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Everybody gangsta until “A stop job is running for …”

yes tyre shops are often extremely busy with very long lines

You can’t get appointments at your tyre shops? I just book a slot in their agenda a few weeks before. Show up, put the car on the bridge, wait 15-20 minutes and I’m off.

with literally no other input needed

Wait, you just let them put on whatever they can get the highest margin on?!

There’s a vast difference between different tire types in terms of stopping distance, wet handling, wear, road noise, comfort, … When I walk into a tire place, you can bet I come prepared with a short list of tires that I’m willing to consider, and a pre-estimation of the price of those tires in my tire size.

Also, the tire size is literally just 3 numbers, and it’s literally there on the tire. Why wouldn’t you know that about your car?

Was thinking more paid remote services are almost always something that’d be better done locally.

But offsite storage is something that per definition can’t be done locally …

I’m not really interested in remote services out side of that - they kinda sounds like a scam

I don’t think they’re a scam. They’re just more honest: you use x amount of storage, you pay for x amount of storage and you can do with it as you like.

It’s not presented as “free” where you actually pay with your data, a dependency on the service and hidden content restrictions.

I mean, you’re not wrong but the problem is that the online storage that you (and most people) think of as “your storage”, is not “your storage” in the same sense as those cabinets and shelves are yours. You’re really just borrowing the storage, and have given the actual owner the right to freely snoop through it and kick you out for anything they find they don’t like.

The only storage that’s actually yours is the one on your computer. That you own. In your house.

Encrypting something with your own key before you upload it is a solution for backups, but you do lose the convenience factor of cloud storage. If you are only using Google Drive for backup, that could work.

The alternative is to use a service with built-in end-to-end encryption.

How was it lost?

Because you put it in the hands of a third party who is not accountable to you, and gave them full control over it. Whether they exercise that control via AI or a human is rather irrelevant here. There are plenty of documented cases of people losing their account in pre-AI times due to human moderation.

that AI is to be boycotted

I don’t think the AI part is the relevant bit here.

I think the message should be that trusting your data to off-site storage where it is subject to third-party moderation should be boycotted. So boycott Google Drive, One Drive, icloud and keep your data on your own computers.

Especially since memory training on DDR5 can take upwards of a minute.

Just FYI: most bioses have a setting to save the memory training, so it doesn’t have to be re-done each boot. On an Asus board it’s called “Memory Context Restore”.

Oh wow, he appeared as one of the bad guys in the movie Tetris. Didn’t realize he was the father of …

It’s “coffee” for people who don’t really like coffee and want to drink something warm with cream, sugary syrup and artificial flavoring.

Cronjob? I’m not a systemd evangelist or anyting, but certbot literally has a timer included in the package that you just have to enable to make it run twice a day: systemctl enable certbot.timer

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The laws can absolutely be written such that companies are required to suspend service to any suspected child without requiring ID to use the service.

The laws shouldn’t focus on “harming children” so much, but on “harming humans”.

The big tech companies should be held responsible for the actual damage they are inflicting upon society, and their methods to artificially inflate “engagement” (or whatever the hell they call it) should be held to scrutiny. Whether or not the damage is inflicted upon an underage person or an adult, is merely a distraction.

Those assholes would love it if we all had to identify ourselves and prove our age, if it means they get to keep inflicting their shit upon us.

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