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I was looking at the firefox flatpak on flathub. Won't this warning make a non tech-savy user anxious? This might make them think they'll get a virus or something like that.

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  • They should not be worried, they should be educated.

    If you worry a new user enough they'll go back to Windows or Apple because there's less scary warnings there.

    We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
    The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.

    • Light Eye of Stuttgart21 [OC]

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  • Aside from budget and time overruns it looks like they overshot the target of "futuristic" and landed in the middle of dystopian...

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    • What's the best wax-on-wax-off-style advice you've heard that you can attest as being helpful in certain situations?

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  • Depending on your level of caffeine tolerance/dependency actual coffee might be even better.

    Alternatively: Decaf.

    • For security reasons

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  • IF you already have an email domain you control.

    Calling "acquiring and setting up an email domain and configuring the mail server for wildcards" "basically no extra effort" is a bit disingenuous compared to "solve a captcha for a Gmail account"

    • I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?

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  • Yeah, inductive charging is basically a must.

    Especially because it eliminates the guesswork if the watch is correctly seated to charge

    • EA is looking at putting in-game ads in AAA games — 'We'll be very thoughtful as we move into that,' says CEO

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  • Oh, they're putting a lot of thought into it I'm sure.

    That thought being "Money, Money, Money, Profit, Profit" of course.

    • I would maybe like a smart watch, can you help me decide?

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  • No actual technical solution here, but it smells slightly of XY-Problems.

    From what you described it seems the main issues are

    • too many calls
    • not knowing who's calling
    • not wanting to answer the phone
    • not reaching the phone in time

    Maybe you could look into solutions like setting a custom ringtone for important callers or having the phone announce caller names so your mother can decide if she wants to make the effort to get her phone.

    I'm speculating a bit here but I can imagine that getting up and answering the phone is exhausting for your mother. Also if her mindset is " a ringing phone means it's important" that could make it even more stressful.

    Maybe you could find a way to let her silence all calls except caregivers and ICE contacts. (On Android DND exceptions could work for that)

    That way she doesn't feel pressured to answer the phone every time it rings and stays reachable.

    If it's actually just the physical issue of reaching the phone in time, does she have a convenient way to carry the phone indoors like a lanyard?

    Hope some of this helps you

    • How do you store your grounded coffee?

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  • No idea, but it was my parent's box for loose tea leaves...

    • You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

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  • There should be an external hard drive full of portable game installs in some drawer that fits the time period.

    Should easily kill a week.

    • XZ backdoor in a nutshell

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  • Coconut at least...

    • Create a Public Hotspot from my router, that handles auto time out when their session is done, etc?

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  • That's a legitimate concern, but this can be easily mitigated by routing "guest" traffic into a VPN.

    Guests might encounter more captchas than usual but better than no internet.

    • I'm mildly proud of how I categorise my games on Steam and interested to see others' methods

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  • Currently:

    • VR
    • Uncategorized

    Soon to be added:

    • Linux (tested/works on)

    • Android 15 will let you find your Pixel 8 even when it's off

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  • That feature is right on the border between real neat tech and deeply unsettling.

    "Hey, my phone uses its last few electrons to turn into a bluetooth beacon to stay findable" sounds like sci-fi "reserve power emergency mode"

    "I can't turn off the locator chip in a device that holds half my life and memories" is just dystopian.

    I'm wondering if there would be a way to keep it useful while minimizing impact for people who stay off the grid. A hardware switch would probably be a good start but they won't fly with current all-touch designs.

    • Asking for a Linux (or non-Windows) laptop during a job interview?

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  • Ah, you "work" in "marketing"?

    • What are your thoughts on USB storage drives that have keypad encryption?

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  • They occupy a strange niche full of contradictions.

    Entering the code on the device itself should increase security as opposed to entering it on a compromised computer.

    But plugging it into a compromised computer means the data is compromised anyway.

    Their security is way harder to audit than a software solution like PGP. The actual "encryption" varies from actual decent setups to "entering the code connects the data pins with no actual encryption on the storage chip"

    Not having to instal/use software to use them means they are suitable for non-technical users which in turn means more support calls for "I forgot the pin, it wiped itself, can you restore my data"

    They are kind of useful to check the "data is transported on encrypted media" box for compliance reasons without having to manage something bigger.

    • 'Anywhere there's a camera, now there's a risk': Billions of users at risk of Peeping Toms — scientists devise incredibly simple eavesdropping system costing only a few hundred dollars

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  • Is that a reference to Angleton?

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  • Wow, that sounds like a decent start for an architecture.

    I'm tempted to spin up a few Jellyfin instances to see how it might work...

    • Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

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  • JellyFed(eration) would be awesome. It should use an anonymous overlay network so federation is not limited to people you trust in copyright-zealous jurisdictions.