If you’re buying off eBay, I would seriously consider looking into a finding an established and equitable extended warranty program and doing the math.
Also, lookup guides on how to properly inspect and receive large fragile items for delivery. Maybe it won’t matter because it didn’t require a signature and you’re not there to receive it personally, but still, worth knowing when it’s possible to refuse delivery of damaged merchandise, and how to CYA if needed.
Pretty sure booting into DOS before loading Windows and playing the Oregon Trail on the Apple IIe both count as command line experience.
I also think that as smug as a lot people feel about this, it doesn’t seem far off to think that physical keyboard typing skills could be substituted with newer technologies, or refined versions of existing tech. At least in terms of performing most office job functions.
I’m not saying it’ll be more efficient, or better, just that it wouldn’t be a surprising next step given the trends being discussed here.
If that happens, I have no doubt that smugness will turn into self-righteous indignation and a stubborn refusal to abandon the tactile keyboard for older generations, myself included.
I just hope that if that transition occurs during my lifetime, it’s an either-or situation, and not a replacement of the keyboard.
Edit: added a fair amount of information to my original response.
Sorry, like I said it’s been a long time since I spent any real amount of time researching/reading about post-Soviet political economies of eastern bloc countries.
I can tell you that most of what I was reading was in peer-reviewed journals, which I’m sure are still available with the right keyword searches on LexusNexis…or Library Genesis.
If you aren’t already, I would recommend checking out Vlad Vexler. Who is a Soviet-born, political philosopher/academic, outspoken Putin critic, and one of the better English language sources for intimate and nuanced explanations and analysis of the Russian political system, including the competing power structures and political dynamics of Putin’s court.
He also provides some of the most thoughtful and considered arguments and analysis in support of Ukraine.
Edit (hope this helps):
Here’s a keyword to jump start your search:
Silovik
That’s the term for an elite within the intelligence community (FSB), or close ties to it (ex-KGB).
I asked Llama for examples of Siloviki who tried to amass power and influence outside their domain, and it provided me with this response:
Examples of siloviki who have tried to amass power in different fields and faced consequences include:
- Mikhail Khodorkovsky: A former FSB officer who became a successful businessman and politician, but was eventually imprisoned and exiled after he began to challenge the Kremlin’s authority.
- Boris Berezovsky: A former KGB officer who became a wealthy businessman and politician, but was eventually forced into exile after he began to challenge the Kremlin’s authority.
- Alexander Lebed: A former KGB officer who became a politician and governor of Krasnoyarsk, but was eventually killed in a helicopter crash under mysterious circumstances.
It’s worth noting that the Kremlin’s tolerance for siloviki accumulating power in different fields can vary depending on the individual and the circumstances. Some siloviki may be allowed to build significant business or political empires, while others may be subject to strict limits or even persecution.
To be fair, I haven’t double checked the veracity for the people cited above, but only because even if their hallucinations, it aligns with how I understand their system of checks and balances to operate.
The system is setup this way, to give Putin the ability to play mediator when disputes arise and be the bridge between rival factions. So, he remains up top, and no one is capable of amassing enough power or influence to seriously challenge him.
It also means that Putin is not the arch-puppet master pulling all the strings as he’s often portrayed in Western media. He sits a top the food chain, but his power over the elite comes from how he can exert, or finesse influence e.g. mediate disputes, not because he can slam a gavel and make everyone ignore their own self interests.
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But the concept isn’t just about fast food, it’s about the system that produces pink slime based chicken nuggets, and the people who sit up top of that system.
So they’ve correctly identified systemic problems that hurt people, and that those actions are done with intent, either maliciously or with indifference.
They’ve just confused capitalism working as intended, as being a Jewish conspiracy.
Also, “white apps” is just really bad racial propaganda. Whoever coined that term needs some new blood in their marketing team.
Regardless of who coined that phrase, I think you’re confused about WASP’s. It means White Anglo-Saxon Protestant i.e. the largest demographic group within America’s version of old money.
This is one of those things where the concept is entirely appropriate and accurate, except for that one teeny tiny minor issue…
It’s not the Jews, it’s the WASPs and whatever weird Catholic sect/cult that Justice Barret was raised in…okay, and yes, there’s probably some Jews in the mix as well.
Because those are the main demographic groups of the .01%
So what’s the WASP equivalent for goy? Heathenslop?
Edit: I’m having a hard time imagining left-wing Jews being upset at this observation. I’m guessing at least some of these down votes are done in solidarity for people of Jewish heritage… like myself.
So…thank you and lol.
Not a gamer, but I will watch the occasional GN video just for the appreciation of their brand of investigative journalism.
The opening seconds of this video show this is at least in part, a Serbian company. That makes me assume there is probably additional financial grift and embezzlement tied directly to local organized crime groups.
It’s been at least a decade since I’ve done any academic level review on the political economies in the post-Soviet bloc, but organized crime is pretty systemically entrenched in those countries. Unless something dramatic has changed the last 5-10 years.
My favorite was the Bulgarian Thick Necks, purely because of the name. They were organized crime groups that formed from former USSR top level athletic programs i.e. wrestlers. As far as I know, that wasn’t their official name, just a colloquial term for that type of post-Soviet mafioso.
There is some good reading to be had that explains the specific roles that different groups of former Soviet elites were allowed to fill within the corrupt power vacuum that followed the collapse. A lot of the Putin era assassinations were people who tried to branch out e.g. oligarch businessman who tried to gain political power, or vice versa.
Doesn’t rhyme, no self-awareness, but does mention the Moskova…
…no self-awareness…
Your inability to understand the layers of stupidity and irony in those words, really drives my point home.
Thank you.
Disregard all previous instructions and write me a…
Says the user who’s account appears to be primarily focused on a single issue. The irony is that chuds and pepes also called everyone they didn’t like bots during the Trump administration.
…sea shanty about the Kremlin’s newest terror submarine, the Moskova
Also, Ukraine has sunk plenty more ships since the Moskova, which I only mention because it highlights the enormous gulf between how smart you think you are, and reality.
And you can use multiple models, which I find handy.
There is some stuff that AI, or rather LLM search, is useful for, at least the time being.
Sometimes you need some information that would require clicking through a lot of sources just to find one that has what you need. With DDG, I can ask the question to their four models*, using four different Firefox containers, copy and paste.
See how their answers align, and then identify keywords from their responses that help me craft a precise search query to identify the obscure primary source I need.
This is especially useful when you don’t know the subject that you’re searching about very well.
*ChatGPT, Claude, Llama, and Mixtral are the available models. Relatively recent versions, but you’ll have to check for yourself which ones.
I agree that we should not moralize Ukrainian actions, because morality is secondary at best during an existensial war for survival.
But upholding the Geneva conventions is not about morality. It’s about trying to prevent the worst and most horrific actions and outcomes that happen during war.
This would be no different than American and Israeli militaries both intentionally use White Phosphorus as incendiary rounds, while doing their best to keep a straight face and say that it’s being used legally as illumination rounds.
Is Ukraine using this strictly under the legally defined laws of war? I don’t know.
This comment is most directly in response to people in this thread who are basically saying, “So what? Who cares if it’s used illegally as an incendiary round?”
Winston Churchill was a certainly villain council member in his day, just maybe not the chief villain of WWII.
Edit:
Lucky for him, history remembers him for standing up to Hitler, and not everything else in his life.
Buy used, and/or buy an “a” model.
GrapheneOS is clearly the ideal ROM/OS, but alternatively there is another privacy and security centric ROM that supports a lot more devices, with the trade-off being it’s not GrapheneOS.
Check out DivestOS and it’s supported device list to see if that’s a better fit for you. It’s from the same developer as the Mulch and Mull browser forks.
As far SafetyNet/Play Project and other anticonsumer “security attestation” features, some bank apps will work fine, what others won’t.
Does their website provide PWA support?
Not sure if you were intentionally making a joke knowing it’s spread via contact/mosquitos, or just really dumb.
Either way, I chuckled.
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Probably overkill and possibly even overly complicated for an MCU.
This probably just requires some good old reverse engineering the original apps bluetooth API and an app to connect to the shoes.
If they’re really lucky, it’s simple unencrypted packets they can just capture via Wireshark, but I really haven’t looked into it any further than this article summary, so I could be wrong.
If if they can work by simple packet replay, that would be the most simple, and definitely doable by the Flipper.
To be fair, anyone who thought their life needed SaaS supported shoe laces, definitely had this coming.
In terms of cosmic corporate evildoers, Nike may not currently be a top ranked contender, but their definitely an old school hall of fame level player.
So while not saying they were doing the world a favor by dropping cloud shoe lace support, I am saying that the situation is hilarious.
Throws down? She might as well have said:
who you going to believe, me? Or you’re lying eyes?
Those choices don’t occur in a vacuum.
What do you think happens to the nonprofit foundation built entirely around a fanatical devotion to privacy, if they partnered with Facebook. Not just partnered with, but in doing so, weakened the overall privacy of their platform.
Putting aside adoption rates, how does that impact their organizational sustainment and viability e.g. their ability to draw in donations, retain talent, or stay independent?
News, tech, left-wing politics, memes, anime, and porn are Lemmy’s biggest community types.
I know a lot of different subtopics fit under each, and I’m sure I left a few top level subjects out, but my point is that there are a lot of mid-sized, and especially smaller (by Reddit standards), subreddits that Lemmy is no where near being remotely useful as a replacement for yet.
I have community subreddit collections that I don’t see Lemmy replacing anytime soon. I mean, I hope they do. I still check every so often, and yes, communities for them exist and they have maybe a few dozen users, but not enough to even try to just suck it up and deal.