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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Are you from 2003?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Support for classic bombs was dropped in the latest firmware update.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I deactivated DHCP and gave it a fixed IP. The ticking stopped.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.

As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn't happen. The letters just stopped.

In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Why do we measure fuel consumption in l/100km and not in μm²?

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Ever since I hooked my printer up to the Ethernet (over a patch panel), it makes a ticking sound exactly every three seconds.

Before, it was connected via Ethernet cable to a Raspberry Pi that served as WiFi adapter, and that setup didn't tick.

Update: The ticking stopped after deactivating DHCP. It's a Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The way they catch you is by downloading a complete "Linux ISO" you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that's the evidence.

So either don't seed a complete "ISO", or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.

Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yeah, "don't do anything" is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you'll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie ~~I torrented~~ someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

percentage of matches won

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
 

I was just on my way home from work.

 
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Explanation:
This design was installed on a touring road bike I bought used around 2010. The previous owner wanted to have hydraulic brakes on his road bike, but either this didn't exist at the time, or he couldn't afford it.
The mechanical brake line leads from the brifters to an aluminum stopper, which barely hangs on to the stem by a zip tie.
The inner brake cable is fed through a hollow screw and holes in the aluminum part, and pulls on the (sawed-off, free-hanging) Magura brake lever, which then actuates the hydraulic brake.

It worked about as well as it looks. I replaced the whole shebang with mechanical 105 which massively improved the braking performance.

 
 
 

 
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