I see what you did there.

Activity lights are useful! Try a layer (or two, or three) of matte-finish transparent tape to turn down the brightness a bit.

And what’s with all the upvotes?

No true nerdsman intensifies

I miss those “pebble” watches.

Great news for ya.

They are the mods

Obsidian is proprietary.

I’m not OP, I just read the post.

They’re insecure about it. I feel sad for them.

I don’t think they were using glue yet. You just use a plastic pry tool to get the case open.

In an interview or something, a bunch of years ago.

Today on “read the rest of the comments”…

It’s like a second, separate clipboard. You “copy” text to this one by simply selecting it, then “paste” from it by middle-clicking.

as a bookstore

That’s important context. Every chapter of Little Brother was dedicated to a different bookstore, which is a little different than “Hey Amazon, btw I love you.”

(I think) the joke here is

Wow, AI got the number of strings right… but then you notice the belt buckle.

Yep, this is correct. It started as a “friendly fork” that added a few quality-of-life features that the official version didn’t have.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

You dirty root preserver.