This must depend on country and carrier. My carrier has never removed 4G or 5G bands. They’ve added new ones and they’ve phased out 2G and some 3G but that’s all. My phones from 10 years ago can still connect just fine, although obviously newer ones are faster.

LOL same. Really should’ve read the thread before thinking “oh free games, yoink!”

Figures. If these shysters at Colossal had any integrity, they wouldn’t be calling their modified gray wolves “dire wolves” in the first place. Everything Colossal says about their dire wolf project is misleading or just plain bullshit. They’re not “de-extincting” anything. They’re making a larger breed of gray wolf. But that doesn’t sound sexy enough to set them up for a cash-grab IPO.

King Of Ink Land King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite has written to his local MP to air his grievances.

Holy shit. That’s his legal name?!

For King of Ink Land, this is particularly tricky as the system believes he’s wearing a mask – but it’s actually his tattoo-covered face.

So is it first name ‘King of Ink Land’, last name ‘King Body Art The Extreme Ink-Ite’? Or is there a middle name in there?

The King of Ink Land, who is now considering using a VPN, was attempting to access a live webcam site when the issue arose.

Whoa whoa whoa. “The” King of Ink Land? That’s his name, not a title!

Godspeed, King of Ink Land. I sincerely wish you success in this fight.

All major browser engines are FOSS.

Chrome and Edge are proprietary wrappers around Chromium (BSD license). Firefox and derivatives are FOSS (Mozilla Public License). Safari is built around WebKit (LGPL/BSD).

The problem, however, is governance. These projects are all too big for anyone to realistically fork and maintain independently. So in practice, they are under control of Google, Mozilla, and Apple — all of which have questionable priorities (especially Google).

It would be like taking your compiled machine code and editing it by hand because your compiler sucks.

Just use the right tool from the start.

Maybe so? I mean, I’m exaggerating a little, but those are the two primary ingredients of most of these non-salad “salads” that I would find in a typical diner or supermarket.

Potato salad, egg salad, macaroni salad, and tuna salad are fundamentally mayonnaise, potato/egg/macaroni/tuna, and spices. Probably some chopped onion and herbs as well. They are often nearly-homogenous glop.

I’m sure there are less offensive ways of making these things, and perhaps I would actually consider some of them “salads”. But yes, the glop I described is commonly called “____ salad”. I don’t think it would be reasonable to call them “salads” with no qualifier. These are compound phrases, and it’s best not to get stuck on the etymology.

You can also call a poorly-written headline “word salad”. And yet if I ordered a salad and got a copy of the New York Post, I would be very confused indeed.

The problem here is the assumption that modifiers can be safely ignored.

In the same way that veggie chicken is, obviously, not chicken, a bowl full of potatoes and mayonnaise is not a salad. It is a potato salad, and the word “potato” is doing too much heavy lifting to omit.

If I asked someone to get me a salad, and they came back with a potato salad, I’d assume they were pranking me.

This is why dictionaries list multiple definitions for words.

Perhaps this goes without saying, but if you want to do that, be sure you are installing Firefox through similar means across distros. This will not work with the Flatpak, for example.

Manual installation of Firefox is quite simple, and it self-updates, so that’s always an option.

I’m not really looking forward to another season of Gorn PTSD. We just did that with La’an. We don’t need to rehash it. It’s boring.

Time will tell if they justify it.

I did love the costumes in this episode, although I also felt like they were a little too present-day. But if they’re playing Wham I guess that’s what they were going for.

Pike also commented on the wedding planner being Andorian. Spock didn’t seem to react to that statement, so I guess he also saw the Trelane as Andorian at that point.

Yep. They have their summer roadmaps up, which include a Proton Drive SDK and a Linux app. Hopefully the SDK will open up more possibilities for the open source community.

They said it integrates with Proton Drive. Optional, but still. That is data that is otherwise strictly end-to-end encrypted, and now they’re adding a “convenient” method to send it through their AI unencrypted, and they are not upfront about that.

Proton has a problem with focus. They keep adding new things of limited value, presumably in a quest for growth. That usually doesn’t end well.

Kind of light on details. “Lumo is based upon open-source language models”. Okay. Which ones? [Edit: they offer more details at https://proton.me/support/lumo-privacy : “The models we’re using currently are Nemo, OpenHands 32B, OLMO 2 32B, and Mistral Small 3”]

Not sure how I feel about this. I figured Proton would find some clever way to run models on encrypted data, or at least do something akin to Apple’s “private cloud compute” but…nope, just another cloud platform like any other. Zero-logging is all fine and good, but don’t pretend like you can’t access my chats when the only thing stopping you is your logging policy.

Web search — If you ask it to, Lumo can search the web for new or recent information to complement its existing knowledge.

Again, no details. So you’re not sharing my data, but you are potentially leaking it to unnamed search engines? Cool, cool.

Oh, and it has built in Proton Docs integration, in case you wanted to accidentally send your documents, unencrypted, through Proton’s servers. And also maybe leak their contents to a third-party search engine, who knows?

Please, Proton. E2EE or GTFO. The world doesn’t need another chatbot. If you can’t do it right, just don’t do it.

These actually aren’t big for black holes. The largest ones are billions of solar masses. This is notable because it’s a collision of two black holes, which we can’t observe often.

The article has some confusing phrasing.

I’m telling myself it’s Irish coffee.

Yeah, I don’t understand the fixation on BTRFS in the article. Nobody’s going to have BTRFS problems unless they’re doing advanced things that the documentation clearly says are experimental and unsupported. Nobody’s going to accidentally set up a RAID5 array, or accidentally create a swap file on a non-swap-friendly volume. The average user won’t see any difference between BTRFS and EXT4, except that BTRFS snapshots might save their butt in an emergency.

BTRFS is a perfectly reasonable choice as a default filesystem. Probably the best choice in general. Last year I thought bcachefs was the future, but now that’s getting dropped from the Linux kernel so nope, guess I’ll stick with BTRFS.

Yeah, it’s weird to talk about OpenSuse MicroOS and Fedora Atomic when they are not even the flagship desktop distros of their respective families. I guess the author drank the atomic kool-aid and thinks that’s a killer feature for a consumer OS.

That said, Ubuntu is not really aimed at beginners anymore. Canonical has shifted hard to enterprise offerings over the past 5 years or so. Take a look at their web site — they barely spare a word for desktop Linux anymore. This is what you’ll see on the main page:

“The complete guide to RAG”

“Modern enterprise open source”

A “Products” dropdown with thirteen items, maybe one of which is comprehensible to a beginner.

For all the hate Snaps get (and rightfully so), they make a lot more sense in the context of enterprise deployment. It’s like Flatpak but for headless servers and with professional support. It took me a long time to understand Canonical’s game there, because I couldn’t shake the idea of Ubuntu as a beginner’s distro.

I guess it would be cool to have an atomic OS designed for beginners, since the current crop are more complex than traditional distros, not less. But I don’t think atomicity itself really matters, especially if you’re talking about systems that are mostly locked down to begin with.

Wireless card readers are relatively new tech. I see them more and more as time goes on. New places usually give their waitstaff mobile readers, but there’s little motivation for older restaurants to upgrade their whole POS systems. POS systems have pretty long life expectancy. At least the older ones do.

Note that even GrapheneOS no longer supports the 5a, since it is no longer getting firmware security patches. You’ll need to install an archived version of GrapheneOS, or go for something else like LineageOS.

With LineageOS, you’ll continue to get OS patches, but you’ll be stuck with an unlocked bootloader, so there’s a security tradeoff there.