Try Matrix bridges or Beeper

Woooooo!

I hate them. Let me chop the trees down in peace you worthless elves!

Not with that attitude

AI is actually still quite good at identifying people even with partial or fully hidden faces

Fine if no one else is gonna ask:

Did you win?

As I understand it you can still stay home and celebrate the holiday in whatever manner you see fit.

Don’t feel obligated to go to work just because you lack dogs or bourbon

I don’t think it even has to be “more” so long as others as being fucked over that’s good enough for them

Yeah as far as I know this still works.

You need to use a valid address (there are sites for generating one)

You also need to use a credit card that has never previously been used in Google with another address

What is that? Some kind of PowerGlove for controlling a drone?

Take my upvote you filthy animal

As I understand it, it’s just as they said:

Calculating primes is fairly straightforward so you calculate a few large prime numbers, and do some math to them.

Now you have a strong key that didn’t require a supercomputer to create but taking that final number and turning it back into those original primes is a much more computationally expensive proposition.

In fact, it’s one that’s not viable with current technology.

To be clear personally if given the choice I’d rather the recycled piss water than tap water considering it has stricter standards.

I was just pointing out the ick factor exists whether or not it’s logical.

Like those wastewater treatment systems that turn sewage water into cleaner drinking water than we normally use, it still feels icky.

I’m sure it varies by area.

They are illegal in my state

I use a DNS server on my local network, and then I also use Tailscale.

I have my private DNS server configured in tailscale so whether on or off my local network everything uses my DNS server.

This way I don’t have to change any DNS settings no matter where I am and all my domains work properly.

And my phone always has DNS adblocking even on cell data or public Wi-Fi

The other advantage is you can configure the reverse proxy of some services to only accept connections originating from your tailscale network to effectively make them only privately accessible or behave differently when accessed from specific devices

Just the number of people staying in the road while cars all sliding all over like Disney on Ice is crazy.

You aren’t helping, get out of the way and let god sort it out before you get run over!

Vermin Supreme?

It was not managed, honestly I should’ve disabled bitlocker, I just never expected it to be a problem.

As to settings for when it installs updates, they didn’t seem to stick or were not always respected in my experience. I spent a bit of effort trying to make sure it wasn’t configured to do that but it would still just go for it anyway if the system ever became idle after midnight or so.

Anyway this story has a happy ending because after that I decided to give daily driving linux another shot, and none of the issues I had experienced previously still exist here.

In fact, incredibly enough I have found on average that the games I play perform better on Linux now than they did on Windows.

And my OS never installs updates without my permission, let alone forcing an unscheduled reboot.

No seriously though, I aliased the apt command to nala and I use it instead.

It works nicely with grc for colors in the console and more importantly it supports simultaneous downloads so it runs through a large queue of updates much more quickly.

This article has a bit more detail on the topic