I'm having no problems with donating to OSS projects, yet what always prevents me from doing so is when such projects are not transparent where my donation money actually goes.
Yet, the average donations we receive are around 100 euros per month. A sum that doesn’t even cover server costs or the resources we use.
Well, I see no linked explanation where this money goes or why the server costs are so high, which is immediately a red flag for me.
And don't want to upgrade/switch because it is too expensive
Oh boy, you better have no employees or Oracle will make you pay for their existence:
https://www.oracle.com/in/a/ocom/docs/corporate/pricing/java-se-subscription-pricelist-5028356.pdf
Found this randomly here
under Wikipedia's entry for Secure boot
What's the first thing under the "Secure boot" section? The section that it automatically scrolls to when clicking my link?
Well the website (and the guy maintaing it) is pretty old. I think the blog posts reach back till Windows Vista. The guy itself wrote some books about Win95 so he has some experience.
The site is quite popular in Germany and the information is usually good summarized and helpful IMHO.
Anyway as always I recommend an adblocker when using the internet.
It's so secure that the first thing under Wikipedia's entry for Secure boot is Secure boot criticism
Yes this is a real, I'm not joking.
You're in linuxmemes did you not expect a meme? xD
Also: Yes it's a meme based on a true story (see the other comments for more details)
The meme itself is based on https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/historical-battle-shitposts-decisive-victory
AFAIK a new battery + entering the Bitlocker recovery key fixed the problems.
Usually these batteries hold for years. I have a 15+ year old laptop where I had to replace the battery after ~10 years.
However the affected laptops are now a few years old, aren't designed properly (I heard weird stuff happening like adding additional RAM somehow causes the display to fail) and somehow just have a CR2016 battery installed, not a bigger CR2032. And yes these are buisness-laptops designed for companies -.-
Yes, multiple of our Windows laptops today couldn't boot and displayed a BitLocker error message and all affected laptops somehow had an empty BIOS battery...
Context: Windows Update bricking stuff
How many times did they try to do this now?
It kind of feels like a kids cartoon now, where the bad guys constantly fail every episode.
Yes? Did you?
Example:
AVIF
AVIF is an image format developed by the Alliance for Open Media. AVIF was designed by the foundation to make up for the shortcomings of other image codecs, including PNG, GIF, and WebP.
AVIF is generally smaller in size than both WebP and PNG. AVIF supports animation while PNG does not.
Although I couldn't find any source about the Falklands, the same definetly happend in New Zealand:
So I think it's very likely that it also happend at the opposite side of Antarctica.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32466314
Context:
By the early 1920s, the king penguin population in South Georgia and the Falklands was nearly wiped out by whalers on these islands. As the Falklands and South Georgia had no trees to use for firewood, the whalers burned millions of oily, blubber-rich penguins as fuel. Constant fires were required to boil whale blubber for extraction of the oil. The whalers also used penguin oil for lamps, heating and cooking, in addition to eating the birds and their eggs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_penguin#Distribution_and_habitat
Context:
By the early 1920s, the king penguin population in South Georgia and the Falklands was nearly wiped out by whalers on these islands. As the Falklands and South Georgia had no trees to use for firewood, the whalers burned millions of oily, blubber-rich penguins as fuel. Constant fires were required to boil whale blubber for extraction of the oil. The whalers also used penguin oil for lamps, heating and cooking, in addition to eating the birds and their eggs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_penguin#Distribution_and_habitat
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30328982
Context: superbowl
Template is based on Monty Python - Bridge of Death
Context: superbowl
Template is based on Monty Python - Bridge of Death
This post was brought to you by this PMD rule.
Transcription
Why do we have this stupid code analyzer rule enabled anyway? Nobody writes code like this...
After telling them the lore why it's there:
You have seen such things before?
11 Times, as a matter of fact
Also: Did you know that the Higgs-Bugson is a subspecies of the Heisenbug?
The website is actually hosted on GitHub pages.
Just type in a random non-existing path and it shows the GitHub pages 404 path.