Same here. Started around ham/slink and then just kept using it.

Mostly on servers but for over a year it has been the only booted OS on my desktop (maybe time to recycle the windows m2-drive soon). Sid on desktop is great.

You sound surprised?

Still doable, but you can’t have external RAM. Hence, lack of RAM is a bigger issue.

It is not a lot, but it is not that hard to extend storage. For example with an external SSD/HDD or a NAS.

They are!

Just run unstable, especially on desktop. It is just unstable in name. Debian’s unstable is probably 100x more stable than some other distros stable line.

I like having home on 3.

Only a calendar widget on 2 (one swipe left), so you get a quick glance of upcoming events. Then two swipes left are various games. One swipe right are various overflow apps from the main screen.

People use software differently, just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it is wrong.

Lawn Chair looks ok, but unless they fix this issue I will not switch.

https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/issues/2683

Basically you can’t set the main “home page”, ie where you end up on home press. I like to have it set up so the home is in the middle and then you can swipe left to go to another screen(s), and swipe right to go to other screen(s).

Forcing the home screen to be the first means you can only swipe right, and have to go through many useless screens to get to the one you want.

Doubt they will fix it either, as it has been open since 2022. Without knowing their stack it sounds like a really simple fix, just storw which is the main screen. Normally it is [1], 2, 3, 4. But let the user choose to put it as [3] for example if they want.

I don’t know why, but my guess would be. Everyone involved knows it is bullshit, the people working there, management, etc… but it gives a good loophole to fire anyone that is starting to stir up something, “oh, he/she failed the polygraph.”

The people working there knows it, so they are more likely to stay in line so they can “pass” their annual test.

In his defense, polygraph is just pseudo-science bullshit. You “fail” or “pass” depending on what the one doing it wants you to do. It is just made up.

If they have, then good. Wasn’t sure it was doable with current google’s signing process. Highly unlikely someone hasn’t tampered with them then (far easier to target the site displaying the “correct” fingerprint).

However, my original point still stands. Just because it is open source doesn’t in itself mean that a bad actor can’t tamper with it.

And Signal is open source so, if it did anything weird with private keys, everyone would know

Well, no. At least not by default as you are running a compiled version of it. Someone could inject code you don’t know anything about before compilation that for example leaked your keys.

One way to be more confident no one has, would be to have predictable builds that you can recreate and then compare the file fingerprints. But I do not think that is possible, at least on android, as google holds they signature keys to apps.

Get you hooked to the extreme convenience, much like a drug addict, and then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.

There is a big difference between “normal” SaaS and LLM.

In a normal SaaS you get a lot of benefit of being at scale. Going from 1000 to 10000 users is not that much harder than going from 10000 to 1000000. Once you have your scaling set up you can just add more servers and/or data centers. But most importantly, the cost per user goes waaay down.

With AI it just doesn’t scale at all, the 500000th user will most likely cost as much as the 5th. So doing a netflix/spotify/etc, I don’t think is going to work unless they can somehow make it a lot cheaper per user. OpenAI fails to turn a profit even on their most expensive tiers.

Edit: to clarify, obviously you get some small benefits from being at scale. Better negotiations and already having server racks, etc. But those same benefits a traditionsl SaaS gets as well, and so much more that LLM doesn’t, because the cost per user doesn’t drop.

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I would say it is a tie between Andersson and Svensson.

Colored button stands out more than white.

There are even companies selling lists of IPs for all sort of behaviour and characteristics. Just adding one of those is trivial.

Though google has a lot more data and engineers so they could just create a better one themselves.

It is a constant cat and mouse game between VPN providers and other actors. A few IPs get on a list, they try to find others, repeat

In their defense a very tiny percentage of users even open options and of those an even smaller actually change stuff.

Maybe slighlty different for Firefox as probably more power user use it than other random programs. But basically if something is not enabled by default, it doesn’t exist.

Testing doesn’t get security updates as quickly as unstable, or even stable sometimes.

For desktop I run debian sid (unstable), despite the name it very rarely breaks. And once in a blue moon when it does it gets fixed in a few hours/a day. Usually it is just some package that doesn’t play nicely with something else, so not like it is unusable during that time.

The unstable part is that they do not guarantee that it will work, it is still more stable than most other distros and you get new packages.

There are lots of companies selling data, just one of them is a list of known VPN IP addresses. Updated every X days. Just plug that into your service and it gets a lot harder, but still not impossible, to use with a VPN.