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- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 2 days ago:
Is the original dev team even working on the game? Most projects go into maintenance mode after release and DLCv1. The talented folks move on to new things and you’re left with regular folks if you’re lucky and outsourced high turnover cube farms if you’re not. Of course the current devs are out of touch, it’s just a 9-5 for them.
- Comment on How would I improve Wifi consistency within my house? 4 days ago:
Instead of chaining them together, try to put the “router” in a central location and do what’s needed to limit your repeaters to a single hop away from the router. Chaining them together will lead to problems.
A proper mesh system will work better than repeaters. Some systems can use powerline networking to use your existing power outlets as a network, but it’s not always that great.
Some locations such as apartments/condos have really bad interfering neighbors on 2.4ghz. If that’s your situation then using 5ghz exclusively might help.
- Comment on What's going to happen to gas stations as cars electrify? 4 days ago:
They will close. If you look at how many gas stations there are you’ll see that they are everywhere. I was driving through Iowa and saw an intersection that had 6 gas stations.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 4 days ago:
You can easily search for news on Linux malware. Most recently npm was affected.
Npm is used by a lot of software, so updating your software from valid sources could easily infect your machine.
It’s also dead simple to misconfigure something on Linux, like your firewall, leaving your machine exposed to the internet. Linux doesn’t bother you nearly as much as windows does when it comes to updating and restarting. Windows used to be that way too but had to adapt to the changing threat landscape.
With VMs you can try as many at once as your system can support, with less risk than booting up on a livecd, and the ability to switch between them without having to reboot.
Moving files manually is fine.
- Comment on W10 EoL and possibly switching to Linux (various tech questions) 5 days ago:
Don’t use an EoL/EoS OS, full stop.
Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.
Use windows built in backup services or something like the Veeam free backup agent before blowing up your system.
I would also move my files to a cloud services, even if it’s temporary.
Install the distribution your choice.
Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.
Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.
Linux has malware. It’s just different. Linux supports nvidia, a usb boot would help you determine how well your hardware is supported.
- Comment on Is toothpaste supposed to be sealed or is this how shitty the products just are now? 1 week ago:
Two companies, the manufacturer and the store. And it’s happened a lot in the past.
Glad you’re trying to steer one of them into the right direction.
- Comment on Is toothpaste supposed to be sealed or is this how shitty the products just are now? 1 week ago:
I recently bought a perishable that I opened the following day. It had mold on it, while the “best by” date was 2 months away.
The contact info they listed on the package didn’t work.
I contacted the store I bought it from, just to let them know they might have a bad batch
A week later I get contacted back. They said bring it in and the receipt for a refund.
No one at these companies really gives a shit.
- Comment on If the next pres. is a Democrat and wants to roll back all of Trumps bullshit. How can they do that quickly and efficiently? 2 weeks ago:
Expanding the seats of supreme justices, executive orders to undo Trumps, replace every person Trump assigned, then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.
Put the DOJ onto prosecuting a number of people that were performing illegal activities.
He can also instruct DHS to rake the forest instead of doing much anything else.
- Comment on How long and how hard would it be to get a star removed on The Hollywood Walk of Fame? Asking for a friend. 2 weeks ago:
Harbor freight sells battery powered hammer drills and masonry bits that are cheap and powerful enough to drill a few inches into concrete in under a minute.
They also had saws and saw blades used for cutting up masonry.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 3 weeks ago:
orb.net monitors your internet performance.
tailscale.com access your home internet or devices when you’re away from home. Usually only helpful if you have a NAS, but I’ve used it to stream tv shows without having to get bothered or blocked because the service can only be used in the US. I watched some NFL over youtubetv while in Germany for example.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 3 weeks ago:
Mine runs Orb and Tailscale as an exit node.
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering reportedly delays Horizon 3, as Sony prioritizes multiplayer PS5 game 4 weeks ago:
Plenty or horizon fans would be fine with another full price dlc.
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 4 weeks ago:
Yikes. Hope this doesn’t kill the horizon brand.
- Comment on What actually happens in a DDOS attack? 5 weeks ago:
When a post to a website gets popular but the website doesn’t have enough resources to handle the number of people visiting it.
- Comment on What actually happens in a DDOS attack? 5 weeks ago:
DDOS is a symptom. A DDOS can cause different failure scenarios at different points.
Maybe the attack is causing the service to access a backend database that isn’t equipped to handle the traffic. The web server queues requests but they can’t be handled in a timely manner.
Maybe the attack causes a firewall to spend too much time inspecting the traffic by sending a malformed packet.
Maybe the attack simply overwhelms the bandwidth of the firewall or router. The Reddit “hug of death” is a common example.
In short, lots of things can lead to a service interruption. A DDOS is just a description of a way to cause that interruption by using distributed source hosts.
- Comment on Why doesn't my phone put all of my apps to "sleep" by default? 5 weeks ago:
App devs control this.
- Comment on What's the best free version of word? 1 month ago:
Word online is free
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Can’t read this wall of text
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 1 month ago:
Close them. Hoarding tabs is still hoarding.
- Comment on if all communication electronics died on New Year's day, how long would it take for other time zones to notice 2 months ago:
Sysadmins would know right away.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 2 months ago:
I don’t think it will pop. I think it will continue to gobble up components for the next 5 years.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 2 months ago:
In a few months there won’t be any affordable equipment.
- Comment on Whats the best use for 75 dollars? 2 months ago:
75 isn’t a whole lot. If you don’t have a financial management tool yet, you should put it towards that.
Look for something with no fees. I believe Sofi has no fees and might not have a minimum amount. Their app is also really easy to use.
A local credit union is also a good choice since you can physically talk to a person when you have questions.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 2 months ago:
Always is before a holiday when most employees are closed and no one is watching the feed.
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 2 months ago:
gestures broadly
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 2 months ago:
Windows security baselines. They suck. Not because they are bad, but because they aren’t enforced defaults. Turning them on breaks something and you have to dig through decades of policy and app configuration to figure out why.
I wish once a year MS would have just made a security defaults update month and made a few changes so we could anticipate them and fix them collectively over time.
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No.
- Comment on 4 leaky tires on the same rental, overfilled to compensate 3 months ago:
50psi is dangerous.
- Comment on Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy? 3 months ago:
A mix of that and tomato paste, fish oil, garlic, ginger would probably mix things up for you.
- Comment on Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy? 3 months ago:
I’m guessing you could substitute a 2:1 mix of paprika:cayenne.