phcorcoran

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's typically the argument regarding being apprehensive about the government knowing your medical & family history; there's historical precedent of governments making very not good laws based on those.

Before WW2, the nazis basically outlawed being Jewish or Roma. A more recent example would be outlawing being gay or trans in some countries

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

What about when a government decides that you must wear a special armband for being Jewish or Roma or gay?

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

As a parent who doesn't try to convince childless people to have children... fair point.

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think this (admittedly long) video is a good summary https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PfrtN2LlgSI

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I took "rather than the other way around" to mean "rather than negatively-correlated" in this context, since positively was emphasized

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It sounds to me like people who grew up in one part of this graph need help from people who grew up in another part of this graph? I wonder which is which

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[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We had to replace the entire screen assembly for that at the time but I'm sure it's possible to do something less drastic if you are just working on your own machine

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I worked on repairing Macs during that period and I suspect that no wifi card except this specific one would fit in the relevant slot of the machine.

They weren't standard formats as far as I know and couldn't be used across models because the shape of the actual card was never the same. It's possible the connectors didn't change though, or that a third party manufacturer made new cards specifically for that model, although that seems unlikely.

Another commenter (u/bloodfart) wrote that the connector was a standard mini pcie connector; I can't confirm but that's plausible and would mean it's a lot more likely that an upgrade may be possible

One note of caution, it was really easy for an uninitiated repair person to sever the antenna wire from its connector when trying to disconnect or reconnect them, the cables are quite thin

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Getting books from the library to read?

[–] phcorcoran@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Honestly, I would recommend the audiobook over the book; having someone else figure out how to say the special names makes it much easier to keep track of them in your mind, I find

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