Jesus was middle eastern. Don’t need to look further than that to find the hypocrisy.

About 7-8 days, my water boiler broke in mid winter, and I just couldn’t do cold showers at below freezing temperatures. Ended up boiling water and washed at the sink, went pretty alright tbh.

Nah that was Windows XP, where the hard drive was not encrypted by default, and the password was stored in a hashed file on the computer itself, freely accessible via any boot stick. Actually cracking it still took some time (below 7 characters a few minutes, 7 about 1h, 8 chars up to 24h, longer… LONG). But if it was a common word, then a dictionary attack with a long enough word list (most word lists have like 400k words or so) would get it in seconds either.

The funny thing with Windows XP was that since none of the data was encrypted, you could simply delete the password hash and set a flag in the registry and you would boot right into Windows with no password at all, and were then prompted to set a new password. That didn’t work since Windows 7 anymore.

You can buy a hardware keystroke recorder for a few bucks. Just plug it between keyboard and computer and it logs all inputs. Once they have the boot password (and maybe a bunch of others), installing malware and exfiltrating data is pretty straightforward. Doesn’t require a lick of IT knowledge either.

Bit more challenging on a laptop without external keyboard, but there are hardware solutions as well, though they’d require tinkering with your device.

Phones are harder to gain access to. Honestly if I wanted to get into your phone, I’d probably try to set up hidden cameras in spots where you are likely to enter your PIN (bed, toilet) somewhere under the ceiling and angled straight down. I’d probably try to switch the phone off as well any chance I got (long press the start button) so that you’d be forced to boot up and enter the PIN at any given opportunity to max my chances.

Actually hacking secure boot / accessing data from encrypted drives is beyond casual hackers, unless you don’t regularly update your devices and there are some active exploits published.

But seriously, low effort password sniffing is still the biggest vulnerability out there.

Lemmy is the only text-based social media I use, other than PieFed (which is practically the same, and fully compatible). If there was a PieFed client with a nice UI, I’d switch fully in a heartbeat. Unfortunately the only client seems to be Interstellar, which is functional but lacking (and ugly).

I do still use Instagram, but more so as a photo backup solution than active social media. PixFed or whatever it was called didn’t work for me since nobody can guarantee that the server I chose will actively be maintained long term.

I’ve been using it for 12+ years, and still do to this day. The only thing that changed is that you have to use the Microsoft authenticator app to log on.

Fuck outlook, the app is trash.

Nine works great for exchange servers, if you can’t escape the Microsoft infrastructure altogether.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ninefolders.hd3

Could be beneficial for your career, but your colleagues might hate you, really depends on the company dynamics (and maybe size). If you actually like hanging out with him, don’t kiss ass and expect any kind of reward and just be yourself, personally I don’t see any harm.

They exist in Switzerland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/assisted-suicide/after-the-first-sarco-pod-death-will-switzerland-introduce-stricter-rules-for-assisted-suicide/88824081

Selling a product is a good business model if the product has a shelf life or naturally degrades over time, but served you so well that you’ll replace it in kind or with an upgrade.

A product that does something exactly once and done doesn’t scale long term, so once the hype was over, that was that.

Bought back by the one person who already had prior access, and bought by her own research non-profit. As far as privacy concerns go, that’s the best case scenario.

Yeah Linux is great, no doubt. I’ve been using Xubuntu since forever, never really touched Arch, but fundamentally if you know your way around one system, you’ll manage another.

Still, there are a bunch of applications that I must run under Windows, so it’s good to have the no frills version available for that.

Lol, did whoever set to the shop configure it in Australian dollars? 100 AUD are just about 65 USD. Given the currency fluctuation, that could just about work out.

Install the IoT version, that comes without any of the bloat and works just fine. Not even the Microsoft store is bundled in.

I mostly enjoy viking metal, and while I understand Norwegian and Swedish on a conversational level, Finnish is completely beyond me. Still love their music.

In recent history: Moola Prayer by Sudha & Maneesh De Moor, it’s Hindi I believe, and playing in my yoga studio during meditation sessions.

And speaking of Hindi, there’s Bloodywood, a great metal band from India, that has a few songs entirely in Hindi, and some bilingual ones (English/Hindi). Ajj is one of my favorites, the video is also epic.

Nah, I really like em on the skinny side.

Thick butts. No thank you. A little bump is nice, but most of what’s out there is gross, and with a surface resembling asteroid impact craters.

Pointless, unless you leave the roomba running outdoors. Indoors you don’t have GPS coverage, and your phone is logged onto the same cell tower anyway. Might just leave it stationary at home, same outcome.

That’s Chinese.

Same. I’ve come to terms using it in browser mode on Edge, same for Outlook. The desktop applications are so horrific, I uninstalled both. Half the time they wouldn’t work or force log me out.

Now I literally have a standalone screen that’s showing nothing but Edge with those two tabs on, and all my productive environment is on a nice large screen where I don’t have to see the crap.