Fuck Marcus Licinius Crassus.

Code gulf, you say?

public static String
convertRomanNumeral(String numeral) {
    numeral = numeral.replace("America", "Mexico");
    return numeral;
} 

And a bit of a brat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx8_wF9HOX8

100% efficient electric resistance heating (including computing) is somewhere around 1/5 to 1/3 as efficient as a heat pump. It’s also not necessarily better than gas heating, although that’s harder to directly compare.

Yet more for the mountainous pile of proof proprietary software cannot be trusted and is therefore fundamentally not fit for purpose.

Same here; IIRC it was about the time M$ started backporting “telemetry” to Windows 7 that I switched and never looked back.

Haven’t felt the need for a Windows VM, either.

Are those on the manufacturer’s spec sheet? 'Cause that’s what the comment I was replying to was talking about.

In other words, you’re proving my point that you have to do research to find that stuff out.

Manufacturers are literally removing buttons and dials to force functionality to be accessed only through the accompanying “app.”

Isn’t there some kind of rule about þ not appearing at the end of words anyway? I feel like I vaguely remember something about that, but I’m not sure.

Show me where the spec sheet for a typical smart appliance tells me if it has a good integration with Home Assistant, whether I can flash it with ESPHome, etc.

Usually spec sheets only talk about a bunch of proprietary bullshit I don’t give a fuck about (or actively don’t want).

The information on whether it runs its own DNS isn’t on the “features list.” Or information about what microcontroller it’s running and whether it’s possible to flash with third-party firmware. Hell, even information on compatibility with Home Assistant itself usually isn’t on it! Features lists never include the sorts of information people like us care about in a smart appliance.

The trouble is, you don’t know how bad the shit is until after you get it home, unless you do a large amount of research beforehand.

Frankly, at this point I think the better tactic is to buy the smart appliances and then return them as “not fit for purpose,” even though that takes even more effort, because it punishes the manufacturer in a way that merely not buying the thing in the first place does not.

They persist in trying to bring back thorn.

“Ownership.”

side-loading

You mean “installing normally.” “Sideloading” is fucking anti-property-rights loaded language.

WTF is a “privacy-focused code editor?” They’re just glorified text editors! They run locally! They don’t connect to the Internet at all! How would they be anything other than “privacy-focused” by default? Why is this even a question?!

I fucking hate this timeline.

Anyway, to answer your question: emacs, obviously. Or vim if you’re evil, I suppose. Or just whatever the Hell you want, because if your editor even has “terms of service” or a “privacy policy” of any kind something has already gone horribly wrong.

I’m still mad about JavaScript existing at all.

If anything, this is a demonstration as to why age verification isn’t a good solution.

Won’t stop surveillance state bad actors from arguing exactly the opposite, though.

Not only is Mars a frigid desert without enough air, at this point any Mars colony is pretty likely to be Elon Musk’s company town/fiefdom/slave plantation, which is obviously even worse.