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A huge amount of security camera NVRs run Linux, so that's something.

Is this the equivalent of a PC maker in 2024 going "yeah, I don't think we are going to put a floppy drive in anymore..."?

Unpopular opinion: I think "Hurt" itself is overrated, and everyone just likes it because it happened to become one of the hit songs off the Downward Spiral. I think songs like Mr. Self Destruct and Eraser are what you really want if you want a display of raw, fucked up emotions.

All my fellow edgy 90s goth/headbanger friends: "He called it 'Nine Inch Nails' because that was the size of the nails that were used to nail Jesus to the cross"

Then watching an interview with Trent in a documentary 20 years later: "I just thought it sounded cool at the time".

There's nothing that anyone can do in 2024 in the MS Office suite of applications specifically that I can't find a third party or cloud equivalent of to do the exact same thing.

a valuable and required skill for any future job - basic Windows and Office usage.

Not everybody is a data-entry drone. I have no use for it, and I have a technical career.

Don't you love freezing when you go to bed, waking up in the middle of the night in a pool of sweat, and then several hours later freezing again?

Nintendo quietly shows Apple Yuzu's corpse in their trunk while slowly and audibly tapping a baseball bat against the ground behind their back...

Also who the hell thinks it is a good idea to send nudes to Meta?

It was eye-opening when I realized I'm the only one in my circle who gives a shit about online privacy. You and me and most of the Fediverse are a rare minority. This is normal to people now. If you told people in the 90s about this they'd rightfully call it a dystopia. I remember my mother being super paranoid about me going online back then. Boiling frog situation here.

Those might be tears.

Me, not much of a gamer and not a movie buff and having no issues with the way monitors have been displaying things for the past 25 years: No.

When I could no longer see the migraine-inducing flicker while being irradiated by a particle accelerator shooting a phosphor coated screen in front of my face, I was good to go.

It was exciting when we went from green/amber to color!

https://i.imgur.com/qeccUlZ.png

Yeah, you only have to look at these once. Absolutely no point except eye-candy for a fleeting moment.
.I don't even care for graphical boots. Give me all the boot messages scrolling by.

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Dude chill! There may be minors here.

Of course the Lemmyverse would know all about that, wouldn't it?

It's fucking infuriating to think about the fact that these fucknuts affect my life and decide certain things for it. Religion is gonna have an iron grip on society until the day I die, isn't it?

I set it up to alert my smart speakers when it's done so my family doesn't leave their laundry in the washer to mold and rot all day. That's about all I use the smart features for. And I do it through a 3rd party open source home automation solution.

If it's got a full general purpose CPU and OS, yeah it can be vulnerable, but a lot of IoT stuff use microcontrollers that run one monolithic program. There's usually no other OS services or hidden exploits to use, I'm having trouble imagining how you'd break out of such a device once you've taken control of it, if you can at all. Can a smarter person correct me if I'm wrong, and explain how chips like the common ESP32 and ESP8266 are vulnerable to attack? Maybe through the RTOS and Wifi stack?

I'm an embedded hobbyist so I'd like to learn about securing my own devices.

Don't be so sure, plenty of technically inclined people exist on the right. A lot of old Gen-X and Boomer tech graybeards are sucked into this shit.