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Re:One dead LED killed a working TV on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:35AM (#50274353)
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.

Re:Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions on Friday September 04, 2026 @06:10PM (#49570823)
Only a score of 8.8?
Re:The death of San Francisco's Market Street on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:51PM (#49558715)
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.
Re:Degrees of Wealth on Thursday August 06, 2026 @11:05AM (#49197722)
Can’t view without completing a captcha?
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??

Re:Starring the Computer on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:33PM (#48796672)
I feel like the movie Hackers should have more entries.
Turn on auto-renew and attach a CC?
My car dove me to work. I don’t GAF.
Re:Apple is increasing my cortisol levels on Saturday May 09, 2026 @02:59PM (#48077316)
> 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??

Ricochet was a mesh internet provider.
Re:Ti-84 Evo on Friday May 01, 2026 @05:30PM (#47980635)
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.

Re:Update on the eBay Scam on Friday April 03, 2026 @03:36PM (#47631147)
This is the reason I stopped selling on eBay. Zero protection for the seller.
Re:An old photo of a large BBS on Thursday March 12, 2026 @04:13PM (#47356400)
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.

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.
Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @11:11AM (#46314522)
So never buy a gift card at a retail location, unless it’s digital. Preferably buy directly from the website of the company where th credit will be used.

But why would apple punish the secondary user of the card? That seems like the wrong person to punish.

Re:Bring Back the Blue-Book Exam on Sunday August 24, 2025 @02:54PM (#45006685)
I doubt they’re talking about entry level maths.
Why get out of a 3-4% loan just to get into a 7-8% loan?
Re:Why does a fire truck cost $2m on Sunday July 27, 2025 @09:17PM (#44706279)
I would think it’s more about economy of scale. If you tried to build a car without any of the standard parts being available, it would be expensive.
Re:Binary Wordle on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @12:06AM (#44177126)
Yea, you don’t need more than two chances.
Lane filtering solves this fear. Should be legal nation wide.
Re:Why Not Bluesky on Sunday November 17, 2024 @10:59PM (#42169599)
If Reddit has taught me anything it’s that the huge number of new subscribers is probably a large amount of bot owner accounts trying to make accounts to age for later use. They just like to say “x million accounts created” with no due diligence behind the accounts.
I leave my computer at my desk. Anyone contacting me gets the reply of “i don’t have my computer, I will look at it in the Morning”. When I worked from home I had no problem jumping on a call for 10 mins after hours.
Re:Wells Fargo employee found dead at desk after 4 days on Thursday August 29, 2024 @09:57PM (#41397124)
I can see my employer now. “See, this is why we have short wall cubes! So we can find your body quicker!”
I drove a moving van once between to major cities. It was governed not to go over 65. On some two lane roads I would run come upon a slower moving vehicle. If I tried to pass the governor would kick in and make it really dangerous to pass safely. I would have to sit behind the car for a long time going 50 in a 65 before there was a huge gap in oncoming traffic to be able to pass.
Re:Maybe Google Is Popular Because It's Good? on Sunday October 01, 2023 @08:18PM (#37732434)
Mind blown. No more copy paste for me!
Re:TSA officers accused of stealing from passengers on Thursday September 14, 2023 @10:50PM (#37517680)
That’s carry on luggage, not checked luggage.