TechNerdWizard42 @ TechNerdWizard42 @lemmy.world

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That's correct, you do not. Like ALL "rights" in the USA, there is another law waiting in the shadows that completely contradicts it or makes it so that it's not possible without it being illegal.

You can protest. But only with permits on public and private land, without trespassing, obeying all police orders even if those are themselves illegal, blah blah blah.

The sooner Americans realize all their freedoms do not exist in reality the sooner something can be done to fix it.

People aren't interested in political discussion. They want TMZ.

Are Americans starting to see all their "rights" are meaningless? You know a few you have on paper. The law has another to take it away EVERY SINGLE TIME. You are not free, you are one misguided DAs decision away from jail and destroying your life. Everything is criminal.

Even the shit laptops come with 256GB nowadays. Saving less than 0.5% of storage on OS optimizations that reduce usability is a poor tradeoff.

Heck even my phone has 1TB... Flash bytes are cheap. If you have a 32GB soldered down chip, buy a flash drive for the price of a BjgMac and voila you've 4x'd your storage.

I also used them for years, then everything blocked and deleted instantly. I have other homelab type friends, same thing happened. Again more anecdote vs anecdote. But if you google about hetzner and this type of activity there are bagillions of reddit threads.

After paying them about a grand a month forever, losing all my "safe data" and having to wait a week for even a response that just says "account has suspicious activity. Disabled". Not a single response after that. And they had the nerve to charge my credit card again at the next payment period. Overall, truly scummy. And I will prevent everyone I can from ever engaging with them.

When hiccups happen, you would hope to be able to at least talk to someone and figure out what's going on. If they don't want to keep your business, fine let me get it out privately. But they don't play that way.

You completely misunderstand bringing control substances, even residue, across a federal border. The US CBP absolutely does charge and prosecute for marijuana. CBP is like the TSA of border crossings, part of Homeland Security. They do not F around with drugs, even marijuana. Heck they'll throw grandma in jail for not having her prescriptions in the proper containers.

Yes you can find many articles about EU261.

But the airlines have adapted by now. Many of the short haul routes became unprofitable because 1 delay worth of compensation was almost 300% total profit for that flight. Meaning if you had 1 delay, you had to fly 3 more planes to just break even. Many routes were adjusted to trains and buses.

Also because of the timeline, when you fly a European carrier you'll notice they just cancel the entire flight right before 24hrs notice period if they think there'll be issues. Anyone who flies often knows flying through Europe with European carriers is a crapshoot for multiday delays. Flying through the US is a crapshoot for multi hour to multiday delays.

And yes I fly around the world 10x times in a slow year. I'm very much aware of how the routes, carriers, and laws work globally. It's easy to see the differences after decades of being engulfed in it.

Yes you can looking many research articles and papers written about EU261

Not quite sure what you're asking but EU261 is the European regulation. You can find lots of articles about it and research papers. This has been around longer than some current pilots have been alive.

https://www.eraa.org/sites/default/files/era_eu261_study_brochure_final_version_26sep.pdf

One such example. Written by a airline group, so heavily biased. But if you take some time to google, you'll see the data.

I agree. But usually you build the infrastructure replacement before exploding the current solution.

As of now, there's no exception for that except if it is an act of god type event like a named storm. Hurricane, no payout. Denver random Thursday blizzard? Payout.

The US has no high speed rail, flying is the only way around.

Are there no Americans left with rational thought?

If you go to a different country, and break a law, you're responsible. You can't just say oops. She brought drugs across an international border. She is 100% at fault.

Now what if she was a Dutch national traveling to the USA and did the exact same thing. A small amount of marijuana. Microscopic amount. Flying into a legal state even, say Colorado as Port of Entry. She'd GO TO FEDERAL PRISON. It's a federal crime, the carry a Class 1 scheduled narcotic into the USA. She could be sitting in the US prisons for 25 years.

And the US does this to people all the time. Sometimes if you're the proper shade of immigrant, they'll chastise you and let you go. Or chastise you, cancel your visa, ban you from the country for 5 or 10 years (or forever) and fly you back to your home country. But often, you are arrested and charged.

If you don't submit to America's heavy handed surveillance laws, you're screwed. Time to make that stop.

On the plus side, the US is catching up to the rest of the world. But as happened in the EU when they did the same thing, prices did go up. Not only to cover these expenses, but limiting routes and canceling city pairs because the liability is too high.

For a real world example, one such city pair I fly between often is generally an hour or so delayed every time. The air space is near 100% capacity so you can't just squeeze in an extra takeoff and landing. The winds are often hurricane level from many directions. Snow in May and June and August happens. Daily hail storms. Daily downpours and thunderstorms. This is normal for a mountainous town. There are 20 flights a day, but they are all whenever and all delayed. Sometimes when the weather clears in the afternoon, the 1pm, 2pm, and 3pm flights all leave at the same time because it's a break.

This compensation rule makes that flight impossible. In the future my bet is there will be 3 scheduled flights a day when there won't be weather issues as likely. Huge number of seats dropped. Ticket prices way up. This will happen everywhere just like it did in Europe.

Someone somewhere has to pay for your constant complaining. And it won't be the airlines themselves. It will be you with ticket prices.

Ah yes the X86 instruction set for mapping.

Everything is a conditional branch loop. Always has been.

Don't give anything. It can disqualify you, but this is no different than asking your grandma for her diary before they let her sit a jury.

If it affects system performance and gives me no noticeable benefit. Otherwise, flash bytes are cheap. I've got 30TB+ in my laptop. Why do I care if I have a 3GB OS or a 2.95GB OS?

This is what fascist countries do. They see something they like and say "gimme". US is such a shithole.

Nice try NSA

You know what sucks? Getting your VPS shut off or account suspended. All your data gone in an instant, not recoverable. You don't have access to the metal, and the metal no longer has access to you.

Hetzner is known for randomly boinking accounts. You update billing info? Whoops maybe shutoff. You login via a VPN, account disabled. Just randomly for no reason, account locked and VPS down.

You have basically zero recourse. Their support staff suck and the immediate reaction is suspend and delete. NEVER use them for anything you don't consider temporary.