[–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

After entering duress pin, it dumps you to the bootloader and informs you the boot image is corrupted/inaccessible, and your only option is to reinstall the OS and set it back up from scratch

So yeah, graphene basically throws massive flags that its been wiped, but only on the first boot

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Ive been using a surface duo as my reader for years now, but ive always wanted it to be eink rather than LCD, so this is dope. Absolutely going to look into building a Diptyx reader now, please do keep sharing updates on this, OP!

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Unless its a pull through spot, this is why you always back into parking spots. Its been this way for much longer than the time frame OP is talking about. Parking lot driving has always been a Mad Max experience

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I'd say Rothfuss is worse. He ran fundraisers promising content from the upcoming book, raised a significant amount then... Vanished into the ether and never provided the promised chapter people paid for as a reward!

    GRRM, Rothfuss and Lynch are why I now wait for series to be released in full before reading them. No question on if the next book will come out that way.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    That one episode broke me for days like no other show has ever done, its why Violet Evergarden is my #1 show.... That I will never rewatch.

    For context, I was going through the same thing IRL as the characters in the episode were, so it hit all too close to home.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Worth noting so long as you have your SIM and can receive text messages, you can recover your google account, and log in with just username and password. Which gets you into all the 2FA stuff if you use google authenticator. One of the lessons I learned there is just how insecure all that is. Even though it made recovery possible for me, it means its not secure at all, and I need to revise my approach and unlink things.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I was on travel thousands of km from home, with no backups and all digital tickets. Lessons were learned, but I made it through in the end thanks to some very helpful folks along the way.

    Remembering security layers to get my eSIM back was the most challenging step, and once the phone number was back I could recover the rest with ease, worth noting for any with a physical Sim, recovery is much easier, but that applies to the agents who steal your phone too.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Having uh, accidentally entered my duress pin a week or so ago I'll tell you now it works: Enter pin as normal, device starts to unlock, pin pad fades back then the device hangs for a few moments and reboots. Then it rebots to a menu that states the boot image is corrupted and your only option is a factory reset.

    Point being is that it looks normal, unless you know what happened it could have been a memory issue and the phone just died. The GOS boot graphics give the game up though, I wish they'd change that especially with more scrutiny every day against devices running it.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    Good, but also I won't actually believe they're in trouble until they shutter their doors and lay off all the staff.

    Until then, definitely don't keep cutting their cameras down, yep. Deeeeeefinately not.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Not that it matters much since I think your math here checks out - but the framework desktop is all soldered memory, so no slots for memory needed. Likely some higher density chips used here than a 64GB DIMM stick. Point being, your estimate may still be optimistic!

    Still don't know why the company who prides itself on reparability and upgradibility even released a unit with unrepairable components, even given their latency justification.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    No, that's entirely fair, and I agree should be the SOP. I was just thinking of the recent articles about how AI companies in general are hiding massive amounts of debt a-la Enron style, thus likely even their revenue figures are made up.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Well in this case its lump sum or percentage of negative profit, so lump sum might be the better path here... Still not remotely enough compensation to the actual craters of the content they've stolen though.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    For those who did have theirs delivered, was a signature on delivery required?

    Ive got a porch pirate problem, and can't guarantee I'll be there day of, and steam FAQ doesn't cover that bit. If it doesn't, then I know I just need to pay the carrier to hold it a few days.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    When I try to read it, I can't parse it as anything other than a "p" or "b" so its not so much making me actively read as it is utterly confusing. Is that a me issue? Sure, but i've seen other comments to that same effect in the past too.

    So I don't see it as a fun reading excersize, there's plenty of that already without adding strange characters to the mix here.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    No, nothing to do with piefed. I did read that at one point there was actually a hard code to turn that symbol back to normal text, but that's hearsay, as if it exists its not enabled. Said user is manually typing it in in this case

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    They claim its to poison AI models, but its been repeatedly proven to them that it doesn't work. They also claim to want to bring back older English symbols like this too, not only has it been pointed out they're using it wrong many times, but in my case and some others, it just makes their comments an illegible mess. Ultimately they're just one of those edgy Lemmy personalities.

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