I used to use NewPipe back in the days of yore. Then I got Youtube Premium since it bundled in Youtube Music as well which I used. But the former’s app on mobile is a shit show. Even after paying, you are asked to tip random creators, purchase merchandise[ which are shown as actual ads below videos] and join channels to access...
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
This is a genuine question, so please don’t do me like Vlad the Impaler. What is your opinion about the benefits of upgrading to displays beyond 1080p?...
Wait? My Lenovo laptop did exactly this. It first encrypted the SSD without telling me, then it updated the bios via windows update (or via Lenovo assistant, but still it was unattended)
Luckily I was using a Microsoft account (usually I don’t because fuck that) so the keys were automatically backupped
If the person that lost them unlocked the bootloader, didn’t use a lock screen password and enabled USB adb debugging on any connection hacking it to work without the confirmation on screen then it would work. Extremely unlikely that would be the case
Because I assume that iOS devices become e-waste a few years after discontinuation, unless you write custom software on some outdated xcode+MacOS combo
i’m always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always “whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??”
imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas
In the USA interns work for free? In my country interns work for free. (They’re not supposed to actually work, but learn how work is done in that company)
During my free internship I was placed in the summer in a warehouse moving boxes without AC. The next day I called the teacher and said that I’m sick and unfortunately I couldn’t get to do the slave anymore
Here instead it’s even forbidden by law to pay interns because theoretically should teach them (be a cost to the company) and they shouldn’t actually work, just watch and do basic stuff. But what actually happens is they get free slaves, for example they sent a poor student to do the job of a skilled metalworker and die in a work accident fanpage.it/…/chi-era-lorenzo-parelli-il-18enne-mo…
When it was my turn to be the intern, the company lied about what they were doing, they said that they would do something related to my study field instead they were a moving company with a ratio of 2 interns per 1 minimum wage workers (we don’t have a minimum wage in my country, I mean paid the minimum agreed by the unions). I just walked out and didn’t show up to the “internship” anymore but I should have reported that. I was too naive
if i understood right the weather app/watchface needs to be updated for being compatible with this - the official pebble app patched by rebble should work but i think my favorite watchface doesn’t support it
For the E5-2697 v4 that are in this server I see much higher prices even on Chinese e-waste resellers, about $45
But I don’t think that there’s enough demand on the market for 8000 of them
Maybe if you pair with those unstable "x79” Chinese desktop motherboards with server sockets and then sell them as package like “ATX motherboard with 18 cores CPU and 256 gb ECC RAM” maybe can find more customers
For the ram they’re going to make much more, 5000 sticks of 64gb ECC DDR4 are still expensive
Edit: no, I accidentally saw the prices of unregistered ECC RAM. Registered ECC RAM is very cheap and super abundant as only servers use that. Corps aren’t stupid and buy used memory for their expensive servers, so when a server is decommissioned, registered ECC RAM is dumped on ebay for pennies
Yes and no. You can sell easily 2-3 units at the current price, but 8000 pieces…
Technology is improving fast, the E5-2697 v4 has a similar benchmark to a Ryzen 5600, which uses half the power, and making a computer with desktop components is cheaper (except for used registered ECC RAM which is being dumped for cheap)
And that Ryzen is the old generation, the newer are even faster
I’m guessing that due to the nature of this server (scientific calculations by scientists and students who sent jobs remotely, if I understood right) everything was done on RAM and then stored on SAN (separate servers) afterwards
Otherwise taking out all the storage from each single blade AND putting it back nicely in the racks would have been a massive job, if they did that I would expect to have it half dismantled on the pictured
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I used to use NewPipe back in the days of yore. Then I got Youtube Premium since it bundled in Youtube Music as well which I used. But the former’s app on mobile is a shit show. Even after paying, you are asked to tip random creators, purchase merchandise[ which are shown as actual ads below videos] and join channels to access...
Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ (www.theguardian.com)
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
Benefits of resolutions beyond 1080p
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77% of Top Climate Scientists Think 2.5°C of Warming Is Coming—And They're Horrified (www.commondreams.org)
“I expect a semi-dystopian future with substantial pain and suffering for the people of the Global South,” one expert said.
Account required to use dark mode in 2024. (lemmy.world)
Google’s Pixel Leaves Little Room to Breathe for Sony Phones - Bloomberg (www.bloomberg.com)
cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/8675186
US revokes licences for sales of some chips to China's Huawei (www.bbc.com)
The US government says it has revoked some licences that allowed US chip makers to export certain goods to Chinese technology giant Huawei....
Windows 11 24H2 will enable BitLocker encryption for everyone — happens on both clean installs and reinstalls (www.tomshardware.com)
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Junkyard computing - Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon (dl.acm.org)
The major takeaways of this work are:...
Worth the effort to obtain a copy of MS Office on the high seas? *SOLVED
It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
College Students Say Tesla Is Canceling Summer Internships (www.entrepreneur.com)
“Tesla Is Reportedly Revoking Internship Offers to College Students Weeks Before Their Start Dates: ‘I Spent Thousands On Housing’”
Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner (files.mastodon.online)
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Google Fit dev APIs shutdown set, fate of Android & Wear OS apps go unannounced (9to5google.com)
Multi-million dollar Cheyenne supercomputer auction ends with $480,085 bid — buyer walked away with 8,064 Intel Xeon Broadwell CPUs, 313TB DDR4-2400 ECC RAM, and some water leaks (www.tomshardware.com)