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Claw-Yee!

I’m completely out of the Joop, what is going on with all those jeans themed posts?

Light a candle or smoke a cigarette for increased warmth.

(4*baby elephant weight)/(washing machine weight) = (4 * 110 kg) / (70 kg) ≈ 6 washing machines

DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.

And even that one is useless in case of identical twins.

The category filters of electronics distributors used to be good (some still are). But then they started letting business people categorize the products, and now finding stuff without having a part number is basically a lottery.

If their spying algorithm is as easy to fool as Instagram’s, that wouldn’t be a major concern if I still used that bad fediverse clone.

And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.

When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I’d just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.

I’m honestly astonished that Google hasn’t pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.

If your prediction comes true, which isn’t unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.

If you use a good 2FA app instead of Google Authenticator (yes, they can be used interchangably) you can use it on desktop and copy the OTPs to your clipboard. I personally use Authy, but others compatible with GA exist as well.

Also, 2FA is optional almost everywhere, but if you decide to not enable it, don’t act surprised if your accounts get taken over. These days a password just isn’t enough.

Security and convenience are just mutually exclusive and I don’t expect mankind to ever find a way around that fact.

It’s probably some kind of weird reward effect in our brains. Like “Yay, whatever I just ate attacked me and I survived! Gimme some more of that!”

Linux compatibility is highest

The L14 Gen1 I have must be an exception then. The fingerprint reader isn’t compatible at all (I feel kinda taken for a ride there since it’s seemingly the only Synaptics reader without Linux compatibility) and both Bluetooth and USB are very buggy. I haven’t used it with Windows, so the latter two may also be down to crappy firmware. Either way I’m rather disappointed for the price tag and probably not buying Lenovo again any time soon.