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  • Depriving someone of years of their life isn't a trivial thing. If someone was wrongfully convicted of a crime, the time they spend in jail is time that they could have been spending making a career, saving for retirement, building equity, etc. The things people do to prepare for retirement.

    Should we just say "oops, our bad, no hard feelings right?" and just leave them to be homeless?

  • It's basically just an end you attach to the fiber:

    https://www.gomultilink.com/products/066-222-10?category=44

    You'll use a cleaver to break the fiber at a 90 degree angle to reduce attenuation, and slide it into the connector. Once it bottoms out, you press something down and it grabs the fiber, holding it in place.

    I know it's Youtube, but here's a video of the process:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuKm7t87SJU

    The idea is you would pull a fiber cable through a building and terminate it with ends like these. Then install them into a bulkhead to make them similar to solid-core CAT5/5e/6 cable into a patch panel. You can then use premade jumpers to connect from the building wiring to the devices you're using.

    The fusion machines are generally used for long distance links because of the significantly lower attenuation per splice. A fiber line that goes 40 miles is likely to have tens if not hundreds of splices in it depending on the number of spans of cable, and industry standard for fusion splices is 0.00-0.05 db attenuation per fusion splice.

  • You don't need to fuse every fiber connection unless you're doing really long distance fiber.

    For runs inside a building, single pulls with mechanical splices would work just fine. You shouldn't get much loss as long as there aren't more than two or so mechanical splices.

    Source: worked as a technician for a fiber optic ISP.

  • If you want to fully wipe the disks of any data to start with, you can use a tool like dd to zero the disks. First you need to figure out what your dive is enumerated as, then you wipe it like so:

    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX

    From there, you need to decide if you're going to use them individually or as a pool.

    !< s

  • I'm not disagreeing with anything you've said?

    I'm saying that just adding Mozilla's PPA to your sources won't change apt's behavior when installing Firefox unless you tell apt to prefer the package offered by the Mozilla PPA.

    As someone who uses Kubuntu as a daily driver, I'm well aware of the snap drama and have worked around it using the method I pasted above.

    Even though it's an underhanded move by Cannonical, I'm still glad the OS is open source since it makes the workaround so trivial.

  • It takes a little more than just adding a different repository to your package manager, you have to tell apt which to prefer:

    echo '
    Package: *
    Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org
    Pin-Priority: 1000

    Package: firefox*
    Pin: release o=Ubuntu
    Pin-Priority: -1' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla

  • Biden never had enough control of the whole government to get those things done without Republican buy-in.

    A Republican controlled house won't send a bill like that to the Senate. A Republican controlled Senate won't send it to the President.

    You can be upset at Biden, but we've rarely ever given a Democratic president a Democratic Congress to help him get anything done.

  • They’re both about the same in terms of privacy so that’s quite an irrelevant thing to bring up. Windows sucks infinitely more from an usability perspective, though.

    As someone who has used Linux as their primary desktop OS for about 7 years now, you don't have to tell me that Windows sucks.

    Edit: Oh, one more thing, you don’t have to do some bs hacks to use macOS without an Apple account.

    I don't use any accounts for my OS at all.

  • Apple making a proprietary pinout for NVME is what will keep me from ever giving them money.

    https://assistenciaapplebrasilia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Apple-Propietary-SSD.png

    It's not like Apple uses a different controller, or that they invented a different communication standard. They just put the same communication pins from the same controller on a different physical connector, and charge you 10x for the replacement part. It's why boards like this can work at all:

    https://bartechtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nvme2016macbookPRO-1-678x381.jpg

    If Apple wasn't using standard NVMe controller communication protocols and controllers, these adapter boards wouldn't work at all.

  • The only thing that makes Apple marginally better is that the company spying on you tries to pretend like they're not in it for your sweet data.

    They might not be selling it right now, but only because they keep making money hand over fist from the non-repairable proprietary bullshit they produce. Once that faucet starts to slow down, you better believe they'll be the next Google.

  • 'Bricked' in this sense meaning not that you'd just trash your OS and need a reinstall, but that it could actually stop your computer from booting at all. So the system32 analogy doesn't exactly fit.

    It's because some motherboards implement UEFI in a way that allows important variables to be overwritten by I/O processes. Executing sudo rm -rf /* would recursively go into the EFI parameters folder where the kernel mounts EFI variables and attempt to delete things. Some motherboards allowed these delete operations to remove things in the motherboard's firmware it needs to complete POST, thus rendering the motherboard useless.

    But that's a problem with the motherboard, not with Linux or Windows. The same damage can be caused by Windows.

  • 'Brigading' would be if pro-Linux communities were organizing to specifically target another community.

    The fediverse is likely to attract the kinds of people interested in Linux in the first place, and all the negative attention that community attracts comes organically.

    I talked with the user a bit in Linux_vs_Windows before they were booted from the community, and it's my opinion that they just have a hate-boner going for Linux. It's possible to have valid criticism of Linux, but they go way past legitimate and straight into obsession territory. They tend to post in that community daily. So their points aren't exactly great (though sometimes they hit on a good meme) and they get the points they get naturally.

    It's not a conspiracy, their arguments just tend to be shit.

  • A user made a community called LinuxSucks.

    Poe's law being what it is, it can be hard to tell the difference between satire and someone actually drinking the kool-aid, but having talked to this person and been banned from his little fiefdom, he strikes me as the non-satirical kind of poster.

    Trolls revel in the attention. They want the outrage that comes from interaction, and he's locked down his community, disallowing anyone from posting anything at all last I checked.

    He's taken stances like "Open Source software is inherently bad for society because it takes jobs away from companies" and "the spyware companies like Microsoft build into Windows (IE Windows Recall or any other data aggregation system) are where things are going and you should be happy because you're helping a company make money".

    I'd personally describe him as a Temporarily Embarrassed Billionaire trying to find a cock to deepthroat so he can join their ranks.