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  • Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN

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  • Sure, but there's no reason they couldn't be built into an enclosure that looks like other security cameras.

    Alternatively, you just build a little box that has that extra stuff and plugs into a normal security camera, and you bury the box in the ground or put it inside a locked utility cabinet or something.

  • Flock cameras are getting mobbed | CNN

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  • The next stage of this is going to be models of Flock cameras that look like other common security cameras, or a Flock module that plugs into existing security cameras and adds them to the network.

  • Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone

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  • I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

    True.

    There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

    Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?

    No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

    Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:

    https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/

  • How do I encrypt my drives and get rid of Windows?

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  • You're welcome, and yeah growing pains every time with a new install. But you do it a little better each time.

    One recommendation - when you do reinstall, don't use the default/automatic partitioning. Manually set up your /home directory as a separate partition from /root. This lets you reinstall the OS without having to touch your user files. When you reinstall again, all you have to do is select the existing /home partition to use as the new install's home (and make sure not to format it). This makes your install a lot more flexible, and your OS a lot more disposable.

    If you do manual partition configuration, don't forget to also create a /swap partition that is at least 1.5x the size of your RAM.

  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • From the day you were born until today, what was the best piece of advice you still follow?

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  • Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims

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  • Managed by the Three Stooges, apparently.

  • How do I encrypt my drives and get rid of Windows?

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  • I could probably backup most of my important data to a flash drive but I'd rather not.

    You should ALWAYS back up any important/irreplaceable data before making any changes to your hard drives, even if you think the risk is low. Accidents happen.

    You can move the drive from one slot to the other, the drive's UUID should not change. You'll just need to change the boot drive selected in UEFI. Physically swapping the drives will be faster, easier and less failure-prone than trying to move your boot and root partitions between drives.

    For editing drive formats and partitions, the best tool is gparted: https://gparted.org/

    It's convenient to have gparted installed on a USB drive so that you can live boot it and use it to make changes to the system drive(s). With gparted you can simply erase the Windows drive and create a new partition formatted for Linux (probably ext4).

    If you are not already familiar with editing disk partitions and formats, you should read some tutorials first: https://gparted.org/articles.php

    As for encryption, some Linux installers have this as a selectable option during the install process. If Mint does, you should consider reinstalling anyway to use that, as you are more likely to have it working properly.

    If you just want to encrypt your data partition(s) you can implement LUKS with cryptsetup: https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-luks-encryption/

    Note that this is the most basic use, it does not cover FDE. If you want to also encrypt /boot so that your computer will not start without being unlocked, that is more complicated to set up:

    !! YOU SHOULD READ A LOT OF INFORMATION BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS !!

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/1470391/luks-tpm2-auto-unlock-at-boot-systemd-cryptenroll

    https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html

    Be aware that doing anything wrong in this process is likely to leave you with an unbootable system, and unable to recover any data from the encrypted partition/drive. You need to be sure that the steps you're going to take are relevant for your hardware and OS before you start, and that you have all of the necessary utilities installed.

    Again, if Mint has a selectable option for this in its installer, you will have much better chances of success reinstalling with that.

    Don't skip the backup.

  • Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone

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  • Not likely. It doesn't matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

  • Huawei is building its own DRAM fab, and it could reshape RAM prices for everyone

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  • It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that'll be fast.

  • New York school pauses plan to deploy humanlike AI robot teacher after backlash

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  • You really need to see just how bad these things are:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlxkLawZrw

    It's a slightly animatronic mannequin. They're so garbage. This is what they brought to CES to show off, like they're proud of it. Tickle Me Elmo was more life-like.

  • I don’t know, I never thought I’d get this far

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  • I don’t know, I never thought I’d get this far

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  • If winning means not getting charged with sexual harassment, it's a good strategy.

  • What's a silly pet name or term of endearment I can use for my partner?

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  • bangwI', qochwI', or par'Machkai

  • Mark Zuckerberg Says US Should Not Ban Chinese AI Models, Warns of Regulatory Capture. The Trump administration is expected to announce a voluntary testing framework.

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  • He's basically admitting that Meta's own models aren't competitive with any of the other major tech companies, so he wants to be able to use alternatives.

  • Into The Bit Bucket With Thee

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  • Yeah, that's the picture that Wikipedia has.

  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • This is what organic growth looks like. It spreads in fits and starts, bits of it clump together and pile up, pieces of it separate and take on life of their own or die. When part of it rots (hexbear) the larger organism cuts it off to limit the spread of disease.

    Lemmy (and more generally, ActivityPub) is growing, not like a rose bush, but like a field of grass. Some pieces of it are blooming, some pieces of it are dying, some pieces are adapting to different environments, but the spread is inexorable and the horizon unlimited.

    If you want to see what the field is like on the other side of that hill, well it won't just come to you, you'll have to get up and go to it.

  • The offer to pay more for the same finally pushed me to cancel Apple Music. What is a good alternative that's not loaded with ads?

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  • Bloomee https://bloomeex.org/bloomeetunes/

    Cross-platform music player built with Flutter and Rust. Mix your local library with online streams, sing along with lyrics, and own every bit of it. No ads. No account. No tricks.

    Bloomee pulls from YouTube but works like a music streaming app. It has a robust feature set, it can work as an offline music player using local files, it has Last.fm integration, and it can import playlists and albums from Apple Music, Spotify and ytmusic.

    Bloomee is free and open source, and has builds for Android, Linux and Windows. It is available in F-Droid via the IzzyonDroid repository: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/ls.bloomee.musicplayer

    Bloomee is free so no money is being paid to the artists through it. If you want to support the artists, the best way to do that is to purchase from them through platforms like bandcamp.

  • TIL there's actually a difference between coffin and casket. Coffins are tapered to the body (6 or 8 sides), usually with a separate lid, typically far cheaper. A casket is a rectangle with a hinged…

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