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jabjoe ,
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I can only speak of on Linux. If you know the disk is bad, clone it, with ddrescue, and fix the clone. But in future RAID and backup remotely. Also, next gen filesystems like ZFS and Btrfs for check sums and self healing and subvolumes with send/receive deltas between them.

jabjoe ,
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These may be good:
https://www.mylocalbytes.com/products/smart-bulb-9w-rgbct

I trust Tasmota more than some random closed source thing.

jabjoe ,
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I'm glad that had a happy ending and sorry that happen. Autolock is so dangerous.

jabjoe ,
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You can pay to have less ad, but you're still also paying with your data. Bet pretty soon it will be pay and have ads, or pay more again. They have a captive market. They can extract and extract.

jabjoe ,
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I feel bad buying things DRM'ed, so I very rarely do, and not for myself. I don't want to fund that. Feels much better funding DRM free work.

jabjoe ,
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Seriously, no one is going to mention "Right To Repair"? If this was law, and companies had to divulge how there stuff worked and was assembled, as well as sell parts, things would last longer. If every trade zone had a repairablity index, competition would make things last longer still.

jabjoe ,
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I think the EU will be first to role it out at and scale. Like USB-C device power standardization.

jabjoe ,
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Regulations can work. Latest is EU's USB-C phone/laptop/tablet standardization. It's great! No more crazy range of different laptop power supplies.

Some stuff is pretty much as I want already. Henry vacuum cleaners for example. Tough as nails and easy to get parts and help for. Framework laptop and fair phone aim to be good for repair and upgradablity.

France repairablity index can be rolled out further field.

Things used to be more repairable and last longer. We can reverse the trend down. No need to despair.

jabjoe ,
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If Lemmy turns into a toxic cesspit, like Voat did, anyone remotely normal will leave to avoid the toxicity.

jabjoe ,
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So 'Tankies' are the ones fighting Nazis? There doesn't seam much between the two to be honest.

jabjoe ,
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Too late. Somewhere so sunny can get a lot of solor quickly. Building nuclear power plants takes time and releases a lot of CO2. Batteries and solor now now. Cheapest power too.

jabjoe ,
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Cheapest because the fuel is for free. Waste plan should be recycling.

jabjoe ,
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It's a new area, but there are companies : https://www.recyclesolar.co.uk/

Life cycle comparing isn't as simple as your thinking:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301421506002758 Happy to look if you have a unbiased source for life cycle emissions comparison.

But costs and time is a no brainer:
https://www.energysage.com/about-clean-energy/nuclear-energy/solar-vs-nuclear/

You as also don't want to be burning coal for a decade while you build a nuclear power plant. Then it's expensive to run compared to solar too. The CO2 costs of waiting for nuclear should be included for nuclear too.

jabjoe ,
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IP on crops is a legitimate problem. I didn't see anything about terminator seeds, but honestly wouldn't surprise me. Saving lives can all to be often at odds with making money. Plan probably is to take over the market and then ratchet up the price...

jabjoe ,
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So Tree Tabs built in? I've used them for so long, I don't know how other manage without them. Yet I know no one else who uses them, even after I show them. Be interesting see how well the new built in ones work.

jabjoe ,
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Proof of stake uses a load less than proof of work.

Be really good if currencies could go in and out of crypto. Could cut out a lot of middle men.

jabjoe ,
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Advantages of cash and digital, without the swings of raw crypto. Also leaving the ability to usefully manipulate your country's currency.

Crypto means easy, open payment systems. No gatekeepers like WorldPay.

jabjoe ,
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From what I found, and varies due to values/date, looks like a PoW transaction is about 2+ million times more energy than traditional banking. PoS is over 1000 times less than PoW, so about 2+ thousands times traditional banking. But transitional banking has other problems. For one, the market of payment is stitched up. Not like openness of a crypto currency.

jabjoe ,
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Everyone has hardware enough already. Your phone is perfectly good enough. For tills it will be easier to implement. No nonsense with a card machine and things like WorldPay and whole locked down PC. The hardware and platform wouldn't matter.

jabjoe ,
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Manipulating currency is a useful tool. If you don't think so, that makes you more liberian than me.

Like many here, I'm big into open source, and card payment systems are an issue. Crypto is one solution to that. Crypto has advantages, but it falls down as a currency because of blind faith in the invisble hand.

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' ( kyivindependent.com )

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine's partners "are afraid of Russia losing the war" and would like Kyiv "to win in such a way that Russia does not lose," Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

jabjoe ,
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Putin will want it over. It's an embarrassment to him that Ukrainians don't want him and have resisted him so effectively.

jabjoe ,
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Be more expensive later if Putin wins, because he won't stop at Ukraine.

jabjoe ,
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The free countries.

jabjoe ,
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Come on, you know. EU, UK, US, etc. The old allies.

jabjoe ,
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To be honest, we'll see about the US. With a Trump present who doesn't like democracy and rule of law, but does like Putin, not sure how much the US can be counted on. Or how long it will stay a free country.

jabjoe ,
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That is exactly how it self identifies. There is a lot to be questioned it that though. But it's a lot freer than China or Russia or many others.

jabjoe ,
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It literally calls itself the leader of the free world.

Yes it jails waaaayyyy too many of its own people, but voting and the rule of law still mostly work. Unlike countries like China and Russia.

Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )

Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....

jabjoe , (edited )
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The problem is power dynamic. It is a DRM service built round closed apps. You will take what you are given and like it. You can not view their cultural work without agreeing to these terms (Legally). The deal will keep getting worse until it starts losing money.

Edit: English fixes

jabjoe ,
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They think they have a captured market. They aren't completely wrong. Normies don't know how to sail the high seas.

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services ( www.theguardian.com )

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

jabjoe ,
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Also depends on the country. It isn't everywhere. Non-commercial file-sharing is legal in a number of European countries and I'm sure elsewhere.

It could be taken as a sign of the health of the democracy's function and technically literacy of the population. In a society of tech heads with a highly functional democracy, it would be DRM measures that would be illegal.....

jabjoe ,
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Until get externalities of plastic on to the up front cost. We kind of did it on plastic bags in the UK.

jabjoe , (edited )
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What worries me is that combined with anti immigrants sentiment. I fear beaches of dead as people are prevented from fleeing. I read a SciFi with that and it chilled me as I can see it happening.

jabjoe ,
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What we need is a Ministry for the Future without a killer heatwave killing millions.

Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens ( www.pbs.org )

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....

jabjoe ,
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They believed their own misinformation that it was all western lies. Bet that misinformation is still being pushed.

jabjoe ,
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You may want to read Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Ruin (after Children of Time). If you haven't already...

jabjoe ,
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Read Children of Time first, but the whole series is good. Basically anything he writes is good.

jabjoe ,
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I'm reading "Lords of uncreation". I recommend Dogs of War too. Rex is a good boy.

jabjoe ,
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shudder

jabjoe ,
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Enjoy! 😃

jabjoe ,
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Unfortunately there is no car that isn't proprietary and even ones without "auto pilot" have things like collision detection that can slam on the breaks for you.

Would you teach your kids how to pirate?

My gf and I have had discussions about teaching morals to kids. In that vein, I asked myself, would I teach piracy to my kids? Yes, it’s technically illegal and carries inherent risks. But so does teenage sex carry the risks of teenage pregnancy, and so we have an obligation to children to teach them how to practice safe sex....

jabjoe ,
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Isn't that an argument of monopoly by Netflix would be better?

jabjoe ,
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I'm not sure that's true of TV series. I'm not arguing for monopoly by the way. Exclusives are anticompetitive and that's bad!

UK's O2 network is blocking duckdns.org domains

It too me a while to work out why my Nextcloud stuff wasn't working on my phone. It wasn't until I went to http://duckdns.org on mobile data I saw the block. I had changed ISP from one with IPv6, which I had setup, to an ISP without it, and thought it might be that. But it was just coincidence....

jabjoe OP ,
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Just a follow up to this.

So I never ended up contacting O2 to say "please stop this", I just used Wireguard to home and ignored it.
Until the local Morrison's wifi started doing the same thing but worse and I couldn't event Wireguard round it.

So I finally just bought a domain and setup my Apache to redirect the old duckdns to the new domain.

So far this all seams to be working great.

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