I know all this and that’s not filling me with confidence, either. It’s why Framework is in my sights.

It’s what I do. With degoogled os. But the proprietary blobs aren’t filling me with confidence.

They’re too busy finding new ways to inject telemetry and ads into your os, and degrade your experience. It takes a lot of resources to do this.

Edit: ‘to’ to ‘too’. I blame fatigue.

Hahahahaha!! I was sitting there, on the Pick Username screen for a good 5 minutes, singing that song in my head, trying to think of a good username. After a while, I thought to myself, “that’s a good enough username, in done thinking about this”, and sang it out loud as I typed it in… 3

I had the displeasure of being called by one from a vendor. It pissed me off that they couldn’t be bothered to pick up the phone and call using a human, with how much we paid them. I canceled that contract and went with a different vendor, and let the sales team know exactly why. LLMs have their place, but my time is not the waste bin.

Yeah, I’m not super happy about that part, but don’t really know what to do

Our company policy is not to disable it. I tried getting it approved a year or so ago : /

“I restart every day before going home”

Uptime: 19:23:07:24

Yeah… Logging off isn’t restarting…

(Brought to you by my actual day today)

E: correct autocorrect

E2: of course that’s not why I told her. I explained how fastboot sometimes takes over and doesn’t actually restart the device, only “refreshes” the experience. I recommended she restart at least once a week. We’ll see what happens.

Yup. And 100% risk of loss is worse than even 99% risk of loss to a boardroom.

Firmware update, means the printers keep working with third party ink (HP loses). Bricking them, means you must buy another printer (HP has a 50:50 chance to win).

PET technologies = Privacy Enhancing Technologies technologies

I fixed the bulleted.

• Home routing and encryption technologies are making lawful interception spying on innocent civilians harder for Europol

• PET-enabled home routing allows for secure communication, hindering preventing law enforcement’s ability to intercept and monitor spy on the communications of innocent civilians

• Europol suggests solutions such as disabling PET technologies and implementing cross-border interception standards to address the issue of Europol not knowing how to do their jobs without resorting to Orwellian dystopian techniques

• PET technologies does exactly what it’s intended to do–protect the innocent civilian from the prying eyes of the not innocent bodies that are hellbent on eroding privacy and security

The Matrix deals with the exact question.

So, like Fruity Loops, but for novices and FOSS? Did I understand the git md right?

I read an article a little while ago that stated exactly this. That security theater was the actual goal of the TSA.

I passed through TSA with a pocket knife, a small pair of sewing scissors, and a Leatherman multitool I forgot I put in my work backpack, but had to throw away my solid hand lotion for being 3.4oz. Larger than 3oz was a potential explosive, they told me. I had to toss it in a trashcan filled to overflowing with other potential explosives, located in the most populated area of the airport. I guess so it would take out as many people as possible and do the most structural damage, if my sealed Working Hands lotion was to explode and set off the other containers of lotions, water, and sodas. TSA is a joke.

O, well, shoot haha

Back to the search for me :)

I installed the official silverblue, but it does seem like the same problem. Does this fix also work on the official silverblue?

I’m literally dealing with an update issue with this distro lol

To he fair, it was perfect, literally perfect, until now. And even now, it’s not unbootable, since I can just use the previous image point. Just sucks I can’t update.

I think Friendica tried to fit the “like a glove” bill, but Diaspora network looks pretty cool.