Just an FYI for the RSS thing: if a Bluesky account is set to be viewable to logged-in users only, its RSS feed will not work. It only works if the profile is viewable publicly without logging in.

Your GPS doesn’t do the Cha Cha Slide?

Unfortunately, bullets fired straight up need to… come down. And the wind means it won’t always land in the same spot.

I still remember some idiot fired a pistol or something straight up at a local fireworks show a few years ago. A little boy died. It was really sad. I don’t think they ever found the guy who did it, either.

… I just googled it. That was ten years ago. Dang…

They’re not banned for cheating (this time). They’re banned for invading Ukraine.

“I can’t reverse it, so I have to carry the consequences. It’s the biggest mistake of my life.”

Source: The article linked in the OP

If that’s not remorse, I don’t know what is.

The driver was one installed on the computer by the security company. The driver would look for and block threats incoming via the internet or intranet.

The definitions update included a driver update, and most of the computers the software was used on were configured to automatically restarted to install the update. Unfortunately, the faulty driver update caused computers to BSOD and enter a boot loop.

Because of the boot loop, the driver could only be removed manually by entering Safe Mode. (That’s the thing you saw about deleting that file.) Then the updated driver, the one they released when they discovered the bug, would ideally be able to be installed normally after exiting Safe Mode.

Four days for an update to malware definitions is how computers get infected with malware. But you’re right that they should at least do some sort of simple test. “Does the machine boot, and are its files not getting overzealously deleted?”

Kennel? You mean kernel?

I think OP is simply cheering that they want Russia’s economy to crumble.

This power grid thing is only a small part of their economy, and OP wants more bad stuff to happen to their economy.

Ironically, Microsoft would later remove Cortana itself in an update.

Asking stuff like that is always a good idea, IMO. It could be the difference between a successful Linux install and a very expensive paperweight.

… Don’t ask me how to install it, though. I’ve only tried Ubuntu as a dual-boot, and that was several years ago.

Yeah, what happened with GitHub?

Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not (the sausage thing seems to imply you are), but all public schools (elementary, middle, and high school) are closed on election day so that they can act as polling locations. Many libraries also act as polling locations on election day.

If you won’t be able to vote on that day for some reason, there are small polling places open for a couple of weeks ahead of that date.

For the record, early voting is an option in many US states, too, and it’s really expanded since COVID. In my state, you could go to any poll location to cast an early vote. It used to be you could only cast an early vote if you were going to be away from home in election day for a specific reason (college or military are the ones I remember, but there were other reasons, too), but it’s expanded so pretty much anyone can do early voting now. On election day, you have to go to your assigned poll location in order to vote if you don’t do early voting.

This varies by state, though. In any case, it’s getting easier to vote, and there are more options to be able to vote, but it’s not nationwide (yet, hopefully).

Lemmy just launched it in v0.19 yesterday, so you’ll have to wait for the people running your instance (in your case, the Beehaw mods) to update it. Looks like Beehaw is still running v0.18.4.

Still, if people don’t interact with Threads content, that effectively keeps them separate.

Also, come to think of it, what’s keeping companies from “vacuuming” everyone’s data without actually having a public instance that has users interacting with posts on other instances? Example: Instance A exists. What’s stopping a company that runs Instance B, which doesn’t have any active users on it, from taking all the available data from Instance A? Genuine question, by the way. I haven’t exactly kept up with the technical workings of Lemmy very well.

Fortunately, Lemmy just launched the ability for every individual to block instances they don’t like.

I love how they drew the Sheeple in a completely different artstyle for emphasis.

if a windows system is behaving funny, it has to do with virus.

Not always true. Sometimes, it’s a driver issue. (Usually, a reinstall can fix the issue.) Or it could, very rarely, even be a BIOS/ UEFI issue. (Don’t touch it unless you know what you’re doing, and only download updates from your manufacturer’s website.)

Not if you destroy the evidence that you destroyed a PC! /s