This is what I want to know. It doesn’t do anything unless someone tells it to. Why aren’t the people telling it to make child porn being held accountable? My 3D printer can make guns, but they won’t send the printer to jail if I decide to tell it to make one.
It’s actually pronounced Samsquamch
Nah start now while they’re still fractions of a penny per share, so that when they finally become penny stocks you can get extra rich.
I wouldn’t be naive enough to believe there’s not a backdoor somewhere in LUKS.
Sadly, they just got bought out by a big, stupid VC firm. Only time will tell what effect that’ll have on their day-to-day operations, but it does make me nervous. Not nervous enough to switch just yet, though.
That’s kinda my point, though. The solutions I mentioned in my original comment are already approaching the same level of simplicity as a smartphone, and they should be recommended over centralized options as much as possible. I’m not suggesting that the average person should try and host their own email, but with something like Yunohost, running a copy of Nextcloud or Seafile is about as difficult as installing their corresponding apps on your phone.
Man, if this thing can run one of the various Linux phone OSes, I’m buying it in a heartbeat. Shame about the huge corner radius on the screen, though. That’ll make it annoying for terminals.
Having your work info on a personal device opens you up to a whole bunch of ass-ache if your employer ever gets sued. If they need data that touched your phone, they can technically seize it as evidence, for instance.
Moving to something that’s still at significant risk of being enshittified is an objectively worse move than going to something that’s not, though. I’m not saying to keep US tech, I’m saying to build your own now so you don’t have to move again in a couple years.
Call me cynical, but I don’t expect these to be better alternatives for long. The main issue lies with the fact that these services are both centralized and profit-motivated, and I don’t anticipate that the EU’s privacy laws, though they are better than those in the US, will be much protection once even one of these competitors gets big enough to have a say in politics. Self-hosted, open-source apps are a far better solution than relying on yet another company that has full control of the software, especially with the barrier to entry for those apps getting smaller with each passing day.
There are multiple projects available that will let you turn even a mediocre extra PC into a platform for self-hosted apps with not a lot of effort. Yunohost and CasaOS are two that come to mind, but other options exist. Hell, even just running Nextcloud is probably enough to cover most people’s SaaS needs, though it can require a bit more work than the other two that I mentioned.
To play devil’s advocate here, it likely wastes a significant number of resources on the victim’s phone, and it also puts site owners at risk of losing ad money that they would have generated through clicks.
[Sad Tycho Brahe noises]
Or we could make phones out of something more durable.
That’s wild, because I recall seeing job postings for Vimeo as recently as 2 months ago.
Oof, I feel you there. Mine was actually already on the deed to the house I bought for us, but wouldn’t let me marry her because Trucky McMethhead had her convinced I was abusing her, while also doing the “shoulder to cry on” bit. Seems like it’s a common playbook.
Hope you’ve found peace, whether that’s on your own or with someone who sucks less.
Ah, you got roughly the same drug-infused version I did, then. In my case, she was texting some truck driver from 1500 miles away that she had met playing WoW who convinced her that kratom and Adderall were the solutions to all of her problems. I feel for you, bro.
Yeah, I can only imagine how terrifying the inside of that lady’s mind must be. To be trapped in there 24/7 sounds like something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.
Sure have. I left it after 10 years of trying to make it work with someone who was texting her paramour while sitting next to me in bed. By the end of it, I didn’t want to talk to her, either.
“ChatGPT is the only reason my husband is not buried in the yard.”
Can’t imagine why he won’t talk to you anymore…
While I agree with you in principle, I separated mine because I use mini PCs for compute and there’s not a lot of room for storage in any of them.