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[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Then do so and we’ll post the link to their story here when we see it.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 4 points 6 months ago

They look almost identical!

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 13 points 6 months ago

Maybe if they made cars people wanted at affordable prices this wouldn’t be an issue?

The article keeps talking about China gaining ground but if these companies had gotten a jump on affordable EVs years ago instead of fighting emissions targets this wouldn’t have been an issue in the first place.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

This might be overkill but I run an xrdp and just remote into it from any device. Tablet phone laptop etc with an rdp app. If you need it on the go you would also want something like tailscale or WireGuard as a vpn to access the computer while away from home

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks for the heads up!

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 6 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Assuming the drive writes normally a simple command like

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sdX

Where sdX is the location of the drive should do the trick. Depending on drive time this may take a bit.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 23 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I stopped going to Kroger grocery stores mostly over price but honestly even if they lowered prices I wouldn’t go back specifically because of this feature. It’s more pleasant to shop at Walmart or Safeway as they don’t use this kind of system.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

I haven’t heard of the pfas lawsuit, man I’m glad the first time I heard about these things was when the caffeine lawsuit started. Apparently the lawsuit is alleging high levels of 8 different pfas compounds.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 2 points 6 months ago

This was a few drives ago but there was a point in time when most places were giving me digital copies of tax documents which I could upload to tax prep software but things like TurboTax didn’t have an auto import. So you’d need to download them then re-upload them to the correct service. Now they do it automatically so the only thing that would match that now now is receipts for expenses/donations and what not that I need to keep track of for manual entry.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I started encrypting once I moved to having a decent number of solid state drives as the tech can theoretically leave blocks unerased once they go bad. Before that my primary risk factor was at end of life recycling which I usually did early so I wasn’t overly concerned about tax documents/passwords etc being left as I’d use dd to write over the platters prior to recycling.

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

True, but why are we making food contraband in the first place? That seems incredibly unnecessary

[–] socphoenix@midwest.social 33 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Can’t we just return him to South Africa? We don’t really want him either

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