After what happened in China when motorcycles were legalized, I think I’d want to wait a while before going anywhere that flying cars were being ised.

The encryption is so if someone breaks in and takes off with your hardware, they don’t get your data too.

Of course, my backup software encrypts anyway, so I don’t bother to do volume encryption.

I just got a cheap Beelink minipc and slapped external HDDs on it — comes with a decent SSD inside and a slot for SATAIII drive inside too.

I’m running Debian on it, but FreeNAS/TrueNAS Community would have worked as well.

Good/bad doesn’t have to do with age. Are you going to Harvard or a local college with subsidized night school classes? Are you wanting to learn a specific skill, get a degree, upskill for a career path, retrain for new work?

I had a grandfather who ended up deployed in the army when he was planning to go off to college. When he got back, he took the jobs he could and continually took night school classes.

My father got his masters degree when he was 46, which resulted in 20 years of increased pay at work.

Me? I’m constantly learning, using free online courses. I don’t care about the degrees or certifications; anyone who knows me knows what I’m capable of.

I knew a woman who got her PhD in Law at the age of 97.

My workplace pays for appropriate certifications for its employees.

There’s all sorts of ways to go to school.

It’s projection. Paxton doesn’t like who’s benefiting.

Mom! The giant sloths have dug up the neighborhood again!

I’m still missing your point.

I’ve got all my apps I’ve downloaded backed up, at least for macOS. iOS… easier to grab the older ones off a pirate repository once Apple stops listing them.

Are you trying to say that everyone should be running Debian Stable without non-free on commodity x86 or RISC-V hardware with only open source hardware gerbers and no proprietary chips?

Apple is the only provider of Apple IDs.

Other yhan that, I’m not sure what gave you the impression I’m dependent on a single provider?

I’ve been an Apple customer for 35 years. Had an Apple account as long as Apple has had such things. A few years ago (specifically, when Apple started retiring 32-bit apps from the App Store) I saw where Apple was going and created a dedicated account for my Apple ID that’s separate from the one I use for my contact for Apple services.

If Apple locked me out of my account today, I’d lose access to 14 years of app purchases on that account. That’s about it? And at some point I started using an alternative ID for some of my purchases, so I’d only lose access to some of them. And of course, I now keep copies of everything backed up, since they could vanish from Apple’s servers at any time.

Learn Ukrainian first maybe, and then learn Russian? It may be easier to learn if you already know Ukrainian, too.

Of course, if you already know Ukrainian, why not learn Russian too?

I got a miniPC 5 years ago that had a 128GB SSD in it that I used like that. When I went to get a second one last year, the same price point came with 1TB. I got it and swapped out the storage and stuck it in an external case.

They’re not text predictors; they’re text transformers. So, more for translating a text from French to English, or providing you a summary of what a large input text is trying to say.

They can do prediction, but not well, and not without a lot of extra computation, as they’re really trying to summarize everything you’ve said, including the bit you haven’t written yet.

For it’s time, possibly… but I’ve played through it. There are others from slightly later that have so many possible endings and characters that I never felt like I fully completed them.

I knew about the plastic… I’m a bit worried about what Judith is doing in there.

My kids have phones with no SIM card; they can call 911 and they can use WiFi when in range; I have them set up with a VPN to home, so that’s the only connection any hotspot sees.

Apple said “no” and they reversed course.

I buy a maxed out laptop every 8 years. My 2008 laptop just lost its battery this year, but still works when plugged in.

Plus or minus?

Why not?

Because what happens when your referent changes? Which direction is Mars from Earth? We obviously need a single navigational system that works anywhere in the universe.

Why? If they were already using Signal, they weren’t about to stop using it when it dropped SMS. If they weren’t using it… any encryption was window dressing anyway.