deliriousdreams
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- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 3 days ago:
It's wasn't an indictment on you or anything. I tried to click what I thought was a link, figured there was a mistake and then went looking for the actual article to get some context.
Since it was a 404 article I read and I know they do paywalls (and I sub to them so I don't get the paywalls) I didn't want to share that link because people might not be able to view it.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 4 days ago:
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 4 days ago:
I had to Google the article and I believe it may be paywalled. I sub to 404 media so I am not restricted from seeing it.
- Comment on Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It 5 days ago:
This is stupid. He shouldn't clbe charged unless they can prove that he destroyed evidence. If it was evidence, what was it?
Did they mistakenly erase the phone trying to unlock it, or did it erase itself when he didn't log in for a certain period of time? Like obviously if he was in custody, he either knew he was going to be detained and erased it beforehand (unlikely) or they messed up and ran afoul of good tech privacy practices and are big mad about it.
- Comment on GameStop workers say its trade anything day will be a huge mess 3 weeks ago:
Well. I would have been interested in donating canned goods for charity, but not like this. This is a terrible idea.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
I don't use my PS5 to surf the web. I know you can use it to watch movies and stuff, but I don't use it for that either.
At best, it depends on what kind of user most of the console owners are.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 weeks ago:
I was able to overclock it to a crazy level. Played all kinds of games on it between me and my roommate. It was finiky using big picture mode (I ended up buying a dedicated mouse and keyboard for it to use on a lapboard at the time), but BPM gave me trouble with controllers, refusing to quit to desktop, and hanging on launching games occasionally.
A lot of Dell's BS software went the way of the dodo bird as soon as I could get rid of it for similar reasons. The update to windows 10 I also seem to remember giving me trouble. MS didn't consider it supported hardware. But it all worked out and now that thing is my media center PC. It's still running after all this time, which is crazy.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 weeks ago:
As someone who owned the Alienware one with windows 8 (and upgrades it to windows 10, and a 2TB SSD), I'm glad to find anyone else who actually bought one, especially the steam OS variant, and has expert with it, rather than regurgitating what articles say.
- Comment on Why are Michelin Stars so highly revered when they originated from a tyre company? 1 month ago:
There was a point where tires were expensive but they lasted a long time because so few people had cars and they didn't drive them often. So two brothers who owned a tire company were trying to figure out how to sell more tires to the few people who owned cars.
The answer was to get them to wear their tires out faster by providing a list of places they could visit that would warrant the expense of wearing down their tires.
So the stat rating was more of a "this place is worth a visit/road trip system. And they published this list and it caught on and then restaurants wanted to get Michelin stars for the notariety and the essentially free press.