user224

joined 2 years ago
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Firefox on Android doesn't even have the "ignore" option :(

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 20 hours ago

I am probably not the right person to answer, but to me it seems decent.
Hell, under current conditions, half the price is in that RAM.

Anyway, for the use case, definitely seems fine.

Now, for me the minimum requirements for such use case, if Windows isn't required, are simply a 64 bit CPU, 4GB of RAM, and an SSD. SSD makes a really huge difference.
It's now been maybe 2 years that it died, but I've been doing fine with a Core 2 Duo T7500, 4GB of RAM, Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT and random 128GB SSD powered laptop. It only struggled when I tried to use it for YouTube... and when I tried Gentoo on it. The compilation took 3 days just for me to realize I screwed up something in the config and had no network.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

So, plans?

The second one would probably be cheaper directly through ČD.
Edit: Yep, 416Kč ≈ €17.13

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 22 hours ago

Huh, that one sure sounds familiar.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

An odd thought I had, if it was possible to transfer human brains from one body to another without any high risks, do you think trans people of opposite gender would still undergo typical surgery or trade bodies?

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 2 days ago

Stabbed in the heart.
"Let's call that heart attack."

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is my mom.
"I'd divorce, but that's against the god."

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nemecko
Nemý

Never realized that.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

What about more extreme cases, say Castaway (movie) type situation. Stranded on an island in middle of nowhere.

But conveniently, one of the packages has a functional 2m battery powered radio and a Yagi too. There's no one you can make contact with, except... the ISS.
What if the ISS was the only station you could contact?
"Hello International Space Station, I am stranded on an island after a plane crash. Can you help?"

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Free Starlink during disasters for everyone, but for ~~surveilence~~ child protection and anti-terrorism you must accept X as a Certificate Authority.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I asked a lecturer some question, I think it was what happens when bit shifting signed integers.
He asked an LLM and read the answer.
Similarly he asked an LLM how to determine memory size allocated by malloc. It said that it was not possible, and that was the answer. But a 2009 answer from stack overflow begged to differ.
At least he actually tried it out when I told him.

But at this point I even had my father send me an LLM written slop that was clearly bullshit (made up information about non-existent internal system at our college), which he probably didn't even read as he copied everything including "AI answers may be inaccurate."

 

Do they have like, free time or something?

In high school it was also not rare that I'd say submit my homework at 02:30, get it graded at 03:00 and then we'd meet in a class on same day at 07:00.
Anyone getting sleep?

 
 

According to the prosecution, Glukhikh searched for pictures of Azov insignia on Google while he was on the bus on the morning of 24 September, though how the security forces had been made aware of the search was not disclosed.

The case materials include an image of Glukhikh’s phone lying on the table, clearly displaying the search query he is accused of making.

Bruh...

 
 

Top image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/9ol79n/are_we_doing_blurry_server_cats_now/

Seen on Cisco Catalyst 3560G during pirated software update (just for playing around, not production use).
The checksums were verified against Cisco download center.

 
 

Sorry for the Imgur link, catbox wasn't loading as image, just as a link again: https://files.catbox.moe/j3a7cl.PNG

 

So, I got this. But I also know these things aren't the most reliable and I am really paranoid about breaking it, and there's some suspicious things.

First, it feels cheap, especially the USB port on the back feels like it wants to break off.

Second, and quite worrying, when I first got it, it was clicking and not reading disks. Slower when I held it with the opening towards the top, faster with opening towards bottom. I thought it was dead, when eventually after a few retries it started working. Now, this was faster clicking, especially fast shortly before it started working, so perhaps it was just stuck.
On the other hand, I found this: https://www.grc.com/tip/codfaq2.htm

Most users who have lost their crucial data tell the same sad story of hearing "those clicks" some time ago "but then they went away and everything seemed okay for a while."

Now, 2 of the disks also had some smaller issues. One had trouble loading. Formatting it seems to have fixed the issue. Maybe. I used fdisk so it left out the first 1MB.
The second loads fine, but doesn't seem to like writing. It seems to do it in bursts, and it is audible. There's also 2 sections where it produces a buzz, both on read and write.
Here's an audio sample from continuous (one file) write to that disk:

https://files.catbox.moe/yo6g50.flac

Current ideas

Checking disks for damages by pulling back the metal cover and rotating the disk manually, looking for stuff like this: https://www.grc.com/tip/codfaq4.htm or anything suspicious (the white cloth inside is too close and hairy for my liking).

Peeking into the drive to check for head damage and dirt.

Treating it like I treat running HDDs (do not unpower without parked heads, avoiding movement and vibrations), and generally being careful even when off (avoiding drops).

 

Approximately EUR 8 including shipping. Still sealed (probably - if not re-sealed).
There's definitely some more stuff in the box like a manual and driver disc that I can hear moving around. After all, the boxes are fairly large compared to what you'd get today.

I'd want to unpack them... but I also don't because they survived so long. I don't know. Maybe if I'll get yet another one...

Here's a look at the entire box:

Specs:
Bluetooth 1.2 Class 1
USB 1.1

Minimum requirements:
300MHz CPU
128MB RAM
Windows 98SE

So what about the Class 1?
Typically the devices you use are Class 2 with Tx power of up to 2.5mW and range of around 10m.
Class 1 can go up to 100mW with range of around 100m. Assuming both ends are same class. Otherwise you're just causing more interference on 2.4GHz.
https://www.sharetechnote.com/html/Bluetooth_Specification.html#Bluetooth_Classes_and_Ranges

It also has an external antenna giving it some cool factor.

 

Bought online for EUR 22.

At first I got worried because it was just clicking. I thought I got one with the click of death, But after some 15 minutes of several retries, it got quieter and eventually started loading disks.

Curiosity killed the cat. I was curious to see what's on them:

The ones on left had no files, the 2 on right did. Mostly the F disk. The top one had some program called powerdvd 4.

On the F one, photorec found some TTF files (fonts), exe files, 4 second videos of motorcycle speeding up and fireworks, CompCore Multimedia inc. SoftPeg bitmap banner, and some random TXT files with variables and program descriptions.

Stored undeleted were game saves of following games: Etherlords, Gorasul, Hooligans, Operation Flashpoint (incl. exe), Renegade, Sacrifice, Serious Sam - The second encounter

There were also some spreadsheets with lists of games, and of course RAR archive with colection of generic porn.

The only interesting file is spreadsheet with list of compenents for a "new computer". Most files were dates around 2002.
Case - Miditower ATX
MOBO - Microstar MS KT266 Pro2 RU VIA PRO266A
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 1900+ Socket A
Cooler - Evercool MT2 Platinum Socket A DMI
RAM - DDR PC333 CL2.5 Kingmax 256MB
FDD - Alps 3.5" 1.44MB
HDD - Seagate ST340016A, Barracuda IV, 2MB (buffer), 7200rpm
GPU - Microstar MS8853 G3 Titan 500 Pro, 64MB TVout
Network - Ovislink

 

Source: https://meow.social/@yellowdog/115132494291526535

I lied, there's no Netflix.
Instead I have a local Jellyfin server with twenty terabytes of pirated media.

116
G GG (files.catbox.moe)
 

Found being sold online.

view more: next ›