Why all the downvotes? Haven't visited the links yet but this doesn't sound like a corpo ad; and I didn't think the lemmyverse was against outside linking -- after all we're against walled gardens right? (OK OK discord.. but they also are on libera)
I like the idea of code-as-craft and this interests me.
Well, if there was any doubt there is one law for the rich & well connected, and an entirely different law for the 'plebes', this put that deep in the ground...
Someone should go rip that blindfold off of any 'Blind Justice' statues, it is just gaslighting at this point.
I'm conflicted on whether Canadians should warmly receive any 'conscientious objectors' this time around ('last time around' meaning war objectors in the Vietnam era).
While I understand their desire to flee what they feel is a dangerous domestic situation.. it's not to the same point as the Vietnam War where citizens were being conscripted to fight in a foreign conflict; today, they voted, and they got a government they may not like, but as citizens aren't they supposed to then work to get it back they way they want?
If they're eligible for emigration and can obtain landed immigrant status, fine. But they may have to live with fixing their problem at home, and cannot rely on being able to just pul up stakes and 'ride it out' in another friendly nation. If they end up not liking it in Canada, are they just going to leave there too?
Their boots on the ground and votes at the balloting stations will be needed more than ever in their home country in 2 and 4 years, presuming they'll get a chance to vote again; which is something they need to stay and fight for! (Be that in the courts, the halls of Congress, or even in the streets, heaven forbid).
I am happy that things have converged over time to a single, truly versatile multi-bus capable port (USB-C/Thunderbolt 3) ... however, the vendors IMHO should be legally bound to supply down-converters for all the peripherals that used the older buses for the next 10 years, transitively for 2 generations of buses.
If USB-C supports bus 'X', then there should be inexpensive and easy to purchase down-converters from USB-C to 'X'. If Bus 'X' replaced bus 'Y' in the last 10 years then there should be a down-converter available from bus 'X' to 'Y'.
One problematic example is Firewire.. Apple used to make Thunderbolt-2-to-Firewire800 dongles, but they stopped and now they're rare as hens' teeth and ungodly-expensive.
They still sell Thunderbolt-3-to-2 dongles, but how long will they keep selling those?
Oh, and while I'm wishing for ponies, the drivers/specifications for all such adapters should be open-source and royalty-free.
Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn't that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn't stupidly insane though!
Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.
However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).
I did consider scheduling it, just hadn't gotten around to trying it out.
If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it's gone as soon as practical :)
When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):
net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled
.. be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.
Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that...)
Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.
Ah, good. I wonder why it isn't used more often -- this wouldn't be such a huge problem then I would hope. (Let me guess -- 'convenience', the archenemy of security.)
No idea! I have wondered that myself. In fact why doesn't he do it now, he's the ultimate lame duck prez, there'd be no consequences for him so he absolutely should a few days after the election -- if he truly could (I don't know enough about the details about how he could so do).
If your question is not just rhetorical, I totally agree, 100%.
In fact I wish he'd declare he's dissolving SCOTUS completely, plus a few levels of courts below and appointing non-partisan judges across the board to clean house and reset the decades of theocratic-proto-fascists that appear to have infiltrated the system at all levels. He could, after all, do anything right? The SCOTUS ruled this summer that Presidents have 'absolute immunity', so why not? It would be the ultimate F*ck You to their corruption and would be a historically beautiful way to bow out.
Why all the downvotes? Haven't visited the links yet but this doesn't sound like a corpo ad; and I didn't think the lemmyverse was against outside linking -- after all we're against walled gardens right? (OK OK discord.. but they also are on libera)
I like the idea of code-as-craft and this interests me.