Real question is if the software/firmware is open source. They have no incentive to maintain a orphan kernel long term. Any hardware without mainline supported kernel modules, and with a 3rd party reputable maintainer for each should be a no-go.
Most key stuff is not on GitHub or GitHub is just a mirror. The heir apparent to Linux is Hartman and he moved to Europe a long time ago.
No mobile devices are safe. Those are all proprietary black boxes for hardware. If the shit hits the fan, it is back to dumb phones and x86 computers. Digital doomsday prepers are not sounding all that crazy right now IMO.
I have gotten weird interactions with rate limiting through GitHub because I will not whitelist their stalkerware collector server. They also pushed 2 factor to stalk and exploit through the only documented path they wanted people to take. I quit because of it.
It seems so hard to imagine that a metal lathe screw took so long to come along, but it was also the enormous cast base that made the lathe and industrial revolution possible.
The roundness produced by the potter’s wheel seems so close conceptually to lathe work. I suppose that even now people struggle to understand that the lathe is the most important tool. It is the primary tool for center, and the only way to precision match a hole and a shaft. The lesser known is that a lathe with a lead screw of poor precision can be used to cut a more accurate lead screw over and over again by replacing each with the next. Precision flatness is actually done by hand scraping with a blade and Prussian blue. Flatness is gaged by a surface plate, but that is just rubbing two pieces of granite together with some fine wet abrasive in between. All it really took was a few steam valves from Watts, large scale iron castings, and the lathe with a driven lead screw to change the world. Yet here they were spinning nice precision round shapes in clay showing such an understanding of spinning machines over 500 years before.
Now when replacing ink cartridges your handheld bricks too
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That is a super interesting wire chain design. I have never thought about chains I could actually make and might be useful but this one is easy for me to understand and replicate.
I wonder how the block was made. Probably an investment casting. Was etching silver a thing 1k years ago? The way the fob end was formed inside would also be interesting to know.
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I rarely ever ask. People are either in my sphere or not really. My first gf once told me ‘I could date any girl I wanted so why did I pick her’ and then explained quite a bit about what she meant. I told her the truth, that I could see enormous potential in her that I did not see in other people I encountered, and I really like brown eyed girls. The potential that I see in some other people is what causes them to become something of a curiosity and muse I can chose to explore. This dynamic seems to come together in a mutual interest like dynamic. There are some aspects of life that I am very bad at and the type of person I see great potential within seems to understand my flaws and weaknesses in helpful ways. I don’t have to “ask a person out” in this dynamic. When someone is compatible with me on this level, we just fall into each other’s orbits like an inevitable dance. At that point, any asking is more like a silly formality with little meaning. The hard part comes later because I change and evolve a lot with my interests and dive deeply into each one in ways that shape me greatly. Like in my cycling phase I was on a bike 400+ miles a week, but went from 350 lbs to under 190 lbs and raced. Few people can adapt like that.
No one has ever turned me down for a date. You?
Bait for embarrassing the person. It depends on the person and context. I was often teased like this by people in school because I was quite susceptible to emotional manipulation. The note is not asking the person out. The note is asking for a reaction to a hypothetical situation without any commitment to actually asking. The intelligent reply is an equally indecisive hypothetical response saying “if you’re uncommitted, so am I, try again” while also protecting from the potential for a trap. Plus if the person does not have the depth to understand the volley, the answer is a solid no.
So what would you say?
I would assume it was bait. I’d respond something like, “Schrödinger’s cat is both alive and dead until you look in the box.”
Went looking for logic gate emojis but apparently that is not a thing
¬(A∧B) Grand Master Warlock of the Dev ¬(A∧B)
The Graphene OS homepage has a Matrix chat page configured like this that automatically generates a guest user
Once upon a time I was a nobody. Now I run as anybody. Tomorrow I become somebody.
I have the censored unsafe image and it is very NSFW
I think authoritarianism is a giant mistake and only creates duplicitous behavior. In my opinion tracking is ridiculous. None of us existed like this and ended up fine. In my opinion, all of this nonsense is acting as a stand in for relationships and real parenting. Humans make decisions and develop ethics based upon trust and autonomy. By stealing that factor of trust and autonomy, and replacing it with authoritarianism a parent is stunting the child’s growth of independent ethics and character. Make compelling discussions of why they should do whatever thing, but let them decide their own path. The lack of compelling discussions and real trust that requires risk is a major factor in the problems that exist in the present world.
The one time you actually need to know where your kid is at because something has happened, you will not know because you have taught them that the only path to independence is to turn off the device and put it into a Faraday cage like pouch, or someone else will do so. If you have a fundamentally trusting relationship with open dialog and respect for their autonomy, they will tell you openly exactly where they are going and any potential for danger. If you can handle that information without allowing anxiety to overwhelm reasoning skills, you will be in a far better position to help them if something bad happens.
The most long term valuable aspect of schooling is the development of one’s social network and connections, along with the habits and ethics. The actual information learned is rather limited in valuable application in the end. Who one knows and how one appears to others is of far more value than what one knows. For these reasons, there may be value in corporate social media. Simply teach the kid to understand how these places are both a trap and a tool. A trap, in that many of the smartest humans are manipulating users in ways that are nearly impossible for the users to escape. Never invest emotions into such a trap. Use the tool if needed for external social benefits, but use it as a manipulation tool with a layer of disconnect from who you really are. Teach them to use a work profile to isolate any apps from their device. That is just how I look at the issue.