I meant bad luck that you bought a machine with loud fans generally!

Ah, bad luck

I guess they’re trying to make it more integrated and covering every source they can, but something about taking an open source project and turning it into a subscription service to play the games you already bought on the computer you already bought is… not to my taste

Is it the kind you can open up and clean the fans?

That sounds about right. I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.

What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?

Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.

Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly

I believe that’s to get the assets (i.e. the textures, character models, etc) which are still covered by copyright and so can’t be included in the decomp projects

Maybe I have had failures and haven’t even noticed!

Yeah I’d definitely agree with not using them for critical backups. I think they’re generally fine as long as they’re never holding your only copy of something, but then I’d probably say that about every kind of drive…

the chance of your USB stick failing when you try to read all the data off it after your SSD fails is fairly high

Out of interest how high is “fairly high”? I don’t think I’ve ever had a USB flash drive fail!

Thanks!

Thanks!

What did you do to get the nice terminal output with the colour display and fedora ASCII art? Just a copy+paste in bashrc?

If your phone is encrypted and you factory reset it I believe the encryption key is wiped so the data is gone (unless MI5 are really keen on spending a lot of time piecing it back together, I guess)

Hmm good point. I would have thought if they’re still selling that phone after the rule comes in then they should have to comply, seems like a bit of a loophole if they can keep selling old devices that break the rule, right?

How’s that a bad thing? Unless they’ve already stopped selling that model then you’ll benefit!

I think if you click on anyone’s profile in the Lemmy web UI (or any community) then you can click a little RSS button to get this link, not sure if it can distinguish between posts and comments though

Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.