ares35 @ ares35 @kbin.social

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dinglebutt would have been lower, but there were only that many eligible names this go-around.

even Republican participants in the survey viewed him [Trump] as being among the five worst presidents

and yet republicants are still lining-up to lovingly change his diaper and vote for him.

system disk encryption is possible, yes.

we still play that game. at least once every week or two, i'm calling a 'lost' phone from another or using the handset locator on a cordless system.

imho getting windows-based games running on linux isn't for someone 'new' to linux. they gotta get their feet wet first, and mint is an excellent choice for that... or they will be spending all their gaming time--not gaming.

here in the boonies, every cellular carrier, every internet provider, every--everything... goes out with single fiber cut. even cable tv goes dark since they took out local headend here (connected now via fiber to a town an hour away).

except for POTS, and the voice and data carried on it. when the whole town gets cut-off from the outside world for a whole day or more, which has happened four times in the last four years. the good ol' shitty telco is still going; their cables are separate, and go entirely different directions out of town.

that's why we still have a landline at the office; having a line-powered phone for when the power goes out (also not uncommon) is just a bonus.

it's nypost, did you expect accuracy?

why create something new when they have a huge back catalog to reboot over and over and over?

there's still the very real possibility they're hoovering all the encrypted data, too. and storing the stuff to/from 'interesting' end points for later 'analysis'--that is, if they don't already have the current tech broken.

all you have to do then is lower your own 'rating' so far that finding someone 'worse' would be impossible.

company that profits from porn piracy sues for piracy of porn.

dinglebutt doesn't pay his bills.

so then, we shouldn't expect these foreign aid 'loans' to be paid back, either.

might as well simplify the paperwork and just grant the assistance as 'aid' like 'usual'.

i'm on a 'budget' plan, where the bill is the same every month, adjusted once per year. the muni-run utility always adds more on top of estimated average bill--which i then have to pay. i always have a surplus built-up at the end of the 'year' of at least 1.5-2x the monthly bill amount. and no, they don't pay interest on the surplus, but they certainly do charge late fees and interest if you ever fall behind or don't pay for a month or two.

'unwelcome'. of course. but this is no surprise. they jacked-up rates for new subs nearly a year ago, while leaving existing ones alone. that reprieve is now over.

it's not 'all the time'. far from it. usually only one, sometimes two, windows. i don't go into the lesser-used ones very often at all. like i said, different purposes--some of which are infrequent but require different configurations.

the portable 'installs' can also be zipped-up, put on (and run from) flash, moved to or replicated on different systems, all easier than backing-up and restoring individual profiles.

i quit using profiles ages ago. i use different 'installs'. each is for different purposes and they each have a different mix of addons and user scripts|styles.

i have firefox installed normally, plus i have firefox developer edition, waterfox, librewolf, and even a seamonkey (some 'portable', some 'installed'). any or all can be run at the same time as the others. profiles are separate and there's no conflicts.

when i need it, i extract a portable chromium (opera or vivaldi, usually) and then delete it when i'm done with it.

it had to be politically motivated. even elon must be smart enough to know that kicking the kid off twitter wouldn't stop the tracking of his plane.. which is still readily available via multiple sources. he could have been dumb enough to spend $billions just to steal the @x handle though.

we had a whole week of winter. last week it was 60F. what snow we had is long gone. it should be more like 0F with at least a couple feet of snow on the ground.

they said 'warm and dry' winter for the upper midwest. they weren't kidding. those extended forecasts don't look promising the rest of the way, either.

flash vs ssd is night and day difference for write speeds. if you write that frequently to your ventoy and write speed matters to you, you want ssd.

either make it (assemble) yourself or buy one. i have a number of clients using samsung t7 external usb ssd. they seem pretty fast to me.

i don't use ventoy or ventoy-like devices that often, i just use flash.. even some usb 2.0 ones. yea, they take longer to boot up and longer (much longer) to write to, but i don't add or replace iso on them very often.

that's one of those sugar alcohols that can do thunderous things.....