Nope. I don’t talk about myself like that.
It is… It’s literally a preconfigured option on the dban selection list.
Source: My memory… but if that’s not good enough, here’s wiki too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darik's_Boot_and_Nuke
and DOD 5220.22-M (7 passes) are also included as options to handle data remanence.
At this point I’d argue it’s more convenient anyway. Most flavors install quicker and simpler than windows. It runs faster due to less bloat and bullshit. For the vast majority of people on this planet who only ever need to get to a browser. It’s a better experience. Just one they wouldn’t be familiar with so they’re “scared” to try it.
That’s a completely fair assessment. They’re definitely still quite expensive.
But I already have a 7950x3d and a 7900xtx… My machine is as good as it’s getting. I had the budget, and have some needs that the larger screen meets.
Has it been worth it? Eh… situationally it’s been super nice. But I can’t say it’s been worth the extra $600 I paid above the next flagship spec quite yet. My first samsung fold though… Verizon paid for me previous phone and paid me more than I paid for it… So that one was definitely worth it.
No. The implication of my “comfortability” with google holding my credentials is that they can use it, or leak it. You wouldn’t know that they did it. I said I don’t trust them, you said “if google did pull something”, I’m saying you wouldn’t even know if they DID pull something. They control such a vast amount of infrastructure and resources that they could do a boatload of malicious stuff and you’d never know. Hell they do some quite malicious things with AMP, ads, pushing nonstandard shit in chrome, etc… But you do you. Give them all your shit. They won’t complain. But you won’t catch me in that boat.
Put all your normal stuff into a profile and leave the work app on the primary profile. They will be separated.
That’s some real tinfoil hat stuff
If you say so. I only work in IT and security.
If Google did pull something like that
You’d likely never know.
The case is weird I don’t want to buy a bulky one on Scamazon that pops free from the glue being cheap like the second case I tried to buy.
If you’re still searching… And don’t need significant drop protection, look and see if “Thinborne” makes a case for your fold. I don’t think they do on the older ones… but if you have a 5 or newer I think they do. I’ve had good results from them with the new pixel. And they’re very very thin.
I’m on GrapheneOS. I harbor a deep distrust for Google overall… I couldn’t have bought the phone if it didn’t. I probably would have upgraded to the newest samsung fold if the pixel fold wasn’t supported by grapheneOS.
My Samsung definitely had issue with the interior screen protector… It’s lifted at least twice on me. Samsung paid for both and took about an hour each time to replace at their authorized center.
I’ve had no issue finding cases for either phone though.
The samsung was narrower… the pixel fold isn’t. The front screen is quite fat. almost too wide for me… but that might just have been me being used to the samsung.
And most of the time I prefer pulling out the laptop too. But the phone has definitely save me several times where laptop wasn’t around and fixing it now could be 5 minutes vs driving an hour to get to my desktop/laptop and fixing it there.
They’re not perfect, and not amazing for every use case… but I fit snugly into one use-case that has made them great for me. And since the pixel fold is GrapheneOS capable… I’m quite chuffed about it.
Okay, good for you. you’re comfortable with it. I’m not. I don’t trust any company to control my access to OTHER companies. That at it’s face is a conflict of interest.
A couple months ago my sister bricked her mac somehow… it wouldn’t boot past the stupid white screen with a ? on it.
Had to edit random shit on the built in installer to get it to talk to apple correctly and pull the correct OS image to fix itself. It was a full OS install/recovery.
Easy enough because I understand linux/unix and underneath that’s all it is… but mac users are just stupidly lost… And to get to some of those tools, because they’re so buried underneath the “MAC experience”… it’s a pain in the ass too.
I can’t be bothered to remember what version it was… I hate touching maps. I only did that one cause it was my sister.
My folded phone is worse in every way to a regular phone. It is a gimmick.
And my pixel 9 pro fold is better in every way than the Samsung galaxy S20 5g. Especially for my use-case where I remote into other computers/servers quite often. Hell my samsung fold 4 was better too. Though I like the pixel more.
For me it’s not a gimmick. It’s significantly made me more effective at my job when bringing a laptop isn’t a valid option.
Well Mac users do too… Well they don’t… but someone does.
I was that someone for some family members. I felt icky the whole time.
Because you literally put all your eggs in one basket…
Easier to search than many “official” channels…
Microsoft is demanding US taxpayer provide loans to bring this plant online. It has been sitting there for 50 years…
… You understand so little.
Here you go.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/09/26/1104516/three-mile-island-microsoft/
In March, the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan got a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office to the tune of over $1.5 billion to help restart.
Constellation signs its largest-ever power purchase agreement with Microsoft, a deal that will restore TMI Unit 1 to service and keep it online for decades; add approximately 835 megawatts of carbon-free energy to the grid; create 3,400 direct and indirect jobs and deliver more than $3 billion in state and federal taxes
Nowhere is it Microsoft demanding anything. It’s the owners of the power plant itself that got the LOAN (loans get repayed btw… in case you’ve forgotten what the word means). And it’s easily identified that the workforce increase in skilled labor means more taxpayers paying more money to taxes. And look at that! the added state and federal revenue will 2x the loan amount YEARLY.
So can you answer the fucking question now?
Oh, and you continue to ignore my point as well, so I’ll ask it again… If there are more nuclear plants… thus more production for things used to create and maintain nuclear plants. Will the cost to produce MORE nuclear energy go down?
Edit: to drill the point home though… let’s say government bad, lets spend little as possible (which I’m generally whole-heartedly for)… 1.5 billion to make 3,400 high paying jobs for 30+ years… That’s a fucking no brainer spend. You should WANT this spending. There’s lots of shit to complain about with the government. Providing a loan that will be paid back that will make THOUSANDS of highly skilled jobs… This ain’t it chief.
Yes, cost is going up because people expect mega corps to pay for their infrastructure investment lol
So you think that companies don’t pay for electricity? That they’re not part of the “profits” the electrical company has on the books?
Man… I wish I could just get free electricity for my company. Oh… and I pay higher rates at my commercial space for less usage than I do residentially.
But right! That’s companies somehow getting some freebie from “the people”.
Oh, and you continue to ignore my point as well, so I’ll ask it again… If there are more nuclear plants… thus more production for things used to create and maintain nuclear plants. Will the cost to produce MORE nuclear energy go down?
show me when was last time that price of electric went down for the end consumer?
I didn’t say price of electricity would go down. I was talking about the price to produce and maintain nuclear plants would go down.
Considering that electricity usage overall is on an upward trend, especially with things like electric cars becoming more and more mainstream. Also with things like inflation being a thing… It would be stupid to think that prices would ever straight up come down. However the cost to maintain more production could stifle/stunt how fast the prices increase.
Also… At my last house. Our electrical company rebated a not insignificant amount of money to each house based on usage for the year due to costs coming down for some stuff. So… about a year and a half or maybe 2 years ago for me personally?
Not sure why you’d expect prices to go down at all though when society/government is also pressuring the electrical companies to install “renewables” by the boatloads as well. There’s costs associated with all that. The money has to come from somewhere.
I had this argument on nextdoor a few weeks back. Our local electric utility made some 500million in “profit”. But have a mandate to be 60% renewable by 2028, and something like 80% by 2030, which 100% some time after that. If you do the math on how much the coal/nat oil plants produce, and estimate a cost for a solar farm… You realize that while it’s a profit this year… it won’t be a profit over time, virtually all (the math came out to like 93% of it) needs to get earmarked and put towards solar to get to those renewable mandate numbers. So yes. costs are going to keep going up if people like you act like nuclear getting spun up is a sin.
Edit: clarity
Edit: what is with this trend on lemmy the past few months of picking one specific sentence and ignoring the context of the rest of the fucking post? I even talk about “at scale”. It’s not hard to look at my post and think of supply/demand economics. Demand being super low because we only have handful of nuclear plants mean that a lot of suppliers just aren’t around anymore. As demand goes up, in the short term market will demand price to go up. But eventually demand will continue to increase where there is a supply void and new production will come as long as other factors don’t kill it. And Production at larger scales is ALWAYS more economical. This is literally econ 101 type shit.
sure nuclear would be great… but this aint for us ;)
Yes it is. Every plant that’s live, means that things can be done more and more at scale, which drives down the price overall. In this narrow specific case, Microsoft will drive down the price which will make the already appealing nuclear (aside from NIMBY folk who will never give in because of their ignorance) even MORE appealing for baseload handling. Every plant, private or public will increase engineer knowledge and production of parts (increasing scale) which is better overall for nuclear.
And overall, these companies are going to increase their power load regardless. I’d rather new power production go to the better technology that won’t actively poison the environment. Driving down the % of power generated by coal/oil should be universally applauded. Even if it’s just new implementation of a large workload.
Not if you’re used to taking DoD requests. It was my default for a very long time because I simply defaulted to it for compliance reasons.
Absolutely is. Doesn’t mean that people like me aren’t out there in droves.
But SSDs make this all moot and HDD are being phased out of many environments. SSDs with chucking the key is more than sufficient as well.