OK, here’s a somewhat famous case of email that could only be sent within something over 500 miles, but no further: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

Touch it until it works, then never again while it still does.

Depends. Some at least.
For example, I dug out this old screenshot of how I used to listen to DAB radio, because regular radio receiver is too simple:

Lots of visual stimuli.
You can bet I use --verbose with every command possible.

The problem is bugs being far bigger issue. Imagine a bug/crash causing your throttle to get stuck and brakes not working.
If it happens now, at least it’s the manufacturer who’d be liable, I hope.

I want a completely separate emergency shutdown+brake.

Biggest issue is whatever is going on with mobile devices compared to desktop. I don’t know what you call it here, drivers? But each device is just so closed down, you can’t “just run” another software on it. I imagine if desktops also each required custom images based on model, people would only be using unmodified pre-installed Windows.

I looked at it, but it seems to be for micro-blogging (like Mastodon), not communities (like Lemmy).

I unfortunately don’t have much time to play games.

I’ve tried Zork a few times, but I always get stuck near some clearing, and I don’t know where to go. Basically at the start.

Anyway, curiosity combined with imagination, yeah, could be fun.

Main reason I haven’t tried it is pretty stupid. I don’t know how to save and reset, otherwise Zork is also on our SDF pubnix. But I also didn’t really go out looking. You can try it without sign-up on telehack.com. Also, why the hell can’t I run telnet (freezes or takes long time to respond) on Arch + KDE in terminal emulator (I tried 2), but it works in TTY?

And a list of many BBSs: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

I’ll just get 3 hackers to my keyboard, just wait.

I didn’t know what Lemmy was, but I’ve seen SDF say they now host an instance on Twitter, so I joined.

It is not very stable however. Sometimes it can go down for a week or more, sometimes the federation is broken. Historically, beehaw.org will always federate with us, even if somehow nothing else works.
Up until recently there was a 2 day delay with federation of some content inwards, however the Cloudflare outage probably gave us enough time to catch up, so it’s working again for now.
Jerboa client often won’t work with it because it times out after only 20 seconds. Sometimes you have to be more patient, at least 2 minutes. The MLMYM frontend seems to just load right away though.
The admins haven’t been posting or commenting for 2 years, but they randomly changed banner and picture of the main community, so someone is still here.

At first they went big, with multiple instances. There is this US instance, but there were also ones in Germany, India, China and Japan from what I recall. But they’re dead now.

My issue is they only take donations via PayPal which doesn’t like my debit card.

Someone expecting LLMs with some sort of access to the system?

I don’t know exactly, I’ll just be myself.

You are hereby accepted to SexyTimesPorn Co.

Then own it, show it who’s the boss here.

Not usable for anything Internet-related really, but I still use Samsung Galaxy Ace with Android 2.3.6 as a secondary device. It lasts long enough in standby for me to just forget charging it.

But I got that refurbished on AliExpress. It seems to be reflashed with German version of stock ROM, but an odd thing is both have the same ID on ADB. Something along the lines of 1234567890ABCDEF.
The components… sometimes battery percentage just jumps down randomly, and the vibrator squeeks if not used for a while.

1. Nestle products (I am bad at explaining why, and would just again end up researching their shit for 2 hours)
2. Alcoholic drinks - kills braincells, and I’d prefer to keep both
3. Cigarettes or vapes
4. Closed-source software licenses (for personal use)
5. Digital content that does not come on physical media
6. Hardware with license-unlockable components (e.g. some networking equipment may limit throughput unless you pay more)

Well, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Computer_DVD_drives

Basically same as regions on standalone DVD players. Just a scummy thing to only allow you to play DVDs from your own region, perhaps so that you wouldn’t buy them from cheaper countries, or buy them earlier than you’re supposed to in your country.

If everything works correctly, then say you buy DVDs from UK, but something new just released in US, but haven’t even played in cinemas in UK yet. So you buy it from US… and it shouldn’t work.

VLC doesn’t care about this, but still, the drive firmware might.

BluRays also have regions

By the fucking way, BluRays have some DRM with revocable keys

This is part of the AACS protection scheme: editors are able to revoke old software player host keys that have leaked on the Internet and distribute the lists on newer commercial disc releases. This is irreversible and cannot be fixed even after reflashing the drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Revoked_Host_key/certificate

So when do you truly own something? When you pirate it. No regions, no DRM, 4k on any device powerful enough.

Except the problem seems to be the said storage device.

If it is a hardware failure, I don’t see why it should be an issue. I know re-installing Windows is something PC repair shops do often, and I don’t see how that’s different from any other OS.

fault or failure resulting from software

Unfortunately, that’s quite broad. But it could also just apply for stuff like overclocking or firmware modifications. Or even simpler stuff. I could see someone having DVDs from multiple regions, changing drive region every time until they hit the 5 changes limit, and then trying to claim it for warranty (I’ve had some software on Windows do that automatically…).

Should I submit it with the Linux installation intact or replace it a fresh install of Windows

Or if there’s private data, overwrite it with output of /dev/urandom or /dev/zero. blkdiscard might also be your friend since it’s an SSD.

I am doubtful whether they have experience working on anything other than Windows

Probably they’ll just test the rest with their own drive or re-install it.

Or maybe try to ask them how to prepare the device for the warranty claim.

Welp, turns out I am just an idiot. 1279 and below disabled IPv6, and thus the ::/0 route didn’t get applied either, causing a leak. What’s still odd is the lower download speed that doesn’t happen in another client.
As for the upload, it probably gets a better route through the VPS, giving me a faster speed, and giving me some confusion.

So my first idea with IPv6 was close, but on the other side of the connection.

Anyway, your reply helped me find this issue, as my outtake was to try fully disabling IPv6 (not the first time I tried such “solution”).

Huh? I was just randomly searching for something like this yesterday.