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ScratchCat

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  1. That and they have some of the largest communities - a priceless commodity when trying to fix errors.
  2. I do see your point but in the country which had a nuclear disaster 7 years ago you don't instill confidence in the public by not knowing if the rest of the nuclear facilities could be exploited using removable media. At least an abacus can't be bricked by certain *cough* untested *cough* updates
  3. This shouldn't even be a question. No such facilities should ever use removable media, ideally logging and configuration changes should be the only state changes.
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    What's a good way of syncing files between PC &…

    Probably look at a way to allow the NAS to ssh into your computer (probably should have it the other way round with separate users for each computer) on a schedule and use rsync to sync the files.
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    well Fck me, had one notepad with all the passw…

    Actual problem: Solution: Keepass + backups Wait, you are giving a HDD with seemingly unencrypted passwords to a repair service...?
  6. With open source OSes if the distribution is large enough to be considered an option by a manufacturer then the OS will have multiple people verifying each change to the code. Effectively it is possible for a manufacturer to trust the OS if the community working on it is sufficiently large that it would be infeasible to inject malicious code without someone raising an alarm. Red Hat Linux is open source (see CentOS) yet companies still trust it enough to contain sensitive information and pay dearly for support contracts. The issue is not it is preventing the use of Sketchy Linux 9001 but completely ignoring the "Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011" certificate which means even trustworthy distributions like Ubuntu or RHL could not be installed (as far as I can tell) and disabling Secure Boot disables the internal SSD:
  7. As you have experienced, Time Machine isn't 100% reliable. Just because you have a second option does not mean you should get rid of the first. A lot has gone and will continue to go wrong with every major OS, regardless of being open source or not.
  8. Facebook -> English translation: Sorry -> We'll get a bigger carpet to stuff our failings under.
  9. If it was the same game then I would agree this isn't much of a change but they are charging $20 extra, the price of the original game, for what was included in the original game. It would be like Battlefield being sold as a campaign only game for $60 with a multiplayer DLC for another $60.
  10. Black as in the colour your screen will be after the card fails 2 weeks after you buy it?
  11. Tesla is the only one where the referral program allows you early access to software updates... targeted at safety critical systems. I see Apple hired Microsoft's QA Manager.
  12. Except the normal (Java) version is cheaper ($20), allows you to use all the texture packs, mods, skins, servers, maps you like without paying a cent extra. It's like they took all good things out, slapped on a sticker for twice the price and asked for more money to access what was free before.
  13. Or the cops just wait until you are using your phone, take it out of your hand and then arrest you. Thieves could do a similar thing (minus the arresting part).
  14. A step in the right direction but does not fix the "hey, look over here" method of unlocking using FaceID.
  15. So Half Life 3 is also coming out?
  16. Firefox works excellently even if you only provide it with 400MB (1GB -> ~500MB for Windows etc). Sure you might have problems opening 3-4 tabs of content heavy websites but at that point its partly down to a poor website (no, I do not want to watch 3 identical videos of ads at once). If you stick to lighter pages then you can easily manage 5-7 tabs without requiring to offload to disk. Sadly the days of 8+h of battery life with a 35W CPU are long gone, removed in the pursuit of marketable thinness. This is exactly the issue. 4GB Chromebooks at $400? - fine. 4GB for $1000? - You could get a 8GB laptop for $600 in 2011.
  17. Watch the movement here, there is a visible delay between moving the right stick (just after the explosion) and the player rotating and this is probably in an optimal setting.
  18. Older boards yes, if this is true then they wouldn't have had the resources and if not you would still be fine. Newer ones, wait and see how this plays out.
  19. Might be time to invest in Supermicro shares:

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    “We are aware of the media reports but at this stage have no reason to doubt the detailed assessments made by AWS and Apple,” said the National Cyber Security Centre, a unit of Britain’s eavesdropping agency, GCHQ. AWS refers to Amazon Web Services, the company’s cloud-computing unit.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-cyber-britain/uk-cyber-security-agency-backs-apple-amazon-china-hack-denials-idUSKCN1MF1DN

  20. What happens when you just run 'dpkg'? If that shows command not found try sudo apt-get install dpkg It seems strange that dpkg would work yet not appear as a command
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