whosdadog

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Does anyone know any Hard Sci Fi books about humans surviving without any hospitable worlds?

I’m looking to get inspiration for my own writing. I need a hard sci fi series where earth (and earthlike worlds) are too rare, inaccessible, and/or previously spoiled beyond ability to sustain life. Bonus points if it is set on a multi-generational space station or starship without any other options and goes into detail about...

whosdadog,

The whole premise of the book is returning to earth, but The 100 starts out in the way you’re wanting including multigenerational space stations and resource limitations.

whosdadog,

Are you sure about that? I’m using the official AT&T fiber modem (Nokia white oval) and a pi.hole for DNS. I do remember needing to change a number of settings to get it to work though.

whosdadog,

I am using the pi hole for DHCP, maybe you just have to turn off the DHCP server on the att modem.

whosdadog,

That sucks your apartment flooded, but depending on what state you’re in you might be able to do something about it. Some states have laws that allow you to “repair and deduct” emergency repairs. Meaning if your landlord refuses or doesn’t answer you, you can pay to have the problem fixed yourself and then deduct the amount you paid from your rent payment.

findlaw.com/…/how-does-a-tenant-use-repair-and-de…

whosdadog,

You probably want commercial displays. They’ll cost a bit more, but they’re also designed to run 24/7 (think the screens they use in menus, signs, etc) so they could probably last forever as a TV.

[Vote] Should we pre-emptively defederate Threads? (sh.itjust.works)

Threads will be implementing federation in the near future and many instances have been discussing whether they should be pre-emptively defederated to protect the fediverse. See below for our local discussion thread, which will remain active until this vote is complete....

whosdadog,

Words apparently don’t mean things anymore, Merriam Webster added a new definition for “literally” this year https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/e607829f-ab4c-491e-9b23-08a53761979f.jpeg

whosdadog,

It’s much more secure on ‘less than trusted’ devices and for less than secure people.

Instead of having to type your password in on your friends laptop that may have a keylogger installed, you just type your username in and then do your fingerprint on your phone. That’s it; your phone verifies it’s you and then transmits the passkey over Bluetooth, so it can’t be phished or observed while you type it.

For less than secure people, you don’t have to convince them to use a password manager and stop writing their passwords on sticky notes. They just type in their username and do their fingerprint on their phone. It can’t be phished so even if someone is remotely controlling a victims computer the damage is limited to allowing access to a single account on that physical computer - they can’t take that passkey and use it anywhere else, unlike a password for an email account that’s used for online banking as well. They also can’t keylogger it and then log in after they’re disconnected from the victim.

whosdadog,

Unfortunately that’s so outdated my phone won’t even let me install it from the play store.

whosdadog,

I wouldn’t hold your breath, it was last updated 5 years ago

whosdadog,

I think it’s neat I’m seeing this post on Lemmy and that I can comment on it.

whosdadog,

It looks like a 3 pin molex connector www.amazon.com/…/B0046ZI9H6

You can use something like this to add wifi control. HiLetgo ESP8266 5V WiFi Relay Module TOI APP Control for Smart Home Automation System www.amazon.com/dp/B071LMSLRW

whosdadog,

If you tap this link from within Sync, it will take you right to the setting you’re looking for Settings shortcut: View type > Description font

whosdadog,

It’s not really meant for soliciting, but Tindie is the closest thing I can think of what you’re looking for. www.tindie.com You could find something in the same ballpark of what you’re looking for and contact the person who made it and ask if they would be interested in doing custom projects.

whosdadog,

I (tried to) send you a message, there doesn’t seem to be a ‘Sent’ box on Lemmy so I can’t verify it sent successfully. Let me know if you didn’t get it.

whosdadog,

It also allows you to login without someone visually observing your password while typing it on a keyboard or on an untrusted device that could have a keylogger.

whosdadog,

That was probably permanent magnet cards (pre-made credit cards, membership cards, etc) vs re-writable magnetic cards that can be written to with a desktop machine.

Passenger on Ill-Fated Diarrhea Plane Says Flight Attendants Were Forced to Craft "Makeshift Biohazard Suits" (futurism.com)

On Friday, an international Delta flight bound for sunny Barcelona was forced to U-turn back to its starting point, Atlanta, for an exceedingly rare air travel horror: a passenger had suffered diarrhea throughout the plane’s aisle so extensively that completing the flight was deemed untenable....

whosdadog,

AutoHotkey can detect which program is active and rebind keys independently for each

whosdadog,

It must be in a locked, hard sided case. You let TSA inspect it, then you get to keep the keys and they do not. It’s a common(?) trick for photographers with thousands of dollars of camera equipment to put a starter pistol in the camera case.

The TV streaming apps broke their promises, and now they’re jacking up prices (arstechnica.com)

For a moment, it seemed like the streaming apps were the things that could save us from the hegemony of cable TV—a system where you had to pay for a ton of stuff you didn’t want to watch so you could see the handful of things you were actually interested in....

whosdadog,

I didn’t really like Nebula. I signed up and canceled my subscription before I even finished a single video. Almost everything is available on YouTube for free (albeit with ads if you don’t have Youtube Premium) and it just didn’t feel like they had enough content to be charging $5/month.

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