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This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.

$849 and $1,649? Those pricetags are so absurd that this post should be removed on principle alone, nevermind that it’s stealth marketing masquerading as an article.

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

Awesome. Truly spectacular.

Generative AI is so energy intensive ($$$), that Google is requiring users subscribe to Gemini.

Google is entirely dependent on advertising sales. Ad revenue subsidizes literally everything else, from Android development to whichever 8-12 products and services they launch and subsequently cancel each year.

Now, Google wants to remove web results and just use generative AI instead of search as it’s default user interface.

So, like I said: Awesome.

Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won’t.

It’s more likey he’ll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.

On the plus side, I bet he’ll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn’t too dipped, or shit faced.

Edit: Just noticed you added that he’s a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.

Not just because he’s a veteran with PTSD, but because he’s clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.

Most likely outcome: strangulation.

No, it’s a way to say that Mint has become bloated and not a great experience.

I just switched to Fedora from Mint, and was impressed.

I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it’s probably the most stable and clean distro I’ve ever used.

Exactly. There’s no way that could ever go tits up.

Absolutely. Everyone here is acting like PDF and JPEG exploits on Android don’t exist.

I agree that OP shouldn’t pay for one, and that most AV apps are, at best, garbage, but there are also reasons to have one, and reasonable ones to install - Hypatia being one of them.

Depends. Are either of those companies bootstrapping a for-profit startup and trying to dupe people into contributing free labor prior to their inevitable rug pull/switcheroo?

The USAF has significantly more planes and pilots then the USN.

However, the USN is technically the second largest air force currently operating in the world, behind the USAF.

I was referring to those who use Wyze’s default cloud storage.

SOME Wyze models are compatible with 3rd party software/firmware to switch to a selfhosting model, but again, it depends on the model and firmware version.

https://github.com/mrlt8/docker-wyze-bridge

Using Wyze is a choice that has trade-offs and it’s up to the user to understand what those are.

For example, if you aren’t able, or willing, to selfhost an NVR, then accept that these situations may arise and decide which video feeds are ones you’re willing to take that risk with.

Video feeds of your backyard, are significantly different then those of your bedroom, or living areas.

So…in the future you might want to consider actually reading the article before commenting.

That does seem to be the consensus.

Silent, but deadly.

I think it’s more that the Firefox/Mozilla community is relatively small and has a self imposed echo chamber.

For example, when discussing mobile browsers on Android, it’s a fact that Chromium based ones have significantly better security then those based on Firefox for Android. It sucks, but it’s true.

Whenever that’s brought up, downvotes follow.

Whether, or not, that echo chamber is so large that includes Mozilla leadership, I can’t speak to. But I wouldn’t be surprised.

I’ve just converted to polytheism and have begun praying to the Emoji God asking them to use 1,000 origami cry laughing Emojis to smite you down, so that you may die how you lived.

I hope it won’t be quick, or painless, but that’s up to the Gods now.

Ha ha extremely pointless virtue signaling! I get it!!!

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