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  • But, importantly, also without chicory....

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    Montana man records shocking up-close footage of UFO
  • The "daily fail" is hardly a valid source for anything....

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    The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss
  • Apart from having the flags the wrong way around, what's wrong?

    /s

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    Where should I go to get help from experienced people on very specific issues that I can't find a solution for?
  • You are right, it doesn't happen with any other O/S except iOS where you have to pay people/Apple to fix it (or reset the OS) or Windows where the stock response is "reinstall the O/S"

    How valuable is the data on your laptop? Did you have it backed up? If so, stop worrying and just take the Windows approach. If not... Find someone local to you who is able to fix it (good luck with that...)

    As for the rest - you come over as someone who expects someone else to fix your shit for free with no information other than "waaaa it's stopped working"

    This may help How to as Smart Questions

    Fwiw, based on your brief description of symptoms, I would say your boot device file system is broken somehow. To fix you need to mount it on another booted OS and fsck it (however if it mounts, copy valuable data off onto other media, then fsck it) . How to do that is left to your powers of Google. Not warranting my response in any way.

    Best of luck.

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    Where should I go to get help from experienced people on very specific issues that I can't find a solution for?
  • First up - I know nothing about your specific problem. Let me add some pointers as to why you may be having difficulty...

    You need to provide way more detail than a screenshot (which shows nothing really) and "why is it broken?"

    What is the hardware, what is the boot device, what is the boot loader (and version), what does the boot loader config look like... There could be any number of things that stop the boot, including a corrupt boot file.

    No one is able to diagnose your problem from the information you have provided.

    If you are unwilling to grab a USB stick from a retailer, boot a different OS image and try some diags on your original file system you may well find people reluctant to help (for free...)

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  • After it is dumped and converted into a binary file, binwalk should (hopefully) recognize it as a filesystem such as squashfs/ubifs/jffs2

    That there, from your link, tells you what you need to know... Or at least points you in the right direction.

    Your dump will not have stuff like variable names in it - compilers don't tend to keep those unless it's a debug image; variable names are for meatsacks.

    Once you have converted the dump to a binary file (dunno how you would do that these days; there ought to be a tool but you could always write one... If that thought fills you with dread then you are probably in the wrong game) binwalk might tell you what file system the data is and you could mount that and have a peer at what's there.

    Sadly there is no recipe book on how to go about it - you just have to make educated guesses (make use of Google/other research tools/usenet/hardware hacker fora) and keep trying stuff and making notes till it works...

    Good luck!

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    xkcd #2963: House Inputs and Outputs
  • I use it on every phone handset at work... I guess it's the switch PoE not the pc mobo but the effect is the same. If you are talking pc mobo PoE I guess it could be handy if you had a PoE camera...

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    Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight
  • How did the flap and, indeed, starship have enough control authority after the burn up during re-entry, to complete the soft landing?

    The booster done good as well of course...

    Flipping awesome outcome... Beers all around.

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    How does SecureErase work?
  • One thing other answers have missed is that some ssds encrypt data before writing and obviously after reading (this prevents a swap the storage controller type attack) A secure erase on such a device consists of changing the read/write key. Takes milliseconds. Irrevocable (unless you find a way to read previous contents of the key storage)

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    OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
  • drawings do not exploit anyone.

    Hmmm. I think you will find in many jurisdictions that they are treated as if they do.

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    UK Government support for greening Port Talbot steelworks significantly lower than other European states
  • Is this Westminster just being Tory or is it Wales bashing?

    I suspect that if you look at all (! There aren't many, if any, left) UK steel works they all have less spent on them by the Govt. than similar plant in other countries...

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    ‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
  • Temperature is not scalar

    Messers Rankine, Kelvin and even Fahrenheit would beg to differ... Temperature is scalar, however it's effects on living things is generally not mostly owing to chemistry.

    The claim that a 40° C jump in Sub-Zero temperatures is tolerable, but wouldn't be in the UK or whatever they're saying in this article... That's nonsense

    Au contraire my dear fellow. For a human, the article is entirely correct. A rise of 40° C in a particularly cold place is indeed tolerable for a human. A similar rise in, say, the UK today would put the temperature at 52° C - hotter than Death Valley on a well above average day and considerably less tolerable.

    Of course a single recorded rise in temperature isn't a good indication of climate...

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    How can I view / browse communities?
  • I sit corrected.

    I agree, it would be good to be able to browse all communities on an instance.

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    How can I view / browse communities?
  • You can't - I think it's a lemmy/feature of federation thing.

    Use the search function for communities, posts or whatever.

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    The hard lessons of Harvard’s failed geoengineering experiment
  • No one has seen Highlander 2 There can be only 1!

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    Keir Starmer backs review after Gething campaign donations controversy
  • Well I guess so, but they are still further left than the Starmfurher... Which is a plus.

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    Keir Starmer backs review after Gething campaign donations controversy
  • So it begins. The defangng of Welsh Labour by the Westminster elite....

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    Plaid Cymru stalwart calls for immediate end to Cooperation Agreement with Labour
  • I am broadly in favour of independence, however not on the terms currently apparently promoted by Plaid - nationalism has limited use in the world today unless you are big enough and ugly enough to ignore what others might think.

    Whatever the ultimate destiny of Wales, it won't be a success if we are lead by people blaming the current situation entirely on Westminster and refusing to engage with the larger nation next door.

    There seems to be a tendency, here in the Valleys as well as in Wales at large, to abdicate "personal" responsibility - everything is someone else's problem (Westminster, local authority, police whoever can be conveniently blamed but never, ever, the locals or their actions) sadly, in the political arena, this plays right into the Tory playbook - they are masters of divide and conquer, having spent much of history doing just that.

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    Plaid Cymru stalwart calls for immediate end to Cooperation Agreement with Labour
  • The Welsh rosette is rather less blue than the English one... I remember when red and blue were distinct and different.

    I suspect that many Welsh men who vote blue to get rid of "Dripford" would be horrified if their local authority were to go blue. Which is a distinct possibility if the anti-Tory vote is split.

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    Voyager native app on Android.

    Anyone else got an issue when scrolling through a thread the rendering flicks all over the place?

    It's random and I can't think of a way to screenshot it. It's like the replies get drawn in one position then jump to where they should be. Sometimes, if I catch it right, sliding up and down with my finger flashes the post/comment on and off...

    Like I say, hard to describe properly.

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    Guys

    Dunno if I am missing something, but I notice that many times a post is cross posted to many communities, resulting in the All feed being full (well not really full but you know what I mean) of what are, effectively, reposts...

    Does voyager have a "hide posts with the same title in different communities" setting somewhere or is that a feature request?

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    Guys

    We have an XYZ DaVinci 1.0 Pro, connected by USB to a Windows 10 PC (latest updates etc.)

    The drivers are all correctly installed (both cameras show up in device manager, the printer shows up in device manager as both a printer and a USB-COM3 device).

    The printer has Firmware 1.2.3 installed (as recommended by XYZ.... not sure if that's a good thing)

    • XYZ Printing does not detect the printer as online;
    • Cura does not detect the printer as online;
    • Pronterface does not detect the printer as online;
    • In a massive turn-up for the books.... Microsoft 3d Builder does see the printer on line and will start a print.

    In device manager the com port seems to be set at 9600,8,n,1. Changing this to (say) 115200 breaks printing in 3d Builder. Changing Pronterface to use 9600 baud makes no difference to connecting to the printer.

    I have changed the USB lead, tried different ports on the PC yadda yadda yadda but no change at all - only Microsoft 3d Builder will see the printer online and print.

    Anyone got any idea at all why everything except Microsoft 3d Builder can't see the printer?

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