the Mike Tyson code. 😭

Just go CachyOS if you can't be bothered with Arch proper. Running an insecure container layer that brings another whole distro so you can run an app is weird when flatpaks exist for this purpose, and are much better suited for this. Seems like you're creating a "problem" that doesn't exist and then coming up with the most complicated way to solve this made up "problem".

If he actually goes through with it, everyone will know because it shows up on seismographs, something he's apparently ignorant of...

Remember, this is the same man that thinks the stealth bomber is literally invisible, or that you neutralize a magnet simply by getting it wet, or that you take fries out of the boiling oil with your hands (he learned you don't while doing his pretend day at McDonald's).

on fuckfuckfuckfuck · c/adhd · 1 pts · 284d

Yeah, but that is a task made more difficult by my reluctance to be social.

on fuckfuckfuckfuck · c/adhd · 11 pts · 284d

I will perseverate on a topic going back to it because I need to info dump, but most people just don't care about things to the same level of detail. =(

I agree that for you it doesn't make sense, but outside of the "competitive" FPS genre compatibility covers most everything else, minus things with crazy kernel level DRM rootkits. But you really shouldn't be playing those on Windows either IMHO. And if more people didn't support them on Windows devs might be forced to use compatible anti-cheat that would benefit gamers on all platforms.

I'm also a casual gamer that will just move onto something else in my backlog if a dev breaks proton compatibility.

on Every other week · c/adhd · 9 pts · 293d

Yeah, follow through is not always the same dopamine but that the idea/planning was for sure. I have a continuous list of things that I think of, and research the hell out of, then move onto the next oh shiny! ...

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/canada · 8 pts · 294d

Well your only going to be as fast as the slowest server in that chain, with all the latency/any dropped packets/etc. driving down your speeds. Also, if it's built for security it almost certainly isn't prioritizing speed test traffic of all things.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/linux · 2 pts · 296d

If they were a "computer person" enough to know how, or willing to let the Geek Squad over charge them for something as simple as installing more RAM or HD upgrade. But yes, it's not like a TPM that would require a motherboard swap, which isn't a thing for laptops outside of Framework (and then only just recently).