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  • Stellantis is fucking up so badly, they only have 1 car in top 20 here now. This is a Peugeot placed 19, but Stellantis used to have a couple in top 10! (Denmark)
    It’s really sad, because they now also have Opel, which used to be a brand known for good quality, and I’m still rolling with an 18 year old Opel Vectra that is still going strong and drives almost as new, but this is a car from BEFORE Opel became Stellantis.
    We are considering buying an electric soon, and there is NOTHING from Stelantis we are considering, because we have lost trust in them.
    There are lots of bad stories with Stellantis cars here, cars breaking down and dealers not honoring warranties!! And extremely expensive repairs.
    The only car that is worse is Tesla. With 30% failure rate at the 4 year legally mandated safety check!!





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    I used Awesome about 5 years ago, and was extremely happy with it, unfortunately an upgrade of Awesome broke my scripts so nothing worked, and I didn’t have the time to be distracted and fix it. So I switched to XFCE.
    Pretty annoying to have many hours of work destroyed like that. If they have a promise now to not break compatibility with upgrades, I might consider trying it again. But I don’t care for a user environment that breaks completely because of changes in an upgrade.




  • We just had a case here (Denmark) where 2 companies were putting a “No PFOA” labels on their frying pans. But they’ve been told by authorities that that’s illegal, because it’s misleading advertising since PFOA is illegal in EU.
    Thy got off with a warning, but in case of repeat offenses they will be fined.

    But USA is much different, and many “confuse the consumer” strategies do not seem to be generally illegal “over there”.


  • Yes that’s annoying too, I have no clue why it does that, but when the sync says “clear”, I always wait a couple seconds, and run sync again a couple of times, to see if it’s actually finished. And only THEN unmount the stick.
    Copy to USB does not seem very solid on Linux IMO. So I also ALWAYS buy sticks with activity LED.
    But even that can fool you, sometimes when I think a smaller copy is finished, because the LED stops blinking, it suddenly starts up again, after having paused for about 1½ second?!?!



  • except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

    I wish that were true here. But when I copy to USB the file manager ( XFCE/Thunar ) shows the copy is finished and closes the copy notifications way way before it’s even half done, when I copy movies to a stick.
    I use fast USB 3 stick on USB 3 port, and I don’t get anywhere near the write speed the stick manufacturer claims. So I always open a terminal and run sync, to see when it’s actually finished.

    I hate to the extreme when systems don’t account for write cache before claiming a copy is finished, it’s such an ancient problem we’ve had since the 90’s, and I find it embarrassing that such problems still exist on modern systems.


  • A standard boot system for Arm would have been awesome 10-20 years ago! I dreamed about that already back in 2005 when the OLPC idea was new, but when the netbooks finally came out, based on somewhat similar ideas, they were exclusively Intel!!!

    I must admit that after having waited in vain for 20 years now, I no longer give a shit. I cannot fathom how Arm didn’t create such a standard at least a decade ago?
    Initial Netbooks with Linux were very popular, but when vendors switched to a deprecated version of Windows, that ran way worse in every way, popularity of Netbooks actually dropped for a while, and the entire concept was basically declared dead. Because they were next to unusable compared to the early Linux Netbooks.

    Netbooks with Arm/Linux could have been HUGE!! But now the time has passed, because many use IOS or Android instead.





  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldSaudi Arabia blocked blahaj.zone
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    They fucking geoblocked blahaj.zone.

    I suppose THEY is Saudi Arabia.
    How can you be surprised about that? Saudi Arabia is a Sharia law country. An absolute shit stain of a country in many more ways than this.
    You can get a death penalty for posting something against Sharia Law on any site. Actively using Lemmy could be enough to see you in jail.

    MBS said no more 196

    ???


  • Yes, there are still potentially issues. I’ll come back to what I said at the start: passwords are a bad system in general, all methods for handling them are flawed, but password managers have the fewest flaws.

    Well that I can actually mostly agree on, IDK how we got into a disagreement on that in principle? For me personally though, I trust myself more, than a software manager. I’m pretty sure my passwords are strong enough, even if a software manager can make even stronger passwords.




  • he human brain isn’t capable of keeping track of enough entropy to create a secure password system.

    What an idiotic argument, the level of entropy comes from the rules first and foremost, putting a 1 and an A together is the exact same entropy as using 2 and B. Randomizing it one way instead of another doesn’t change entropy much.

    More generally, it’s a big red flag when anybody thinks they can make a better system than publicly available and verified systems.

    You completely fail to understand the argument. I’m not arguing my passwords are stronger, I’m arguing they are SAFER! because they are not stored on any system, much less 3 different systems, one of which could theoretically have a vulnerability.