r_deckard

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

fistbump - Another member of the Ulcerative Colitis club.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Destination: Las Vegas

Ford car: "Visit Hard-on Henry's for hookers and blow"

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'd say you didn't actually remove the garbage. "Settings, apps, uninstall" doesn't really get rid of it, the deployment package is still hanging around.

You need to use powershell to de-deploy those packages.

It's a bit like the difference between "apt remove" and "apt purge"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's always the Microsoft telemetry blocklist in pihole. If you can't stop the computer collecting the data, you can stop MS getting hold of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you tolerate the TPM/fTPM in your computer? Can you deactivate it? Can you query it? Can you tell it to do something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Water absorbs a tremendous amount of heat, and if it's being continually replenished from a cold supply, the hot water won't stay around long enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

We're in a bushfire zone, even had one get close, late last year. We looked into suppression systems, and there's two types - one has a series of garden sprinklers positioned on your roof gutters or overhangs. They get turned on to create a large, extended fan-type spray of water. The idea is not to extinguish a fire, but to absorb the heat so it doesn't get hot enough locally to ignite your house.

The other type - which we chose - puts agricultural sprinkler heads on your roof peaks. Fed by a substantial pump from storage tanks ( 2 x 22,500 litre/5000 gallons), they throw in intersecting circles out to a distance of about 15 metres/50 feet. The idea is to saturate your roof and walls, and surrounding foliage sufficiently that it won't ignite.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The fellow who built my house in the early 1990s was thinking ahead. Dual circuits, one for lighting on 24VDC and one for power on 240VAC.

If you're referring to 5VDC circuit for USB devices, you can get GPO plates with USB power sockets: https://www.sparkydirect.com.au/power-points/usb-powerpoints

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

The film gets a lot of mostly-deserved criticism, but the gangster characters are fantastic. The Cotton Club - Bob Hoskins, Fred Gwynne, and James Remar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've got a fire suppression system. An agricultural sprinkler on each of the two roof peaks, fed by a pump from storage tanks. We're off-grid (no mains) and already have the storage tanks - 2 x 22500litre/5000 gallons. With full tanks, the sprinklers should operate for ~7 hours, which is way more than necessary - three to four hours would be enough. The sprinklers "throw" interlocking circles of water, they intersect over the roof and saturate all the ground and foliage out to about 15 metres/50 feet. Water falling on the roof goes back into the tanks. The pump is electric, but being off-grd, we've got big batteries and a backup generator, so I'm confident the pump would run long enough for the fire to pass.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

And JPEG2000 is what's used in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - that's the file format used to distribute feature films. That's not going away soon.

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