[–] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 child)

TikTok is effectively selling the sex industry to girls. Our new report with Collective Shout

Wasn’t collective shout those annoying Christian busybodies who were trying to force Steam to take down games they didn’t like?

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  • [–] 7 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

    It's messaging, a show of where their fealty lies. Fealty to the zionist entity by choosing it over this. And a middle finger to anti-genocide pro-Palestine factions of their party who came out to vote for them that they don't give a fuck about them and will always prioritize serving the zionist entity over even domestic concerns.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    Just a quick correction. West Germany didn’t prosecute and restored or kept numerous high ranking Nazis in high positions because of their anti-communism. Judges in particular are one position I’ve seen cited.

    East Germany, the USSR on the other hand executed and imprisoned a lot of Nazis and those they didn’t were not given power generally.

    There’s a reason Nazis fled west to surrender to American forces and it was because they were terrified of the “sub-human” Russians who they’d murdered so many of and knew they’d get better conditions with the west rather than the vengeful Soviets.

    Indeed operation paperclip spirited a number of Nazis to the US and hid them from justice in exchange for their knowledge so the Nazis were not wrong on that count.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 days ago* (1 child)

    As others have said you need to heat-sink it. If the inside of the case is getting too hot as well then you need to try to heatsink it to the case itself since that's meant to act as a heatsink. Without airflow you're going to have issues no matter what.

    In general to keep NVMe heat low you'd want to choose gen3-4 if possible as those run cooler than gen5. You'd want to choose one with DRAM built in rather than a pseudo-SLC cache which will heat up the drive dramatically when it's hit. And you want a heatsink on the drive itself. Obviously you already have the drive but something to keep in mind for future reference.

    There's a lot of options for heatsinking including large aluminum heatsinks you can buy with thermal tape that can attach to the outside of cases. The problem with that in your particular instance is your case has fins so the contact area between such an external heatsink and your case would be bad and you'd need to jam thermal putty in there and probably still get mediocre performance.

    There are mini-peltier pad elements you can buy cheap bags of which you hook up to an appropriate DC or AC power supply which you could attach to the outside of this case as well to directly cool it by drawing the heat out and apply cold. You can find pre-built ones with fans attached and USB power supplies if you just search peltier cooler USB.

    But these do use electricity to run so they reduce the efficiency of your mini-PC and you still run into the problem of the fins on the outside creating very poor heat conductive contact.

    Generally you want to avoid those kinds of passive cooling PC cases. Even the well built ones suffer heat issues for various components. They're really meant for low end projects like running a display in a mall that shows a map and does basic tasks on a mini OS. Not for running a PC you're regularly reading/writing files from.

    One last thing. Unless that's a reversed fan (unlikely) you really want it blowing air on the case not trying to pull air away as you have it. It's much more efficient that way in most cases. There's not enough clearance for it to be a very effective puller fan. So in my opinion try reversing the direction you have that fan mounted.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 week ago*

    This is an attack on the open web and small players.

    Big businesses like Netflix, Microsoft, Google, Ubisoft can afford to pay this and will simply pass the costs onto consumers in many cases. They won't entirely like it but they will like how it will totally destroy free software, small business competition, online file sharing/torrenting (they'll inevitably amend this if it doesn't already cover foreign websites to block those that don't pay the fees for all that data you're using for videos that don't result in the big media companies getting paid).

    Big corporate entities have used measures in a similar vein in the past to gatekeep a market and keep out competitors. By raising the burden for entering or remaining in a market it creates pressures forcing out all but the biggest entities who can afford to pay it, thus allowing them a monopoly position from which they may better abuse consumers with lower quality, worse service, higher prices, etc.

    It will coerce video game distributors like Steam to charge customers in France to re-download a game for example. Some companies would be very interested in this kind of exploitation of every click and move you make.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    Probably not as much. Costco returns are their own warranty in a way.

    I had a medium sized appliance from Costco and it died 6+ months outside its two year warranty and they took it back and refunded no questions. I've contacted companies and felt the seriousness immediately rise in their customer support if they learn I bought the item from Costco and am threatening to return it because they get stuck for some of the cost for that.

    The only thing about Costco returns is you need to save all accessories. They can be real sticklers for that so they can send it back to the manufacturer but if you retain all the original accessories (for example travel toothbrush cases and cables) they'll pretty much always refund. If you junked any accessories, even minor ones they may refuse. Retaining the box is also a plus and I'd do it where I can.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago

    Look for the word inverter. An inverter microwave can actually adjust its output power. Expect to pay a bit more but the cooking is better and if you have a circuit in heavy use it can let you run the microwave at half power and the toaster at the same time.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I have a hard time believing this wasn't intentional at the orders of the famously anti-encryption, anti-privacy Indian government under Modi. It would also have allowed their spy agencies to carry out certain activities with plausible deniability with global reach.

    I just don't believe incompetence in this case. It's so incompetent it's like it was intentionally engineered to look that way rather than something malicious.

    I'll not be allowing this company's certs into anything I run ever again.

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    Title. I need a USB 3 to SATA adapter to use a spare 2.5" SSD with a machine that doesn't have any spare SATA ports and no place to put it at this point.

    I've read that most of these adapters have issues with supporting TRIM on Linux. I need one that supports TRIM.

    So any recommendations for something that will survive reboots which I'm planning to use for semi-permanent game storage?

    An enclosure style is fine.

    (Note: I too can search Amazon. When looking into the reviews from Linux users most of the adapters that claim to work with Linux have people clarifying TRIM doesn't work.)

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