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What. the. fuck.

I think this graph just gave me a migraine.

Anti-tamper.

I’ve seen them used to screw together toilet stalls in public bathrooms. Stops bored crackheads disassembling them.

Robertson on it’s own, yes. As long as you use the proper size driver before you round out the square.

When you start carving out space for additional drivers though, the screw head becomes much weaker. The combo Robertson/Slotted/Philips screw heads will not standup to the same forces.

A good portion of these are ‘security’/anti-tamper fasteners, which basically just means they’re intentionally weirdly shapped and uncommon so people aren’t likely to be carrying the screwdrivers to tamper with stuff.

Stops things like bored crackheads disassembling the toilet stall in a public bathroom.

who the fuck outside of Japan has a JIS driver lying around, then they strip real easy. Ask me how I know.

Funnily enough, I only know about these because I’ve got one of I Fix-It’s screwdriver sets with 70 driver bits.

I was wondering why there were two sets of what looked like Philips and went looking for info.

6-lobe, star, and Torx are all names for the same somewhat common screw type. Torx is a trademarked brand name however.

Separately there’s a 5-lobe screw called ‘pentalobe’ that’s looks just like the 6-lobe but with, well…, 5 lobes. It was developed by Apple iirc, to keep people out of their products and make repair harder.

Philips/Square/Slotted (all three combined) is really common in North American electrical. Switches, outlets, breakers; all commonly use them for terminal screws.

Great for lower torque applications; you certainly wouldn’t use them for like a deck/structural screw.

Philips are too easy to strip and Slotted screws are rage inducing trying to keep the driver aligned. :(

Not pictured here is also ‘JIS’ or Japanese Industry Standard screws.

They are very similar to Philips, but they’re slightly deeper with sharper corners. They have less tendency to ‘cam-out’ and strip the screw head.

Supposedly the camming out thing is actually intentional design in Philips screws, to prevent screw guns from over torquing screws in early automotive/aircraft assembly lines; but there’s not actually evidence to support that according to Wikipedia.

I like to hammer a big ass nail through dead HDDs.

That or absolutely trash them with a sledgehammer.

You’re not pulling data off a maraca full of glass platter shards.

Well, since you asked so nicely…

https://openwrt.org/

I’ve never personally used that one, but it gets recommended a lot.

I’ve been using DD-WRT for 15+ years, but that’s for no particular reason other than It’s what I found first and haven’t had any reason to switch.

If you want it [to be] profitable it well drop serving every address.

That’s not an acceptable option either. Everyone should have access to mail service and as the private services aren’t obliged to provide it, the federal system needs to step up.

Public services are there to serve the public, not to turn a profit. It’s this expectation of profitability that needs to change.

“The bottom line is this: Canada Post is effectively insolvent,” Lightbound said earlier Thursday.

“It provides an essential service to Canadians, and in particular to rural, remote and Indigenous communities, and Canadians are rightfully attached to it and want it saved. However, repeated bailouts from the federal government are not the solution.”

FFS it’s a service not a business; profit is not the goal. Paying bills for services isn’t ‘bailing out’ your service provider, it’s paying for what you’ve used.

Mail transit is essential for a modern civilization, and it’s not something that should be privately controlled. Having private options is fine, but there should ALWAYS be a federal mail service.

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Individuals are to be assessed and judged individually based on their own merit; but trust in the collective, particularly of those in a position of power has eroded so enormously that the ‘benefit of the doubt’ is lost.

There’s no choice but to assume the worst will happen; because of this, I will NEVER live in America. It will be a long long time before I even consider visiting, and for the foreseeable future I will continue to make an effort to not buy American products.

I’ve been removing American tech companies from my life over the last 5-10years, but I’ve been stepping up those efforts more recently and this is only more encouragement.

I’m lumped in with these people

Maybe at first glance, but first impressions aren’t everything. Everyone deserves a chance; keep your chin up m8. I wish you the best of luck in this crazy world. 🇨🇦

Major version changes for any software from the OS right down to a simple notepad app should update as sequentially as possible (11>12>13>etc). Skipping over versions is just asking for trouble, as it’s rarely tested throughly.

It might work, but why risk it.

An example: if 12 makes a big database change but you skip over that version, 13 may not recognize the databases left by 11 because 12 had the code to recognize and reformat the old database while that code was seen as unnecessary and removed from 13.

Stuff like this is also why you can’t always revert to an older version while keeping the data/databases from the newer software.

‘Ignorance is bliss’…

You know that thing that you don’t have? You should press buttons on it.

Fuck you computer…