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StorageB

@ StorageB @lemmy.one

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  • New laptop time. Thinkpad recommendations?

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  • Where did you buy it? Looking for something similar for myself.

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • Quite interesting. Thank you for the information!

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • Sure, people should not use their work computer for personal use.

    However, I would say the majority of people absolutely do use it for occasional personal use. Checking your personal email at work? Googling driving directions to the dentist? Using the pdf editor to fill out a form? Searching for a flight during your lunch break? I would say everyone I see at work does this, and I would bet that when they take their laptop home they would not hesitate to boot it up for personal use. And the people working remotely I would wager use it even more.

    I'm not saying it's right, but I do think using a completely separate SSD and OS is way more responsible from a security perspective.

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • From a technical perspective I'm curious - how would they know a drive has been added without physically inspecting the laptop?

  • Use work laptop as personal device by dual booting on a separate internal drive?

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  • Thanks for the information. And good point - I will check to see if there's any logs in the BIOS. Is there any way to know if boot logs are being sent? Is that a BIOS setting, or something that would be configured in Windows?

  • Distro hoppers, what's always on your install list when you've finished setup and logged in for the first time?

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    • Samba (for file sharing)
    • OpenSSH Server
    • Synching (to sync files between devices)
    • Vorta (for automatic backups)
    • ethtool (for wake on LAN)
    • KDE Connect

  • Lemmy, is there a treasured piece of content that you stop yourself from going back to "too often" so as to not dilute it?

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  • Arrested Development

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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  • Opera has had this functionality for 10+ years on their mobile browser, and I would argue that it has always been their best feature by far as it has always worked beautifully. I just don't understand how no other browser has implemented this feature.

  • 'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award | Not satisfied with merely bricking printers, HP now wants to own them al...

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  • Check out your local library as well. Mine lets you print 2 pages for free each time you go in, and it's super cheap to print more.

  • Stop using Opera Browser and Opera GX

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  • The feature I absolutely love on Opera mobile is it will dynamicly wrap text and adjust the page layout to a single column when you zoom in/out. So for pages with small text, you can zoom in to see enlarged text and just scroll down to read - where on all other browsers you have to scroll horizontally back and forth to read the enlarged text.

    Opera has been doing this brilliantly for at least 10 years, and I have yet to see this on any other mobile browsers I've tried.

  • What (free and open-source) applications do you use on a daily basis?

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  • 2024 Is the year I will commit to ditching windows

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  • That's an interesting idea. I will give that a shot next time!

  • 2024 Is the year I will commit to ditching windows

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  • I have to keep a Windows install around for the sole purpose of pushing firmware updates to my Headrush pedal board. The installer will run on Linux with Wine, but it cannot detect the pedalboard through the USB connection.

  • My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

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  • I found an old TV on Craigslist for $10 for my Genesis.

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    What's a great podcast you'd like to share?

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  • Uhh Yeah Dude They've been doing the podcast since 2006, and just surpassed their 1000th episode. Listener supposed and ad free. Just two guys trying to figure it all out.

  • What are some essential browser extensions for "quieting down" the internet?

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  • I don't think you even need consent-o-matic. uBlock Origin can block the cookie popups (it's just not enabled by default)

  • Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data

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  • I'm interested in more details if you want to share. What are the other specs/components of your machine? What OS and software do you run? How do you handle backups?

  • Ted Cruz wants to stop the FCC from updating data-breach notification rules

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  • By default it's not enabled in uBlock Origin. Go to the filter list settings and enable the appropriate Annoyances filters for Cookie Notices (or just enable all the Annoyances filters)