I may start keeping a cheap device that lives in a Faraday cage that obeys the corporate rules and only comes out when I absolutely need it, and then a graphene device of sorts as my daily driver. Ive almost completely de-googled otherwise.

There’s nothing weird about being against metastacizing cancer.

Is it?

As a malicious actor or red-team player, I would want to get you on as old of an OS as I could in order to exploit a wider range of CVEs. Or in most cases, one would be hunting for a specific set of CVEs. Once I’ve got you on the version I want, I can then perform other attacks and ensure that they run.

The iPhone, many Android phones, some network equipment, and game consoles all have eFuses that burn when you perform an update, and the specific number or pattern they burn in is used to determine the lowest OS version your device is allowed to be on in order to stop this from happening.

Thats called a downgrade attack and is explicitly blocked by most modern security models that are not a PC.

The F in FOSS stands for Libre

Graphics font and name fall under trademark I believe, which separates it from copyright.

Firefox is a famous example of this. The code for Firefox is completely open to anyone to fork and reuse, but you cannot call your fork Firefox. Mozilla retains the brand and the logo for it.

So instead we get iceweasel.

Do you think it runs at 1000w continuously? On any decent GPU, the responses are nearly instantaneous to maybe a few seconds of runtime at maybe max GPU consumption.

Compare that to playing a few hours of cyberpunk 2077 with raytracing and maxed out settings at 4k.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot to hate about AI/LLMs, but running one locally without data harvesting engines is pretty minimal. The creation of the larger models is where the consumption primarily comes in, and then the data centers that run them are servicing millions of inquiries a minute making the concentration of consumption at a single point significantly higher (plus they retrain the model there on current and user-fed data, including prompts, whereas your computer hosting ollama would not.)

Thats easy, just stop using windows

I like your funny words, magic man

I think you’re missing the point. What you said is a problem for sure, but that problem isn’t related to what we are talking about here.

Is this true if you don’t have Google Play Services but the person you’re messaging does? Is one person cutting GPS out enough?

Which they did.

To expand on the lawsuits bit, most peoples thoughts would likely be the company trying to sweep things under the rug after 2 years, but while that may be a “pleasant” side effect, they usually do it for HR and data privacy/data retention law compliance. Keeping emails of employees who haven’t been with the company in ages is usually not a great idea from that perspective.

We should push to switch to runit or something, and dnsmasq+Network Manager as the golden standards.

You may be on to something

Arch is one of the distros that has unfortunately bent the knee to age verification, and is banning users from contributing if they oppose the change under guise of Code of Conduct violations (COC)

I’m so glad KDE forces me to use every point of customization and doesn’t allow me to enjoy their well-curated default experience out of the box.

It’s great that they don’t tuck the power-user features away behind advanced options menus and give me a simple almost gnome-like experience from the get-go.

Even better, I’m glad that KDE doesn’t dare to take user feedback into consideration by hosting KDE community summits where they prioritize three major user concerns per session, instead of telling users that a feature everyone wants doesn’t belong and reclassifying as wontfix.

(For those unable to tell, this is pure snark and sarcasm, KDE does all these amazing pro-user things and gnome doesn’t.)

After recent developments and threats of COC violations, Arch should probably be moved up to center of red.

Their hubris may have finally caught up with them.

Fun fact, that functionality literally came from GrapheneOS. Google onboarded it from Graphene.