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>it benefits the wealthy that have investments in the tariffed industry

If only they invested in venture-backed mass surveillance apps instead

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Might I suggest working on chronic pain?

I disagree, it's an extremely myopic understanding of the world likely perpetuated by a sheltered Silicon Valley cabal.

There are millions of non-technical people with jobs, where they are issued a company computer.

It's conceivable they might want to access the World Wide Web on it.

Assuming they own no other devices other than a mobile phone as you suggest, they still have at least two and probably don't want to sync anything from their personal phone to a company computer.

P.S. your comment was funnier before you added the part about the gucamole

This is peak HN. You behave like a douche then appeal to decorum and cry about the rules when called out about it.

> No one says the plethora of email client choices is confusing. This is exactly the same

It's absolutely not the same. No one is manually syncing files across PCs and devices so they can retrieve mail on all of them. You have zeroed in on some irrelevant pedantry and continue to ignore the big picture.

> the streamlined solution for the non technical person is that they just have their phone and it has the passkey

So no one uses desktop or laptop computers anymore? Who made that decision for everyone, I wasn't consulted.

Uh I know what KeePass is and how it works. The proposed "smooth" solution is - at best - clunky and inconvenient. You've missed the forest for the trees.

> You don't understand KeePass, which is fine

Haha this is so hilariously smug and condescending I have to wonder: are you the real-life Comic Book Guy?

So you need three different applications and manually moving around files to achieve a "relatively smooth" experience? I don't think this is the endorsement you think it is.

The downfall of passkeys is that - as was inevitable - they are horrifyingly implemented webshit.

For example, nearly every visit to my Amazon orders page I am now greeted with a nearly full screen modal browser popup letting me know about passkeys and why I should switch to them RIGHT NOW. I politely declined - the first thousand times. I don't know if this is a site or browser issue and frankly I don't care anymore. It's spam at this point and I want nothing to do with it.

My hesitancy was rooted in concerns about potential issues pretty much what you just described so glad to know I was right.

Seems like passkeys use a very simple model where you are using a single device with a single browser or are somehow syncing across devices with some cloud service - and from your description it sounds like that doesn't even work.

No thanks - I'll stick with passwords. Did everyone forget about hardware tokens which are device and OS-independent and rely on no external infrastructre?

If you think HTTPS is performing code validation I have news for you.

HTTPS only guarantees the packets containing the unverified malicious code are not tampered with from the server to you. A server which could very well be compromised and alternate code put in its place.

You are drawing an egregious apples-to-oranges comparison here. Please re-read what you said.

You could serve digitally signed code over plain HTTP and it would be more secure than your example over HTTPS. Unfortunately there are a lot of HTTPS old wives' tales that many misinformed developers believe in.

winget is just Windows developers' version of curl | bash. Yet another example of Microsoft copying Linux features.

yes, fuel contamination (with effluent probably) is still very much in play as a possible factor.

unfortunately, there has been a lot of typical misdirection and wild statements out of India, like trying to preemptively clear the pilots of wrongdoing before the recorders have been read out.

most of the initial reports about the flight recorders were easily disproven as the 787 does not use an FDR/CVR but a more modern type of recorder that captures more data. which supposedly India lacks the equipment and/or knowhow to download.

the chances of an objective and transparent investigation are basically zero.

You don't think the proliferation of inexpensive dogshit IoT products from the Far East, running already-10-years-out-of-date versions of Linux (bonus if it has a hidden Telnet daemon with hardcoded root password!), hooked to ever-expanding 1Gbps residential fibre lines, has anything to do with it?

This represents like 75% of surveillance camera systems out there btw.

Given the events of the last few days, it's possible the United States Government - who just dropped massive weaponry onto a target the size of a dishwasher from halfway across the world without anyone knowing - aren't the incompetent boobs your purport they are, despite their rejection of venture-backed smartphone apps.

Yes, and they're almost exclusively used by the worst type of vindictive chickenshit humans imaginable. I've known people affected by this, whose evil neighbors used 311 as a weapon because they simply didn't like them, and caused them tens of thousands of dollars in forced unnecessary renovations not to mention stress, for trivial violations that are widely ignored.

> Decentralizing traffic enforcement is a win-win

Win-win for who exactly? Maybe we need to decentralize and AI-accelerate construction permit reporting too. Your backyard fence looks DIY and not up to code and your porch light looks like a fire hazard.

Maybe the commercial driver has asthma too and needs to run the AC.

Linux would have had strlcpy/strlcat 25 years ago but the glibc maintainer was famously being a giant chode and refused to allow "horribly inefficient BSD crap" into his precious code, and this fight went on for years:

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2000-08/msg00053...

So it wasn't for lack of trying. Yes, Open Source can't coordinate and this is why we can't have nice things.

It's even more damning when you realize the Windows stage 1 installation process is essentially unchanged since Vista. The Linux people had nearly 20 years to straighten this out.

Installing Ubuntu bricked a Samsung laptop I had some years back. Never again.

> It really doesn't seem like you're trying to engage constructively here.

So I'm not allowed to disagree? For the record: I think the Framework laptop, while a noble cause, is a foolish endeavor as executed and they will be out of business in 5 years.

I'm assuming you've stocked spare parts because by the time you need a new keyboard, there is a chance they will be out of production (or out of business) and those parts, now rare, will be fetching $100s on eBay.

But are you really going to repair it?

Or, upon spilling the juice, realize you can get a Surface Go on sale at Walmart (which this seems to be a clone of) for a bit more than a replacement keyboard and your time (which is way more than a minute) and toss it in the trash anyway.

Like dropping a racing engine into a Hindustan Ambassador. Makes no sense.

The market doesn't profitably support running desktop Linux on a laptop outside of a business/development setting, in which case it's the IT department buying the laptop and I don't get to choose. Which means "this Dell or this Thinkpad". Chromebooks don't count because they are just Google data-hoovering appliances not real laptops.

30 years ago we could play Doom with 4 MB of RAM.

Web development has devolved to the point where now you need 32 GB to view a Chinese take-out menu.

Yes.

"Repairable" is a bit of a fool's errand. It really hinges on availability of spare parts, supply chain, etc. They will never sell enough of this niche product to nerds to make that a long-term reality.

An old MBP is far more repairable because so many were made there will never be a shortage of parts on eBay.

While an emphasis on repairability is noble, the false prophet of brick-like pluggable USB modules ain't it.

The newest Apple laptops all have easily replaceable ports that do not require replacing the logic board, so that novelty is even more useless.

They kicked off the article saying that no one uses bzip2 anymore. A million cycles saved for something no one uses (according to them) is still 0% battery life saved.

If modern CPUs are so power efficient and have so many spare cycles to allocate to e.g. eye candy no one asked for, then no one is counting and the comparison is irrelevant.

A lot of this "rewrite X in Rust" stuff feels like burning your own house down so you can rebuild and paint it a different color.

Counting CPU cycles as if it's an accomplishment seems irrelevant in a world where 50% of modern CPU resources are allocated toward UI eye candy.

Next they'll take away the door desks.

Yes, but they make up a much larger percent of computers stolen.

It's just not a criticism I see put forth as often or as loudly. In this case, those old Windows PCs have a much better chance at a second life than a purpose-built Mac, so the criticism is largely unjustified.