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by drnick1 4mo ago
This. The only "smart" things allowed in my home are those under my control. This means devices that work over Zigbee, or that that run free firmware natively (like ESP32-based devices), or that can be hacked to run free firmware.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
It's just a PC, you shouldn't be able to "lock" it. Either you own the hardware or you don't.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
I would have probably picked an Intel B580 for the additional VRAM (at $250), and a case with better airflow like the Bequiet Pure Base 501, but your point stands.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> The car is designed for urban settings and has a top speed of 50 kilometers (31 miles) per hour. Stopped reading here. For all intents and purposes this is not a real car, it's a golf cart. The title is complete clickbait.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
Last time I installed Arch, I put Secure Boot in setup mode and enrolled by own keys. The idea of using someone else's keys seems absurd.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> A PC like that is huge and, imo, much uglier. It's not huge, it's a mid-tower (admittedly, not a pretty one). But the real benefit is that it is upgradable. Basically you are trading off user serviceability for "it just
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by drnick1 4mo ago
Can't you build or buy an equivalent (in performance) PC for cheaper? All with upgradable standard parts? I get the appeal of a small form factor, but I am afraid it may not sell well at this price.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> The US is really shooting itself in the foot here. > The restrictions on LLM models like Fable has created a viable international LLM market The issue is that there is no "international LLM market." America is leading the
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> Privacy != anonymity. In practice, if you lose one, then you also lose the other.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
Then don't register a domain in those countries, and pay with crypto.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
How would that work? The UK can presumably ban Mullvad from operating in the UK, but I don't see how it can prevent outbound connections to Mullvad servers elsewhere, short of implementing a nation-wide firewall like China or Iran. And
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> On mobile a VPN isn't always effective in avoid geoblocks. It seems like your VPN setup has a leak, or the real location is obtained otherwise through the operating system (locale setting or GPS). I would be surprised if your loca
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by drnick1 4mo ago
You can register domain names anonymously. Sure, you will be asked for contact details (WHOIS), but no one verifies them.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
This paper clearly shows why you shouldn't use MS Word to typeset research.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
Yes this is the logical sentence order, at least in English.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
No, they just interrupt the flow of traffic by slowing it down. The classic pattern of side roads with less traffic yielding to incoming traffic on the main road carrying more traffic is the correct road layout that minimizes frustration an
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> This is a global systemic issue that cannot be fixed by individual action. Game theory tells you why. Nothing will change (and nothing has fundamentally changed since the climate scaremongering started), because people in the West do n
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by drnick1 4mo ago
This is absolutely true. Remember that automakers greatly contributed to war efforts in the past. It is an indispensable domestic industry, just as much as energy. Then there is the issue that BYD cars are presumably connected to servers in
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by drnick1 4mo ago
Roundabouts are almost always a bad idea. Thank God they are mostly a European thing.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> I just want to vent: climate change is not a controversial topic, it's an inconvenient topic for people making a lot of money. If you’d like to do your part against climate change, you can start by walking everywhere today, avoidi
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> they were unable to follow through on hiring many of the grad students they had planned to hire Most of the "research" done by graduate students and even tenured faculty as a whole is laughable at best. For every lab that pro
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by drnick1 4mo ago
The Nextcloud app on my phone automatically backs up my pictures to my Nextcloud instance. This is painless to run in a Docker container at home, but Nextcloud also has a subscription service if you don't want to self-host, and your mo
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by drnick1 4mo ago
It looks very plain (black background, monochrome icons, very few apps included). You can customize all that if you want. I personally quite like the default appearance, but I am also the kind of person who uses the default GNOME or KDE the
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by drnick1 4mo ago
You will find that a lot of banks and other companies have old fashioned websites that open work better (and more privately) than apps. Even Google Voice should be usable through its website. However what is usually recommended by the Graph
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by drnick1 4mo ago
What would anyone use an app to order food from McDonald's? Just walk into the restaurant, pay cash, and walk out with the food.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
"Strava is an American internet service for tracking physical exercise which incorporates social networking features." Sounds like spyware, to be honest.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> If an attacker knows or deduces that you're the only individual receiving mail at *@yourdomain.example [1], they can track you across different databases by just looking for your domain name. How would that attacker gain access to
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by drnick1 4mo ago
The best alternatives are self-hosted, e.g. your own email, CalDAV, CardDAV, and file servers, with e.g. K9 as email client.
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by drnick1 4mo ago
> I'm not looking to fully de-Google but I want Google as apps and not my OS. This is entirely possible as other posters have explained. But I think it kind of defeats the point of Graphene, at least somewhat. Google is already prof
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by drnick1 4mo ago
That's nonsense. I have a DeepSeek account, of the form ai+deepseek@mydomain.com.

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