Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...
Yes and i got “scammed” - western digital in order to save $3 included the USB port directly on the drive motherboard instead of the usual sata+usb like anyone else was doing
Or maybe the service is degraded because there are thousands of people connecting to the same cell and Verizon can’t justify the $$$ of placing more transceivers/bandwidth in a supermarket placed in the middle of nowhere with zero residents.
I don’t think Walmart is willing to pay millions in fines from the FCC by installing an illegal 5g jammer because reasons
Piracy Shield, la piattaforma nazionale antipirateria, sta esaurendo il potere di oscurare siti
Perché c'è un limite massimo ai domini che può oscurare. E si sta avvicinando. Per questo l'Autorità garante delle comunicazioni chiederà al governo il potere di sbloccare gli indirizzi Ip finiti nel mirino del sistema anti-pezzotto
Come se un blocco superiore a un mese cambiasse qualcosa. Un indirizzo ip/dominio un pirata lo cambia in 2 minuti + 5 euro, bloccarlo a vita non ha senso anche perché una settimana dopo il blocco quell’indirizzo viene sicuramente usato da altri utenti sicuramente legali
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
Prima o poi succedera’. Le staffe in metallo arrugiranno, l’umidita’ fara’ il suo e questi pesanti motori dei condizionatori d’aria cadranno in testa a qualcuno. Occhio quando camminiamo per le strade o ci sediamo su di una panchina come quella in foto!
It’s resurfacing old tech? My Sony Ericsson P800 from 20 years ago had a screen that worked great in direct sunlight. It worked best in direct sunlight, the brightest the sun, the better you could see. Downside is that in the dark it had poor illumination
It’s LCD with a reflective background and lateral illumination rather than backlight
I played it on my phone and I really like it. Nice music nice physics, fun details like you can crash to the trash can and have the lid close over your body lol
The IDF fired three missiles in five minutes at three of the WCK’s cars, with some survivors of the first strike boarding the second car, which was minutes later hit by a second missile, and some survivors of the second strike boarding the third car, which was in turn struck by a third missile.[3] All seven aid workers were killed
But the IDF said sorry we were thinking it was Hamas so again the west is ok with that
I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like “what do you think, scam or not”. I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the “play” button with...
i tried and it didn’t work - but maybe it’s because it was the “vm.tiktok…” shortened link that tracks the user that shared it (when i open that link i can see a banner with a photo of my friend and “join tiktok with [friend name]”
next time i should try to open the link, get the real url, then use that
Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it’s expensive)...
In my case it’s just temporary. Every once in a while I’m supposed to take the phone, delete all the useless shit, archive the photos in the computer. Problem is last time I did that was over a year ago because procrastination
MMS yes, by deleting all the APN profiles. Always did it since 20 years ago
Can disable SMS sending by changing the “SMS center number” but I don’t think can disable reception
Luckily in my country the carrier in the early 2000s they decided to scam users with MMS and the “internet button” nearby the “OK” button and not with the “SMS double dip” where both sender and receiver would be charged for texts - too prone to abuse from assholes with large plans
“Internet button scam” explained for young people: in the early 2000s some carriers charged 1-2 euro each time you started an internet session. This for two main reasons:
To block new chat apps. We had “jar” apps like ebuddy, IMO or jacksms that could let the user chat spending much less. They were super optimized for data saving and even at the astronomical 20 euro per MB that they were charging at the time, it meant a chat session with a friend would cost 8 cents instead of 3 euro of texts. I would make two short calls to my friend, it would mean “go online and check the chat”
Get free money from people with fat fingers. Opening the browser would immediately charge the user 2 euro. There was a competition between phone makers to place the “internet button” in the most asshole position. Nearby the “call” button, or as a dynamic button, like at the home screen, the “ok” button would open the internet, while in the menu would be “ok”. I had a Motorola where they placed it in the middle or the D-pad and I always accidentally pressed it. This could be mitigated by avoiding the purchase of a “carrier branded” phone because it could be toggled off. If you bought a phone with Vodafone branding instead every button had a way to let you spend money
We didn’t have unlimited texts long after WhatsApp. Nowadays every plan comes with thousands of them but just because nobody uses them and a big number is free marketing
MMS never free except some scam from Tim and Vodafone where if you paid 10 euro to recharge a PAYG account, they would actually credit you 8 euro and give you 50 MMS “free”, but expiring in 30 days and could only be sent free only if on the same network. But how could someone know if it was on the same network??? Exactly, it was designed preying on the fact that it was possible to change network …
Here Tim and Vodafone have teams of lawyers and professional scammers to brainstorm new ideas to extract more money from users.
For example, a few years ago they decided that the monthly plans should not renew every earth month, but every moon cycle. Can you imagine to rewrite the billing software to charge users every moon cycle instead of every month? A nightmare but they stole billions, because there are 13 moon cycles in a year instead of 12 months.
Another scam that they have on PAYG plans (literally everyone here is on PAYG plans because otherwise there’s a 10 euro month tax derived from the 70s where mobile phone service was a luxury and not a necessity) is that they allow overdrafts up to 2 euro, but with a 2 euro fee. And they do plans like 10.90 monthly but only allowing paying credit in multiple of 10. So you might be 90 cents short, but they would first let you go in negative credit, then charge you 2 euro “overdraft fee” next time you add credit.
So as a population we are always vary of phone carriers. We are always on the defensive “OK, where’s the catch, how would they fuck me”
Luckily I now have a plan from a swiss owned carrier that would take from my credit card the exact money that is needed to renew the PAYG plan. So the credit is always zero and there’s no way that I’m spending more than I should
Just kidding... (lemmy.world)
I was actually there because i was considering creating an account and wanted to check it out....
Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?
Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...
Deadly strike on Rafah a tragic mishap, Netanyahu says (www.bbc.com)
The NYTimes is once again trashing the most promising mobility innovation of the 21st century (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/16133154...
Frack you, Walmart (sh.itjust.works)
Self-hosted YouTube downloader?
Is there a self-hosted downloader that would automatically download liked videos or the ones added to a specific playlist?
HouseFresh disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? - An elaborate historical analysis and overview of Google search results and media landscape (housefresh.com)
From Forbes and Money content farms, to Google search algorithm changes promoting generic and generated content and big media platforms over specific results, to Google prioritizing ads, overpriced, and other worse results.
Fotonotizia. Prima o poi succedera' (caserta24ore.blogspot.com) Italian
Prima o poi succedera’. Le staffe in metallo arrugiranno, l’umidita’ fara’ il suo e questi pesanti motori dei condizionatori d’aria cadranno in testa a qualcuno. Occhio quando camminiamo per le strade o ci sediamo su di una panchina come quella in foto!
Hands-on look at the Daylight DC1, the tablet with a potentially game-changing display (www.androidauthority.com)
Let's pay millions to train a model on memes and sarcastic posts, WCGW? (twitter.com)
Google artificial “intelligence” suggested to add glue to let cheese stick to the pizza, because a decade ago user fucksmith on reddit said so
Basic Biking, iOS, Android, Itch.io (lemmy.ml)
My first ever Lemmy post might as well be a self-promo, so here’s my just-released, totally free (no ads, no bs) game: Basic Biking....
RAID Card temperature
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Pentagon says none of the aid unloaded from US pier off coast of Gaza has been delivered to broader Palestinian population (edition.cnn.com)
Did tiktok change something?
I have friends that send me tiktok links via whatsapp and then they ask questions about it like “what do you think, scam or not”. I used to open them with cookies rejected in ddg browser but now it pretends to freeze after 4 seconds of play, then it says that i must open it in the app and replaces the “play” button with...
Why does Gboard feel more fluid than Heliboard?
Hello,...
Syncthing saved my ass
Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it’s expensive)...