Yup, many laptops even have a sim card slot so with that you could even configure it to fall back to mobile data in case of a power outage that also takes out your homes wired internet.

I have a thinkpad at work that has been in that role for years. Its the central syncthing node for like 10 other laptops and computers. It then also does regular backups to off site storage in case anything bad happens with the syncthing setup.

Or as an always online syncthing node, but that basically makes it a homeserver.

Bluesky users are doing that all by themselves, no need for russia.

How are people surprised by this??? This change has been constantly in the news for weeks now. How are people missing this? Its basically googles way to bypass all the backlash to age verification, because most phones are linked to peoples identity, phone number, etc.

https://cybernews.com/privacy/google-qr-code-recaptcha-requires-approved-phone/

They know whats up. Bowing down never works.

Apple wouldnt exist without China…

Those arent used to bomb innocent civilians… Wtf are you talking about?

Those are ultra fascists and also nazis

Correct. Our chancellor is still a fascist, that hasnt changed.

Post number quadrillion about this garbage. Just fuuuck off already with your manufactured outrage google.

The obvious end goal of the push for LLMs. Centralized control over information that can be used to bend public opinion and trends.

Or just not infuriating at all. Depends on your life situation, age, wealth, location, etc.

But yeah if you are too young its not a great turn of events usually.

I didnt mean this site specifically just in general.

See this site for something more technical. Takes a while to process everything give it a minute.

https://amiunique.org/fingerprint

There is a looot more than that lol. Usually enough to allow them to uniquely fingerprint every device on earth.

Its software packages required to build functional GNU/Linux operating systems. Yes.

Normal people just call all of this “linux” for simplicity, but annoying people keep feeling a need to point out the distinction.

Well yeah only 3% go to the kernel. Most of the rest seems to be going to everything else required for a functional OS. The kernel alone is fairly useless.

Oh i see, i thought you meant this as sort of a “i use freetube so im not affected by this”…

This article is about RSS feeds. Im pretty sure your client relies on RSS feeds to show you your locally subscribed feed of videos.

FYI for anyone not in the know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence#Paperclip_maximizer

What exactly does he think “closed” means?