CosmicTurtle @ CosmicTurtle @lemmy.world

Due to lemmy.world blocking pirating communities, I will now be using !Cosm

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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

The IT Crowd

I'm imagining the scene from Step Brothers:

Spider: Can you eat the ants but not my eggs?

Frog: YUP! Can you protect me from other things that want to eat me?

Spider: YUP! Did we just become best friends?!

Frog: YUP!

That's not how the ADA works. You could say the same for wheelchair ramps, but ultimately it's on the store owner to reasonably provide accomodations to people who want to use their services. It's not on the disabled person to pick and select who will accommodate them or not. It's why businesses are required to reserve a portion of their parking lot to those with handicap placards. It shouldn't be up to each disabled person to figure out which business they can go to.

What Starbucks is doing would be akin to Walmart charging an extra buck for you to use one of their mobility scooters or an extra $5 if you require the assistance from an employee because you can't reach something.

Maybe I'm cynical but I just don't think any amount of facts are going to change the fact that next quarter's earnings report needs to be higher than last quarter.

This exactly. NAS+RAID gives you a backup of your local media. It can account for one of your three copies and one of your storage mediums. But you still need something off site.

So assuming you had a copy on your computer proper, it could work. Better than no backups.

I wish there was a good way to store a backup of my media. I recently suffered a terrible hard drive issue. I lost a terabyte of media. Fortunately, the pirate ship has saved me and has me rethinking some of my backup methodologies.

Outside of periodically backing up onto an external hard drive, I haven't been able to find a reasonably priced online backup solution that isn't going to fuck me when I have to pull data out. Egress fees are killer.

The problem is that they can't control open source drivers. They could, however, release a printer that ran on proprietary closed source drivers. But they'd have to spend money on developers to maintain that code whereas right now, drivers are more or less stable and developed for free.

What they could do is require the use of HP printer paper, with embedded RFID or watermarks that would be readable by HP printers. I'm honestly surprised they haven't gone down this road.

Privacy: I have blinds on my windows. I control whether they are open or closed, but they aren't secure. You could break a window and look inside if you really wanted to.

Security: my glass storm door has a lock. But privacy is only there when I close the front door.

There is overlap between these two concepts but one does not imply the other.

These states:

• Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming
• Arizona
• California
• Massachusetts
• New York
• Washington

At least Amazon is thinking of the shareholders.

No, there is a Republican party. It's MAGA and a large number of voters who vote R regardless of name.

So many Republican voters simply don't care.

Source: I worked as an election poll worker. The number of people who asked me, "Who are the Republicans?" on ballots where there is no party would shock you.

Unless it's a law, Trump shouldn't receive any security briefings until he's sitting in the office.

Katie, I'm going to give you the same advice that Jen Barkley gave to Leslie.

Get a better job! Don't be the kid that graduates high school and hangs out in the school parking lot. Be the woman who moves away, climbs the ladder, and confidently comes back, and has sex with their hot old English teacher just for kicks.

We need people like you. Do not give up. If you run for President in 2028, I will volunteer!

I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks....but not Amazon.

Copy it over here for those of us that would prefer not to visit that cesspool.

Maybe but it's almost a $2trillion dollar company. Might be a shell, but it's popular.

I'm very familiar with privacy and I use it for some stuff. But I very much prefer to use a credit card if I can.

I wish more banks did virtual cards. The only credit card I have that does is Capital One.

Citi used to. Not sure if they still do.

The hardest thing about Linux Mint is installing all of your software. It's daunting even for very established users.

I moved from Ubuntu to LM a few months ago and I've enjoyed it.