suburban_hillbilly

joined 9 months ago
[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

https://www.freedombox.org/apps/

Whatever you end up doing immediately after you finish setting it up, throw some files on it you don't care about and practice breaking and reassembling your RAID a few times before you put anything important on it. You want to understand the basic process before things fail.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Good chance this is illegal. Though it varies wildly, many jurisdictions have implied warranties of habitability that require your landlord fix stuff while giving you a legal path to withhold rent or pay for repairs in lieu of rent when they don't.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah some folks in here are clearly out of touch with the capabilities of the average consumer.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 days ago

I knew this day would come [gently pats 15 year old mumble server].

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 94 points 5 days ago (17 children)

....they just make you do manual registration if you use third party toner

Man, if only we had a word for disabling critical features in this way.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 days ago

Powerpoint, obviously.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I successfully ran a modded java minecraft server for me and my friends for years on an ancient thinkstation with a xeon E5430 (quad core 2.6 ghz w/ddr3 ram) doing double duty as a NAS. That old xeon couldn't carry your i5's jock on single core performance, which is your main concern. As long as you're not running huge kitchen sink packs with giant complex bases I think you'll be fine.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's because the first few generations of DRM were extremely poorly implemented. My og kindle keyboard still works and will ignore the DRM (that would be locking me out of, for example, a library book after its due date) if you just change the file extension to one of the DRM free file types. It will also then let me distribute that ebook to others without restriction.

[–] suburban_hillbilly@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The discontinuation does not eliminate the ability to drag and drop files onto a Kindle; it simply removes a method that facilitated piracy by transferring older retail book formats via USB.

Err, what? So it's only going to block certain file types?