I guess from a consumer perspective, it can be more convenient (e.g. wireless charging in a car)

For me, I see it as a way to reduce wear on a charging port, or as an alternative if the port does fail.

I like it for the latter as I don't like my devices to be inefficient but it makes me feel better that should the USB-C fail on my phone, it's not game over for my phone.

Broken BIOS on a PC. You can basically throw out your motherboard

Can confirm, bricked a Latitude E6420 trying to put coreboot on it and completely missing an instruction in bright red bold text. Had a parts machine thankfully, and had to swap the boards.

Tab A7 Lite

Huh, that makes two of us. Hated every second of dealing with OneUI, back when I got it, GSIs were around but there was no straight forward guide. Now one does exist and oh boy, it feels like a completely different device with LOS and no gapps.

This announcement is for Brave hosting their own repository to host the Brave browser on that's compatible with F-Droid, rather than the Brave browser being added to F-Droid's official repository.

Otherwise, perhaps you meant that you did add their repo and it's still not showing up.

Both are accepted spellings, tire in the US and tyre in the UK

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tyre

I've done this mistake before on a 40 character LCD, but that was over 10 years ago at this point.

If memory serves me right, you submit characters to the display sequentially, ideally in 40 character lengths that go top left to top right, wrap to bottom left to bottom right.

Looks like the software or controller running the screen gives a bad character, or having a second look (noticing the EUR gets changed to EUP occasionally) there's a bad connection to the display causing corruption.

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I love taking a casual drive to nearby small towns, especially on less busy freeways at non peak hours. And I also love using my 30 year old nugget that's getting rarer to see around. I do also love a good road trip across states.

However, I really don't like driving in cities or basically when I have to. The city I'm in at the moment leaves a lot to be desired for bike lanes (unprotected bike lanes on the shoulder of a major highway is the only route into town for me) so its a toss up between do I ride there exhausted and trusting idiots in high speed boxes, or do I join said idiots.

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is my pick.

I've got two study laptops and apart from Tailscale giving me some grief very recently with DNS resolution, I literally haven't had any problems with either machine. Both have been going for 1.5 years.

I like the LMDE route for the DE already having pretty decent defaults and not requiring much tweaking from the get-go. Xfce (as it ships by default in Debian) absolutely works, but I end up spending an hour theming it and adding panel applets and rearranging everything so that it... ends up looking similar to Cinnamon anyway, because default Xfce looks horrible in my opinion

...and this is how you keep people using mainstream services instead of FOSS / privacy respecting ones.

The actual answer is convenience and not wanting to make their life more difficult, which brings ignorance into it.

Not everyone is ready to flip their whole digital life upside down based on the privacy principles you and I care about - that's why I too use the approach the parent commenter mentioned, and I'm also okay with people who just won't make any switches, because while I don't support it, I understand it.

The long and short of it is don't think of this as "us vs them" - we're all people together and understanding and gently making people aware of these privacy principles and giving them realistic private solutions is, in my opinion, way more effective than saying "fuck 'em"

Having autism in a family that even today, isn't fully educated on the matter, my family still brings up how much I hated the air compressor as a kid and would instantly start crying (from the loud noise).

This isn't the first time they've had an ad supported Office for free. Anyone remember Office 2010 Starter, that shipped with only Word and Excel and also had a permanent ad banner.

I no longer have any complaints about Beszel. Thank you!

"The hackers gained initial access using a stolen account credential that lacked multi-factor authentication security, according to UnitedHealth."

Absolutely unacceptable. I might be easier to forgive them if some zero day was used, but that's so easily preventable.

That account presumably had some level of privileges, the policy should have been to enforce MFA, and if the account was inactive, disable it until the user needs it at which point set up MFA again.

Seconded. My only complaint (which this might already be a feature I haven't found yet) is it doesn't seem to support multiple drives. But yes, it is shit easy to set up and has a beautiful UI

Seems that everyone else has said the same as what I mostly already do, but I'll just make a couple comments on the student communication topic:

My university already created a Microsoft 365 account for my university user, which included Teams. For my threat profile, I don't consider Teams a terrible option if I'm only using it for study purposes, so I've communicated over that for assignments before (web UI only).

Otherwise like others have suggested, some students are open to something like Signal (a fellow student got me onto it years ago) if you kindly ask and mention upfront that it just requires a phone number. I did an assignment over Signal with two other students, so it's very doable.

Everything but the fingerprint readers just works.

Good to know the struggle for the fingerprint reader wasn't just me. I did "get it working" but it was extremely hacky and it wasn't what I was after; I only wanted fingerprint for login, not additionally for sudo, but that's not how it set up and I didn't want to spend even more countless hours trying to fix that

microsoft-edge-stable_131.0.2903.112-1_amd64.deb

Genuine question because I've been out of the loop on this. I had a Galaxy S5 that only got one major upgrade from Samsung (4.4 to 5.x I believe) but CyanogenMod and later LineageOS took that thing right up to Android 11.

Why can't the same be done with modern phones today? What changed between that old S5 and the Pixel 4a I ultimately sold for going EOL on GrapheneOS?

Edit: apparently I shouldn't compare apples to oranges without so much as quickly checking support for the Pixel 4a..