I dream in a fashion that I "experience" the dream and remember it later, but only around the changing of the seasons. For instance, in Central America where I live, were transitioning into the rainy season soon. I've been dreaming so vividly for the pas two weeks, and only started feeling rested two nights ago.
In a week or so, that will taper back to rarely remembering ant dreams, and not surface again until October or November when our dry season starts again. (Disclaimer: we haven't had a rainy season with rain the past two Yeats, but we still call it the rainy season)
When I lived in New England, it was the same, but four times a year, and most pronounced in the fall-to-winter and spring-to-summer transitions.
That's not to say I never dream outside of those times, but rarely remember, and not consecutively. Last night I had one dream from 3am to 7am. I woke up once and used the bathroom and easily returned to the same dream, albeit subdued.
If you're unfamiliar with the change being implemented, Google is using every android device to detect every other device and report that location to a central database. You can then go to the Find My Device app or website and your device can be located if it's been seen by any other device.
There's no need for the user to access anybody else's device.
My concern is that my privacy is now being invaded by all the scanning devices in my area, and everybody's movements are even more transparent for the data brokers.
Everybody else's devices.
The email has a link to opt out too.
Here it is for anyone else interested: opt out of the network
I've been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it's been over 7 years already, and still going.
Don't jinx it!!! 😉
Aurora
I'll be checking this out tonight; thanks for the tip!
I've been out of the US since late '22 and they still haven't cut my data or sent one email about it. I expected to lose it after 90 days. I get a google play services error once in a while about Fi needing it to have all permissions, but I don't have any problems leaving them off. My next install of lineage I'm going to try no GApps and see if it still works. I know the LOS team say you need it for Fi.
You just clinched your interview for Uber upper management
Settings > Google > All Settings > Find My Device > Off
You did it wrong. Anya's world is upside down with this intruder. "Just see what happens" is not healthy or safe. Accept that and move past it.
As another comment mentions, Jackson Galaxy has a good many videos on this topic, but the first priority should be the vet to check them out for a chip and health. Then watch the JG vids.
Remember: cat's most important security is derived from familiar territory. Move even one piece of furniture and they need to reassess. A new un-neutered male is a direct threat to the territory and can cause many unwanted behaviors and stress on both cats.
We can already tell you the age, gender, hobbies, kinks, frequently visited spots and how long they stay there, who goes with them and who they meet, what they think about, when they go to sleep, but wouldn't you also like to know where they are and who they're near when their devices are offline with Bluetooth on? We can do that now too! Creepy? No! They think it's so they can [checks notes] find their device even if its offline.
-Google probably
Quite true. As a Google Fi subscriber since 2015, I still rely on them for that service, but I've weaned off everything else to the extent that I can. There was a time that I thought the value outweighed the spying, but its impossible for me to maintain that delusion now.
Received notice of a change to the service in my inbox today. Seems icky to me.
> Devices in the network use Bluetooth to scan for nearby items. If other devices detect your items, they’ll securely send the locations where the items were detected to Find My Device. Your Android devices will do the same to help others find their offline items when detected nearby
> Your devices’ locations will be encrypted using the PIN, pattern, or password for your Android devices. They can only be seen by you and those you share your devices with in Find My Device. They will not be visible to Google or used for other purposes.
ETA: here's the link to opt out: opt out of the network
Shouldn't have [checks notes] exercised their rights.
The pedant in me has to point our that if it's the "best song we've ever heard..." then we already heard it, and it isn't still "out there" as in unheard and waiting to be listened to.
Stats Age - ~10yrs Weight - 10lbs Claws - present and trimmed twice monthly Disposition - Alpha male, but gets scared of his 7lbs sister when predator mode is activated Favorite food - spicy chip crumbs Intelligence on 1 to 10 - 6 (kind of derpy but knows about twenty words and does tricks for food)
History Charlie was a wild feral trapped in 2017 by a shelter in Maine as part of a spay/neuter program (hence the missing ear tip). When they prepared to release him to the wild again, he had come down with a respiratory infection, and had to be treated for over a month. During that time, he became docile toward some people, so they decided to try to adopt him. They named him Banana. Prospective parents didn't like him because he was indifferent at best or hissing and growling at worst. He also didn't get along with other cats. We're suckers for cats with hard stories, so we scooped him up and brought him home as our only cat (for a time), where he quickly became my buddy. He was 13 pounds when we brought him home, but he's a much more lithe weight now. He lives with a 7 year old female tabby who is tiny and forever kitten. She and Charlie play a lot, and no matter how much he bullies her, she always gets right back in his face and doesn't back down. When he can't find her, he cries; not from loneliness, but fear of where her tiny sharp teeth will come out of hiding from.
I'll be sharing fun pictures of Charlie and his sister from time to time. Enjoy your weekend, Lemmy!
When using qBitTorrent to download Linux ISOs, I am seeing that the total size of the download is one thing, then the total downloaded when complete exceeds (sometimes by almost double) that size.
For example:
Size Downloaded 900MB 1.56GB 1.6GB 1.91GB
Why is that thing?
It often seems that anything not immediately comprehensible to a law enforcement officer must be responded to with violence. Sure, we get to hear plenty about officers’ “training and ex…
Anyone have experience getting an HP EliteBook 840 G2 to boot from M.2? There's only one setting in BIOS to enable it, and it's enabled by default. Latest BIOS update. It's in the boot order. It's even seen when pressing F9 for boot options. I see MX23 but no grub (under legacy) or EFI files found in the ESP partition (under UEFI).
I've tried cloning my functional SSD install with dd and clonezilla with no errors, but both result in no boot disk found. Same with a fresh install to the drive from live USB.
I've moved through full legacy, to hybrid, full UEFI, but none see the device as bootable after install.
Loading GRUB or Syslinux and attempting to boot from HD also fails to boot from the M.2.
TIA
Edit: added clarification what was being cloned
spoiler
I very limited as to what computer hardware I have access to in where I live (not the USA), but I managed to get my hands on a used HP Elitedesk 800 G3 SFF and waited months for an AMD FX 6400 Low Profile to arrive. Now I am having trouble with this card.
I know the reviews state that the card can't take advantage of my x16 slot bandwidth, but I expected to be able to use it in that slot, as the x4 slot is right against the power supply, and the card doesn't breathe well at all there, and thermal throttles.
However, when I slot the GPU in the x16 slot, the PC won't POST. I find no settings in the fairly limited BIOS options that would prevent this, and a test Nvidia GT 720 works in the x16 slot just fine.
I'm out of ideas to get this to work. Legacy/UEFI Option ROM settings make none. The port is enabled in the section that toggles availability.
I thought this would be related to my M.2, but the 720 is a x16 lane card, and it works fine in the x16 slot, so now I'm just left scratching my head.
Anyone have experience with this issue? Most results I find on my search terms are for custom builds with more BIOS settings than a business-class HP Elitedesk. That said, my search-fu is not what it once was before my mental illness advanced, and now I can't as easily assimilate information, so it's possible I am missing something right in front of my face.
EDIT: After days of fiddling, I made this post and went back to troubleshooting. It just booted with no problems. Scratching my head, but something I did in passing was the trick. Now to make sure I save these exact settings!
EDIT2: It turns out it was always working, and it is just BIOS/UEFI screens that will not display. This kept me from installing my base OS at all until I moved the GPU to the x4 slot. Since I installed the OS with the GPU in the x4 slot, now it boots to the point where I enter my luks encryption key and I'm good, but it still won't show the BIOS screens. Perhaps I need to enable the legacy Option ROM for video?
I'm cleaning out my gmail folders this weekend, and went deep into the archive to 2011, when I got my invite to Google Music.
It's funny, because I just (November) moved all of my music out of cloud and back to local-only. Amazon was the last straw, when I tried to play purchased music, and was forced to listen to it on shuffle with other songs not of my choosing.
Anyway... there was a time when Google (ahem, Youtube) Music was set to be a game-changer. Imagine if enshittification wasn't a thing.
I wake up at 3am to 4am daily as a neighbor makes noise walking their dog. This cannot be helped. Once I am awake, my mind won't stop going over details about everything from the mundane to the critical. Often, I am able to fall asleep again after three or more hours of wakefulness, but only minutes before I have to wake for the day.
Does anyone have success with quieting the mind without substances so that they can fall back to sleep?
Edit: I want to thank you all for the helpful comments. I'm reading through them now and wioo be internalizing some of the suggestions.
To provide more context for those who asked:
I do have ADHD and OCD and Anxiety. I sleep with a fan and a white noise track (10hrs of non-repeating noise I d/l'd with newpipe). My apartment building has a fire escape that the neighbor uses as their front door. This path means using a heavy steel door on a power hinge. (Slam!) The door is against the wall that my headboard is on. They have every right to use whichever door they like, and I don't know them well enough yet to ask them to change for me. They are trying to be as quiet as they can, other than using the loudest path possible. They seem very nice, and their dog is quiet and well trained. I'm in the middle of a long period of unemployment and I am beginning to worry about finances, as my savings are about half gone in a year.
Thanks again for all the suggestions! I'll report back with my results in a few days.
For the past two years, legitimate job postings on Indeed and Glassdoor have been replaced by scams. If you're tricked, the scammers aren't satisfied with your contact info in your CV, they reach out via email to request that you connect on an encrypted messenger app where they can privately scam you out of thousands in pre-hire "fees."
Applicants now have to add vetting job postings to their repertoire, which adds time and effort to an already stressful process. Things like researching the supposed company in need of labor, and digging into reports against them.
Protect yourself and assume any job posting is fake until proven otherwise. In the US, you should report any scams you became aware of.
Edit: add the following: @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com recommends reaching out via phone or email to your nearest job service office, if you're seeking employment. These places are federally funded by our taxes, so they should be able to answer questions and help guide you to whatever your best options are, even if that includes helping you find remote work with out-of-state employers.
I use Privacy cards for the majority of online commerce. If you aren't familiar with them, they generate one-off card numbers that obfuscate your financial details and become locked to the merchant of first use. They also can create single-use cards that deactivate after the first charge.
The card I have tied to my Epic account generated two fraudulent charges on Dec 10 at Spanish-named locations. The charges were blocked, as they didn't originate from Epic. On top of blocking the charges, Privacy deactivated the card number as they suspected fraud.
I've reached out to Epic for details, but they're just sending scripted meaningless fluff, and its been almost forty days.
Am I right to assume this means Epic was themselves the victim of some breach? I don't see any press releases or coverage of anything.
I'm enjoying my first month of Voyager app compared to Jerboa, but I have a few issues. I prefer a small phone (Pixel 3), but that means the separate up/down vote buttons on posts are a small target to hit. I often end up collapsing the comments instead of voting. I see the tendency for the community to respond with, "just swipe," but I prefer to tap, and the layout of the comment doesn't make this easy.
I haven't searched through the project issues page for evidence of discussion on this topic, but is it unheard of to request a more serviceable layout for users who prefer not to embrace gestures? Those buttons are just so small!
In an effort to keep this short, I'll keep details light.
Years back, when Google opened up Google Music to invite-only, I got an invite and joined up, copying about 600 audio CD's into their care.
When they shut down Play Music (as it had become known), and transitioned to YouTube Music, I bailed and said fuck it. I didn't want to deal with whatever YT had in store for me.
Fast forward to last week, and I realized that my uploads were still visibly in YT Music. I thought they would have been disappeared, but as they weren't, I jumped over to Google Takeout and configured a 40GB download of my music.
This prompted two discoveries:
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I hadn't realized just how much music I was missing that I used to play often. I have been rediscovering so much incredible music!
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Despite my music being completely ID3 tagged when uploaded, and remaining that way when in the cloud, and still showing all that metadata in YTM, Google Takout gave me my music files in one big flat folder.
So because of point #2, I have spent the better part of a week working with Muscibrainz Picard to properly re-identify my music.
On one hand, I am very pleased to have my music back. The CD's are still in my possession, but in storage about 2,000 miles away from me. I don't even own a CD player anymore...
On the other hand, If Google had simply kept the music in album-specific folders, I would have had no trouble, but instead, here I am.
Why does that matter, you may ask? Well, my media player (Strawberry v.1.0.21) does a wonderful job of scanning already-applied metadata, but didn't know what to do with close to 3k of files.
For example, I have one artist's entire discography from 1991 up to 2012, which includes 27 albums, four of them live performances. So in the flat folder, I have "Good Song.mp3," "Good Song(1).mp3," "Good Song(2).mp3," "Good Song(3).mp3," "Good Song(4).mp3" etc. For some reason, Google stripped out some metadata, and even Picard can't really help automate this, so I've been manually identifying (listening) to tracks and rebuilding the library.
This has been most tedious in cases like above, where a studio album inexplicably has a live track replacing the "normal" track. It's not really a bad thing for me to have to listen to my music in it's entirety, but it definitely didn't have to be this way.
Lastly, in keeping with my title, I want to point out that not one of my purchased albums was available for download. I checked all boxes with YT except videos, but only received an "uploaded" folder with all my physically-owned albums. It's pretty frustrating, even with this pleasant surprise that my uploaded albums are available, the loss of purchased titles is a suck I didn't expect (but in hindsight, should have).
A Final Note: I only have about 200 songs left to ID and organize, so any helpful suggestions to help me are moot at this point. I'll close by saying that I had hoped Picard's AcoustID would have helped more, but it often split one album into three or more different releases that I then had to reorganize manually.
First, a disclaimer: I'm no expert, and I only know what is on these documents I linked. I haven't read in-depth reporting by real investigative journalists, nor any reporting sourced or quoted from YT insiders (When I see articles about the ad-blocking, I knock wood that SmartTube is still working and keep scrolling, keen to avoid getting angry at another trillion-dollar company).
I've been doing some light research into Alphabet's YT ad revenue numbers today on my lunch hour. Here is where you find that info.
My curiousity was piqued by a few posts here and elsewhere regarding YouTube's new push to eliminate ad-blockers that indicate the push is because they've been losing money. Per my plebian understanding of these documents: Rather than a substantial decrease, YT had finally seen a 'leveling off' of ad revenue that had previously been enjoying explosive growth for the available history I can view. The historical (according to the data I have available to me) 32-43% increase in revenue leveling in 2022 to almost -2% is likely responsible for this push to more vigorously monetize users.
It's not easy to relate to earnings when they have to be counted in "thousands of millions" of dollars, but if we reduce it all to simple percentages, I suppose we can agree at least that the data they are working from does show a drop in revenue. I suspect (as many do) that the loss in revenue growth in Q3 2022 could at least motivate them to look for ways to make more growth. Where we may find debate is on the concept that growth must continue into infinity.
#Notes
The links below are for Q3, so we're comparing apples>apples. Earnings are provided in millions ($1,000 = $1B) My percentages after the link include ONLY YouTube Ad revenues, not the rest of YT revenues, which are liumped into "Google Other." Revenue!=Profit, and YT expenses are hard (read:impossible) to discern from this simplified report.
Q3 2020, YT ad revenue up 32.42% from same period in 2019 ($3.80B to $5.03B).
Q3 2021, YT ad revenue up 43.04% from same period in 2020 ($5.03B to $7.20B).
Q3 2022, YT ad revenue down 1.86% from same period in 2021 ($7.20B to $7.07B).
Q3 2023, YT ad revenue up 12.45% from same period in 2022 ($7.07B to $7.95B).
I've enjoyed the discussion on this topic, with good points being made all over, like how we can't lose sight of the value a non-ad-viewing user brings to YT simply by watching and increasing viewer counts, subscribing, donating super chat or otherwise, and linking/sharing videos elsewhere.
Lastly: My lunch break is over; I can't respond to any comments for a while, so this is a post-and-run.
#YouTube #Google #EarningsReport #AdBlocker
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Her killer, Craig Alan Peyer (born March 16, 1950 to Harold and Eileen Peyer), was a police officer and 13-year veteran of the California Highway Patrol (CHP). At Peyer's trial, it was revealed that he had been targeting women along the interstate and had made predatory sexual advances on multiple female drivers. He was convicted of Knott's murder in 1988.
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Was working to check some filter exclusions in qB (not possible yet) and noticed this...
I could research this on my own, but was interested in hearing from the community.
Software tends to fall in categories based on who has control, how it is accessed, and who owns the data.
For instance, a FOSS project hosts encrypted user data for free, and the user easily controls who accesses it, but if the server/service goes down, users lose access to everything. Or, a user has their own offline files they control 100%, but sharing is more cumbersome.
Where does git fall in this spectrum? It seems that it's a mix, where authoritative copies may be offline at times before merging, when it returns to the hosted version. Its hosted, but can be self-hosted, and multiple copies of code canbee offline as well. Does it rely on a central source hosting, and a company willing to support the software?
I've never contributed to a project with version control before, though I've worked in a few places that used JIRA or git. It interests me how it works, and I'm just curious to read a Lemmy discussion while it's raining where I am.
(As I prepare to press SUBMIT it occurs to me this is a FOSS question more than a Linux one. If this is a stupid post for this /r/, please report/remove or ask me to and I will.)
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