Dang, whio’s it from?

iirc, the only safe time to look directly at the eclipse is during totality, where the moon has completely blocked the sun. But that’s a pretty small window, Dustin from SmarterEveryDay put out a really informative video last month if anyone’s interested. He interviews Dr. Telepun who wrote a book on it and made an app that audibly walks you through what’s happening during the eclipse in real time, really neat stuff.

duckduckgo does that with @duck.com email addresses too, I’ve liked using them so far

I keep seeing this, and yes, it’s running the image of the Linux community. Even for me who’s part of it.

“Help, Windows problem.”

“Linux is the answer.”

“But I want to use Windows.”

“Then you’re a stupid ingrate who’s below me and deserve nothing good in your life.”

Do you hear yourselves? I’m exaggerating, but come on guys. You’re better than this, good grief.

Listen I’m all for Linux and use it myself, but this is not the way to get people to switch. Even I’m starting to get annoyed by all the answers in these threads being “Just switch to Linux, there are definitely no problems and it’s a 1:1 workflow.” (Yes, hyperbole. But you get the idea.) If a user has an issue and does not want, or cannot, switch to Linux, then Linux is not the solution.

You’re not wrong. They’re still stuck in the “abusive relationship” with MS. In fact you’re absolutely right. But trying to push Linux onto these people like this only results in their view of Linux getting worse, and makes them more likely to stay on Windows to avoid the insufferable Linux users. It’s coming from a good place, but it’s honestly not helping. Every solution needs to consider the user’s use case and their parameters, or else it doesn’t matter. In the end what you’re saying is not wrong at all, but you’re still not offering the right solution.

Relevant RuneScape short from Jackson Field

I’ve thought about using them like that as someone without access to privacy.com, but they do charge an activation fee and other random little fees I didn’t want to deal with. So I just… didn’t buy whatever it was I was considering at the time lol. Always keeping an eye open to see if there are any alternatives though.

Hey good to know, thanks for going out of your way to check your model number and post how it went. That helps a ton to know you don’t necessarily have to flash. Might give it a go if I can find a reasonably priced drive, much appreciated!

Interesting, I found this MakeMKV forum post that seemed to say only specific Blu-ray drives work. If you’re saying it worked without those specific drives I’ll have to look into this again, very promising. Thanks!

Did you need a specific blu ray drive for that? I thought about trying to backup my disc but the drives to do it are like a couple hundred bucks each… Little bit steep for me.

I only wish you could manage files in the backend without going through the web GUI. So slow having to manually upload everything through there.

Is there a way to check if the little Android box you already have is one of these infected devices?