rcbrk

@rcbrk@lemmy.ml
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~623 km/h in today's units.

Same. Otherwise it's dnscrypt on the router that's gone wonky.

AUR has just as much ability to fuck you over as piping curl to sh as an installation method.

Check your PKGBUILDs every single time and make sure you (still!) trust whatever repos it's pulling the source/binaries from.

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There exists a more practical variant of this idea: Smörgåstårta Photo of a Smörgåstårta. Whole, uncut.

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crop of the bottom pane of the simpsons so far meme

Part of me thinks you're being unreasonable, because that question did receive decent responses (1 CLI + GUI suggestion, 1 GUI suggestion, and 2 beginning to try troubleshoot the drive access problem).

But I suspect it's just a dissonance in perspectives, maybe due to your Linux distro causing a bunch of stupid issues, which haven't been properly noticed by anyone yet.

It's a shame that some distros like Ubuntu have enshittified so badly that they've become unsupportable. (Nothing seems to work rationally -- the same reason I find it impossible to support users on Windows).

Advocates and potential/new users alike, need to consider specific distributions, not just "Linux".

Is there a goatse version?

Heh. Band class. Good times.

I'm partial to thumbkey. It even has a Lemmy community: !thumbkey@lemmy.ml

Potatoes 🥔🧂🍟

Find a folder comparison software [with only Gui]

A quick web search (even without 'graphical') turned up pages suggesting meld in the first few results.

btw

As in "Hi PhoneCompany, I'd like a mobile plan with you. Yes, I'd like to bring my old phone number over to the new account."

Or "Hi PhoneCompanySupport, I'm @thingsiplay and i lost my sim, plz send me a new one. BTW my new address is ..."

Ideally it shouldn't happen, but phone company security is pretty slack sometimes,

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Ah, that's good then.

In Australia you really only need a name and date of birth and ID such as a passport or driving license number of the owner. No physical or even photographic proof. Some phone companies send the original sim a notification before moving it, but no response is required and moving the number often only takes 10~30mins.

Banks in Australia commonly use sms codes as 2fa.

A large percentage (20~30%?) of adult Australians have had their ID details leaked in recent years because there are no adequately enforced security requirements or data-retention limits. One of the largest breaches was the second largest mobile phone provider...

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Swapping the sim associated with your phone number -- from your sim to their sim.

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Meanwhile India's incredible train network suffers continuing decades of neglect resulting in poor performance and tragic rail disasters.

We need a fuckplanes community to complement !fuck_cars@lemmy.ml.

I think Assange is a legendary journalist who (to put it mildly) is bearing the brunt of a fucked up assault on the free press by CIA/etc.

No worries. The situation I was describing is indeed absurd and defies reasonable expectations.

Easy with sudo apt remove --purge --allow-remove-essential --auto-remove systemd:

The predictable failure of things towards the end of apt running the above command. Still in a gnome terminal, but the apt script couldn't even complete due to a bunch of stuff now missing

Uh-oh.. a black vt on reboot, complaining that no inittab found..

:-D Time to go outside.

So.. I really don't know chemistry, and these aren't the highest quality references, but here goes:

  • 4 mol of iron in a heat pack provides 1648.4 kJ of heat. ^[1]^
  • 4 mol of iron weighs 223g. ^[2]^
  • Recycling 1000kg of steel saves 642 kWh of energy. ^[3]^
    • Recycling 0.223kg steel saves 642 * 0.223 / 1000 = ~ 0.143 kWh
    • 0.143 * 3600 = 515 kJ

Huh. So maybe heat packs are a reasonable use of scrap iron's embodied energy after all. Assuming you have a sufficient source of uncontaminated steel filing waste and that it's economical to collect and process into heat packs.

...But only if you're heating your water using fossil fuels using an inefficient method! If your water is heated using solar or waste heat capture or a heat pump^[4]^, which would swing the balance way over to hot water bottles again.

  1. https://brainly.com/question/16900421
  2. https://www.convertunits.com/from/moles+Iron/to/grams
  3. https://lbre.stanford.edu/pssistanford-recycling/frequently-asked-questions/frequently-asked-questions-benefits-recycling
  4. https://www.eec.org.au/for-energy-users/technologies-2/heat-pumps

double-check for security vulnerabilities

triple-check is better.

You can make porridge with flour and water. Even better if you have interesting flours you bought in a moment of excitement but never figured out what to do with. Butter and salt help the palatability.

I don't think it's that kind of banned from twitter. The figures behind it seem to associate themselves with Wikileaks and/or Julian Assange. Suzie Dawson, for example, is hosting the video presentations about the plaform.

To be clear I don't mean to shit on the platform, I'm just approaching it with a lot of cynicism. I want to understand what it is and its problems and merits.

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Nothing at all! If anything I mentioned it as a point of approval from me, and stating them to clearly not be in the same camp as the banned-from-twitter-because-right-wing-extremists.

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You're not considering the energy required to smelt the iron.

Iron filings (in a collected quantity high enough to make manufacturing these heat packs worthwhile) are not a waste product, they are recycled -- saving the smelting of that much new iron.

Sawdust+iron heat packs are a very useful and non-hazardous product, for sure, but aside from situations where a hot water bottle is impractical, hot water bottle still wins.