Lka1988

Michael Knowles has a seriously punchable face

I don’t disagree, however, there needs to be some form of security so the average Joe (or their kid) doesn’t accidentally press the wrong button and rm -rf the entire device (exaggerating of course, but you get the idea).

I’ve got four paid-off vehicles (2 cars, 2 motorcycles), and am about to acquire another car (W123 diesel Benz) from my wife’s grandmother who is no longer able to drive.

I don’t care to have any more car payments, and I hope it stays that way for a long time.

Exactly, and this also ties into my first point that the people who know, know what to look for.

I’ve rooted/jailbroken every single phone and tablet I’ve owned over the last 15 years. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I cannot stand the artificial “security” blocks out in place simply because a company thinks rooted users are somehow cheating or committing fraud or what have you - the people who do that are gonna do it no matter what.

I bought my 2008 Toyota Sienna for $4500. I talked him down from $4900.

It had:

• 230k miles (269k now)
• an engine replacement (2010 engine with 110k miles, replaced at 201k on chassis)
• severely worn out sliding door rear hinges, bad enough to be grinding the body under the 3rd row windows down to bare metal
• broken power steering rack (found that a few weeks later)
• balding tires
• rattle-can patch job (black paint on factory black paint, not a deal-breaker for me)
• blown out rear shocks
• more that I’ve forgotten (noted down in my records)

I bought that van because 1) it was a really good price, 2) engine and transmission are in really good shape, 3) rust-free, and 4) I knew what most of its issues were before I bought it and was able to fix it all in my garage.

Also, I have 5 kids, so the minivan was a necessity. $5000 is the bare minimum for a family car these days.

I did this in my younger years and the cars I got always had some hidden fucked up problem.

My minivan is (well, was) like this. The person I bought it from said the roof-mounted DVD player was professionally installed. I got it home, pulled the interior apart (I was installing a new headunit, backup camera, and some other things), and found the “professionally installed” wiring crossed in front of the side curtain airbag. It wasn’t secured anywhere at all, either. Just flopping around. I fixed that up along with some other issues I found.

Yes, let’s ban the single most common form of transportation in the country because you’ve never had to live in an area with zero public transport.

Great line of thinking, there.

I took a loan out on a brand new car many years ago, a 6 year term with 17% interest (don’t do that, kids). But I was able to refinance to ~4% a year later, we knocked another year off the remaining term (5 years to 4 years), and I still ended up paying less per month than the original payment.

I miss that car sometimes. It was a 2012 Kia Soul, and I really liked it. I went on a 3-week business trip a few years ago, and my rental happened to be a 2021 Kia Soul in mustard yellow. I loved every minute of it.

True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.

Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.

True.

email is starting to disappear

The fuck it is lol, do you have any idea how much email is used in literally everything? How old are you?

integrated FTP client

Why though? SFTP is leagues better.

Syncthing isn’t going anywhere. The Android app is the only thing that was dropped, and that was only because of Google’s increasingly-difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.

Syncthing-Fork is the spiritual successor to the original Android app and can be found on F-Droid.

That fork is what the Syncthing devs recommend. Pretty sure it’s fine.

Syncthing was only ever self-hosted…

You really need to clarify your comment, as it’s already causing confusion.

1. The official Syncthing project is going strong, and is not the same thing as the Android app.
2. The Android app was discontinued late last year due to Google’s increasingly difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.
3. Syncthing-Fork is now what Syncthing recommends for Android users.

"[…] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”

That’s a lot of words to say “we made an AI that totally won’t suck up your data, trust me bro”

playstation

The game console, made by Sony, who famously keeps trying to fuck everyone else over?

Because people are stupid, will fuck up their device/s, and then complain to the manufacturer about how their device was ruined.

It’s an incredibly stupid argument, but it’s their argument nonetheless. Something something “for your safety/protection/security/etc”…i.e. “Trust us”.

I think root privileges should be available as well, but in a way that 1) only someone who knows what the fuck they’re doing can access, and 2) can be done entirely locally, without calling to a server controlled by the manufacturer.