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manufacturer will offer GrapheneOS support on future versions of their existing models, priced similarly to Pixels.

Great, so I still won’t afford it…

But Telegram doesn’t even support e2ee for groups or web or desktop clients.

All Cats Are Beautiful

Guitar

Block or revert updates or install via adb/shizuko if that still works. Otherwise I will have to start saving for an expensive phone that supports custom ROMs.

Exactly, people don’t seem to realise that higher demand for energy means higher demand for all sources of energy including fussil fuels.

If doesn’t matter if this datacenter runs 100% on renewables if that means that the overall demand on the powergrid increases and now other clients that used to get (a higher percentage of) their power from renewable are getting it from coal, it’s just a green washing shift blame technique.

World domination fantasy

You must be fun at parties

Healthy people don’t pay bills either, they try to aim for a balance between almost dying and actually dead.

“A patient cured is a custumer lost”

I thought the joke would be that he just makes pumpkin soup and doesn’t carve any lantern.

Maybe a musical instrument, like those blowing organs or a tiny guitar?

Or a puzzle? Can she read yet? Or will soon, maybe a book?

Does she like chess? Maybe a chess board or similar?

I’ve never cosplayed as an “infosec home lab data specialist”, but I’ve had many bad personal experiences with used harddrives, drives that were working perfectly fine but failed after few months from several sources.

Well, that’s good to know, I’ve always avoided those drives and tend to pay extra for smaller drives so I can get them new.

Because there’s a rather high likelihood that the HDD has been mistreated and will fail soon, it’s a gamble. Or at least I’ve had bad experiences with used hard drives personally.

If you the seller has warranty and you don’t mind the hassle of shipping back and possibly paying for the return shipping and pray that everything goes smoothly and you actually get the money back or a working replacement then it can be a good option, I personally rather not go through all that stress.

It’s the best tip, buying an used HDD is asking for trouble

Yes, tip number 1: never buy an used HDD

Tip number 2: check smart if there are relocated sectors return it

Tip number 3: run badblocks on the drive, (-w mode) and if there are no errors then check smart again, if there are errors or relocated sectors return the drive

Good luck!

It’s widely accepted among pediatricians and psychologists that you should delay introducing your kids to screens as long as possible.

Well, when I was a kid my favorite things where always electronics, TV, radio, music, so if I had children I would never deprive my children of electronics, no matter what the “experts” say.

A lot of children’s books in the 0-4 range are also tactile, include lift-the-flaps, have mirrors or noisemakers, and are safe to chew on. The other thing is that in order to teach independence, the kid needs to be able to access and choose books on their own which is something a physical books and a shelf is really good at and an e-reader is really bad at.

That is fair, for those kind of books I guess I have agree that they can’t replaced with digital alternatives.

Physical books are preferable when dealing with images or large formats. I can’t imagine reading a coffee-table book or art book is as effective on e-reader.

That is a good point, for those kinds of books in particular I guess physical copy is preferable.

Physical books are also better options for complicated texts, especially ones that the reader needs to quickly refer to multiple sections of text while reading e.g. indices, appendices, or that chapter where a character is first introduced. I know there’s digital analogues, but they don’t work for everyone.

Well, I have to disagree on this one, if I’m dealing with complicated texts where I need to quickly refer to multiple sections then nothing beats being able to crtl + f. Also scrolling is much faster than turning pages. But I guess it can be a personal thing.

Those formats also impose technical and financial barriers to access (you may be savvy enough to access thousands of books for free and maintain your own e-reader that respects your privacy, but the majority of people to whom e-books are marketed to cannot). I can lend or give away a physical book to anyone I meet and they can immediately read it; the same cannot be said for digitally reformatted texts.

That’s a fair argument, still, I think the financial barrier to acquire physical books overall is much much higher acquiring the same book physically. Yes you can lend a book from a library, but in my experience libraries never have anything worth reading, which means the only viable solution is paying full price for a book.

I think you are also greatly exaggerating the technical skills needed to download a book, sometimes even just searching “book name pdf download” is enough to download a book, which can be done on a smartphone that most people already own.

As for privacy, it’s true that most people don’t have devices capable of downloading and reading the book on a private system, however, buying a physical book online or lending it from a library also means the book is registered to the reader’s name electronically, in this case tied to the user’s real name and payment details.

Now I actually favor reading on a screen, over paper or e-ink, I find much more comfortable reading from an uniform light source that I can regulate and select the background and foreground color, over having to rely on natural light, which more often than not, it’s either too dark or too bright. But even if hated screens, an used e-reader can be bought for the price of only 2 or 3 physical books.

Still, it’s down to a matter of personal opinion, I understand that some people prefer to read paper the same way if I could afford and had extra space I would enjoy listening to some vinyl records, still from a practical/economical standpoint, I still think digital advantages greatly outweighs it’s disadvantages.

No I don’t.

If I had children I would teach them to download books, unless they were too young and couldn’t understand the steps, then I would download for them.

Give a man a book and he will read for a day, teach a man how to download books, and he will have literature for the rest of his life.

I would agree if you had said Mint or Debian, but a Windows user trying GNU/Linux isn’t going to have an easy time installing and maintaining Arch.

That’s nice, but do people still read physical books?

IMO the best community library one can have is the internet, and sites like Anna’s Archive allow for access to pretty much every book in existence from the comfort of your own bed.

People hate me when I say this, but in my opinion physical books are a novelty of the past, sure it’s useful in an apocalypse for preservation and whatnot, but physical books are just limited and unpractical.