enumerator4829

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[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m not that well versed on anything Graphene, nor any related drama.

Trust is somewhat non-technical, personal, subjective and dependent on your threat model. You can greatly improve trust via technical means and processes, as well as distribute and communicate trust via technical means. In the end, you still need to trust one or more physical people.

Personally, my biggest issue with any software I use is future maintenance. Can I be certain this will keep working as I want it for the duration I want? Will I get security updates? There, the trust comes from the people and funding involved, seldom technology.

Canonicals non-LTS releases are basically shitty betas. No one sane uses them in production or on their desktop.

If you want to encode information into only the depth of your recursive identically named folders, you have 128 different depths, one character for the name, one for the slash, per level. Yields about 128 possible levels. Leave one off for the last filename, 127.

If we want to name our folders something longer than a single character, we can store less files. If we want to store our files on linux, by default we get 4096 characters to play with, so about 2k levels (unless we compile our own linux kernel with PATH_MAX set for this very specific purpose). If we run CIFS we may be able to reach up to 16k levels.

That was my interpretation of OPs (admittedly bad) idea. Personally, I try to avoid implementing inodes as Church numerals.

Who do you think pays for the bailouts in the end?

All connectors are compatible given enough violence.

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The VGA connector is actually reversible! Once. given enough force. It also doesn’t actually work properly when installed upside down.

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

Sorry, no OpenGL support.

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but my mom can’t do banking on a flip phone.

This is the issue. Everything sucks. Don’t complain that people make a determination to take the least fucky normal option instead of flashing privacy ROM of the week onto an old Nokia N95. Be happy they thought about privacy it at all.

You can’t participate in normal society without a smartphone. There are two options for normal people. Pick the least shitty one.

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Yes. It would be nice if the Americans got their shit together.

Meanwhile, what phone should my mother buy in a store?

[–] enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So where can my mother buy this excellent non-tracking phone?

She can’t. No one sells it.

Of course everyone is collecting a shitton of data. Out of the two (realistic) alternatives we have today, Apple has, by far, a better track record. Still bad, but they have far fewer incentives to be shitty than Google. Googles only incentive is to be shitty and sell ads. Pick your poison.

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