I’m not about to dig deep, but someone already jacked and shared Elmo’s social security number…

Dude prolly don’t even know how to play golf, let alone build a yacht…

Confiscate his assets and deport his ass!

This actually made me curious enough to dig just a little deeper down this rabbit hole, so I did a little Googling Ducking on it. There’s quite a few articles regarding this, not sure how much it does or doesn’t pertain to AI rules and regulations though 🤷‍♂️

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+does+nvidia+require+an+account

It most likely depends on the country you’re in. Some countries are already adopting such laws. Not much different than the age verification thing some countries are doing, total invasion of privacy, to appease the powers in charge.

It didn’t used to be that way, sure. Until now when governments want all the info on users with hardware that can process AI.

Edit: It may actually depend on what country you’re in, for that exact reason.

Though it’s been forever since I’ve used anything Nvidia, I have heard something about that.

Since Nvidia has jumped full force into Artificial Intelligence, governments are requiring information on who owns and uses such hardware, and it most likely also comes with spying on what you’re using it for.

We truly live in a fucking dystopia now. ☹️

Do you feel guilty when your phone battery goes below 40%?

• Yes, oh shit, I need to charge!
• No, fuckit, let it run dead.

If it’s important to you, I’d say check it every month. If it’s not very important to you, check it at least every 6 months.

looks at my PSP1001 with concern…

Now imagine you somehow got your fingers stuck in there, but luckily they weren’t chopped off, only injured. But oh shit, now the frunk (can I slap whoever coined that stupid word) is stuck shut and won’t open.

What do? Call 911 and Tesla, or just call 911 and have someone grab a crowbar or two? Would emergency services bust out the jaws of life?..

🤦‍♂️

Every vehicle I’ve ever worked on had purely mechanical latches both for the primary and the secondary backup latches. But… I admit that I haven’t worked on any vehicles any newer than from around 2010, so yeah there’s probably some vehicles out there that use a partly electronic partly mechanical latch these days.

Still, yeah that secondary latch is pretty darn important. But given Elmo’s infinite wisdom, I’m sure he went with a purely electronic option instead, I mean you don’t want people sticking their fingers under the hood to unlatch the backup latch, only to get their fingers chopped off from the sharp edges…

It truly is amazing just how unsafe the Cyberdump piece of shit really is…

Have you ever seen the hood on a vehicle fly up and off while driving full speed? I’ve seen it happen in person right in front of me from a passing car.

The wind speed and pressure from driving full speed is very extreme (think like driving 70 miles per hour on the highway, that’s literally hurricane force winds).

If the latch fails, the hood will basically instantly fly off and even up into the air around 50 feet or so, which is extremely dangerous to the driver and any random vehicles or pedestrians around.

If the error detected could in any way cause the latch to malfunction, that’s exactly what can and will happen. Now obviously it’s a Cyberdump and the issue is probably just a faulty sensor or something, but it’s still an issue of safety.

Can confirm, unfortunately I grew up and live here.

Fuck Tater Reeves

The way I’m organizing the main backups to start with is with folder names such as 20250505 Laptop Backup, 20250508 Media Backup, etc.

Eventually I plan on organizing things in bulk folders with simple straightforward names such as Movies, Music, Game ROMs, Virtual Machines, etc.

Yes, thankfully I already got all my main files, music and movies backed up. Right now I’m backing up my software, games, emulator ROMs, etc.

Hopefully that drive finishes backing up before the weather gets bad, cuz I’m definitely shutting things down when there’s lightning around…

Thank you, at least someone understands my stubbornness. 👍

That’s just it, there is no setup, except Linux Mint as the main system. It’s literally a physical bucket of discs and drives in all sorts of various formats…

Please do explain then.

I have multiple drives with various differing directory trees.

‘An’ drive? I mean like 10+ drives, looking to do a master backup.

Don’t put it past me, I already have before.