[-] renzev@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

A lot of "hardware raid" is just a separate controller doing software raid. I thought I lost access to a bunch of data when my raid controller died, before I realized that I could just plug the disks directly into the computer and mount them with mdadm. But yes, hardware raid seems a bit pointless nowadays.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Maybe by the makers of flatpak, maybe by the app developers

This falls on the app developers. They're supposed to be using something called XDG desktop portals. It opens a filepicker window on the host, the user selects which file they want, and that specific file gets passed through into the sandbox automatically, no permissions needed. Though it's not perfect either -- AFAIK there's no way to pass though a directory using XDG portal, and drag-and-drop is broken (at least on X11). For command-line apps (tho it's not really what flatpak was designed for), the equivalent is the --file-forwarding option.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

I really wish there was like a lil i2c port on the back of every device so you could just plug in a lil clock synchronizer thingy and it would tell the device what time it is. Like it probably wouldn't even cost that much to implement for the manufacturers. Standardizing on the connector and protocol would be a bitch tho

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Defederated social media lol

[-] renzev@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm curious, where exactly do you draw the line with your reasoning? You can denounce dumping oil into the ocean without convicting all of Shell? You can denounce the invasion of Crimea without convicting all of the Russian military? You can denounce murder without convicting all murders? Why not skip this alltogether and denounce all bad things without convicting all good things, that makes the game of ethics a whole lot easier.

"western civilization" is not a majority. It's a minority who has been dominating the discussion for way too long, and people are tired of listening to the hypocrisy.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world -5 points 6 days ago

So denouncing genocide is now "political extremism"? If posts like that are scaring people away, that's good, we don't need them here.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Yes exactly. When reddit pulled that api pricing shit, I just got up and left. I came here expecting shitposts, braindead "hot" takes, piss-poor reading comprehension, and americans acting like they're the only country in the world. I got exactly what I expected and I couldn't be more satisfied, 10/10 would nuke my reddit account again.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

If the skin is punctured then yes of course it would hurt a lot. But with sweat/saltwater? I'm no expert, but I highly doubt it. I remember helping a friend out with his boat (also 12v) during a hot summer, and I was holding onto the battery terminals with really sweaty hands. It was just a tingle.

[-] renzev@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago

I don't have a particular scene, but a here's a funny conversation I had with an acquaintance:

Huh, this thing takes just 12 volts. Could run it in a car.

Wait, a car's electricals are just 12 volts?

Yeah. The battery and most wiring around a car is 12 volts.

Wait.. then what about those scenes in movies where they torture people with car batteries?

Yeah, those are fake.

looking into the distance as the realization dawns on him Those movie directors deserve jail time.

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It's funny when armchair experts insist that the fediverse won't catch on because "federation is too hard to understand" when arguably the most widespread communication system on the internet follows the same model

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It's impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

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I heard some people say theyre the same thing, but others are adamant that they have different meanings. Which is it?

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[-] renzev@lemmy.world 262 points 7 months ago

A technology that was made To Stop Criminals™ being used against a political whistleblower? Color me surprised! (thanks for sharing the link btw, didn't know about that)

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