That’s like eating exactly one potato chip.

The behavior is actively endorsed by the platform.

I’ve had this happen to me and I did feel like it was kind of a rip off. They should rename the seat to wall seat and be done with it.

Using a password management scheme of some kind does not optional. You cannot trust them with what’s effectively a master password.

I’m glad you figured it out! Thank you for sharing your solution.

Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren’t all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.

Alas, I am not a billionaire.

Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren’t individuals.

Sounds good! Basically, the problem I had boiled down to a super old driver no kernel dev wants to touch with a ten foot pole and they’re just kinda hoping it’ll die a death to irrelevancy, but there are a few systems out there that do still use it.

The rest of the design moved on to more advanced architecture.

Hey! This was my first real job. Is Matlab code written by physicists who just recently learned programming.

It’s detectors all the way down.

But of course, as a tortoise, you would know that.

Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?

I had this problem specifically dealing with the way that IOMMU maps devices conflicting with a really old USB root hub. I had to set something like intel_iommu=off for my case.

Would you be willing to share the output of your dmesg ?

I have a brilliant friend who works there. However, only projects that integrate AI are really getting approved.

Not if I use AI to hide my use of AI first!

Enforcing that ban is going to be difficult.

All great ideas! I use Steam already so I think I’ll configure it with KDE to open it in big picture mode.

Yup. I’m not a fan of it, but the laptop was otherwise a good deal and the oddity of having an AI button wasn’t enough to spoil the bunch. Still weird and kind of creepy though.

I just hope more open phones like the rumored Graphene phone with actually good high-end hardware are out by then so I can leave their ecosystem comfortably. As you wrote, Google has a history of abusive behavior and doing what they want anyway.

Interesting! I learned a new word. And yes, look to Google Chrome’s walking back of blocking ad-blockers to its eventually implementation anyway once people stopped screaming about it.

That’s the problem; handset makers don’t believe you own the phone. They think it’s their phone that you’re paying to use temporarily.