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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hypothetically, if you are a witness or whistleblower who's adversary was a very big corporation (such as boeing), what measures could you take to prevent yourself from being "suicided"?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Psych eval, video uploads, video camera on me at all times with an atty that has access to the recordings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did people in the 90s/early 00s say that the internet "couldn't be taken down"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you literally were calling other computers directly. As long as you had dial tone you had internet.

  Also, phone books existed for the internet. Google wasn’t a thing, so getting from one website to another was peer distributed by mouth and paper.

  It’s incredibly hard to take that offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m split. Outlook and other apps have turned into pigs but have very little competition to force innovation. Customers are just as complacent, and demand things not change at all.

  Moving to PWA web apps has turned the industry around. MS is dumping all of the old code that causes so many issues.

  I find other IT people expecting MS to not make even small changes, while also complaining about battery life and app reliability.

  I’m looking forward to New Outlook. Supporting HTML and https is so much easier than map I and legacy client code with dirty plugins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely will "Cloud Storage" eventually replace Local Storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already happening. Microsoft’s push to onedrive and m365 was to get everyone off of legacy apps.

  Next will be ARM devices that have a multi-day battery because it’s all just cached apps accessing your cloud-saved data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, parasite.

  Only way i think it’s acceptable is one house per person, or renting out property you live at.

  If your aunts partner has a place, unused, then sure rent it.

  If your aunts property has another home on it then sure rent it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Downtown Los Angeles has a high rise that was abandoned by the owner/builder. It’s covered in graffiti. They could start there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was impressed with Singapore when i was there a while back: en.wikipedia.org/…/Housing_and_Development_Board

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are implanted subdermal trackers in SciFi movies at all a realistic possibility?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a toll pass device for 10 years. It gets scanned at 80mph or more and hasn’t needed a new battery yet. The newest models are the size of a credit card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When putting bullets in a gun does it not leave a fingerprint on the casing? If so why do criminals where gloves before loading their gun?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You sort of press hard and squeeze the bullet into the magazine. I’d be surprised if that alone doesn’t smear any print. You’d wear gloves to prevent pinches or calluses and might already be wearing gloves to help with the vibration effect of shooting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any actual free programs that clean up all bloat ware on a new laptop? Without them putting hidden stuff in?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Simply uninstall everything you don’t want. There’s not a lot, MS told OEMs to stop loading excessive crap a while back else they would make them stop loading anything at all.

  You can uninstall any 3rd party antivirus. Defender is good enough these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a bulk comment deletiin tool for Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  $$$

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is my whisky evaporating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can do your own research, but it takes time to leech. If you’re not storing in it for long periods it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is my whisky evaporating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many kids do you have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is my whisky evaporating?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. Most crystal has lead, it’s just how it works. It’s fine if you’re not a child and you don’t store it in there for long periods.

  I have some and use the glasses regularly. The decanter is and finished in 1-2 days though.

  If it has a deep resounding ring you might want to avoid it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options does one have when they reach the end of a car lease but cannot find a good deal at the time of it's end?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Won’t a lease have the buyout structure built in? That’s the selling point, the total ownership costs are known at the time of purchase.

  You can buy the car and sell it yourself if you’re not getting a good deal, but the “vehicle as a subscription service” aspect of leasing is to avoid that hassle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What options does one have when they reach the end of a car lease but cannot find a good deal at the time of it's end?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Going from a 1-2 year old car to a 10-30 year old car is going to be awful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Synology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This argument again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How screwed would one be if their email provider shuts down?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I own my own domain and back up my emails. It would be a pain and cost a few $ but I’d migrate to something else or self host.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fax machines still used by medical systems?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can even have multiple fax machines on the same phone number if you really need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I do to help?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Get involved in local politics.

  Work or donate towards getting rid of the electoral college.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because I can take a jar of mayo that’s 1 year old out of the underground shelter and eat it by the handful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gives up dating apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just did a class and I was the only guy in it.

  It was a welding class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People in the US don’t respect others property. Look at any atm machine or vending machine. There’s no way these things wouldn’t be vandalized immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isnt there an aftermarket way to bulk up pinch welds jack points on cars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Picks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot Orders Corporate Staff to Take 8-Hour Retail Shifts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m constantly finding shit opened and missing. Especially fasteners.

  If they knew what they were doing they would have a contractors isle that was open and had everything, and just restock it from the locked isles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive used a ps4 successfully. Works on any tv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Linux save my laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah get on their website and see if you can find the usb tool. Should at least tell you the problem.

  It could be something easy like a bad stick of ram that you can just pull out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Linux save my laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What laptop vendor? Most vendors have a hardware tester that you put on a usb and test for hardware issues.

  Same for windows. You can download windows usb creator utility and use it to reinstall windows from scratch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a name for the trope where a story is high fantasy at first glance, except for it's not fantasy and is actually set in a post-apocalypse dystopian future?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean like Adventure Time?