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You can always reboot to recovery and install an update that way.

They aren't the same thing. Under US law pre-1989, publication without notice would lead to a loss of copyright, but publication WITH a copyright notice, that is, publication of a …

There are different levels to these things. The number of SIM card slots or bands varying from model to model isn't that unusual. The average user just needs it to work. In fact, t…

UTM already runs on iPad OS.

Any license that discriminates based on use case would not qualify as open source under the Open Source Initiative definition, nor as free software under the FSF definition. You al…

These things are essentially the opposite of one another. Bellard's project is a PC emulator in JavaScript. Compiling things to wasm is pretty trivial now, but jslinux was much mor…

Where did he say that?

My old school district moved from a localized URL of this kind to a .org a number of years ago (in the early 2010s). It seems to just have become the style, but I never really got …

> arbitraires That's the key word.

The original intention was to allow for what is called a "line-item veto." Let's say you had a bill (and this is not uncommon) with a lot of basically unrelated provisions. It crea…

This is really just a mistranslation. The author's native language seems to be Spanish. The Spanish word propósito can be translated as "purpose" or "intention." Here, it really me…

The Homebrew channel was never on the Wii Shop Channel. It was only installable by using a hack.

OpenID certainly hasn't replaced email. Young people still all need email to sign up for ~anything online - not to mention things like job/school applications or plenty of other re…

Legally, it is enforceable. That's not the same as practically enforceable.

The difference is legal, not technical. You don't have the right to redistribute copyrighted material with permission, except according to exceptions to copyright law (which are na…

Contracts in the US require consideration. A promise made in exchange for nothing is not a contract because there's no consideration.

Caring too much about IQ is not exempt from Goodhart's law.

As an aside — intelligence is not the same thing as accomplishment. A lot of people do well in school (and do well on IQ tests) and do not achieve anything of note. The people we r…

It wasn't until 2009 - which is also when my family got WiFi (and switched from dial-up) - that I got mine: a Nintendo DSi. Objectively, that browser was terrible, even at the time…

One, ChatGPT isn't a "visualizer." Two, I have aphantasia and didn't picture anything. I got it the first time without any confusion. Are you seriously asking ChatGPT to read thing…

Until the mid-2010s, most apps were unverified and people trusted the distribution channels where they got them from.

That's not true anymore. You have to press the Firefox logo on the about screen a few times, which will make the menu option appear in settings to install an extension from the loc…

LibreWolf is essentially a custom build of Firefox with stuff like this disabled or removed.

Lineage is great. One thing I wish we had, though, is a repo (F-Droid?) where you could download individual Lineage apps for use on non-Lineage Android.