CerebralHawks

So only the user process is locked out of the C drive, not the boot/system. Fortunately, the way Windows 10/11 works by default, if you sign into a Microslop account, it backs all that stuff up to OneDrive. At least your documents. And no one’s saying it’s not bad, it just seems like most affected individuals will be able to go about most of their day. I have a Mac, so I don’t need to worry about any of this have separate issues to worry about.

But it can boot into Windows, which is also on the C drive? So it’s not locking users out of the C drive, it’s locking users out of parts of the C drive.

Well I’m obviously not, I’m just saying, if the system wouldn’t boot at all, they’d lead with that. For most users, it won’t matter. For the more technical users, we’re either using Linux or macOS.

Can you still use the computer? Other than the home folder (or the user folder), I think it’s fine if regular users go a week without touching their C drive until Microslop fixes it (which they will, inside like a week).

I use Windows at work, and it’s fine. I do use the home/user folder just because it’s there and it’s how everything’s set up, but there is no other drive to use instead. If I were using it at home, especially if I had a laptop, I’d want the home drive to be on an SSD I could move between machines… maybe. But, I use Macs at home.

You may have. I have an S10e as well (I often forget it’s an “e”, since it’s just the base model). I wonder if I could flash it. I’m fine with the carrier firmware since I don’t have cell service on it. That phone only goes up to LTE anyway, not that that’s a big hindrance. Honestly if I could transfer the eSIM between my iPhone 16 Pro Max (which, yes, is five years newer and also the premium iPhone of its line) and the S10, I absolutely would, at least if I could easily go back and forth. The 16PM is absolutely the better phone overall, but I like typing on the S10 more (Gboard) and it has a few other cool features. I have like 50GB of music on its SD card. It has a headphone jack. I’ve used Nova Prime to customise the hell out of the home screen (and theme it after Animal Crossing, because I can). It’s lighter, it’s more comfortable to hold. As far as the OS goes, I don’t have a strong preference. I might like it a bit better on official Samsung firmware though.

At least I know where to go if I want to go down that road (so, not asking). XDA.

I definitely remember the bit about the fuse. I can’t recall if you could flash the firmware or not. You might be right about that. I never owned an S4. I went to HTC after my S3. I regret that. Pretty phone, but what a clustertruck inside.

No, I’m standing by my original statement about the S4. I’m not going to gainsay you about the S5 — you may be right about that. But the conversations I heard were definitely around the S4. The person who replied after you said that it would trip a fuse, and that’s what I remember. They contradict me as well to a point, but the bit about Knox tripping a fuse that software could check is definitely something I remember about the S4.

My knowledge of the S5 has nothing to do with Knox (I was on iPhone at that point) and everything to do with the port. People give Apple shit for Lightning, and some of them are even aware that Apple was on the USB committee. They were — and when they saw the USB-B cable/connector that the USB committee designed for USB 3, they said hell no. One nice thing about USB-B (micro B, I mean) was that you could plug a USB micro-A cable into the port on one side and it would still work, albeit at USB 2 data and charging speeds. It was an ugly port, and it wasn’t symmetrical, and Apple wanted a real improvement over 30-pin, so they went to Intel and co-developed Lightning with them. So for the iPhone 5s (or base 5?) and onward, iPhones had a symmetrical charging port, which the USB committee followed with USB-C. A lot of Android guys didn’t wanna touch the Galaxy S5/Note 4 on account of the weird new port. Then you had the Galaxy S6/Note 5 that didn’t use that one Qualcomm chip because it had overheating issues, so they used Exynos across the line, and they also experimented with no removable storage (which they would do with either the S20 or S21 and then it became standard).

Fond memories of using Odin to flash my Galaxy S3 back in the day. I thought Knox killed custom firmware on Galaxy, though — with the S4.

US TikTok, and that’s the point. Also, we know X is under opposition control. That’s no secret.

Reddit also hates people who criticize child predators.

I question calling something Nordic if it’s based in Panama and headquartered in Lithuania. I get it, it’s just branding, like how Texas Pete isn’t made in Texas (at least it’s not made in New York City, I suppose) but maybe call it something else?

IIRC Proton is Nordic, but I don’t know if that makes their VPN better or worse. They do have a free ordering and I use it when I’m on public WiFi because I can, but otherwise can’t vouch for it.

Now block under-18s from accessing porn, and take it a step further, and ban any site (including X, including that one Lemmy instance that everyone defederated) for posting porn of under-18s.

Absolutely. And soliciting Epstein for sex with minors. Let’s not forget about that. He was begging to get on the island and get some underage tail. It was pretty pathetic.

He should be held liable, but he won’t be. Not by people who do the same thing.

I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve read (on sites like Ars Technica that cover technology) about dark web sites trading CSAM being shut down. By the FBI in America, by Interpol in the EU… I don’t know what legal grounds they use to do it.

You don’t think CSAM should be illegal? Or you genuinely don’t understand why it is, or what law it breaks?

I think if any other (smaller) site were continually posting CSAM without moderation, it would be banned. What’s different about X? The fact that Elon Musk runs it and he’s in with a powerful dictator?

At some point you have to admit the CSAM is not the problem, it’s the person running it, whether they have the power to stop you/fight back or not.