TonyOstrich

Graduated with an engineering degree just before the teens and have always had multiple round interviews :/

Have a look at Heliboard. It’s open source. To get swipe you have to import a component that is extracted from GBoard that doesn’t come with the app, but it can be acquired from… places.

I’m not a fan. It’s probably friendlier to an average user, but I feel like the information and actionable item density is much lower than before.

That’s nice. I wish a security token was also an option, but it doesn’t appear they have any intention of implementing that. I don’t like the idea of using biometrics for anything specifically because of law enforcement and how there I can be compelled to provide biometric data. A security dongle is almost the same, but with the “advantage” that a little bit of security through obscurity can be implemented since they not only have to know a token is required, but also which one.

Technically that’s also a disadvantage in that a security token can be lost vs biometric, but that’s the risk profile I would personally prefer.

It would be nice if there was a way to use 2FA to unlock a phone. Using a password in combination with biometric or NFC token. That would also allow for the use of an emergency pin as well.

Ah, fair enough.

Are either of those accessible from the GUI in a fresh default install? I know exactly where in Windows to find that control panel (granted they make it more convoluted to get to in every successive version), but I don’t know how I would do it with just what the OS provides in either Mint or Kubuntu (the two distros I have the most familiarity with).

I have only been rocking Linux as a daily driver for a year or two now though, so it could just be a gap in my knowledge.

Not that I don’t think Bezos is a complete piece of shit, but he is no longer the CEO of Amazon.

Anyway, fuck Jeffrey Bezos.

I live in the US. I blame 40% of the people at a minimum, and likely more than that.

Indeed. I usually use 7-zip’s built in tool to do it when I need to.

You are allowed to record content like a broadcast though, which makes me wonder if that means that ripping is illegal, but piping it through a capture card isn’t?

Technically I’m half right and half wrong (I think). It’s not illegal to backup media that one owns, but it is illegal to break DRM/copy protection which is required to rip most physical media these days.

Suffice to say the legality of it is a cluster fuck, but the morality, in my opinion, is pretty clear. Fuck the corpos.

But it is legal in the country he lives in as well as the country YouTube is headquartered in.

You don’t sound like a very pleasant person to try and have a constructive conversation with.

Jeff is located in St. Louis Missouri unfortunately.

and yet…

Come on man, let people like what they like. I literally couldn’t care less about sports, and have many issues with the amount of money that goes towards them, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to shit on someone just for enjoying them.

I prefer Luigi when picking my sidekick.

That is just horrendous. I am not a coder by trade or education, but I do a fair amount of it in my job. I may heavily use copy and paste, but I at least make sure it matches the structure of my current code, and I always include the URL to where I got it in a comment above the code.

I’m in the US and while Fairphone doesn’t sell the 5 here I was able to “import” it via Clover Technology.