[–] 3 points 1 year ago*

Yeh, but (to me) a hotspot is WiFi with internet access from a mobile device. Whereas tethering is sharing internet access from a mobile device via a cable (USB).
Kinda like how WiFi doesn't mean internet access, despite so many people conflating the meanings.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Computer/laptops WiFi card is dead. Can't connect to an android hotspot if your WiFi isn't working.
    Thus, usb tethering. It's a wire, doesn't need a WiFi card. And the android device can then share ITS WiFi/Data connection through the USB cable

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The issue is big companies.
    Google/Amazon/Microsoft can now fork sudo-rs and not have to upstream their changes.
    So then Google fixes an exploit for their sudo-rs implementation (or whatever software) and patch it under a different licence. Now the upstream, Amazon and Microsoft forks don't know if that exploit is also in their implementation, is related to their implementation, or how to potentially fix it.

    The only way it works is if sudo-rs is implementing new features in a way that it benefits Google/Amazon/Microsoft to contribute back to upstream so they don't have to keep merging/fixing their exploit code.

    For something as stable as sudo, it actually benefits Google/Microsoft/Amazon NOT to share their changes.
    If they are rolling and recommending their own distros (which I'm sure they already are) that include their forked changes, then they can say that their software is more secure than other brands. It benefits them for their competition to suffer security breaches, especially if they trace back to these kinda changes.

    Which makes everything worse for everyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Yup, fair point.
    In my opinion, there is a difference between sharing your experience and pushing a narrative.
    Ideally, viewers/readers would consider the perspective and draw their own conclusions instead of wholey adopting the celebrities view point.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People sharing their experience with a medical condition is huge. Especially if they have the reach to inform thousands.
    Everyone has the right to privacy, and that's fine if that's the path they take. But sharing their story might get a few people to reconsider symptoms and seek/get help.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Is "End of Life" being used correctly here?
    EOL, to me, means no longer supported and no further software updates.
    Which makes the 3 years lifespan absolutely abysmal, and would make me not even consider an Intel GPU.

    It sounds/reads more like Intel is discontinuing them as opposed to EOLing them. Which isn't so bad.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Open source, libraries, frameworks and language development is how this is tackled.

    Making software is implementing business logic. It's the specific nature of whatever problem you are solving which means you can't use some existing off-the-shelf product.

    There are dozens (if not hundreds) of no-code/low-code app builders out there. Things like n8n or ndoe-red.
    They get very difficult to maintain at scale.

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