Thembo McBembo
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Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgtoLGBTQ+@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Lesbian firefighter wins $1.75 million victory after years-long discrimination battle: “You can win”0·3 months agoUsing the viscera of the fire/emergency victims you’re helping to traumatize your colleague is horrifying. I’m glad she’s following through on getting what she’s owed
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto KDE@lemmy.kde.social•KDE Connect on macos Sequoia unable to scan for devices/ accept pairing requests.1·4 months agoYeah I’ve had that. Quitting and re opening typically fixes it for me
They don’t want people concealing their identity to avoid police following them after protests.
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?5·6 months agoThat’s so cool! I just started studying uefi-rs yesterday but haven’t been able to think of good use cases. Thanks for sharing!
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Linux@lemmy.ml•What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?16·6 months agoI have two mice, one for either hand, and use xinput to flip the buttons on JUST the left one. It’s actually one of the main things keeping me from moving to Wayland, which doesn’t seem to have the same configuration features
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Apple Pay, Cash App, and other digital wallets will be regulated more like banks now0·8 months agoThere’s a secondary problem.
If a user has money in their account and the app creator goes under, they lose access but the actual bank hasn’t failed. Insurance on the account doesn’t kick in because there’s no bank failure to mitigate, but the user still doesn’t have access to their money before.
These regulations weren’t written with banking-as-a-service in mind, and don’t hold up well now that it’s not a weird edge case but a primary way companies provide banking services.
This is fascinating!
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time0·11 months agoLet me know when it does surgery on a grape 🍇
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•How to rip copy-protected DVDs on Linux in 2024English0·1 year agoDVD readers often don’t let you read from DVDs until opened by a valid program… But stay unlocked after that.
What I’ve done is open in VLC, close immediately, then use
dd
to copy the contents of the disc to an ISO
Thembo McBembo@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Former Square Enix exec on why Final Fantasy sales don’t meet expectations and chances of recouping insane AAA budgets | Game World Observer0·1 year agoWould you recommend any in particular? :)
I’ve got a little 2 in 1 laptop, a Dell Inspiron 3670 (I think). Works great out of the box with the XFCE desktop environment, less with others. XFCE specifically is the only one that disables my keyboard correctly when I fold it backwards into tablet mode, and re-enables when I fold back