I was actually hoping to see that as a defense. The principal thing that copy enforcement corps always cite is ‘we downloaded a copy from their IP, thus they made a copy and distributed the work’.

If this works as a defense here then in effect they make direct download portals legal for the users at least.

Somehow advanced quantum computing ends up with a steampunk aesthetic.

Separate cancer phone that you only use on WiFi would be my guess, short of the oft cited switching banks. Alternate could be to put payments all on a card and only use the card issuer’s site to make payments to them so you don’t have to directly interact with the bank.

I’ve been doing prints for probably 10+ years now and have yet to make one of these. Cute as it is I never quite got why that became the defacto standard test.

Just need to be sure to buy all the flairs and special options and it’ll surely work this year…

I think I get what you mean, but validating the origin of a particular piece wouldn’t do much for verifying the content. So such of the misinfo that’s put out is taking some small snip of a broader story and reframing it in a way that makes the situation out differently.

My 2018 Chev Trax may be the perfect level of tech for my tastes. Climate stuff is all physical, but it has a nice screen that you can hook a phone to through a USB or Bluetooth to pass maps/audio/calls through it with the audio and calls being controllable by buttons on the wheel.

The only actual car operation buttons on the screen are things you wouldn’t do when driving anyhow like decide if it locks automatically or setting the default volume.

Most obnoxious thing it does is keep reminding me that the sat radio subscription is expired when I start it.

Absolutely fucking not.

Though it does sound like a good kicker for the after market systems to make a comeback.

Generally yes, but it can be useful as a learning thing. A lot of my homelab use is for purposes of practicing with different techs in a setting where if it melts down it’s just your stuff. At work they tend to take offense of you break prod.

I’ve used MinIO as the object store on both Lemmy and Mastodon, and in retrospect I wonder why. Unless you have clustered servers and a lot of data to move it’s really just adding complexity for the sake of complexity. I find that the bigger gains come from things like creating bonded network channels and sorting out a good balance in the disk layout to keep your I/O in check.