I don’t believe small lithium batteries can explode like that. Not even big car batteries explode like that. They make a big fire but not this kind of explosion.

Either explosives were implanted somehow by IDF in the supply chain, or Hezbollah is crazy enough to put explosives there, just in case the devices fall in enemy hands, and IDF learned that and trigger the explosions remotely.

me before reading this: I know the basics of CSS.

me after reading this: I know nothing about CSS.

Oh, it’s gonna use polkit. Sudo bloat is a grain of sand compared to polkit.

Why people want to replace sudo with polkit? Visudo is no near as obscure as configuring polkit.

I hope distro maintainers don’t follow this.

That’s why it’s not always an option.

Some servers have some kind remote console hardware, with their own security issues.

Your “threat model” is important too. Do you expect that server to get stolen? If it happens, is there critical data that should not leak?

Maybe you need to encrypt a directory, and not the whole drive.

If the device get stolen, your drive and its files can be easily read.

Other attacks like malware or ransomware are almost the same if the drive is encrypted or not.

Disk encryption is important for laptops and phones because these devices are frequently stolen. For desktop or servers is still good idea, though.

You’re right.

I used the phrase “wrong ideas” precisely to evoke that sentiment. Stallman’s ideas may be “wrong” for us, for good reasons. But that doesn’t make them objectively wrong. And he doesn’t seem to cross any legal boundary using his blog to defend some ideas we don’t like.

And neither should we mix the work of FSF with Stallman’s weird blog posts.

The things you say actively reflect on your employer and future employers.

why?

Imagine a interview where employer tries to know every aspect of your personality and ideas, before hiring you.

Seems quite impossible.

For a celebrity like Stallman seems easy. But imagine checking the background of a random candidate just to see if she posted something bad years ago. And rejecting her application because of a post defendig the wrong ideas.

I agree we already have courts and police. If he did something illegal, there’s a course of action there.

cd as owner lol

I remember myself asking why directories had x flags in their permissions. Like, you don’t execute them. What do they use the x flag for?

We will switch to GNU/Hurd.

Then we will plug a USB device and remember that Hurd doesn’t support that yet.

I don’t know any product that matches your requirements.

If I had to deal with that today I’d buy a rasberry pi, a USB sim card dongle and some raspberry hat with GPS receiver.

You can write a small API that listens to the raspberries, who sends periodically their positions, and save it to a database.

But it’s a quite large project. There’s a lot of aspects to consider. The GUI, security, batteries, and a way to attach it to an animal without being lost or destroyed.

Sorry for not giving a useful answer lol. If you come out with an actual solution I’ll be glad to hear it, so I can track my cats in case they get lost.

EVs are expensive because of the battery.

A cheap car is not a novelty, specially for asian manufacturers. There is no cheap EV because there is no cheap big ion-li battery.

Toyota strategy of focus on hybrid and hydrogen seemed weird to me. But over the years has been started to make sense.

The world needs a better battery. Until that, EVs will be heavy and expensive.

Please, don’t post paywalled content.

I recommend Mint.

Chances are your friend’s secondary laptop doesn’t have extra resources for Gnome to run smoothly. Sad thing is nowadays Gnome is very heavy and bloated.

Also, he may try both distros live-usb. Maybe he don’t care about Mint looking outdated. But if he does, you may try Fedora live-usb and check if university wifi works properly.

It’s his laptop after all, so I believe your appreciations on the beauty of desktop environments are secondary.

I thought its purpose was anti-usa propaganda rather than profit. Now I see it can serve both purposes.

There are two kind of programming languages:

1. The ones everyone complaints about
2. The ones nobody uses.

Nobody broke the law lol.

I believe they have like a month to comply.

The just asked for a ticket in the app, to make their lifes easier. If OP doesn’t want to, they still have to comply though.

Now I remember why I hate working directly with customers.

Excelent example as it implies the damage to sovereignty it takes.

You know. Pros and cons…

Ecuador and Puerto Rico already did it. Panamá did something similar.

I totally understand the initiative. Corruption can be so damn high, that you trust gringo central bank more than any institution of your own country.

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They were very friendly imo. No need to speak legalese or to be rude.

Just tell them that you can’t or don’t want to install the app.

If they don’t help you, then you proceed to remind them that you are not required to install anything for them to comply with GDPR.