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Comment · 4 days ago
Either the led strip is in series and the whole strip goes out, resulting in a huge black strip across your tv screen, or the strip is in parallel resulting in a black or dark spot on your tv.

Bypassing one bad led isn’t a solution. Replacing the faulty strip, or all of them, is the appropriate solution.

The amount of labor to fix a tv is high enough that most people would be happy just to get a new tv and be on with their life.

Comment · 1 month ago
Only a score of 8.8?
Comment · 1 month ago
Same thing happened in downtown Denver’s 16th street mall. But they didn’t reduce parking or restrict car travel like in the article. But the same result occurred. Stores have set empty for years and more are closing every week.
Comment · 2 months ago
Can’t view without completing a captcha?
Comment · 3 months ago
In my company, the security team isn’t technical. They see CVE, find a vulnerable system, it gets flagged. We have to patch it.

We patched for a CVE last week that a malicious usb sound card device could be use the gain root.

On a Vm? Is that something we really need to worry about??

Comment · 3 months ago
I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.
Comment · 4 months ago
Turn on auto-renew and attach a CC?
Comment · 5 months ago
> I can use SmartID to verify my ID (and age) in about 20 seconds when buying an energy drink at the local grocery store

Where do you have to show ID for that??

Comment · 6 months ago
Ricochet was a mesh internet provider.
Comment · 6 months ago
It doesn’t have a qwerty keyboard. That would be such a pain to type on.

For some reason qwerty keyboard calculators are banned in tests.

Comment · 7 months ago
This is the reason I stopped selling on eBay. Zero protection for the seller.
Comment · 7 months ago
More likely coax. 3com 509c network cards. Much less infrastructure to have a lan that way.

IBM had a network that ran over phone cords that were daisycbained from one node to the next.

Comment · 10 months ago
Which makes taking the time to send a letter have a lot of importance. I wrote a note to my mother and it meant a lot to her to get a hand written correspondence.

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