I totally agree. Luckily for me I have an old mechanically operated car that I plan to keep forever.

So the family being delivered to ICE has to hope a benevolent hacker community can somehow hack that particular vehicle within the 20 minute window of a drive to a concentration camp? Does this sound reasonable to you?

I suppose maybe in the future as car hacking gets more common and attrocities from our government worse, there might be hackers viewing protests from the sidelines specifically waiting for these situations.

Does Biden’s law, or any for that matter have real impact today?

I haven’t heard of a situation in which a kill switches was activated. This does not mean it hasn’t happened. The fact that it exists can only lead to exploitation in the future. It’s also being normalized as people don’t speak against it.

Is this 3rd party control easily removed with a software update?

No. I’m a mechanic and learning to hack. All car systems are different. One day when I’m confident in my abilities I’ll share my knowledge to help others.

Your answer is deeply disatisfying.

Unfortunately yes

There are researches who have already shown it’s possible to see a cars location, stop it, and unlock it’s doors. People have also hacked into car cameras and seen in peoples homes etc. Also due to Biden’s 2024(?) Infrastructure Act all new cars built have a kill switch that’s accessible by a “3rd party”. Besides the 3rd party, no backdoor can be made that can’t also be accessed by good hackers

LMDE? Hahaha

It does work just fine and that’s okay. One feature that’s killer on Plasma is auto theme switching (and night light which they both have) so you don’t burn your eyes out after dark. Would be sweet if Mint had this feature too

That’s a great idea

I was thinking about that limitations would exist although I don’t know what they are at this point. Just getting options here from other people. I do think I want to create something 16bit or even have more detail with 32bit (still a 2D game). It seems like all my interests are coming together around Python and saw that GoDot has a plugin to allow the use of Python over their in-house scripting language. So with GoDot via Python I could make my game have neat new abilities such as the depth of field and particles from games such as Octopath Traveler and Songs of Conquest. Then I would be limited to New consoles but with a retro pixel art aesthetic and forego retro console releases. This way I can really learn and apply Python knowledge and it would benefit my various interests/hobbies.

I considered that for sure but I do think I want the ability to have more detail in my game world

Thanks for the info! That’s all really interesting and I’ll look into it

Wow that’s awesome and quite shocking that it’s so popular. I wonder if GB is more popular that GBC and GBA

That’s good to know. However even just the Moby games count I’m pretty surprised that these systems are so active

I’ve been using Mint Cinnamon for years and after having used Plasma on a number of different setups Mint feels so antiquated. It’s not even close, Plasma is far superior. It’s so much more modern and snappy feeling and you can do so much more with it if you want. Cinnamon makes you have to figure to look in applet settings to then find the setting to modify the start menu. So unintuitive. Among a bunch of other examples I could give

Be careful buying a phone from eBay. There’s a scam where once you get the phone the seller calls it in as stolen and the IMEI is blacklisted (so the seller gets insurance money). There’s nothing you can do to stop it. My Pixel’s IMEI slot 1 got blacklisted but slot 2 (esim) is okay and I’m using it without issue, though limited to one esim at a time now.

The government’s unlimited resources

The old school box arts are the best!

You will find lots of box art here FYI: https://github.com/libretro-thumbnails/libretro-thumbnails

I’ve heard that new apppliances, etc will have 5g built in to circumvent you when you don’t connect it to your WiFi. So if they then have a microphone installed it’ll still upload that data without your permission.

I’ve been in a similar situation looking for a NAS setup that would work for me, and with my current limited knowledge. I settled on the HomePiNAS. It’s a custom PCB they make that mounts a CM5, up to 6 drives, 2.5G NIC, and x2 m.2 slots all in a 3D printable case they can ship for you too. Put on Open Media Vault or whatever else you want and it’s good to go. I was interested because it’s not a complicated setup, allows for AI chips to be added or whatever else you want to use, has a 2.5G nic, and is low power.

I pretty much only use FOSS programs. They’re monetarilly free which makes them super easy to try and see if you like them and with the abundance of options it’s likely you’ll find a program you enjoy. I find most programs and not janky like people assume

My computer uses Linux and basically everything is FOSS. Is Steam FOSS? I doubt it, so that may be the only program that isn’t, and the games.

On my phone the only two apps that aren’t FOSS are the Privacy.com app and my weather station which I’m working on an alternative.

I used TrackIR back in the day but haven’t touched VR yet. TrackIR was awesome in Wings of Prey. Can’t remember if I played a car racing game with it

What would you describe “medical conspiracism” as?