Also, “San disk” is very different, linguistically, from “SanDisk”. Would you buy a set of dining room furniture from a brand called Notable? That’s a bit different from No table, isn’t it?
Ref: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/
This one gets easier when you remember that they retconned it later.
Game of Tones?
There’s like 5 episodes that people always mention. If it’s not that, it’s probably The Late Philip J Fry, The Sting, or Lethal Inspection
To an extent, you are correct. You have to have a certain amount of trust in your VPN provider. Kape, which owns most of the big names, is not trustworthy. You absolutely shouldn’t use them.
Others have been audited or otherwise had their log-free claims validated. Names like Mullvad and Proton. You are correct that logs are important for reliability, but these can be very limited in scope. If the logs are useless at an individual level, or might meet both requirements. Others might only log on certain servers, or in dev/troubleshooting scenarios. You don’t necessarily need logs in all production scenarios. This is particularly true if you can still access real-time data.
But even if the VPN provider isn’t trustworthy, there is something to be said about the trust being relative. AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast have all shown that they are completely untrustworthy. I would even trust Nord over any of them, and I do not trust Nord.
Not OP, but it’s not a new idea. I’ve seen that suggested, even in major news coverage, for the past 20 years. For a long time, any article criticizing the TSA and its effectiveness would point out that weak point.
Mixing brands is fine, assuming one of two things is true:
They are following the same defined standard (e.g. 802.11ax, not “mesh Wi-Fi”)
The proprietary feature you are looking for is contained within devices for that brand. IOW, that feature doesn’t need to interoperate with other brands.
Most mesh systems are proprietary, so everything within that must match (for the back haul connection). But you can also just setup another WAP, following the 802.11 and 802.3 standards. Similarly, your point to point devices can connect to other devices using 802.11 or .3, but not to the mesh back haul.
A 1993 Time Magazine article quotes computer scientist John Gilmore, one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, as saying “The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”[7]
That applied a whole lot more when most connections were using a phone line, and a decent size city could have hundreds of ISPs. But part of the design of a redundant mesh network is that there are tons of different paths to any destination. Cutting any of those links would simply force traffic to other routes.
The early Internet was decentralized in other ways, too. Rather than flock to corporate platforms like Facebook, people spent a lot of time on federated and independent platforms. This included Usenet, IRC, and BBSes. In the event that the feds, lawyers, etc could take one down, a dozen more could spring up overnight. There was such a small barrier to entry, and many were run by hobbyists.
It’s somewhat true today. There are countless Lemmy instances that are completely independent. Pirate Bay famously references the Hydra, and it applies to their peers as well. But these are limited in scope.
Xitter has shown us just how quickly and thoroughly a platform can collapse through hostile admins, and how slowly people will reject it.
I work an office job in the US. You need to find a better job. No one here is required or even expected to skip lunch. Scheduling is often difficult, so many of my colleagues put it on their calendars as reserved time/another meeting. You can’t schedule a meeting with John at noon. It doesn’t matter if it’s because he’s in another meeting or at lunch; he’s already booked.
Yes, there are many terrible employers. If you work for one, you need to leave.
That might even just be the “call of the void.” Throw in some very minor extras, like alcohol or a bad day at work, and it’s easy to see someone heeding that call.
Somewhat off topic, it’s my understanding that they didn’t (usually) go missing. The term was “deported”, so it happened in broad daylight. Of course, what happened after wasn’t so widely known.
You can’t broadly say that for a brand, especially one as diverse as HP. Some are very easy, mostly the enterprise models. Many are borderline impossible. Without knowing the model, it’s impossible to say. It could require removing the motherboard, or special tools to open the case.
The answer is actually pretty simple. They all used to, at some point. But then they started having bad experiences, and there were clear trends. Now, because of classical conditioning, they avoid those experiences. Is the filter perfect? No, of course not. But it’s good enough.
TL;DR: Bad men start by talking the same way you do.
Unless women have taken a very sharp turn towards hookups, or polygamy, that’s only a partial explanation. The desirable men are still taken, just as before.
I presume your younger colleagues are all men, and of the segment that does poorly with women. Try asking women about their perspectives on the matter. I promise you’ll get a different answer.
You have a better chance of literally being Brad Pitt than you do if winning the lottery.
Anarchy means local warlords and gangs, BTW. I don’t have any sort of solution; it’s more of a “pick your poison” situation
The idea behind it is that everyone engages with the company, not an individual. You visit Sam’s widgets, and buy a widget from Sam. A week later, Sam sells the business to Joe and disappears. It’s now Joe’s widgets, with all the same stuff and people (aside from Sam). Your widget breaks under warranty. Is Joe obligated to fix it?
You can see the obvious problems if you say no. Coincidentally, this is the case with all the AliExpress crap on Amazon.
But if Sam isn’t required for business continuity, it can build consumer trust. Even if Sam leaves, customers know they will be taken care of. They can buy with confidence that someone at Sam’s Widgets will keep supplying their widget needs.
Yes, it’s possible for a corporation to escape liabilities. But it’s the case for real people, too. People declare bankruptcy all the time, although there are certain debts that cannot be erased. These often don’t apply to corporations.
Have you ever worked at a place and disagreed with a decision made by the higher ups? Imagine if you were on the hook for every single widget you produced, or claim you processed, or whatever else
It sounds like something from “A Pharaoh to Remember”
I hope you’re all happy. You’ve succeeded in convincing me life is worth living, by showing how bad my funeral will suck
But I think you’re confusing it with a scene from Office Space
Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks
“Cheating is the gift man gives himself”
-C. Montgomery Burns, https://youtu.be/iLzoi1ndQH8
What do you base that on?
RAID is redundancy, not backup. The main purpose is to keep your system available while you deal with certain, specific types of failures. Also, for all intents and purposes, RAID2 isn’t a thing. I suspect you were reading about RAIDZ, RAID using ZFS. While it has proponents and advantages, it won’t secure your data any more than the common RAID5/6.
Backup is to make sure you don’t lose data, regardless of what happened. This includes hardware failures, user error, bad/malicious software, and more.
If your data is important to you, setup a backup. If you need 100% uptime, setup a backup, then setup RAID.