Seems to be limited to this subset: https://mullvad.net/en/servers?provider=HostRoyale&city=qas

Access denied: IP address blocked

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(Mullvad)

Works with RackNerd IP.

1. Nestle products (I am bad at explaining why, and would just again end up researching their shit for 2 hours)
2. Alcoholic drinks - kills braincells, and I’d prefer to keep both
3. Cigarettes or vapes
4. Closed-source software licenses (for personal use)
5. Digital content that does not come on physical media
6. Hardware with license-unlockable components (e.g. some networking equipment may limit throughput unless you pay more)

Maybe they have some dumb animals?
Like in Out Of Position book, hence this comment/part:

“I don’t give a crap what you do when you’re not here.” Coach dives right in. “Ladies, guys, livestock, whatever. What I care about is when it becomes a distraction that makes my job harder. Are you trying to make my job harder?”

“No, sir.” I dismiss the image conjured up by him saying “livestock.” “My agent issued that statement without my authorization.”

And yeah, they also eat meat.

Tastes too watery in my opinion.
I actually like soy milk more, in fact more than normal milk.

Although that may depend on the brand, and I don’t know what it does with ice cream.

Unfortunately, they soy milk stuff makes my mouth itchy, throat scratchy, and gives a bit of a funny feeling to my stomach, and flushing it down with water doesn’t help.
Maybe I shouldn’t…, meh. I already had to leave out most of fruit due to this. Ironically, no issues with pineapples and kiwis. I’ve heard someone say the pineapple core is just trash because it makes their tongue numb and is just hard anyway. I’ll just chew it and the only drawback is having to floss afterwards.

Bring RFC3339 RFC9557 some love. Fuck the closed ISO8601.

Basic rules + extensions for ISO8601 cost CHF 376 = $465.50 or EUR 403.63.

Sure.
And I like to sort by month.

My idea was that if someone gets my card, they’ll still need pin. Plus I disabled withdrawals by card. And after disabling NFC, it doesn’t even seem to show the card number + expiration that I could just scan with https://github.com/devnied/EMV-NFC-Paycard-Enrollment (the numbers show in older versions), which could be done by tapping my pocket. Online payments often need 3D Secure, though unfortunately, not always.

However, nowadays I start to encounter a lot of contactless only terminals, so I just started switching to cash. Vending machines still typically take coins.

Admit you’re gay or take 25.

This dude takes 50 cards (just in case).

Aren’t those flying (rail)buses?

Neither. It’s about using screen pixels to make vertical/horizontal lines, using aliasing as feature.

Well, I’ve seen a few similar enough videos on gore sites. Either cutting it off rubber banded, or one dude using a very hot blade.

Welp.

It’s edited or AI based on another image.

Alright, so others went over the “easy” way to see which program is being the offender. But I feel like the average Lemmy user just skips GUI at this point.
Say hello to KDE:

KDE also does automatic fsck before mounting, which is why it may take some 2 seconds to mount a drive.

HDDs it properly spins down and unpowers as well.

Writes are asynchronous on Linux.

Unless I mount it with sync, which I wish would be default for non-system drives (which are going to be in fstab anyway). I didn’t notice any difference, aside from the lack of guessing when the magic is over. 2GiB goes into black hole, now what?

Not everyone has such needs, city transport could basically get you anywhere, though yes, it’s slower.

Perhaps we could get some better car rental, and just end up reducing traffic (those buses still need roads). I mean in similar way to bikes and electric scooters, but add chargers throughout the city and do the same with EVs.

Checks out:

Well, Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_code#Computer_DVD_drives

Basically same as regions on standalone DVD players. Just a scummy thing to only allow you to play DVDs from your own region, perhaps so that you wouldn’t buy them from cheaper countries, or buy them earlier than you’re supposed to in your country.

If everything works correctly, then say you buy DVDs from UK, but something new just released in US, but haven’t even played in cinemas in UK yet. So you buy it from US… and it shouldn’t work.

VLC doesn’t care about this, but still, the drive firmware might.

BluRays also have regions

By the fucking way, BluRays have some DRM with revocable keys

This is part of the AACS protection scheme: editors are able to revoke old software player host keys that have leaked on the Internet and distribute the lists on newer commercial disc releases. This is irreversible and cannot be fixed even after reflashing the drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray#Revoked_Host_key/certificate

So when do you truly own something? When you pirate it. No regions, no DRM, 4k on any device powerful enough.

Except the problem seems to be the said storage device.

If it is a hardware failure, I don’t see why it should be an issue. I know re-installing Windows is something PC repair shops do often, and I don’t see how that’s different from any other OS.

fault or failure resulting from software

Unfortunately, that’s quite broad. But it could also just apply for stuff like overclocking or firmware modifications. Or even simpler stuff. I could see someone having DVDs from multiple regions, changing drive region every time until they hit the 5 changes limit, and then trying to claim it for warranty (I’ve had some software on Windows do that automatically…).

Should I submit it with the Linux installation intact or replace it a fresh install of Windows

Or if there’s private data, overwrite it with output of /dev/urandom or /dev/zero. blkdiscard might also be your friend since it’s an SSD.

I am doubtful whether they have experience working on anything other than Windows

Probably they’ll just test the rest with their own drive or re-install it.

Or maybe try to ask them how to prepare the device for the warranty claim.