Having Co-pilot help is like having a junior dev at your side, who is also drunk and high.

I agree, but with a security device this is probably not the best idea. Any kinds of tampering physically would most likely trigger the alarm, sometimes in a way that can only be fixed by calling a tech. Software tampering if you do get it connected would probably have the same result.

We’ve had this at work once, they were doing some remodeling and somebody accidentally hit a sensor with a large machine. The sensor was destroyed and the alarm went off (even though it wasn’t even “on” at the time, as it was in the middle of a day). No codes on the panel could turn off the alarm, not even our super duper override code. We called support, they gave us a temporary override code and even that one didn’t work. They said with physical tampering a tech must come by on location to tell the system all is OK. We had to work for 4 hours that day with the most annoying alarm sounds in the background. The worker that hit the sensor was very embarrassed about it.

Yeah I’ve used that one, the ash of war on it is great

Just so you know, operating spinning drives this way is a bad idea. If the platters are spinning and the drive tips over, the rotation of the drives resists the movement. This gyroscopic force is enough for the platters to touch the heads which are flying a tiny distance above the platter. Obviously this is a bad thing and will damage the drives.

A quick fix is to just lay them flat or fix both of them together so they have a more stable base to stand on. Putting it in an enclosure is even better.

Well it would be if that were the goal. But the real goal is to make rich people even more rich. And as always: Number must go up!

As long as he isn’t slammed, slammed is so much worse than ripped

Take a look at yt-dlp. Despite it’s name, it can do a lot of web video and audio, not just YouTube.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

But when even the Nazis hate him, you know he’s even worse than anyone figured.

What are you trying to say? Those are all shit hole countries so it doesn’t matter what they do?

I live in Germany, no fluoride is added to our water and it isn’t there naturally. There is salt with added fluoride available and almost all toothpastes have it. There’s also fluoride tablets people can take. And the dentist will apply fluoride treatments where needed or prescribe high fluoride toothpaste.

Dental care and hygiene is excellent here.

The same thing applies for many countries in Europe.

Other countries don’t have fluoride in the water, it isn’t the end of the world. And don’t people usually drink bottled water in Florida anyways?

HOWEVER other places that don’t have flouride in the water do normally have affordable and accessible dental heathcare. And most people brush their teeth with toothpaste with flouride in it. You don’t really need all that much of it, as long as you get some.

With the anti-fluoride mindset, people are not going to get it through other means most likely. And this especially hurts poor people and the homeless, since they are going to have the hardest time getting enough fluoride and won’t have access to dental healthcare. So small issues that would normally be prevented, are going to cause huge issues.

It’s just another way the Republicans can punish the poor.

And then the troubleshooting steps are like reset the app, reset your account and if that doesn’t fix it reinstall Windows. If it still won’t work, buy a new computer.

It’s terrible, just give me the info I need to figure out the root cause. It’s probably very easy to fix. Instead of the ol’ nuke it from orbit approach.

And it’s not just on the side of consumers either. More and more people are using docker to run shit and just reset or reinstall whenever an issue pops up. Sure that’s often faster and it might work, but it won’t prevent the issue from returning and you won’t have learned anything. I learned the most from fixing broken shit. It requires you to figure out how it should work and what’s preventing it from working like that. We are making ourselves dumber this way.

It’s all fun and games until your computer turns into a black hole because there is too much information in too little of a volume.

You might want to look into using some form of parameterized queries.

Shoot first, ask questions never.

You want to ask questions? You get shot first

One thing to note, if you are using UEFI this is very unlikely to happen. It was designed from the start to have multiple boot options and Windows itself often has multiple entries. It is very rare for a Windows update to mess with any other boot options in UEFI.

You can just use an activation script. Even though technically Windows won’t be activated using the OEM license in a VM, the license is still present on the machine. So legally Windows is still licensed. To get around the thing not automatically activating, an activation script is an easy fix.

This is a good activation script:

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts

Imagine gate keeping Linux, the irony…

Steam works absolutely perfectly on EndeavourOS. No tweaking or anything required, just install and run. It also runs just about any game I ever tried, with troubleshooting as easy as choosing a different version of Proton from the dropdown.

Please send flowers, I just died from cringe

You are totally correct, hydrogen is by far the most common element out there, since it’s just a simple proton. Any space without a boatload of hydrogen is what we call empty space. Oxygen is also super abundant, so it’s basically everywhere. As far as we know water is everywhere and very easy to get. Like I said you’d need to filter and clean it, since it’s probably full of nasty stuff, but that’s something we could do 100 years ago so it should be easy.

Now it would be possible for some kind of weird system where there is just hydrogen for the star and not a lot else. I’m not sure how that would be possible, but lets say for the sake of argument that it is. Then you won’t have any planets as well and you for sure wouldn’t have any abundant life to get to civilization levels. The early universe was like this, because a lot of the heavier stuff needed stars to get made. So the early stars systems were just a whole lot of hydrogen and some helium and nothing else, but there obviously wasn’t life as we know it back then.

But I don’t know how this would extend to an entire region of space. And even if it’s for the entire region, why would you stay? Just move on, the region sucks, you have warp capable vessels so just get out of dodge. There’s plenty of stars around with a lot of water in their systems, Voyager gets to them within the year.

They also have, you know, space ships, so they have some level of technology. They say the stole the tech, but that’s a little too easy. Even if they stole the idea and the blueprints, they still understand a lot of it. They operate and maintain it, so they have some technical level at least. That means their space ships probably have pretty decent water recycling options. Or are they just venting their piss into space like we did in the 60s? If water is such a big deal, they would surely have their tech tree invested into recycling and water saving techniques. Even a ship with replicators like Voyager is a very sealed system, why waste the resources?

I think in the show it’s just hand waved away like this is a region with very little water and the audience is just supposed to go with it, instead of thinking even a little bit about it.