[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I have a T430 that still sees use as an occasional web browsing & Arduino coding machine. I bought it used in 2016 without HDD for $150, and I don't think I've gotten better value for money with any of my other computer purchases to-date.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

EA fucked us out of a TitanFall 3. And a 3rd Alice from American McGee

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Wow this sure is overstated. The biggest actual risk here is ISPs doing deep inspection and getting data from private trackers.

Not nothing, but the 'RCE' they are claiming relies on an edge case and a lot of manual work on the part of a potential attacker who would also need to be able to intercept your traffic on the off chance you run qbit on windows and use qbit to install python.

This, to me, is a big nothing burger.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Do you mean 4th gen core i? If that's the case, I only recently upgraded from it as well. If you actually mean 4th gen Intel...how's that 286 doing for you?

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

He Heard it was the new thing to do.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The other thing is that the monthly investment amount should increase when income does, which at minimum should match inflation.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I had a shitty white Kia Rio that I wrote off in a snowstorm. I borrowed my dad's car to drive while I looked for a replacement I could afford, and after a few weeks my insurance said 'we paid you the coverage. If you don't put a new car on your policy, we'll cancel it.' ok, fine. I put my old junker (car before the Rio) on it - wasn't even road worthy, but I had accident forgiveness on this policy and if I had to start over I'd get higher premiums.

I found a car a week later. Called the broker to switch the policy.

'we can't remove this car from the policy unless we contact your bank first '

What.

They claimed because I had bought my Rio with a bank loan that they couldn't remove my junker without permission from the bank.

I argued with this person politely for 10 minutes, pointing out that I'd paid the car off 2 years prior. They said 'well I'll need to check with the underwriter then.' fine. I get a call back 30m later, same person. 'no, we need permission from the bank according to the underwriter.'

This pissed me off because I knew I was being lied to. "Now I know you're lying to me. I have the cheque from the underwriter cashed in my account. They would not have issued it to me if there was any issue with the bank. I am not a customer of that bank, have not been for 2 years."

'well sir, I need to confirm that with the bank'

"If you contact the bank in reference to me in any way, shape, or form, I will sue you for breach of privacy and file complaints with every government office that I can. DO NOT CALL THE BANK. SWITCH IN THE NEW CAR."

They refused. I called back 2 hours later, got someone else. Told them I needed the new car switched in.

They did it, and a week later I filed a written complaint to the broker about the other rep, firmly underscoring the lying.

No idea if it was related or not, but the branch got downsized away less than a year later.

Anyway, fuck insurance companies.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.

I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn't with the wine provided libraries back then)

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Isn't that already a case for the police or FBI or something?

Yes

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

James May? Is that you?

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

The fact that people were still paying for 'professional' dowsing services as recently as 20 years ago says a lot too. Many people genuinely thought that wells needed to hit a specific spot to get water, the comprehension of how water tables work was certainly lacking.

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