Here’s hoping the appropriate machines get off-loaded by the big-name publishers and purchased by those with more respect for the medium. That, and/or, DIY paperback book-binding gets quality improvements and cheaper, and takes off.

“Arrest”, or actions? Between the actual headline, byline, and first paragraph I can see before hitting the paywall, the fact the idiot got himself arrested before he could do any real harm does not seem a mater to regret on its own.

Note, @disorderly@lemmy.world is referring to metal-safes, not the plastic file-safe crap you’ll find in Walmart.

For hard-drive and chip-storage destruction, its hard to beat a drill or a hydraulic press. Holes, or snapping the storage-medium in half will generally do. From there to recyclers or landfill, either is less toxic to the environment than burning the stuff in a PC or phone.

What you want, if it needs refractory-cement, Kao-wool, or whatever the insulation in the walls of fire-safes is, is called a Forge or an Incinerator, maybe a Kiln or a Heat-soak Furnace, and no, an off-the-shelf Fire-safe is far from sufficient without abusrdist-levels of modification.

The heat needs somewhere to go, and those safes, the plastic home-and-office-grade ones anyways, are designed to take external pressure, not hold it in. In-fact, part of why they work is that the oxygen get’s sucked-out by the fire outside -they generally aren’t air-tight, save maybe the “flood-safe” ones … which I still would be surprised to see protect anything versus prolonged submersion.

Even if you used an electric heating-element and seal the gap you need for that perfectly, you’re going to out-gas the plastics and insulation, destroying the integrity of the safe and contaminating the area with toxic fumes, long before the contents are singed-enough to cause much damage without additional oxygen. Once you’ve got an open flame, your electric heating-element is fucked, so while you could maybe BS a fire-safe to suit your purpose, its one-time-use and closing/locking it is working against you every step of the way.

If it has to be cheap/free, and low-technical-difficulty, there’s Primitivist channels on youtube that will show you how to make a forge from clay and/or clay-brick and mud.

I guess if heat-alone would do what you want, a dutch-oven over an open fire could do, or a charcoal-chimney-starter if the items are small-enough. For PID-document destruction, I use a fire-pit, or rather, I use bills and reciepts to light kindling, but I usually have enough of both that you could almost call the wood in the pit an after-thought.

Difference is, we knew Saddam had massive amounts of nerve gas he had used on the Kurds because we gave it to him…

… insert gibberish here about how we used to at least pretend we would “help” “re-build” the countries we bombed as distractions and pass-times …

… now all we need is the save-file for the PS3 Minecraft tutorial world.

I’m guessing they mean mostly un-currated/un-modderated? … “features” I don’t desire in such a site anyways.

Just a part of you?

Oh no, I’m absolutely convinced you are right. Now, convince the moms …

That’s just facebook with extra steps

facebook first went to shit around the time kids and grandparents were allowed to join, so …

India would be on my top-3-shortlist of countries that would have me worried if their government had any success at stamping-out piracy. I could swear most of my downloads have English and Hindi or Bengali for audio/subs with little-else, and it would be soooo much more if I downloaded CAMRips…

I don’t, but there is no smart-or-dumb-phone that has it. The fact that’s due to plan availability changes nothing, nevermind that with said plan, almost any recent phone would do.

No argument here.

I use closer to a terrabyte a month, and I am well-aware that it is a plan issue. That doesn’t change the fact that the only any-number-of-mobile-devices/plan pairing that allows me to do what I want where I want is a smartphone. That includes downloading content for offline-viewing with minimal hassle.

When my kids pay for their own phone service, maybe I’ll go all-in on piracy instead, but in the mean-time, I’m exploiting that which I am already paying for, with a device I’ve had paid-off for years.

I wish you weren’t right, and Peru isn’t really bucking US influence in any meaningful fashion either. I’m afraid their mega-port may not even get built, or maybe environmentally or socio-economically that would be the better result.

I’m neither an expert nor a local to be telling them how to live. Now if only my country wasn’t so certain that “expertise” and violence should rightfully override the sovereignty of others.

Find me one with an unlimited hotspot plan, and I’ll switch tomorrow. Literally, that is what my smartphone offers. Not the hotspot, but unlimitted data plan and the means to use it to the fullest on the phone itself?

Close enough that this is my bar to meet, even though I would rather switch to a separate e-Ink tablet, dumb-phone-with-hotspot, and steam-deck-or-similar, for EDC-or-close-to; I would probably carry just the tablet and phone most days, maybe just the phone and deck on others.

They gotta avoid a land-and-sea open-war first. Dock everything domestic and let the buyers’ ships come to them. Refuse to sell to countries that don’t protect even their own ships.

The US Navy is already interfering, and I never suggest they could stop it, but rendering it in-effective/irrelavent after a certain point seems achievable from where I sit. The US hasn’t won a land-war since Korea, and North Korea only really had China’s backing.

Venezuela is surrounded by countries which have every reason to help them end-run US interference, and whatever excuse the US brings to the table this time, its not coming with UN, NATO, or any sort of “multi-lateral”-backing. Again, that’s what the US had in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those still endeded in failure.

There’s no pretending its not about oil and territory this time.

That’s why escorting the tankers is a bad idea. Delay the war by whatever means possible until the US Navy’s interference, at least, can be rendered irrelavent.