thehatfox @ thehatfox @lemmy.world

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I see a lot of people saying they have to use a GUI tool for partition management, and I’ve never understood why.

Text based tools like parted are fairly easy to use, at least compared to other terminal tools the same people are able to use for other tasks.

What is it about partitioning that needs a GUI when other tasks don’t? Is it the visual representation of the partition layout? A general fear of borking a disk?

It might be worth keeping purge_keep_days configured to less than the default 10 days to keep the database size small and speed up backups etc, especially in setups running on low power hosts like a Pi and with large amounts of sensors.

The new climate cards have configurable features. Edit the dashboard and climate card, and buttons similar the old ones can be added back the card. I was confused by this at first when I updated and the on and off buttons for my heating disappeared. It feels like the modes buttons should be added by default.

Perhaps the victim posted something on social media about the robbery, which was then picked up on by a journalist.

To be honest it is a rather bizarre situation to end up in, being rejected by a robber for not having good enough loot.

Parts are paired to devices, but some parts will still worked unpaired but with reduced functionality. On the iPhone 15 Pro for example, a transplanted screen will not have True Tone and auto-brightness.

There are plenty of unscrupulous phone repairers who will harvest parts from stolen phones and pass them off to unknowing customers.

Most of them probably think they will have died by the time the effects of climate change are great enough to bother them, or that their money will be enough to insulate themselves from it. There’s already plenty of Silicon Valley types fantasising about luxury doomsday bunkers.

I think there’s a significant amount of hopelessness and futility in the corridors of power also. It is an enormous task to get the entire world to take coordinated and far reaching action on anything, and some don’t think it’s possible.

Maybe it’s a feature, it doubles as an improvised shuriken thrower.

The design is an interesting idea, but having suffered a few crappy box cutters I wouldn’t trust a blade with a friction fit.

They care so much they appointed an environment secretary who is married to the head of Anglian Water.

That last part, what a waste.

A local school near me replaced the computer suite with new machines and just left the old ones in a big cage outside to rust. Something about being “too expensive” to properly dispose or recycle.

We could also try it with some rocks, maybe some shiny hard stuff will come out that we can use to make tools.

I bet something happens if we try melting sand too, perhaps some sort of other hard stuff you can see through.

It sounds crazy a “raid” was ever even considered. As if things weren’t difficult enough at the time, launching military action against our neighbour would have been catastrophic.

Relations with the EU would have been completely torn to shreds, even the UK’s global image would start approaching pariah status.

Not to mention the precedent that would have set either.

Utterly reckless, even by the standards of Boris Johnson.

One model that seemed to work well was the pre-social media internet old people might remember: bulletin boards, forums, blogs.

Ouch.

The video makes an interesting comparison between online and offline communities, but I think it's missed how common identities that gave offline communities cohesion have also broken down in the modern age. Increasing pressure for jobs and housing, among other things, have forced many societies to become a lot more internally mobile. This has resulted in a much diminished sense of local community because so many people rarely stay in one place long enough to form local bonds.

Supporting the local sports team and attending the local church together once helped us overlook our differences, but those shared experiences are shrinking. That loss of offline cohesion is contributing to the alienation and polarisation alongside the troubles online.

It's all part of a broader plan to harness the untapped energy trade with Atlantis and Doggerland.

The cables also have to come onshore at some point, especially if one of the aims is to better connect inland rural communities.

Which will mean some sort of pylon.

A catalope?

Because executives and investors are often cut from the same cloth, flaws and all. Plenty of them will have the same baseless belief that office-based work is “just better”.

Plenty of the are also investors in commercial real estate as well as tech companies, and property bubbles need regular reinflation.

The full Online Nation report for 2023 is available on Ofcom website here.

I was once sat in complete silence reading, and suddenly Siri wakes up on the HomePod and starts reciting facts about a random motorway in Switzerland.

The UK National Health Service (NHS) still loves fax machines. There was supposed to be a plan to phase them all out by 2020 but it never happened.

They are still somewhat common in some B2B sectors here too, although most businesses have migrated to e-fax systems now.

Cash isn’t much use for making purchases online, which is also where an ever increasing amount of spending is done.

There’s no coin or note slot on my laptop, and contrary to the internet’s advice throwing money at my screen doesn’t seem to work either.

I used to be a big proponent of cash but with the bulk of my financial activity happening online now I can’t help it feeling a bit redundant.