TemporaryBoyfriend

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[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If anyone cares, these drives are slow (SMR), but they're practically silent. I upgraded a NAS at home with a 16TB Exos after accumulating 4 years of 24x7x365 operation, and the sudden lack of silence is... Noticable.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The very definition of genocide.

You'd think that Israelis would be more self-aware, but there's plenty of videos of them cheering the seige of Gaza and the bombing of children. I don't want to paint them all with the same brush, but there's a metric fuckload of people in those crowds.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I like the idea that politicians are held to a higher standard, but I can't imagine it would be easy to enforce. If it was a financial penalty, it would encourage corruption. If the penalty was an exclusion from running in the next election, the group that makes that determination could be weaponized. It would be difficult to structure.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Modern heat pumps work down to -30C, at which point the furnace supplements with electric heat which is built into the unit.

My electricity costs dropped 50% over my builder-grade piece-of-shit electric furnace & AC unit -- and I even increased from a 2 ton to a 2.5 ton system. The initial cost was about $12k, and it will take 8 to 10 years to break even, less if the cost electricity keeps increasing the way it has over the last 10 years.

Also, you may not want A/C now, but you will shortly -- heat waves are getting more severe each year.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Heh... I like the idea of a 'blue line' 'centre ice' party... Every Canuck should know what it means, and it's a nod to our Hockey heritage, but I can totally see it getting mixed up with the nazi police 'thin blue line' bullshit.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then what's the spin you want to hear from a politician that would make you vote for them? (That is, spin that isn't full of racism and rhetoric about the other side.)

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

I think it's a false division, which is stoked by far-right leaning politicians. I'd like to believe that even people who lean right politically are still for functioning public education and health care. The issue is that people aren't doing as well as they remember doing 20 years ago for a variety of very solvable issues.

 

I think a majority of Canadians are kind, hardworking, and want what's best for their families, friends, neighbours, and the country.

What does a brand new political party platform look like to appeal to an overwhelming majority of Canadians?

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

It's hard to tell from the photo, but it seems like that guy needs all of his valve stems adjusted. They make tools especially for this type of work... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=side+cutters

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, and I had a thought about their methodology - the screen recording software only works when it's booted from the internal hard drive. Boot with a USB stick with a Linux live image, mount the internal drive as read-only, and you can copy the entire thing, and nobody will ever know.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also, wipe your hard drives before you throw out computers. Folks throw PCs out all the time in my office building, and I pick them up to refurb and 'freecycle' them. More than half the time, I'll plug it in to see if it will boot it up, and the drives are still intact, and loaded up with personal data... Then I plug in my DBAN USB stick and wipe the drive(s) 3x.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

Nope, there's a mad rush to get as many cargo ships through as possible before the Seaway freezes in January. The timing is perfect.

[–] TemporaryBoyfriend@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Also, this device isn't fully supported on OpenWRT (yet?), so it's not like it's a good deal just for the hardware.

 

It's a long story I'd rather not get into, so I've simplified it into a single long question...

Assuming a will is valid, but circumstances have changed dramatically since the time the will was written, and there was no opportunity for the person to re-write the will due to incapacity, is it possible to renegotiate the distribution of the proceeds of an estate with other beneficiaries?

Just wondering aloud if anyone's been through this.

 

I work in a niche inside a niche. I deal with terabytes of storage, massive servers, a variety of storage tech, and I've been in interested in computers in general for... Around 40 years. (Yeah, I'm old.)

I have my own single person company and have worked in 40+ US states, done assignments in the UK, Norway.

AMA.

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