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Can I use two different drives?
  • Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

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    'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionaire's Ukraine dilemma
  • Well, the US is involved in the war, even if indirectly, and considers Ukraine a strategic partner, so one could say he's acting against the interests of the US.

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    Americans: “We should be more like progressive Europe”
  • I mean, that's all true, and yet they're still light-years ahead of the US...

    Also, in guessing this was made by an American, because nobody outside of there would call left parties liberal. Liberal parties are to the right, it's just that the US doesn't actually have an actual left.

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    Expected: I cancelled our subscription with HP and they blocked us from being able to use the rest of the ink in our cartridge.
  • Zip drives (do those things even exist anymore?) do not use tape cartridges, they are basically oversized floppies.

    If you're actually using tape drives (LTO media, presumably), just step away from the damn HP software. I manage literal petabytes on tape, and LTO media comes with a lifetime warranty. Yes, even HP branded cartridges - there's only two actual manufacturers left, Fujifilm and, iirc, Sony.

    Same for the drive, in fact - HP stopped producing them years ago, IBM is the only manufacturer left.

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    Remember what "subscription" used to mean?
  • I don't know for sure, I'm not an avid watcher, but I've seen several pretty big channels talk about this in their videos and ask people to check their subscription because it does apparently happen.

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    DeRacist cracks down on immigrants hard. Then SuprisedPikachuFace when they won't come to his state to rebuild everything after a hurricane
  • That's the real kicker, isn't it? "They're stealing our jobs"... but nobody else is willing to do said jobs.

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    If we unite
  • See, there's your problem, you don't know what you're talking about.

    Time to open your eyes and look at what the actual left wants and does, instead of the one in your imagination. While you're at it, do the same for the parties you do support, and check if what they're realizing actually matches what they're promising - and if that actually helps people instead of just the wealthy.

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    Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games
  • The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren't buying a piece of software, you're buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn't be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

    And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

    For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

    Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

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    Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit
  • Hey, Tony, I'll give you five bucks and a swift kick in the nuts for Sony. It's the best offer I ever made for it!

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    En Corse, face aux tags antifrançais, des touristes entre choc et incompréhension
  • Ik ben Vlaming. Je parle français, English, ein bisschen Deutsch, och jag talar bara lite Svensk. La plupart effectivement appris pour aller en voyage, aussi bien que quelques mots de lituanien (long oublié), et je sais toujours me présenter et commander deux bières en slovaque.

    Dvo pivo, prosim!

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    Donald Duck is white on the top and yellow on the bottom, while Donald Trump is yellow on the top and white on the bottom.
  • And they didn't mention politics at all, they said not everyone wants to be reminded of the orange shitstain. I agree with them.

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    What game comes closest to a dueler, but for 3-4 players?
  • Go to boardgamegeek and search for deck builders. Dominion is a pretty strong one. On the more comedic side, I do enjoy wiz-war. Munchkin is a classic.

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    Finance Ministry releases Annual Economic Review report
  • The finance ministry of the world?

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    Threads Monetization Fears
  • Technically, no, but then they need another source of revenue, because servers at that scale aren't cheap.

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    Genuinely frightening how much they have nerfed ChatGPT for code development.
  • Microsoft bought it. They're not going to let their paying userbase of millions of coders evaporate...

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    What's the difference between Lemmy and Mastodon?
  • Lemmy is more reddit-like, while mastodon is more twitter-like.

    They do federate, so yes, you should be able to see, like and comment between them.

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    [HN] Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Technical Support Engineer in India
  • "company wants to hire person" isn't exactly news, is it?

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    Can't uncheck an option in firefox settings.
  • I suppose that is because you have to have a default browser. Well, strictly spaking you don't, I suppose, but some things are going to stop working.

    It's not up to Firefox to scan your system for a list of browsers to offer you, so I suppose this is the easiest way.

    As someone else said, just open up the browser you want to be default and check the option there.

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  • As a drinker of both, I'll have you know coffee a baked bean beverage, thank you very much.

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  • Earlier this year, we adopted Loki to keep our Bast company after Ferrix died last year.

    Bast and Ferrix both were fed on schedule, several times per day. Ferrix sometimes left some food for later, but Bast is a vacuum so we would take the leftovers away to be given later when he came asking.

    Loki, however, is a grazer - he'll eat some and come back multiple times over the course of the day. Thus we got a chip feeder, so we didn't have to take it away all the time.

    Bast soon figured out that he could eat from the side when Loki was eating as well, so we added a side barrier. This worked well for a while, but mister smarty-pants has now figured out that it takes a few seconds for the lid to close after Loki wanders off, and that if he sticks his head in fast enough, the lid will bounce off his thick skull, back off and stay open... At first it happened very occasionally - presumably he doesn't like being hit by the lid - but it's happening more frequently, indicating that he's learned that tolerating a bump on the head means more food.

    Does anyone have similar experiences and knows of ways to stop that behavior? We've considered trying to move Loki to scheduled feeding as well, but we're not willing to start until he's off the kitten feed, because the volume is notably bigger than regular food.

    Attaching a picture of both for reference 🙂

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