Elvith Ma'for

Have you seen some of the concept art for Breath Of The Wild? They were thinking about UFOs

https://www.businessinsider.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-ufo-concept-art-photos-2017-3

Or when a side quest in Majora’s Mask makes you defend Romani Ranch from aliens?

https://www.zeldadungeon.net/majoras-mask-walkthrough/spring-ranch-graveyard/#c7_2

Oh, that’s an easy one:

Just constantly stick your finger up your nose, scratch your balls, etc. Make them dirty, greasy,… You get it. If there are “better” means (e.g. food) available, use that. Then play dumb and try to use their computer as if it was a phone and try to do everything as if it had a touch screen. Smear it all over their screen. Cuss as the PC doesn’t react, try again, get visibly angry and irritated.

They’ll stop asking questions fast. Probably right after they realize what you did to the first PC.

• Daily incremental (and occasionally full) backup to an external HDD - a full image of my PCs, so that I should be able to restore anything back to what it was in the last ~14 days, assuming no ransomware or fire or…
• All the data I care about gets synced to my Nextcloud (VPS, not home lab) - somewhat ransomware protected as I could restore VPS backups independently from my PC.
• Most precious data (mostly photos) gets backed up regularly to an encrypted zip file and then gets send to a glacier tier S3 bucket. Some manual retention is done on the zip file level, so that I can get a tad older backup restored.
• At least monthly a full backup image of my PCs is created on a separate external HDD which is not stored at home, but in a place I could access 24/7 if I really needed to restore something fast.

Phones, etc? Just sync to the mentioned Nextcloud, PC downloads from there and everything gets then into the aforementioned backups.

Homeserver? See “PC” above. With the caveat that some VMs/containers are not in the backup cycle, as they do not store any valuable data besides temp files, etc. For these, only things like docker compose files, custom config, ansible playbooks,… are in my backup.

Somewhat, I read a German news article that explicitly warned that USB transfer will be blocked. I just searched for an English article to post here afterwards, but I didn’t read it. So… yeah, „lost in translation“

So I’d suggest, unless you really really need some obscure feature, Calibre+Kindle is nowadays perfectly fine, and maybe you shouldn’t risk bricking your device.

Uhm… Well about that… You will not be able to transfer books onto you kindle via USB in about a week. Amazon is going to remove that feature from all Kindles next week. The only way to do that may be through the method you described. But how long will they offer that, if they say they are removing the USB feature because of piracy? You cannot pirate books onto your kindle, when you cannot transfer books from outside of Amazon onto it. (Also this is a nice reason for them to block you from buying books anywhere else than on Amazon, of course)

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

Oui

I own a small USB stick that acts as a camera. But in reality it’s just a HDMI input on the other end. Now beat that with software

The king is dead, long live the king!

Plausible deniability

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FTFY

Just checked. You can even select it, but cannot report an error at that location. But you can leave reviews, so…

Here you go

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/

Edit: I didn’t see the other comment, oops

Hey, you might want to team up with Sony…

Line go up

IIRC the default for the root of the drives in Windows is an analog to Linux / which should be root:root 755.

The difference: When Windows displays the UAC dialog and asks you to elevate, it will (mostly?) just add your user to the ACL list instead of elevating your file browser while you access the drive. If ACLs are inherited from other folders below, that can have serious side effects…

I’d be rich if I had a penny for every time a savegame or config file is stored somewhere totally whack.

Fun thing of you enable protected folders on windows: No app can get write access your Documents folder (or Images or Videos or…) unless you put them explicitly on the whitelist. That means you get to experience all the programs that are crashing or hanging or… just because they’re simply assuming that that’s the best place to dump data and because these folders always exist, you don’t need proper error handling in case you cannot access them…

Narrator: They use arch btw.

Instructions unclear, D stuck in printer

WELL, I’m not running

kill -9 $PPID

Pretty pretty sudo with —no-preserve-root on top?