It doesn’t have to be an exclusively fascist symbol to be a bad idea. Government agents should not be wearing or glorifying the universal symbol of death.

I do see what you are getting at. The whole thing is a bit like complaining about smelling someone’s fart as a tornado approaches.

Come on, man. It’s an image but also the meaning behind it.

Old news… If you are using a VPN, it’s “foreign communications” and subject to spying; and if you aren’t using a VPN, they route the data through a room that’s considered a foreign enclave (like an embassy), turning it into “foreign communications” and subject to spying.

Fuck that tabloid, the Daily Mail… but there was the guy who was attempting to mod his robovac so he could control it with a PlayStation controller. The AI he was using to help ended up giving him keys that let him remotely access thousands of robovacs, including their cameras and mics.

Yeah, they don’t bring their stuff around for help anymore. They’re probably afraid I’ll wipe it and install Debian. 🤣 It’s been a long time; I’m an Arch fiend by now.

I was asked by a friend of the family why I had to “mod” everything, “You make it all so it doesn’t work right!”

…because “working right” in this day and age is a privacy nightmare, a security disaster, and relinquishing your rights, duh! Then I asked her how much the lawyer cost to understand what she’s agreeing to in all the EULAs of services she’s signed up for just to make things “work right”.

Fuck Logitech, too.

Reverse piracy; “Design and store your copyrightable and patentable ideas in our AI incubators!”

These already exist. I’ve also seen some that technically work but have pop-ups complaining about being offline.

We already know they’re buddies; Tim Sweeney travelled to Saudi Arabia with Trump’s bribe-seeking entourage.

“Epic MAGAgames”

Edit: better link

It does this already.

I’ve had success even on damaged discs with Exact Audio Copy on Windows, or fre:ac on Linux. Paranoia mode (or secure mode) is going to take a long time. It could be worth ripping with the fast burst mode and see if you can hear the errors/skips.

That’s not right; both audio and data discs are burned and read inside to outside, which is the opposite of vinyl records.

I’m no expert but it’s fairly easy to mitigate.

From https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support: Uninstall the official nvidia, nvidia-lts, or nvidia-dkms packages. Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR

Translates to:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms

In attempting this, I still had a conflict with lib32-nvidia-utils, so this should work better:

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia nvidia-lts nvidia-dkms lib32-nvidia-utils

yay -S nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils

Using yay -Syy nvidia-580xx-dkms lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils means you don’t have to manually approve these replacement packages in the process, I think?

EndeavourOS, BTW

I had a car stereo like this and I soldered a 3.5mm jack to where the audio comes into the main board from the CD player. The pins were even labelled.

A CD had to be playing for the amplifier section to be activated, so I burned a CD of silence that I made in Audacity. 👍

Battlefield 6 by EA, which is now privately owned by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners

My family still runs two of this mobo, but older revisions. I remember hearing about bugs with IOMMU but I can’t recall any USB or other problems.

IOMMU can be disabled in BIOS; it seems that it would only be useful if passing devices through to a virtual machine? Is that a valid assessment?

FUTO is apparently already evil.

Someone should create CoPirate for Linux, that saves a DRM-free local copy of everyone else’s data that goes through your machine. For training purposes, of course.

It splices into the live power cord and supplies the same voltage in parallel. When the connection is verified good, the PC is powered from battery and can be unplugged from the wall.