[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have no evidence of her motives. Campaign donations are public record, and she receives funding from oil companies. The idea that politicians are not swayed by finance is absurdly naive. They don't need to accept that money. And, regardless whether convincing swing voters is a part of the campaign's consideration, it should be clear that influence from corporations is not an influence. Then we could sit here an take them at their word. As it is, it's impossible to think that millions of dollars from oil companies is not affecting the decision to make a complete u turn on supporting fracking.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Also people who touch monitors.

And people who push the glass part of a door.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They do according to the US supreme court. The court ruled in Citizens United that restricting donations from corporations was a violation of corporations' first amendment rights.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It corporations weren't given the same rights as people, then we'd need to wonder less about what politicians' real motives were.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

That does sound better doesn't it? If I were a presidential candidate, I would definitely say "We support fracking because we need Pennsylvania" instead of "We support fracking because our campaign has accepted millions of dollars from the oil industry".

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

There are a lot of things that try to replace FancyZones but I don't know that any do well. There are gTiles and Linux PowerToys if you haven't seem those already. I've never searched for alternatives to VS or Teams.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I don't know about games. Steam stuff is supposed to work but it's something I do much anymore. I was referring more to casual use, Web browsing, streaming, emails. Ironically Linux now seems more suited than Windows to people who use computers for simple stuff.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 197 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It seemed odd to me that a Web site could write to or read from the clipboard without the user approving it. That would be a pretty obvious security and privacy issue. From what I gather, on Chrome sites can write to the clipboard without approval, but they need approval to read. ~~On Firefox and others any access requires permission. Thus this exploit seems limited to Chrome users.~~

@SkaveRat pointed out that it doesn't require permission, only interaction. So likely there's a button that's clicked that writes to the clipboard, and most browsers are susceptible to this.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I had an old computer and Linux is all that I installed. Not everyone is going to have an extra computer to do that with. However, this computer is more than 10 years old. It was quite good at the time, but it's junk compared to modern ones. Yet, it is more responsive than my very nice modern laptop that's running Windows 10. It's not going to beat a new computer in a race to solve a computational model, but for streaming, browsing, and day-to-day stuff, the lack of bloat means things open quickly and UI elements respond immediately. There is probably a fair number of people with computers they think are useless that would actually work very well with Linux.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I can't imagine wasting my time and energy caring about things that don't affect me. Good luck with that buddy.

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

How can an agent post an ad without pictures of the interior?

[-] Kethal@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I thought that was a weird toilet top and didn't even realize that it was a sink. I'm laughing at the thought of trying to use it.

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I've never built a PC before and I don't know that I know all of the considerations.

I'd like something as a server for automated backup from other devices, like phones. I may also do video reencoding on it. I'd like it to be fairly small, but it doesn't need to be that small. This is what I've picked out: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/L3pxGP.

The case, motherboard and power supply I plan to use is the AsRock Deskmini, but it wasn't an option on Part Picker: https://www.newegg.com/asrock-deskmini-x300w/p/N82E16856158068. This was attractive because it says it has a built-in RAID setup. This is for backups, so I'd like RAID, but I don't know anything RAID, so a built-in option sounded convenient. The Deskmeet would have been fine too, but it's out of stock.

Is the cooler OK for that processor? I don't care about a video card, and the 5700G has integrated graphics, but I don't know if I need something else to get the graphics working. Is there anything else I should consider?

Thanks for any help.

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