Absolutely nothing bad could ever come of this

Fucking hell. Where’s the incentive for responsible disclosure, if that’s the sort of (non) response you get?

Well, at least where I live, phones are banned in schools. So that’s a good start.

This is odd advice, when you consider many kids in the same age group probably have access to (or own) a tablet device of some sort. The only difference with a smartphone is the ability to call and text, and portability while staying connected (assuming many tablets aren’t 4G/5G capable).

Or am I missing something here?

I paid a subscription fee for the option

I’m starting to really hate this timeline. Might be time to pick another door.

DCs do indirectly create/support a lot of jobs, though. Construction is an obvious one, but even running a DC requires lots of additional people that often aren’t employed by the DC owner/operator.

I can absolutely attest to the fact that it takes even less than 20 directly-employed people to run an entire DC, including the racks of gear within it. But there are quite literally dozens and dozens more contractors and vendors involved in maintaining the facility and the equipment within them:

• Physical security
• Fire systems
• Building controls
• Electrical
  • HV and LV can often be separate sets of skills/contractors
• Refrigeration
• Mechanical
  • Critical mechanical - generators, etc
  • Regular mechanical - electric gates,etc
• Plumbing and gasfitting
• Water experts (cooling towers, etc)
• Building maintenance contractors
• Gardeners

And the list goes on. My point is that DCs can absolutely be a significant driver of employment and economic activity, just not all directly.

lol - fine by me. My private searx-ng instance already filters out Reddit from the results, and my Pi-holes block all known Reddit domains.

lol - it should be after this. CRWD…

This has been a fun end to the week - still sitting on a call about the widespread outages and impacts from this.

At which point do we acknowledge the cure is as bad as the problem?

Yeah, CS posted this in a support article. Gonna be fun watching their share price on the Nasdaq overnight.

this isn’t reddit.

Correct, hence downvoting here is meaningless.

An excellent question, that I suspect the answer to will vary in many jurisdictions.

We do re-use the water we use in our EFCs, but only a limited number of times. After a specified number of uses, local regulations require that we discharge it into storm water, to mitigate against the risk of things like legionella and other potentially deadly airborne bacteria.

We’re also required to test and treat all stored water monthly.

I already use Home Assistant for a number of other things, so not really complex. Also, you’re assuming Android only.

Depending on the local climate, yes - evap cooling is typically the go. The data centres I work in here in Melbourne use evap free cooling (EFC).

For much of the year, due to our temperate climate, the cooling simply uses (filtered) outside air. During bouts of warmer weather (typically 29C+), we use evaporative cooling. Waste water from the EFCs is discharged into storm water drainage, and reported to our local water authority for billing.

I use Home Assistant, and install that on all my old, re-purposed smartphones (usually as cheap CCTV). Each phone is plugged into a smart power socket.

I then use automation to turn a phone’s charger off when it hits 80%, then back on when it reaches 50%. No overcharging, no overheating, and actually helps keep the batteries in good shape.

Lol. The perils of replying to Lemmy posts while in work mode.

Helluva Thunderbolt cable, eh?

Thunderbolt v3 handles up to 100W. I have a 90W USB-C port on one of my monitors for just that purpose.

Edit: lol. I see my mistake. Edited. I deal in kW and MW for my job. I’ll call it muscle memory.

This dual-port charger can only output 45W of power when using one port at a time, with the output halved at 22W to each device when plugging in two simultaneously.

Yes. That’s literally how max power ratings on devices like this work. And, to be that guy, even when plugging in two devices and getting 22.5W on each socket, the charger is still outputting 45W.

This feels like a paid advert written by Ikea’s press department - not The Verge itself.

If feel this is (unintentionally) stretching the use of the word cyberattack. Rightly or wrongly, most people consider a cyberattack a form of hacking/attack that’s executed via a network or the internet.

I know its true definition any form of attack against data, network, or computing device (including smartphones), but this headline could easily lead people to think their phones could be set on fire by some anonymous l337 hAx0r over the internet.

While technically true, it requires physical exploit first.

What sort of network library integrations are you referring to? The version I install directly from repo has Project Gutenberg and Internet Archive preconfigured, and I can add my own Calibre and OPDS libraries too.

Edit: the Play Store version (Pro) is also available via the repo, along with the F-droid release. Another reason I avoid F-droid and install direct from repo using Obtainium.

Librera Reader - either from F-droid, or you can use Obtainium to install directly from repo.

Looking through the list of data collected, most of it is anonymized. For now.

What concerns me is that their privacy policy only says they’ll publish variations to it on their website - no mention of proactive notification to users.

For me, that’d be a hard pass, but others might not share my concerns. It definitely looks like a nice, polished alternative to the big G.

Something about Magic Earth unsettles me. It appears highly polished, but free. It’s not clear how they’re making enough money to stay afloat.

Also, crowd-sourced realtime traffic is only as good as the crowd it’s sourcing from. I’m speculating, but I somehow doubt there’s a big enough crowd using Magic Earth where I am.

Yeah, it could be. I host my own instance of Piped, and it feels like pretty much the same experience as if I were browsing YT directly.

laughs in Piped

Sorry - smugness isn’t nice. But I don’t know why people are still trying to use Youtube directly, when there are clearly much better options.

Nah, it totally supports it - I use it daily on a couple of Linux NASes with SMB shares configured.

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=solid explorer&c=apps

Big fan of Solid Explorer - handles all manner of file and cloud servers.

Lol - I found it far from unusable, but no worries. Obtainium also supports F-droid apps, so I get the best of both worlds.

The dev said a couple of weeks ago that they’re planning on closing their Google Play Developer account, so using the fork means you’ll be able to keep up with new releases from that point.

You consider using Obtainium instead? It installs (and updates) directly from source release (Github repo, etc). That puts you directly in control of everything then.

Yeah - this is the feature we’re all waiting for.

I switched to Obtainium some time back, and ended up uninstalling all F-droid clients altogether.

Thankfully I only have them via Obtainium. Flip the “track only” option to on and wait and see. Like someone else said, I’m hopeful there’ll be forks for these soon enough. I’m off to fork the repos for myself anyway, just in case.

Edit: for those that are self-hosting some form of git, is would be great if more people did this, for archival purposes. I’ve simply left the public fork of all 19 repos in my Github account, but have mirrored those to my private Forgejo instance.

At any point I can sync the GH forks then mirror those down to my local instance. Until the original repos get dismantled, of course.

Paging James Cameron…

I switched to AL from Nova years ago - the cover folders are absolutely one of its best features, followed by custom actions for various tap and swipe gestures.

Yeah, so far, it’s been OK here. Not incredible, not shit - just OK. We still have an issue of range of selection with Amazon here in Australia. I’m finding plenty of things I search for have to come from international sellers, with longer deliveries and/or at higher prices.

But, for average crap (need that replacement USB cable for my daughter’s tablet tomorrow, can’t find the time to get to the shops today), it’s hard to beat Amazon in Australia right now.

Once again, it leaves me in awe of just how much power we can get from FOSS.

LibreTube and self-hosted Piped server is working really well for me. I only wish SmartTubeNext (or another Chromecast GTV client) would use Piped as well.

Yet it still acts like a pissy little 8yo.