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Meaningfully poisoning your data is like… 10 books worth of stuff to know. I like the idea, but focusing on not sending it is usually the easiest route

This genuinely surprises me, I can understand having driver issues, but I honestly have had a perfect experience with extended desktop and screen mirroring, never a single problem. While finding Windows’ to be ass

Weren’t all these points equally valid when the West actively thrust Ukraine into war, too?

You’re assuming NATO instead maybe cares about the lives of non-Ukrainians in Europe, I wouldn’t rely on that. We are all meat for the MIC profit blender. Winning or losing the war is almost irrelevant, no citizen of the core is safe so long as their deaths might make line go up in the short term.

Turns out they never wanted to. They were just conscripted under threat of execution.

Maria’s history is interesting, she’s basically spent her entire career calling every Venezuelan election fraudulent.

Jimmy Carter himself decried her and her organisation as releasing “deliberately erroneous” information. I guess she’s just more politically convenient now.

I really wish I wasn’t, but some freaky thing about my Galaxy means I have no compatible ROMs

Apple hardware may piss off in my world, glad it works for you but claiming some universal UX superiority is very silly.

I can’t stand the keyboard layout, the touchpad, the case shape, the crummy ports, I really dislike it all.

Admit you’re very picky and just want Apple because it fits your specific desires; that is fine.

A Chinese spy cant do shit to you outside of China. Only western ones can (and will). So yeah I definitely prioritise

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it. And the whole club is on the list.

This phenomenon is known as Galilean invariance (or Galilean relativity). Yep, as well as all the astronomical shit, the same Galileo was also the first to describe this.

Programming quick scripts and replacement for Google/Wikipedia more than anything. I chat to it on an app to ask about various facts or info I wanted to know. And it usually gets in depth pretty quickly.

Also cooking. I’ve basically given up on recipe sites, except for niche, specific things. AI gets stuff relatively right and quickly adjusts if I need substitutions. (And again, hands free for my sticky flour fingers).

And ideation. Whether I’m coming up with names, or a specific word, or clothes, or a joke, I can ask AI for 50 examples and I can usually piece together a result I like from a couple of those.

Finally, I’ll admit I use it as a sounding board to think through topics, when a real human who can empathise would absolutely be better. Sadly, the way modern life is, one isn’t always available. It’s a small step up from ELIZA.

The key is that AI is part of the process. Just as I would never say “trust the first Google result with your life”, because its some internet rando who might say anything, so too should you not let AI have the final word. I frequently question or correct it, but it still helps the journey.

Waiting for seeders is definitely a thing, I once waited 8 months for a seeder to show up (and they did!)

For sure, and it’s a chill question. Unlike the other comment, I totally celebrate your fucking about with settings you don’t understand, it’s great. I’ve practically made a career of it myself :D

This is normal. This is a topic with a lot of complexities if you drill down into the details and history, but the tl;dr is certain system processes and other programs will preferably write data to swap because it’s so infrequently needed, and avoids massive slowdown if swap is needed, eg RAM filling, hibernation.

If you’re absolutely sure you’ll never exceed 32gb of RAM usage, you can turn the swap off. But you’re unlikely to notice a performance boost, Linux does (largely) know what it’s doing, moreso than you or I.

The TankieTanuki link is a good place to start to learn more if you really want to tweak it.

I would know this as tmux, is there a difference?

I would look at BIOS secyre boot/boot mode options. And depending on the age of the PC whether it supports UEFI or you need a legacy boot.

Why is Firefox not secure storage?

Chrome has no master password option?! 🤮

Unless you really really need portability between devices, paying for an online password manager is idiotic in my view, you’re generally just waiting for someone to hack it (which happens all the time).

I use firefox’s local, inbuilt manager and that’s everything I need.