Yeah, I’ve never even thought about using PW BIOS protection since someone could always just pop out the drive and do whatever with it. I guess if it’s a soldered drive it makes slightly more sense but still easily overcome by anyone who’s determined enough

Full disk encryption is what you want really

The state or computer science right now is soul crushing

The support was forgiveable to me initially with the assunption that they didn’t know but they doubled down on it and I can’t forgive that. I like the company a lot but I’m not going to knowingly indirectly fund hate by buying their stuff.

It’s really sad how right wing the tech industry is now where even the objectively left wing open source/right to repair/privacy space is dominated by bigots. Like even Proton’s CEO is a MAGA

“Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem” - Gabe Newell

This quote is relevant far too often

I think I’m going to need to run some tests to verify

What features out of curiosity? I haven’t used Nova since like Android 7

lmao, they remove it when they *find* it, they’re not actively looking for it. In fact, I bet they’re actively trying to avoid ways to take it down.

Yeah, I don’t use IG but my wife has reported explicitly nazi glorification content before but because the account would say “for historical purposes only”, they just say they didn’t find anything wrong with the posts. Fuck Meta

They say this lifejacket is unsinkable too

I’ve watched nearly episode in the first 20 seasons of The Simpsons three times or more but I have always skipped those episodes

Looks like Amazon.ca still lets you see all reviews thankfully

Would they actually be able to afford it? Investors have been throwing endless amounts of money onto the fire but in OpenAI’s case at least, it was all essentially bought like “I’ll pay you later, trust me”, right?

I’d assume convincing companies twice that you’re trustworthy enough to buy the world’s supply of RAM with an IOU wouldn’t be possible but I guess I thought the same thing for the first time as well

edit: either way, I’d take a longer period of expensive RAM if it meant a giant “fuck you” to the AI companies

Same deal in Canada. Don’t think it’s an American thing at all

Our Liberal party is only marginally better than the American Democrats and I’m pretty sure they’re just as bought and paid for by Israel. Carney, our PM and the leader of the Liberals acknowledged during his leadership race that there’s a genocide happening against Palestinians but retracted what he said a few days later. “I didn’t hear the word genocide”.

The LPC like to make semi progressive statements but then act like conservatives. We just got a new leader for the NDP though (New Democratic Party, our left wing) and I’m really hoping they can gain some more ground and change things

Definitely not a thing in Ottawa, Canada (where our Department of National Defence is)

I’d vote for that rule example you gave be added to the sidebar exactly as you wrote it

I’ve seen coding used since like the late aughts and that’s just because I started getting into programming around that time

It’s by no means Linux but I actually do find MacOS quite customisable, especially if you spend a lot of time in the command line. It’s going in the opposite direction in the last couple years of course but you could straight up run the i3 TWM in XQuartz on MacOS if you wanted to

What customisations do you find MacOS lacks?

This is kind of the most useful part of secondary education too. I’m very introverted but by chance I ended hanging out with a group of very extroverted talented guys who got me in at 3/4 of the companies I’ve worked for in my professional career

My experience is very late 2010s and early pandemic era tech industry focused though. I’m unemployed right now but not even my connections are able to get me on anywhere since nobody’s hiring it seems :(

The Wikipedia page for it is a great read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic

A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that accomplished environmental goals set by the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million, providing ecological benefits including improved water quality, enhanced biodiversity, and better water retention

What country? You totally can in Canada, especially if you cause a crash