Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Chromium isn’t as problematic as Chrome.
Clarkson’s Farm. And until recently, The Grand Tour.
Can’t think of any others from the last few years.
Keep digging, “Leon”.
expect quality at Amazon to decline.
They’ll have to dig a new basement for it to get any lower.
They tried to do the same to me on Instagram.
Nope, it’s not worth that level of privacy invasion.
I started out with a Knoppix live-CD back in 2002. Remember that distro?
Thats what got me to start dual-booting and eventually nuke my Win XP install entirely.
It’s been all penguins ever since.
Discord works great on Linux nowadays.
And has done so for quite some time.
Alternatively, don’t connect your TV to the internet
Until the first use menu gauntlet requires an internet connection to complete setup and enable the device for normal usage.
Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick
And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.
Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.
You don’t have to tell the truth.
Making it exactly like any other dating app.
“Smart” devices are getting increasingly difficult to avoid in many products categories.
Try buying a non-smart TV without going to high cost commercial/industrial models.
Copilot’s results asserted that Bernklau was an escapee from a psychiatric institution, a convicted child abuser, and a conman preying on widowers.
Stephen King is going to be in big trouble if these AI thingies notice him.
Edit: I agree about junior devs not blindly trusting them though. They don’t yet know where to draw the X.
The problem (one of the problems) is that people do lean too heavily on the AI tools when they’re inexperienced and never learn for themselves “where to draw the X”.
If I’m hiring a dev for my team, I want them to be able to think for themselves, and not be completely reliant on some LLM or other crutch.
If it also shifts their current load off the existing grid, that might be beneficial.
So I guess if they just replaced the control system with a modern computer that would fix most of the problems
Introducing new Clippy For Reactors.
with some maintenance and upgrades.
Hopefully we can trust these tech bros to do that properly and without using their usual “move fast and break things” approach.
they can function even if cellular networks are not functioning, at all or optimally.
When I worked for a cell company, our on-call technicians carried a pager that was on a different company’s network.
how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside
You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.
Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.
I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.
Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.
That’s why I choose open source whenever I can.