Nollij
@Nollij@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on I am indeed old 3 days ago:
The top 5 websites in the world are mostly reposts from the other 4.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 3 days ago:
Also, you asked 3 completely different and unrelated questions:
- Why do drivers need admin permissions?
- Why do devices only come with Windows drivers?
- Why are corporate IT policies the way they are?
#3 could be broken down even further, covering how/when admin is granted, as well as how devices are procured.
At my (large) employer, we absolutely would’ve told you to pound sand for getting that device outside of official channels and bypassing a security review. Especially since you described it as a data logger.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 3 days ago:
Is there something technically forcing the privilege elevation to install a driver ?
Yes. With few exceptions, drivers need admin permissions to be installed. In part that’s because they need admin permissions to run, and malicious drivers have absolutely been exploited in the past.
Some hardware (e.g. mice, keyboards, storage) don’t need additional drivers to be installed, but that’s because the OS uses generic drivers, or has a whitelisted source (e.g. Windows Update)
- Comment on What are some of the impacts of a power outage that isn't that obvious / isn't talked about a lot? And What happens to restaurant bills? Do Buses still work? (since card payments wouldn't work) 3 weeks ago:
no bus to church??
In the US, many (most?) churches offer their own transportation. It’s common enough that the term ‘church bus’ is a thing, although it’s usually more like a large van. For those that don’t, the parishioners will often offer transportation to those that need it.
- Comment on What should I do if someone applied to a job at a company I work at without being able to legally work in my country? 3 weeks ago:
They have to file paperwork with the necessary supporting documents. If they can’t, you have no idea why. Maybe it’s because they’re ineligible and in violation of immigration and visa restrictions. Maybe it’s because the documents were lost in a move. Maybe they had their identity stolen and are awaiting new documents. Maybe they just don’t actually give a shit about the job and aren’t bothering to do the paperwork to start working.
All you can say is that you’ve asked them to fill out the paperwork and they haven’t done so.
- Comment on Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen 4 weeks ago:
I found the specs a bit interesting. 52.7 kWh battery and a curb weight of 3,600 lbs is nearly identical to the Chevy Bolt, but this only has a range of 150 miles instead of 240. Is it really that much less efficient? The only thing I can think of is the aerodynamics, but that’s a 40% difference.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 4 weeks ago:
Is there any reason to not just use samba or NFS?
- Comment on Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles 4 weeks ago:
Great and all that Netflix is doing this, but this isn’t something new in the world. It sounds like their old subtitles were actually Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing-Impaired (SDH). If you’ve ever seen that acronym and wondered what it meant, now you do.
Subtitles not labeled SDH have traditionally been dialogue-only.
- Comment on ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Has the Most Words Per Minute of Any TV Show, Study Finds 5 weeks ago:
it’s
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- Comment on VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor 5 weeks ago:
My primary reason for using free ESXi has been career development. VMware was the biggest player at all of the biggest potential employers, so it made sense to be familiar with.
These days, they’re all looking to jump ship. Some are actively migrating, others won’t get there at all.
But all of them now value experience in alternatives at least as much, if not more than VMware.
I’m still using free ESXi, but the next time I rebuild (i.e. new hardware), it will not be ESXi.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
To really find out, you probably just have to ask them directly.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
At 16, her personality is visible, and her taste in partners has probably shown. If she’s into guys with ties to drugs, violence, etc, this might actually be a step up.
It still has the glaringly obvious issues OP was asking about, but you don’t always get to choose the cards you’re dealt. This could be the least harmful choice available.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There is so much additional context needed to say with any confidence. The first thought would be that he can be a good provider (i.e. money) and her other prospects are not very promising. Another could be power, and how that could be extended to the family.
There’s yet another possibility that they aren’t actually ok with it, but are only presenting that face in public. Teenage girls are notoriously hard to control, and this might be the fastest/easiest way to get her to end it or learn a lesson.
There are still a number of other possibilities, many involving religion, that there’s no way to know which might apply to your situation.
- Comment on I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists? 1 month ago:
As others have mentioned, it refers to the gear shift. But it actually has a meaningful origin - many years ago, the gear order was not agreed upon. Many cars had a gear shift that was PNDLR (which I’ve heard pronounced “pendler”), where reverse was at the end. At the time, it was useful to tell the difference between a PRNDL and a PNDLR shift.
Of course that was all before 1971, when PRNDL was mandated by the US government.
- Comment on The fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfalls 1 month ago:
There are some public numbers on how many occurrences are found each year on the major platforms.
IIRC, Facebook deals with around 75 million reports per year. Twitter, Reddit, and others were around 20 million reports per year.
I don’t know how many are dealt with on Mastodon or Lemmy (or how you’d even get reliable numbers for that), but something tells me it’s a lot less than the bigger platforms these days.
- Comment on Gemini can now personalize its answers based on your search history 2 months ago:
This might be interesting. I turned off all of my Google history years ago. I presume they still collected all of it.
This could reveal some of that.
- Comment on If I don't have my lunch my sugar crashes and I get sleepy 2 months ago:
It sounds like a daytime event. If it runs that late, it interferes with nighttime events, most notably drinking/getting laid.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 2 months ago:
It’s more like claiming to own a subreddit, or a Twitter hashtag.
- Comment on Prepare For Discord To Get Way Worse [Kotaku] 2 months ago:
“Having a Discord server” doesn’t mean what those words normally mean.
- Comment on Over 230,000 Canadians Want Elon Musk’s Citizenship Revoked 2 months ago:
For comparison, the total population of Canada is 40.1 million people, meaning that just over 0.5% signed this petition.
As much as I enjoy the sentiment, this petition was never going to go anywhere. As others have pointed out, revoking citizenship based on popular opinion just isn’t a thing.
- Comment on Do you find this compelling evidence to doubt the result of the election? 2 months ago:
In the very few cases where the trump campaign showed any evidence whatsoever, they actually did very well with the court rulings. Keep in mind that these were absolutely not cases of widespread fraud, but of localized errors that are common in every election.
The fact that most suits were filed with literally no evidence whatsoever was very telling, though.
- Comment on I’m planning to teach middle school Spanish, would casually mentioning having a girlfriend cause an uproar? 2 months ago:
Does Spanish have a super generic term like “significant other” or “partner” that doesn’t convey anything useful?
Side note, the types of parents you would be concerned about are probably also the type that get super racist about teaching Spanish in the first place.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Thank you- this is exactly the sort of critique I had been expecting/hoping to find
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I agree with you, and would go further.
A while back, there was a study (IIRC) from the UK that recommended against gender transitioning for children. No surprise, it created quite an uproar before it was retracted.
At no point in any of the media coverage or comments on Lemmy, etc, did I see any discussion of the study itself. To this day, I have no idea if there was an issue with the methodology. It seems that no one, neither supporters nor opponents, bothered to read past the headline. Many of them were very fervent in their beliefs, but that wasn’t enough to get them to look at the details.
This is also very bad for science - there are countless headline-grabbing “studies” that fail basic requirements. I’m sure you’ve seen things like “Is coffee/chocolate/etc good for you? A new 10-day study of 23 people suggests that…”. Which of course should get picked apart.
If we aren’t following the science, then what are we even trying to do?
(As an aside, I suspect that study was flawed, but I can’t confirm. It goes against the conclusions widely agreed upon, and would require significant rigor and evidence to support the claim)
- Comment on Liquid Death Quietly Adds Stevia to Tea Drinks 2 months ago:
This is exactly why, for many years, there was no percentage on the label. They were concerned that people would try to get it to 100%.
Fast forward a few decades, and it’s extremely rare to find Americans consuming that little sugar, so the concern was no longer valid.
- Comment on Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth] 2 months ago:
While I appreciate that rule in many communities, there’s nothing stopping them from posting a summary or even editorial in the body.
- Comment on Your favourite YouTube channels might not survive this [Minute Earth] 3 months ago:
TL;DW:
A lot of science-related YouTube channels get indirect funding from the US government.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m inferring that you are not in the US, so your local laws may differ. But in the US, your attorney is required to act in your best interests to the best of their ability. Working against their client is a quick way to be disbarred and paying a massive amount to their (now former) client.
That said, this whole thing seems like an exercise in creative writing. Your life savings would be too tempting to any attorney, and they would try to steal it? You need to make friends with someone powerful to find a good lawyer? You’ll need all of this in a few months, but not now? None of it makes any sense.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 3 months ago:
What did those poor cables do to you to get the Liam Neeson treatment?
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 3 months ago:
But can it spy on users for marketing purposes? That’s the real question.
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