I guess from a consumer perspective, it can be more convenient (e.g. wireless charging in a car)

For me, I see it as a way to reduce wear on a charging port, or as an alternative if the port does fail.

I like it for the latter as I don’t like my devices to be inefficient but it makes me feel better that should the USB-C fail on my phone, it’s not game over for my phone.

Both are accepted spellings, tire in the US and tyre in the UK

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tyre

…and this is how you keep people using mainstream services instead of FOSS / privacy respecting ones.

The actual answer is convenience and not wanting to make their life more difficult, which brings ignorance into it.

Not everyone is ready to flip their whole digital life upside down based on the privacy principles you and I care about - that’s why I too use the approach the parent commenter mentioned, and I’m also okay with people who just won’t make any switches, because while I don’t support it, I understand it.

The long and short of it is don’t think of this as “us vs them” - we’re all people together and understanding and gently making people aware of these privacy principles and giving them realistic private solutions is, in my opinion, way more effective than saying “fuck 'em”

“The hackers gained initial access using a stolen account credential that lacked multi-factor authentication security, according to UnitedHealth.”

Absolutely unacceptable. I might be easier to forgive them if some zero day was used, but that’s so easily preventable.

That account presumably had some level of privileges, the policy should have been to enforce MFA, and if the account was inactive, disable it until the user needs it at which point set up MFA again.

First pass reading the title I thought it read “Still getting dumber lately?” And I’m just like “Yup!”

I like that it doesn’t detract from the original mood. I also appreciate the remaster of the washing machine model, it really needed it.

That all being said, it’s also amazing that those 20 year old graphics still don’t look half bad.

This all happened two weeks before I started, so I don’t know the exact details. If it was set up the way I think it was, I’d say yes, the DC was in it’s own VM and then a separate VM would’ve been used as a NAS. Of course being hardware RAID the whole host server went down when that card failed.

They probably didn’t have a second DC set up due to the DEFCON 5 levels of “We can’t work!”

They were ultimately planning on going to the cloud anyway from what I heard and that catastrophe just accelerated that plan ahead

I got a server from ewaste because the RAID card did fail and having SAS drives they couldn’t even pull data from it with anything else. It was the domain controller and NAS so as you can imagine, very disruptive to the business. As they should they had an offsite backup of the system and so we just restored onto a gaming PC as a temporary solution until we moved them to M365 instead.

I just use software RAID on it now and so far so good for about 180 days.

There’s a period at the end of it. Remove that and it’ll work

It was that very reason that I didn’t take regular backups of my iPhone 7+ at the time, and then the bastard thing just died completely, losing very precious photos and videos. Never an iPhone again after that. I love being able to just plug a USB flashdrive into my Pixel to easily transfer photos over to a more reliable medium, although in more recent times I now have a server for this.

And to think the physical bits on that floppy still would’ve been invisible to the naked human eye.

I work at an MSP and while it wasn’t LastPass, when you search “Microsoft Authenticator” in the app store there’s a similar looking Authenticator app that’s also blue, and because it’s an ad it shows up first. Had a user install that and was confused why they weren’t able to get MFA working.

Huh, you learn something every day. Thanks for that

I only just woke up so forgive me if you’re right, did you mean automation?

Hey, I just want to say you’re a real one for actually coming back with the Reddit comment and even a source essentially debunking what you said. This is why I love Lemmy, thank you.

I did a quick bit of research on this, and I wasn’t really able to find anything to corroborate this. I’d be interested to know if there is a proper source to this though

Edit: there can be some concern for those metal particles, although this is no different for any metal dust by the looks of things https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/do-old-hard-drives-contain-toxic-materials.1623183/#post-11646780

I mean you could easily get a cheap cabled headset to use with it.

Aussie chiming in: haven’t heard hands up before, might be a US thing

I’ve got one of those cheap Rockchip rk322x TV boxes and it took me fucking literal hours to get the Mali driver working and the performance, while noticeably better, was still way worse than if I ran it’s stock Android image on it.

Basically that’s how I use it, just a secure VPN tunnel to my home hosted stuff while I’m out. Painless to set up.