BartyDeCanter

@BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why dont android phones have a bios like computers and be able to load a generic arm linux iso or windows one,or be easily rooted?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Phones have always been locked down, all the way back to when you could only use a phone that AT&T sold you attached to a landline.

  Basic cell phones were generally very locked down, or at least there was no documentation on how anything worked. I do remember using a photo and contact syncing tool that had the protocols for a bunch of “feature” phones reverse engineered. IIRC the dev gave up because he kept getting sued.

  When smartphones came around, Android was actually very open. My first Droid was completely open, no need to even unlock anything. Applications could be installed and run from anywhere, including the SD card. But the carriers were not happy, due to the proliferation of malware running on their networks. Users were also pretty unhappy due to the lack of security and malware. So they started by adding a boot loader lock and eventually locked down more and more. The iPhone was locked down from the beginning. It was seen as more of an iPod or other accessory device, so no one really cared.

  And, that’s basically been it.

  Really, the fact that PCs are as open as they are is pretty amazing and mostly due to different companies reverse engineering each other and a lot of court decisions. I’m sure looking back that IBM really wishes that their cases had gone differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon reads Into the Wild⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Privileged is a complicated term for his life. On one hand, yes from the outside, and especially as presented in the movie, it seems like he had a typically idyllic upper middle class life. But if you do any digging into it, you find out that his father was an extremely volatile, violent abuser and his mom wasn’t much better. That sort of childhood trauma is a hell of a thing and absolutely impacts someone’s mental state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god, it’s been a long time since I took Vibrations and Waves, but I still remember filling notebook after notebook with Fourier transform equations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, ok thanks! I’ve been wondering about the split 2.5/10G switches I’ve seen and wondered why. That makes a lot of sense now! I’ll take a look at them again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my home state there is a very small town that supposedly was going to be the recipient of a large investment that sank on the Titanic. Or possibly it was just the investors? Either way, I imagine that there must be a number of such stories of what might have been if it had made it to dock. Do you know of any?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmings, please give us your info dump.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I set up my house with cat6 when I moved in. The overall setup looks like 10G fiber to the house -> 2.5G capable router -> 2.5G capable NAS running *arr stack. Also off the router is a single cat6 downstairs -> 8 port 1G unmanaged switch, which is connected to my desktop, work dock, parters dock, TV, and backhaul run to the back of house wifi extender. The desktop, both docks and wifi extender are 2.5G capable. This has been extremely reliable. I plan on upgrading the switch to a 10g capable one at some point, and then the router. Since the switch is unmanaged, is there a good way to know when it is the limiting factor and I should update it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon works in cybersecurity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is the exact opposite of my experience. Of all the coworkers and friends I’ve ever had who worked in cybersecurity, one was a bootlicker, while all of the rest were at least three of transfem, furry, weeb, and anarchist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I agree, I’m not saying that PDF is some sort of document format perfection. But it is a fully open one with a spec that fits in 250 pages, as opposed to docx’s 7500(!!) page spec with undocumented binary blobs mixed in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you too are a person of culture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are fine, but not 100% compatible with all Office files and very heavyweight for viewing a document.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save as PDF⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I don’t want to spend several hundred dollars per year to use a proprietary program that doesn’t run on my computer just to look at some documents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you implying there there are IC designers who aren’t lunatics?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I gave up electronics club⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends, do you want high or a low side switch? There are valid reasons for either depending on what you’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A gourmet meal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, I’m pretty sure that is a jacemat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would also add that the presidents party almost always loses votes in the midterms. This is particularly true for republicans since 2016 because a lot of trump’s supporters only care about him and won’t bother to fill out a ballot without him on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon recaps the DCEU⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shazam was pretty enjoyable. It reminds me of good movies back when movies were allowed to be merely good instead of either amazing or terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take your pick: oil, trumps feeling were hurt by the Peace Prize committee, oil, trump trying to shore up support, oil, trump seeing just how much he can get away with, trumps ego, and maybe oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hold on a second...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty certain the this image is an AI retouch of this origional (click on the source for a much higher res version). It looks like it changed his nose, the texture of his skin, his outfit and a bunch of misc small stuff. Completely unnecessary slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hold on a second...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where did you get “he must be a woman” out of that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Electric Bills⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh! Planet Money just did a really good episode on this exact topic.

  It’s complicated and I recommend a full listen to the episode, but the big two reasons are:

  1. The cost of building out all the new infrastructure is partially paid for by the data centers, but the majority is paid by all customers.
  2. The demand for electricity is growing much faster than supply can be built.

  Those two, combined with the deregulation in most markets, has meant that the price for everyone is going up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Serial killer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking a look at the bottom circuit, the killers on the left have the supply voltage across them, as does the resistive load. The ones on the right have fuck all going on, so may be a Magic Switch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions some decisions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I figure there’s two ways to approach this. One is to welcome people in, help them learn more, and expand their understanding. The other is to tell them that they are the problem and call them ignorant. I suspect that one approach is better at getting more people on your side, but WDYT chat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions some decisions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The planet getting hotter is a distraction from the oppression of the non-billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How solar panels generate electricity⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gotten cheap, in fact, that the panels are sometimes less expensive than the labor and mounting hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't stop till brimstone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Salting the Earth” is an idiom that references possibly apocryphal stories of ancient warfare where an invading army would literally put large amounts of salt or salt water in the enemy’s fields so that they wouldn’t be able to grow crops. This was done to make sure that the population couldn’t rebuild and become a threat in the future. Nowadays it is used to mean that someone is making really, really sure that something is destroyed and not coming back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piano man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What?!? Someone played with the English language in order to make lyrics rhyme and scan? How terrible!! glances at Shakespeare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interesting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever my ex was low on gas she would park in the driveway in such a fashion as to block me in so I would have to move her car and probably end up just taking it in to work and get gas on the way home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m pretty upset that I won’t be able to see a living pentaceratops, seismosaurus, or T-Rex. So, no, I think it’s fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valves first title with a 3 in it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re joking, and that would be enough to get me to buy one even though I don’t really have a use case for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far you've fallen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking steam web helper. I’ll have locked my desktop machine and switched my KVM to my work laptop when suddenly the fans spin up. I switch back over and it’s multiple steam processes each using a full core. WTF?!? I’m looking up how to have the lock screen also ‘kill all -9 steam’ to keep it from happening.