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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • On the plus side, for example, there are thousands of printers and scanners where the manufacturer never released a 64bit windows driver even if some of them were sold during the vista 64 bit era or even windows 7.

    In that case Linux it’s the only way to make them work on a modern computer (unless supported by paid third party drivers like vuescan or printfab)


  • And that some programs are extremely opinionated.

    Ignoring requests with thousands of posts, or even pull requests where the changes are already implemented

    “No. I won’t add tabs, it’s better UX to have separate windows”

    “No, I won’t allow the user to save the password, even if it’s local or not important”

    “All the temporary shit will be saved on the hardcoded directory ~/.fuckyou and not /tmp”




  • Wow this is the exact perfect example of why someone should install from AUR as less as possible, manually checking the pkgbuild and not just “yay yolo”

    In this case the archive seems to be clean and be what wd would send if contacted, (even Windows versions are in the zip)

    Btw WTF WD. Why making a tool and its documentation only available on request?? It is nothing special, more or less do the same stuff that the GUI can do (show details, send erase command, send ATA password command).

    It doesn’t seem to be able to disable the activity LED








  • In Europe the price it’s not that appealing, it’s €699 and because they “care about environment 😉” the €99 charger (which is almost mandatory for a new user) is sold separately.

    At €798 for 256g/8g it’s not as good as the $599 they’re selling in the US.

    If someone is price sensitive, can get 3-4 refurbished ThinkPads with better specs for that price and run Linux much easier without hoping on some volunteer wizard to reverse engineer the proprietary components