Was it left open + maybe in a humid area? Brittle usually means wet filament.

You could do something like nextcloud to solve a lot of issues, but I’d still hesitate to recommend on-prem hardware and managing hardware yourself. It really comes down to the business tolerance for outages though, maybe the computers being down for a day or two doesn’t matter.

Are you providing a support contract long term? Are you backed by multiple people in case you’re away and their business is down? I say this more figuratively than specifically you, this could also apply to their internal IT guy who wants to do this.

I’d strongly suggest deferring to a local business IT services company, unless you’re an active partner in the business. They should find a company they are comfortable with and trust, then use the products they recommend and are comfortable with.

Escalate to your manager. She’s not performing her duties, and if she’s struggles with them then her duties need to reflect that.

I can’t imagine a lot of people want to piss off CBP right now. Don’t want to get caught smuggling a laptop and get sent to Venezuela.

Salt water.

You could fire up wireshark and see if and when the traffic is actually originating from your PC, then it’s just a matter of turning off extensions.

If it’s not firefox, a tool like lsof will be helpful to see what pid is connecting out.

I yoloed from a year old version up to the latest, it was fine.

Can try home depot style stores, you’ll find stuff more aimed at construction.

Check Costco. They sell carts like that since people use them for their grocery runs.

No, From is the new Lost. It’s so good though, I highly recommend it.

They didn’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522

Happens in small planes too https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65814758

Shoot it down, or just get it’s attention. A lot of the time there’s a radio fuckup. If some guy cruising in his Cessna sees a fighter pull up along side, he’s definitely switching to 121.5.

There was a commercial jet that was non responsive and the fighter could see the pilots passed out.

Otherwise be there to shoot it down quicker if it looks like it might be taking an aggressive action.

It’s anti DDoS systems filtering the automated request from lemmy to generate the preview. As a user nothing you can really do about it.

Usb c has 24 pins. A typical barrel / stereo style jack has 2 - 4. The connector would have to be absolutely huge to carry the number of wires.

Power plugs are similar problems. You need 3 wires and you can’t risk the pins crossing over each other and shorting out. You don’t care about that on your headphones due to the low voltages. Wall plugs need to be fully isolated and safe.

I think there’s a lot of grunt work artists than you might be aware of. My last job was at a video game studio and it was kinda eyeopening the amount of generic story boarding / art work they would send over to Eastern Europe / Asia to be done for cheap.

The visible side of the industry (what you’re talking about) yeah I agree, but AI is slowly going to pick away at the lower skill levels until only experts are really useful. How does a junior become an expert in that world?

how will it change the average person’s life in 1 - 3 years?

To be blunt, it’ll probably make them worry about losing their job. AI can’t do everything and it does a lot of stuff pretty shitty, but so do a lot of people.

Tech workers, artists and other industries have long had to compete with work being sent overseas. Now it’s even cheaper and faster.

A lot will fail yes, but I think there’s actually a lot of value in AI and many will succeed. Blockchain has always been a solution in search of a problem, but AI actually can help in a lot of ways.

Oh yes please.

Have you seen self adhesive tape? It’s a bit nicer at least.