aeronmelon
@aeronmelon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Worthy mod to pick up 1 day ago:
vault dweller loses an arm
House: “Start a lab and put him on interferon.”
- Comment on World Of Warcraft will get a new premium currency alongside Midnight for no obvious good reason at all 4 days ago:
I was thinking about going back to it.
- Comment on A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light 2 weeks ago:
In Japan, it’s a law that even software cameras have to make a loud “shutter” sound to guard against voyeuristic photography.
There’s a little cottage industry of third-party camera apps on the Japanese App Store that do little more than replace the default shutter sound with a custom sound… like silence.
- Comment on A single DNS race condition brought AWS to its knees 2 weeks ago:
As with most IT troubleshooting,
Time spent applying the fix: 15 minutes.
Time spent identifying the problem then discovering where it is in the system: 15 hours.
- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion 1 month ago:
“How could EA possibly get worse?”
Like this.
- Comment on Microsoft forced to make Windows 10 extended security updates truly free in Europe 1 month ago:
They were going to CHARGE for security updates?
How is Microsoft in 2025 worse than Microsoft in 1995?
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 1 month ago:
“Under his eye.”
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office 2 months ago:
No, I’m going to keep using LibreOffice.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 2 months ago:
“Just a little bit of history repeatin’”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
The Cyber Police are real?
Consequences will never be the same.
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 2 months ago:
7Zip - Windows & Linux
Keka - Mac
I understand it’s hard to move off of a trusted solution that has worked perfectly for so long, but there have been better alternatives for well over a decade now.
- Comment on Come slide with me through loopy shooter maps in this homage to Counter-Strike's beloved Source engine surfing 3 months ago:
Okay, sorry, I thought that was the Windows pipes screensaver.
- Comment on Russia and Belarus plan to create AI model based on “traditional values” 3 months ago:
The People’s Grok.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 3 months ago:
Drone-B-Gone ™
- Comment on FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse 4 months ago:
Cute.
I have a 256GB microSD card that disappears into the side of my MacBook.
This is perfect for people who have too much desk.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 4 months ago:
Maybe stick to making vanity records for the superfans / vinyl collectors.
- Comment on Lorde Fans Are Complaining That Her New Translucent CD Won’t Play on Their CD Players 4 months ago:
Translucent != transparent, but you might be on to something.
Maybe it works better on slim drives with a lower ceiling. Larger drives with space above the disc might allow the laser to refract and generate garbage.
- Comment on Windows 12 release is pushed back at least another year as Microsoft announces Windows 11 version 25H2 4 months ago:
Consumers knew about 2000 because Me was such dogshit regular people started using 2000 despite the drawbacks.
Most consumers didn’t know or care about Windows NT, or Windows 2003, 2008, and so on.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 months ago:
aw…
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
That doesn’t make syncing the same as backing up, that’s an actual backup service with a sync feature added to it.
By all means, share links to such services if you have any.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
If you’re going to go through all that trouble, you’re not going to target Google Drive outside of a proof of concept, just remove it from your workflow and make life way less complicated.
Buy inexpensive server access in a neutral country and apply that logic to it. So much more freedom & privacy, so much more reliability.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
It does not excuse Microsoft eight bits. ;)
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
You’re conflating syncing with backing up, and unfortunately that very thing is what confuses so many not-tech savvy people into thinking cloud syncing is the same as an actual recoverable backup.
If you found a service that does actual hard backups with versioning and still makes accessing those fils as easy as cloud storage, awesome! Post links to that.
That is a valid offsite backup solution. Google Drive is not.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
Anything that syncs doesn’t actually backup. It’s just a mirror. If something happens to one of them, that deletion/corruption might get synced to the other one before you can recover it.
Online backup is a different and valid thing, it’s an actual static preservation of a version of the files at some point in time that isn’t automatically edited or removed based on the contents of another device.
- Comment on User says access to ’30 years of photos and work’ in OneDrive denied by Microsoft, can't get a response after filing form 18 times — 'Microsoft suspended my account without warning, reason, or any leg 4 months ago:
Cloud storage is NOT A BACKUP!
- Comment on Makers of air fryers and smart speakers told to respect users’ right to privacy 4 months ago:
In a world where an air fryer needs access to your contacts, build a pit in your backyard.
- Comment on Why a picture of 'one banana and four apples' could be censored in China: Leaked files reveal how Beijing is using AI to erase the history of the Tiananmen Square massacre 5 months ago:
I wanna know where I can buy watermelon-sized apples.
- Comment on France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it 5 months ago:
They have better lasers than France, IIRC.
- Comment on Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI 6 months ago:
The last thing we need is for that owl to become autonomous.
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 6 months ago:
Not with that attitude, they won’t.
