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The reality is that a lot of societies or locales are not high-trust and it makes sense to take steps to insure oneself/family/possessions.

Installing cameras on your property does not necessarily mean you have a destructive attitude, are suspicious or paranoid, or that you are storing and cataloging events. It's a set-and-forget system that the majority of users probably don't think about on a daily basis. You install them in the hopes that you'll never have to use them.

I also reject the idea that installing a surveillance system means treating neighbors as enemies. Well-meaning people should implicitly understand that the surveillance isn't directed towards them in that way.

This is also why Amazon Ring and cloud-connected mass surveillance systems should receive scrutiny - these DO mean exposing your neighbors to third parties who may treat them with suspicion.

I would rather a more grounded argument like "_Amazon Ring_ is bad and you should feel bad, get a better surveillance system" because currently this article's reasoning is very nebulous and subjective.

I use SteelSeries Arctis 1 which wasn't tested. The Arctis Nova 5 scored "red" for parts touching the skin though, so...

Are there BPA-free headphones on the market?

You don't "do" changes. This sounds lazy at best, unintelligent at worst, and fails to communicate what's happening. "Make changes" would be better diction and more appropriate vernacular. You could even "enact changes upon" or "affect changes to."

Alternatively, drop the extra verb altogether: "Use the Mikado Method to change complex codebases safely"

> After a couple of minutes, just stop and think. What’s missing? What would make it easier to do that change, like the previous one?

"Perform." Not "do." You would be _performing_ a change.

But hey at least I'm pretty sure an LLM didn't write this article =)

The direction RSBot took under his leadership was less than ideal. I lamented the loss of RSBot 2 and local scripts. The subsequent versions, dependent on the SDN, were never as good.

Do they know about LTSC? There is no reason to run Windows 10 without security updates: https://massgrave.dev/windows10_eol (pirate site but you don't have to use their tools, all the information here about update tracks for Windows is still valid)

The author of TFA hopped from Mint -> Debian -> Bazzite -> Fedora -> Void -> Artix, so Void is an extremely obvious outlier here.

Aside from Void, every other distro he tried was either a newbie-friendly desktop distro (Mint, Debian, Fedora, Bazzite), or "Arch, but easier, with an installer" (Artix).

Bad luck with Void's package selection is fair enough, but I'm not sure what he meant by "driver compatibility was a big issue" - Void uses an upstream kernel and driver availability should be roughly the same anywhere.

He's using a Ryzen APU on desktop so graphics drivers shouldn't have been an issue there. The MacBook had problems with Broadcom Wi-Fi drivers on Artix(!), but I'd wager this would affect all distros out of the box, and Void has the Broadcom drivers[0] available as well.

It's frustrating that he doesn't explicitly mention what he couldn't find drivers for on Void. I assume it was Broadcom Wi-Fi and he didn't enable the nonfree repository. In fairness, Void's docs don't cover any Broadcom quirks so maybe this isn't as discoverable as it should be.

[0] https://voidlinux.org/packages/?arch=x86_64&q=broadcom

> I went on looking for one of those browser extensions that made it easier to read. [...] I had to find the perfect one, with the cleanest user interface, the best features, the most convenient, across all cases and needs.

Examining the supply chain of those extensions and whether they were open-source and reputable should have been part of the evaluation process!

Also surely there is no reason to install any "dark reader" extension aside from the canonical Dark Reader...? https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader I thought this one was very well-known. I still wouldn't recommend _using_ it, you remain at risk of upstream's supply chain being compromised, but it's at least not malicious by default.

Firefox has dark mode built into its reader view feature which works on most websites, I'd imagine Chrome can do something similar. I greatly prefer and recommend this over installing an extension.

Here's my log for 2025, most recent at the top. Currently I am slogging my way through Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast" which I'm not a fan of. Halfway done with it though!

Gabrielle Zevin, "The Hole We're In" (not my usual genre, enjoyed this though)

Robert A. Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land" (pretty good)

Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough for Love" (PHENOMENAL, highly recommended)

Robert A. Heinlein, "Methuselah's Children" (pretty good, required to understand "Time Enough for Love")

Richard K. Morgan, "Altered Carbon" (very good)

Robert A. Heinlein, "The Rolling Stones" (young adult, but good all the same)

Robert A. Heinlein, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (very good)

Piers Anthony, "On A Pale Horse" (very good, never got very far into the series though)

Lincoln Child, "Full Wolf Moon" (okay, not great)

Lincoln Child, "The Forgotten Room" (pretty good)

Lincoln Child, "The Third Gate" (very good)

Lincoln Child, "Terminal Freeze" (okay, not great)

William Gibson, "In the Beginning… Was the Command Line" (good, but outdated, look up what he's said about it more recently)

Lincoln Child, "Deep Storm" (very good)

James Patterson, "Along Came a Spider" (not my usual genre, okay though)

Jules Verne, "Around the World in 80 Days" (from childhood, revisited)

This does not look like a technical or business decision, but rather a malicious function used to identify users (and/or their employers) for arbitrary reasons, under the guise of "licensing compliance."

[1] https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi-license?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Nextcloud's client support is very good though and it has some great apps, I use PhoneTrack on road trips a lot

You are missing the last full stop, unless your project is actually meant to be called "S.A.R.C.A.S. M"

An initialism either uses full stops after all letters or none of them.

I believe choice of storefront is more a service and support problem, and less about the product itself.

Game licensure and game ownership are equivalent products at the end of the day in most instances. Rugs could be pulled, yes, but thus far haven't been very often or to any significant extent (that I know of).

Most paying customers are fine to run proprietary code, accept DRM, or buy a license instead of owning a game. Even Linux users will do this if the company (Valve) has a decent track record at practicing "don't be evil" (they do).

As a Linux user, when you purchase a game from GOG (and I concede that this is ideologically superior to a license from Valve) you are on your own afterwards. Windows users can get a bit of help from Galaxy and I think GOG even does tech support now but this doesn't apply to our segment.

You must now divine a scheme whereby your game is made runnable. Cue fighting with distro repositories and Wine versions/prefixes/winetricks, or depending on a third party launcher (Bottles/Lutris/Heroic/pick one), or adding the game to the Steam client (that you probably have installed already anyway) because Steam knows how to run things with Proton... and then you must maintain this going forward.

This might not bother you or you may even find it therapeutic (and I do, for certain games). But the majority of the segment doesn't like it, and it won't scale as well as a first-party solution, not even for an individual user.

My assertion is that exchanging game ownership for game licensure currently looks like a pretty fair deal if I receive first-party support for running the game on my OS. But GOG could change that!

The addressable market segment of people who play PC games and also care about DRM-free accessibility would be larger if GOG's launcher ran on Linux and targeted Linux users. It seems like a logical overlap to me.

Valve is eating GOG's lunch in this segment but it could easily change. Sure it might be small but it's bigger than ever, still growing, and seems to fit GOG's mission.

I would definitely start repurchasing my Steam games DRM-free on GOG if only they provided a launcher with the tooling necessary to download & run them on my system.

As things stand now, and for all the good GOG does... it's not enough to be DRM-free but only distribute Windows installers. You've just outsourced the DRM scheme to Microsoft. If the software doesn't run on a DRM-free OS, the job is only halfway done.

And in the meantime, GOG's product is tragically subject to piracy, (I believe) partially enabled by their decision to _only_ package games for the OS upon which most piracy traditionally takes place! :( I hope this could be offset by packaging for a crowd with more ideological overlap.

I wound up down the https://toltec-dev.org/ rabbit hole which was fun and gets me additional features but has its own issues (suspend/resume is dodgy sometimes now)

Again to be fair the rM2 is not sold as an _e-reader_ per se. But regardless I do find the e-reading experience weak.

Format support wasn't great either, only PDF and EPUB. Which does cover most bases, to be fair. AZW3 and MOBI aren't dealbreakers, but... really, no TXT?

This is incorrect, the word you are looking for here is "on-premises" - a "premise" is something entirely different.

Presumably (hopefully) the existing system is airgapped in some way or otherwise restricted to communication with other ATC systems, so DOSBox-X running Win95/98[1] could act as a drop-in replacement for the software side...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214386

Maybe there are edge cases associated with this?