Yup. Use Windows at work mostly and Linux at home. My job isn’t my life.

Your employer can monitor your email. People gotta understand this.

I appreciate the sentiment and it feels relevant to my old brain but I realize it might as well be ancient. It’s the same comic now with different proper nouns. Are we doomed?

My old apartment building in a dense city got our Internet with a setup like this. The ISP transmitted the internet wirelessly to our building and then the existing copper wire POTS cables were used to distribute it throughout the building. Pretty weird setup but I still got 200 Mbps down 🤷.

I was a dum dum and installed the wrong version of Bazzite for my graphics card. If someone is having drivers issues the first thing I’d check is if they have the right version for their card, and then check that the card is actually recognized. Immediately fixed most of my problems by installing the correct version.

Now if I could get my Steelseries headset chatmix to work reliably I’d be 100% happy lol.

I’ve been very happy with Bazzite so far. It basically just works. Only thing I have had issues with is chatmix on my Steel Series headset but that seems to be a common issue.

This is my first time reading about this. I’m very curious to hear a lawyer’s thoughts on this.

If you change the bootloader to some other software, how could the company be expected to provide support for something they may have no knowledge of? Suppose I develop some theoretical SnowsuitOS and then complain to Samsung support when it doesnt run on my smartphone? It seems very likely that some conflict in my code could be causing problems, as opposed to an issue with my hardware.

I feel like to require this, you’d have to prove that the software is functionally equivalent to their software, right? (Side note, isn’t this problem undecidable? Program equivalence?)

If you replace a wheel on a tractor you can pretty easily define what it should and should not do. Determining equivalence seems simpler with a physical situation. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure program equivalence is not a solved problem.

My point here is that I don’t think it’s reasonable to legally require a software company to offer support without limits, because they cannot be sure that there is not an issue with the (unsupported) software you are using.

What’s the signal issue? I use signal on my desktop. Can you not create an account without a phone number? I thought they added usernames a while back.

Edit: nevermind, it appears you do still need to provide a phone number to sign up, even with the usernames and desktop clients.

I’m confused. At a sit down restaurant you can’t just walk into the kitchen and make your meal, yet that is a standard place to tip.

They’re part of Department of Homeland Security. NSA is part of Department of Defense. So they’re actually not, unless you meant this figuratively.

I’ve found on my android phone that the bitwarden prompt comes up more reliably if I tap on the password field instead of the username field.

Most people do not know who Satoshi is.

This is the integrated search on the home screen of my android (pixel). For a lot of mobile phone users, it’s the fastest way to search something. I can just Google search directly from the home screen instead of opening up a browser.

Apparently official skin support no longer exists but Millennium for Steam looks like an unofficial tool that can be used for skins.

Exactly! Just like how we say twenty eleven for 2011.

Now the years 2001-2009 we just don’t talk about…

The good news is, a lot of old secrets won’t really matter anymore by the time we have quantum computers that can break the encryption. There will obviously be a big impact on information that was encrypted just before we get a working quantum computer that can crack modern crypto.

In cryptography discussions, I feel like we’re usually implying (or even saying out loud) that the encryption is secure for a sufficient amount of time and computer power. Perhaps people outside of cryptography don’t know it, but I think there is a reasonable expectation that encrypted communications could be decrypted at some point in the future. We just hope it’s sufficiently far enough away (or difficult enough) to not be a problem.

Honestly as soon as we get some good post-quantum crypto, we’ll probably want to switch over to it asap, even if good quantum computers are still far out, just to help alleviate some of this problem. Of course, I imagine we’re still going to be finding new things once the technology is real and being used. Let’s hope the post-quantum cryptography algorithms we come up with actually are strong against a sufficiently large quantum computer.

This is it! Old water coolers

Wow this is unethical. They should all be separate toggles.

Not really on board with pageants but congrats to her.