Wireguard, or even just jellyfin with a password

Don't worry about the story. They're all pretty much disconnected, and it's better to think of them as standalone stories with a shared (but ultimately inconsequential) universe.

If you haven't played the RE 2 remake, start there. It's IMO the best resident evil game of all time. I have a ton of nostalgia for OG RE1, but this remake is spectacular.

I beat both 7 and 8 but forgot the story, so there ya go. IIRC, 8 is a sequel to 7, with the same main character, so it might be smart to play 7 first. Both are great, but it'll take a bit to get settled in with the first person view.

Maybe dead capacitors? If you don't have a multimeter and soldering iron, this is a good excuse to get/learn those things!

Maybe now she'll think twice next time she's about to vote to release the Epstein files

Mint us absolutely perfect for folks like me. I want to use my computer, not work on it.

I know you're not going to believe me, because you sound like the type of person who is "set in their ways", but the only thing that makes Mint better for you than some other distro is that it happens to already be installed on your computer. That's it. Mint is not the perfect choice for anyone, because it's not particularly good at anything.

Keep using it. If it works for you, great. I don't care what you use. But we shouldn't be misleading people new to Linux into installing a distro that might not work for them.

Version control tooling is still at its “blackberry” stage anyway.

That was uncalled for.

google does a lot of things that just aren’t realistic for the large majority of cases

Yes, but that is not relevant. The person they replied to said a monorepo doesn't scale. Google (and others) prove that it does scale to at least their massive size.

How much VRAM does alacritty use? On my machine, nvidia-smi reports 6MiB for konsole, which I'm seems to be some default reserved by Qt apps (eg dolphin reports the same amount)

Wow I always assumed the same thing lol

I haveb't looked into this particular group, but usually it's patents. Someone owns a patent for the tech required to implement the standard, and they "license" it out to anyone who wants to implement that standard. Obviously, they won't agree to terms that hurt their ability to collect rent on their patent. Qualcomm is famously guilty of this in the modem space.

Does that seem stupid, to adopt an industry standard that requires patented technology to implement? That's because it is, and were we a sane society we would invalidate any patents that become an industry standard, but we're a bunch of idiots with a billionaire cuck fetish.

Is buying a smartphone with a properietary OS from an EU company really a smart decision after chat control?

I think I'm going to be sticking with Graphene

It would be impossible to analyse the images if it wasn’t decrypted, so it seems a little silly.

What's silly, that Kohler is deliberately misusing a popular term for advertising purposes, or that a security research called them out for false advertising?

E2EE is a term used in the context of a messaging app to indicate that the messaging app provider cannot read your messages, only the intended recipient. It makes zero sense to use that term in this case because the messaging app provider is also the recipient.

Yet the marketing people at Kohler saw that this technical terminology is something people associate with "secure" or "private", and just rolled with it. This harms consumers who are inevitably mislead into making a purchase decision, and it harms the broader tech industry as consumers lose the ability to understand complex privacy technologies through simple terminology like "E2EE"