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You definitely get a warning. But also there's an auto-update feature so you can set it an forget it so long as your device connects to the internet once every x months.

While I agree this is potentially an issue, most people with most devices won't be away from the internet for years. If you want it to be apocalypse proof for when the internet goe…

Google maps offers this functionality. I've had my local map and maps of any place I regularly go to downloaded for many years.

There is very much plenty of fairly reliable evidence that masks work. And the better the compliance the better they work. In nurse studies you get much better results than in popu…

I fully agree with using Qubes, but I also think for most people in most cases that's akin to putting a bank vault door on the front of your house. I guess the question I would ask…

I guess I just don't buy it completely. Given that I myself have had a hard time giving permission to Flatpak to access even an unimportant network drive (Flatseal is a godsend for…

Maybe someone with more knowledge than me can explain - flatpaks seem way more secure than anything you would ever install in Windows by a long shot. It's also fairly trivial for m…

But wouldn't you agree reading about this topic now, with the counter-argument of the post-1960 consensus (though I have a hard time thinking most things debatable like this are ev…

You really can't see the reason behind this? People are suing for libel / slander / copyright infringement / everything else under the sun. If you don't put guardrails up, and it h…

I think the pull for most of us who use chatgpt is that google lies far, far more often than chatgpt ever will. Or is just otherwise inconclusive / does not give the relevant infor…

>It doesn't parse, it doesn't explain, it does not grok. It guesses at best and the blood sucking robot-horse is not telling the truth. In my experience with coding (I've only done…

I don't tend to keep the chat logs, as the amount of them gets unwieldy very quickly. But examples of things I've done with it that are useful: I wanted to create a web app, someth…

It really is astonishing how much you can get done this way. I've been setting up a home lab for myself, and the answers Gpt4 gives are miles ahead of the stack overflow results or…

If posting on twitter is your idea of how to get things done in politics (as many people believe) then it not being on twitter is a boon for us all. Actual civic engagement is what…

What you're talking about is a kind of willpower, which funnily enough has a biological basis also. Genetics seems to play a role, as do many medications. The marshmallow test seem…

I very rarely use google anymore, as it's a worse bullshit machine. I just ask chatgpt and tell it to give me sources. I also never use cookbooks anymore, as it's much more interes…

IMO what invalidates the rest of the piece is that it's currently trending in multiple places. Apparently "they" couldn't get to this article?

The problem is what qualifies you as a flat trasher in their minds? Having a 6 pack of beer in the background of a picture? Maybe they take exception to people who smoke weed. Mayb…

I had no idea about microg. That's very useful.

Look for feedback hub in your start menu.

Strange I was able to right click -> uninstall the skype store app from the start menu no problem.

Wouldn't you be able to say the same about literally any OS that doesn't have a completely walled garden? I'm positive I can find software on linux that bundles the askjeeves softw…

Stadia Pro for $10 a month gets you a selection of games I believe. But it really is in it's infancy, and not very good. We'll just have to see if google throttles it before it can…

I'd wager the whole 'google has all your health records' scare right now increases the number a bit right now.

I'm torn. Xbox game pass for PC is one of the greatest things to happen to gaming. Ps now let me play red dead 1 before #2 came out. EA access is great if you just want to play bat…