You guys in the press, with very few exceptions, are not trustworthy

And then he went to Salon ?

If they tell you anything on the first day of President school that you absolutely need to remember: DO NOT FUCK WITH MILITARY MONEY.

He’s been doing that since day one. European countries have cancelled a lot of military orders (Portugal cancelled several billion dollars worth of F35s for example), and he wouldn’t even let Ukraine order Patriot missiles (they weren’t asking for freebies, they were ready with cash). Europe has announced a several Trillion defence initiative which is to be spent on EU arms not US ones…

If the military industrial complex aren’t mad with him yet then they’re not paying attention.

I’ve been in charge of relocating several data centres.

We tore everything down, servers out of racks etc.

All servers, fabric switches drive arrays etc were individually wrapped in bubble wrap then the heavy removalists cloth then into the large metal moving boxes (1500mmx1500mmx1500mm roughly) before being stacked so they couldn’t move around, followed by ratchet straps securing groups of kit together.

All this was done by professional removalists - no reason you can’t do it though.

Basically the principle is flexible padding (bubble wrap) to allow for movement close to the device without impacting it, heavy shock absorbing material (the felt), then put into a robust container (metal box) so limiting impact risk.

I’d strongly recommend NOT to leave them in the rack - a couple of screws vibrate loose and then that device drops onto the one below it, bounces up and down through the journey and wrecks them both.

If it’s a mile up the road, sure, you’ll probably be fine and get away with it, multiple hours on the road ? It’s not surviving it.

The Donald Slump. Making Recession Great again

FFS.

Your compatriots have been telling us for years the reason you can’t do anything about children being massacred in schools is so that y’all can retain the ability to fight back against governmental over-reach

So fight back you bloviated big mouthed all talk no fucking action cunts.

You’ve always been full of shit, now you’re proving it. Leaders of the free world my fucking arse.

Oh come on ! China has an authoritarian govt. Of course it can immediately respond. The EU is an alliance of 27 countries, it takes time to agree a mutual response, which everyone has to agree to, particularly when you have Putain’s trojan horse in the middle of it disrupting everything.

No but it’s the first step. As momentum builds more people are emboldened to protest, and the scope of the protests widen and get more effective.

This sort of statement is typically made by people who want to stall and prevent action. You see it all the time in various forums: “if this activity doesn’t 100% fix everything immediately then there is no point in doing anything”.

Unfortunately we don’t live in a black and white world where a switch can be flipped from awful to wonderful (as if it was even possible for everyone to agree on that). You get there in small incremental steps with messy interactions and disagreements along the way.

Protests like this can lead to ongoing effective resistance like strikes, work to rules and etc. But you don’t get someone to go from never having protested in their lives to manning a blockade of a govt building in one step.

Rightsholders in the EU will lobby against this like rabid dogs. While it would benefit the consumer it would expose their revenue models to the cold calculation of whether the current intellectual is actually worth it on balnce. (Spoiler alert it almost certainly isn’t)

Canada and Australia have significant Uranium reserves, it doesnt need to come from Russia and Kazakhstan. One of the African nations is also a significant source iirc

Timeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync

Natascha ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHgZh4GV9G0&t=30

First sentence of the article

“new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year.”

Well, I’m with you on Putin can go get fucked. But I think you’re misinformed on the “petrodollar empowering Putin”.

The dominance of the US dollar as the currency for settlement of international crude oil contracts advantages predominantly the US and secondarily countries with strong currencies in open exchange with the USD. It disadvantages weaker currencies and those with poorer trade terms with the US such as Venezuela and Russia now the latter has been cut off from the western banking system.

Putin being forced to trade his crude in non dollar denominated contracts is one of the (several) reasons the sale price of muscovy crude is now significantly lower than the equivalent from other countries. (TL;DR the sanctions are working).

China has long been lobbying unsuccessfully to break the petrodollar/USD as world reserve currency and failed so far.

The major US banks are just agents of a (very successful) US foreign policy post WW2. They are indeed evil, but not for this reason

Well I came to say “takes one to know one” but bigger threat than Russia and NK is a big call.

Ethernet over hdmi

https://thehometheaterdiy.com/hdmi-with-ethernet/

https://www.cmple.com/learn/learning-center-hdmi-cables-with-ethernet

They can also hijack the connection of a connected box (ethernet over hdmi) or via a connected phone (bluetooth & chromecast iirc)

I can’t work out if this is well intentioned ignorance or trolling, so I’ll give it the benefit of the doubt and a serious answer.

The first point is there are a huge number of threats to privacy and your online and data security from connecting to the internet even in western countries.

VPNs are not just for protection from govt abuse, in fact their efficacy there is far lower than for several other use cases.

If you’re in the US (for example) and with one of the biggest ISPs then every DNS request being made is (was anyway, I assume still is) logged and your internet usage is then sold off to data brokers to profile you.

So yeah, dont trust your ISP, and if you’re dealing with a VPN that wants all that info then find a better one (proton or mullvad for exampke, you can pay with monero or bitcoin or even cash by snail mail)

Most common reason is running out of disk space. Boot from USB and have a check as to whether the update filled up the disk

My motherboard which is only a few years old (2ish?) has serial port pin outs.

Much better