IHawkMike
@IHawkMike@lemmy.world
- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 2 weeks ago:
Same here. But it’s the best MMO for taking breaks and most compatible with adult life.
I only play about 3-6 months out of the year lately and have taken multiple year+ breaks. It can be a bear getting back into it after 3-4 years staring at an inventory full of unrecognizable icons, but not remotely as bad as other MMOs.
And when you come back all of your gear is still relevant.
- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I know but I need the skirmish claim tickets to finish out my light WvW set. And it still just felt wrong. Tbh I wanted the extra glowy ball from Confluence too although the new one probably won’t have that.
- Comment on New expansion "Visions of Eternity" announced! 2 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to another legendary ring. I just made Conflux but just don’t have the time to raid for Confluence.
Plus I’m interested in new Skimmer masteries. I always bee-line the mount masteries first.
- Comment on Every last one of these questions is terrible 2 weeks ago:
It’s unlikely since it uses the field ID and not the text, so it wouldn’t know which question went with which answer.
It’s so rarely needed to actually use these anyway, that it’s a non-issue IMO. You should never opt to use security questions as they are terrible from a security standpoint. This is just for when they are required by stupid websites.
- Comment on Perspective 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that too.
- Comment on Perspective 3 weeks ago:
While I’m not 100% certain it’s not just confusing perspective, it does appear that the slope rise is shorter than the run, suggesting that this is from the top of the stairs.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 4 weeks ago:
You definitely should still check this, but even with proper indexing settings Windows is still garbage at search and has been since XP.
And this is coming from one of the only people who ever defends MS on Lemmy.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 3 months ago:
Definitely malware, as everyone has already said.
- Comment on How does secure boot in computers work, and how is the default Windows Secure Boot different from the Secure Boot of an alternate OS (such as Linux)? 5 months ago:
This is a good answer.
To add, for Linux kernels, the maintainer use a shim EFI package with the distro’s keys (e.g., Canonical’s keys for Ubuntu) which loads the maintainer-signed kernel. And Microsoft signs the shim to keep the chain intact.
- Comment on Isn't it possible to frame almost any opinion as a question? 5 months ago:
I’m Ron Burgundy?
- Comment on How would you stop evil maid attack by non-state adversaries? 5 months ago:
As another poster mentioned, QubesOS with anti evil maid will work, but that’s the defense against state actors too and is overkill for this threat model.
BitLocker or any FDE using SecureBoot and PCR 7 will be sufficient for this (with Linux you also need PCRs 8+9 to protect against grub and initramfs attacks). Even if they can replace something in the boot chain with something trusted, it’ll change PCR 7 and you’d be prompted to unlock with a recovery key (don’t blindly enter it without verifying the boot chain and knowing why you’re being prompted).
With Secure Boot alone, the malicious bootloader would still need to be trusted (something like BlackLotus).
Also make sure you have a strong BIOS password and disable boot from USB, PXE, and anything else that isn’t the specific EFI bootloader used by your OS(es).
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 6 months ago:
most of those drinks are specifically designed with the ice in mind
Citation Needed
- Comment on Me at CES today 6 months ago:
Probably the 9950x3d. And we’ve known for a while now that the cache would only be on one CCD.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 7 months ago:
An SSO-like payment system with tracking and revocation is a great idea and would be amazing for us consumers. I’m just not holding my breath waiting for the corpos to implement it.
While nowhere near perfect (far from it, really), as long as the sites you are shopping on are PCI-compliant (most should be), you don’t have to worry too much about a compromised site leaking your payment details for use elsewhere.
Basically just use a password manager and don’t worry about saving credit card (NOT debit card) details in the site as long as they aren’t extra-sketchy.
- Comment on We need a new Amazon 7 months ago:
Same here. Sometimes the same/next day shipping can help in an emergency, but otherwise it’s local if possible, or direct from the vendor if not.
Amazon’s shipping has declined and everyone else’s has caught up to the point it’s not much of a difference anymore.
- Comment on Checkmate 7 months ago:
We still do.
- Comment on How many Nintendo Switches do I need for a family of gamers? 8 months ago:
This was an amazing and informative answer. Thank you.
- Comment on Responsible Adults 8 months ago:
I drink my whiskey straight from the Klein bottle.
- Comment on It's just taken me 55 minutes to watch a 35 minute episode on Plex because of crashes 8 months ago:
Holy shit, I remember being excited for 2.4 because of iptables. That was over twenty years ago.
- Comment on Mr. T turned 72 four days ago. You might not remember him, but he was the guy who starred in the greatest music video of all time. 8 months ago:
He’s definitely on the jazz!
- Comment on Curves 8 months ago:
I don’t think I got them all.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Yeah, this is FSKAX over 3 years. I have a lot of my portfolio in it and it does well. It’s up 24% over that period.
- Comment on No longer dating 9 months ago:
My wife doesn’t like it when I introduce her as my ex-girlfriend.
- Comment on ps2 graphics 9 months ago:
It only happens twice a year though.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 11 months ago:
Yeah that sounds about right.
- Comment on How exactly does one eat 1500 calories a day? 11 months ago:
There’s no way you need to somehow eat more to lose weight. Are you sure you’re counting your calories correctly? Using an app? Tracking everything, especially drinks like sodas and alcohol?
- Comment on ochem periodic table 11 months ago:
Still missing a few but it’s the best I found in 30 seconds.
- Comment on Is cloudflare breaking the internet or fixing it? 1 year ago:
FYI, making you the product is only a tiny part of their stated reasoning:
- Comment on Wilburrrr 1 year ago:
- Comment on Usernames in the Fedivers 😫 1 year ago:
And what’s wrong with asking that? Plenty of email platforms let you change your primary SMTP address and/or add/remove aliases.
It’s a legitimate question. And it could be that the lack of ability to change it has a perfectly logical answer. It still wouldn’t invalidate the question.
