:( Please tell me they aren’t all headed for the dump :(

It’s hard to find homes for old pianos since so many people live in smaller spaces now, and yes, they’re so big and heavy. But the beautiful workmanship on old ones… seems a shame.

True, forgot about them. Want a nice hot cup of tea? :p

China and Turkey pioneered harassing their own and other citizens on foreign soil; now India is normalizing it further. These tactics need to get slapped down and HARD otherwise it’ll just start happening everywhere. FFS western nations, kick out their diplomats and charge these foreign agents with terrorism or something!

Hmm, hard to argue with that :P

How does one address the paradox that, as JSON itself is evil, one cannot use it for evil?

(opinions may vary on the above; but it’s mine, so nyah nyah.)

Why all the downvotes? Haven’t visited the links yet but this doesn’t sound like a corpo ad; and I didn’t think the lemmyverse was against outside linking – after all we’re against walled gardens right? (OK OK discord… but they also are on libera)

I like the idea of code-as-craft and this interests me.

You may well be right… sigh, how time flies. Yet I have two perfectky good fw audio interface/mixers I want to keep using.

I am happy that things have converged over time to a single, truly versatile multi-bus capable port (USB-C/Thunderbolt 3) … however, the vendors IMHO should be legally bound to supply down-converters for all the peripherals that used the older buses for the next 10 years, transitively for 2 generations of buses.

If USB-C supports bus ‘X’, then there should be inexpensive and easy to purchase down-converters from USB-C to ‘X’. If Bus ‘X’ replaced bus ‘Y’ in the last 10 years then there should be a down-converter available from bus ‘X’ to ‘Y’.

One problematic example is Firewire… Apple used to make Thunderbolt-2-to-Firewire800 dongles, but they stopped and now they’re rare as hens’ teeth and ungodly-expensive.

They still sell Thunderbolt-3-to-2 dongles, but how long will they keep selling those?

Oh, and while I’m wishing for ponies, the drivers/specifications for all such adapters should be open-source and royalty-free.

Shouldn’t I at least try the poop knife first?

Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.

However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).

I did consider scheduling it, just hadn’t gotten around to trying it out.

If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it’s gone as soon as practical :)

When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled

… be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that…)

Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

Ah, good. I wonder why it isn’t used more often – this wouldn’t be such a huge problem then I would hope. (Let me guess – ‘convenience’, the archenemy of security.)

I don’t know much about NPM (having avoided JS as much as possible for my entire life), but golang seems to have a good solution: ‘vendoring’. One can choose to lock all external dependencies to local snapshots brought into a project, with no automatic updating, but with the option to manually update them when desired.

Aaah! Begone hellspawn!

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That’s what I ended up doing. A dumb monitor is just fine, as long as you don’t need a huuuge screen. The main thing is to find a good external speaker though that doesn’t auto-sleep in the middle of one’s show…

What? Oh no, I had not written down the recipe for using gasoline to cook my spaghetti! Whatever shall I do?

But immigration <> birth rate. Within 1 or 2 generations those new people will also not want to have kids since they won’t be able to afford anything either.

Kill it all with fire

We should do more than block them, they need to be teergrubed.