When passing or storing data in code you usually have to specify what type of data is it. An int is an integer, so numbers, there’s also boolean (true/false) and many others. There’s also string which is just characters of any kind (for the most part) which pretty much makes it a catch-all, since numbers can be a string along with letters and special characters.

But to use a number as a number after it’s been received as a string it has to be converted to an int, which means extra code, more effort, more failure points etc etc.

“if that guy ever comes back in the building I’ll quit”

You can’t just leave a story like that lol, did “sr dev” come back into the building? Did the other dev follow through on his threat? So many questions

A simple scan is fine, but to actually image a dying drive for recovery purposes, you should absolutely be doing a direct connection

Yet another Linux phone with subpar specs. That processor is quite underwhelming even compared to Google’s Tensor G1, a proc that many regard as crap as is and it beats this Dimensity 900 handily.

Wait, you guys are turning off your laptops?

I’m going through it rn for Proxmox, it’s a pain in the ass.

I think it was better a tad on ESXi, but VMware stuff is a non starter for me at this point.

It’s worthless when you can’t upgrade a damn thing, it’s frankly unacceptable to produce a laptop with soldered RAM and a soldered SSD (with no expansion options)

Apple claims it’s for speed and performance, which is technically true, but you’re not going to notice that 10% difference between a good quality NVMe and some speedy DDR5 RAM

But you will notice when you try to save some money on base RAM and base storage and then realize, you can’t upgrade shit a year or 2 later and your only option is to drop another couple grand for a whole new device

Fuck Apple.

$300k might be worth the sacrifice

Right? I realistically just need 150k/yr to be stable in my area, I could chuck the other 150k/yr into savings and quit after 3 years with 450k in the bank

Yup, same, I would love to switch to a Linux/FOSS phone, but it’s all crap specs. Like this librem 5 phone. 3GB RAM and 32GB storage‽ LMAO what year is it, 2014‽

For now I’m pretty much just stuck on Pixel, one of the few remaining brands that reliably (surprisingly) let you unlock the BL. It’s even worse now since I’ve had a taste of the foldy phone and I don’t think I want to go back and that’ll probably take 15 years before ever coming to a Linux/FOSS phone, considering where they’re at now.

They’ve missed the boat entirely for me and I’m doubtful they’ll ever catch up :/

Meh it’s a meg, not like it’s the good ol dial up days where you’d sit there and have to wait for a few hundred KBs of a pic to load line by line LMAO

This incident will be reported

Im in the same boat as you, when 10 goes, Im going to go back to(see Vista Era) linux as much as possible.

There are at least 3 of us! Lmao, we have until Oct 15th 2025 for win 10

Thanks, yea it looks like this is gonna be a long game to acquire lmao

How repairable are these things?

I’ve lost count, but upwards of 10,000 Movies/Shows (and ofc each show could have 10, 20 or even 100+ individual files) that only comes to about 100-120TBs

The remaining 150 or so (My usage is 280TBs, I just locked in a limit of 300) is, well, my entire life that isn’t deemed so important as to go to my actual personal GDrive. It’s not just some images, it has every image of every drive and device I’ve ever owned just prior to it being put out of service.

My head hurts now, I need to go lay down…

offered a $10 million reward to anyone who could reveal his identity

I wonder if he’s going to send that to the DoJ now lmao

SSDs were properly destroyed

I hate when companies do this, SSDs do not need to be shredded, there’s no security benefit whatsoever. You don’t even need to do the whole “write 0s/random data X times” like with HDDs. So damn wasteful ugh.

When you use the VPN are you using/opening the VPN on the device itself instead of a dedicated wireless router configured with the VPN instead?

If so, that’s your problem, otherwise it’s like the other commenter said, they’re probably detecting a common VPN IP if you’re using a common service. Grab a cheap VPS in your desired location and setup a VPN server and connect to that instead

Ez-Pz, cheap VPS + VPN server

Or I think there are also VPNs that advertise using “residential IPs”, I know that’s a thing with SOCKS proxy services.

There are ways, but the VPN/Personal Router route will thwart 99.99999% of businesses out there (For a non-cellular enabled laptop and you refuse a work phone)

The remaining .000001% that go the extra mile are going to be dealing high security, confidential secret stuff like TS gov defense contracts or something