It’s tied to your employer, you still pay though. So you’re kind of forced into your employers healthcare at a slightly reduced rate. If you can afford supplemental coverage it is an option. You can also pay for private insurance and opt out of your employers, but you are required to carry some coverage and if you do not have any, you are typically forced to accept what your employer offers. And most people struggle to afford private coverage which can be way more expensive, especially so if you don’t qualify for affordable care which is loosely regulated by the federal and state government. It’s a mess…

I totally agree. I think what the show wanted to portray was vaporware scams and how they often rely on market trends and buzzwords. VR was in the perfect time and space to be the vehicle for their message. But it doesn’t condemn nor discredit VR as a whole. In fact, what they focused on specifically wasn’t the tech itself, but the requirements to run it in their specific example. And at the time that was definitely the case. Cutting edge VR tech took a lot of raw power. And the specific case of porting a VR application that needed a powerful workstation to a phone focused heavily on that idea. It was very much influenced in current events then, with mobile gaming and VR both being marketing and investment interests at that time.

To be fair, they did briefly cover VR on the show. Although they portrayed it as more of a fad and vaporware scam to defraud investors. As times gone on though it has stuck around. While not as much of a buzzword as it once was, it has cemented itself as legitimate tech.

100% agree with the sentiment. Working in IT makes you realize how incapable some people can be with even the simplest computer tasks at times. What would you recommend as an alternative for secure data in the case of the average person? File level encryption instead of disk level? Wondering what would be the best way to go about getting my family to secure their private info.

Such a great film. And a great piece of commentary on how capitalism treats employees as disposable assets.

If the home/root partition is a physical or logical volume you most certainly can leave that decrypted while encrypting other volumes. The system could not boot if that were the case as the efi partition cannot be encrypted.

I was curious about this and found this KDE forum post that might help. Looks like you don’t even need a script.

I’m not sure how it works for KDE and sddm but on gdm it is possible to copy the x11 conf file to a certain directory to fix that. After doing so, the login and lock screen settings are synced between the desktop environment and display manager. Not sure how to do it for sddm but I’m sure there’s a way, maybe a script with the correct xrandr commands could solve that.

You should pickup a HackTV if you’re interested in SDR. Add on a portapack and you can scan ADS-B and a bunch of other stuff off internal battery power with no computer/tablet. And it has great driver and software support when you want to connect it to a computer. The only downside compared to more expensive radios like the kraken is that it’s half-duplex. But for how I use and for the price it that’s not a problem.

I might do a brief write up on setting up NTSC and PAL broadcasts if there’s any interest. It’s a neat little project to get some life out of an old CRT you might have lying around. Although I don’t believe the RTLSDR has enough bandwidth to fully cover a NTSC stream, but I have seen a write up where someone got it working with some compromises. I found a neat piece of software that uses ffmpeg and even has yt-dlp support and a GUI wrapper for it. I’m actually using it right now to play music videos, with a MTV logo and all. My understanding of antennas is…lackluster. It’s all over coax anyways to avoid any run-ins with the FCC.