Wow, very well put.

OP: I’d like to recommend a book - “Your Erroneous Zones” by Wayne Dyer. Available on Amazon and used bookstores for a couple bucks. He essentially outlines how to use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to alter our own mis-thinking, and to develop more effective communication.

Many machines have vertical connectors, if the machine is turned for any reason. Or you’re using the on-board card, etc.

Hahaha, I can’t disagree, even as a heathen.

As others have said, depends on how permanent something is

Happiness is fleeting, like other emotions, it comes and goes. Focusing on it is like chasing a wave.

Understanding your own values and what you find meaningful is essential for moving through life, because we’re not in control. Stuff happens, and we get to deal with it.

Lol, you’re something else, candy corn?? That stuff is vile.

The worst I can say about dots is they’re just sugar, albeit glued to paper.

Will you come organize my candy bowl this year? 😆

Yea, just requires a Dropbox account. And unfortunately I can’t get it to authenticate.

I’ll try some more when I have time, it’s a brilliant solution.

Requires Dropbox.

Would be great if it could let you sync stuff yourself, like with Syncthing or Resilio.

I refuse to use Cloud storages.

Still this is one of the best solutions I’ve seen.

I’ve used Syncthing-Fork for years.

Plus, it’s not like it needs much dev anyway, it works, and you can host your own resolver.

Thanks, it’s been a while.

The 90’s? Locked bootloaders would’ve meant people woukdve simply bought different machines without a locked bootloader.

See the IBM/Phoenix BIOS war - it’s essentially the same thing. IBM didn’t want to license their BIOS to everyone, so Phoenix reverse engineered it. If I remember right, IBM was trying to lock everyone to using their OS.

Early Android (circa 2009) didn’t have locked bootloaders.

Google wanted people to experiment, which was basically free research for them. Pixel’s today are unlocked when purchased from Google.

Even my earliest Verizon phones weren’t bootloader locked - they didn’t start doing that for a few years (my last Verizon phone in 2012 wasn’t bootloader locked). And Verizon is arguably the worst vendor when it comes to bootloader locked phones.

Could alternatively use a data-only card if you want to allow streaming.

You can then limit the data used a couple ways - through your account, or with a local app or phone config (and some of these apps use a pin)

You could also use an app like No Root Firewall to limit network access (and Android can enforce an always-on VPN, preventing network access if the VPN isn’t running). It too can be locked with a pin.

Just some ideas if you want to allow streaming with specific apps (no root permits you to block network for all apps, with exceptions). I use it with a prefilter that blocks a bunch of social media and ad domains.

That just sounds painfully inefficient (though we’ve been doing stuff like this for decades).

Arm isn’t as efficient at higher cpu states as x86, and running a VM you’re definitely going to up the cpu usage.

Still interesting to watch. And every use-case is unique. For the typical short-run process this is for, it’ll probably be fine.

Well, it is.

It’s a lot more work to use not-Google stuff on Android. Which I try very hard to do.

Now trying to get a family member to install and run anything not from the Play store is like pulling teeth.

It’s the convenience angle.

I have very experienced IT friends who continue to use privacy invasive crap, knowingly because they like the convenience.

So is termux a containerized Linux? (I haven’t looked into it yet, just on my list). I had assumed it was a VM, guess I was incorrect.

Well, that’s me then.

Never know when I’m going to need it, and it’s usually doing some kind of work overnight (processing media files, syncing files around, etc).

I schedule that stuff for when I should be asleep - less heat in the house during the day, it’s off-peak power (doesn’t make a noticeable difference to my bill, but why not).

If i need it, I can pause those things.

But I also have a NAS that can do this stuff, but it can only do so much at once.

Oh, damn. And by the time they got pulled out, enough concrete had cured on the car to need:

Rims

Rotors/drums

Pads/shoes

Perhaps ball joints/suspension components.

Expensive lesson.

Hahaha, you’re so full of shit your eyes are brown.

All companies with more than a handful of employees, have HR. It’s a legal issue for them.

Salary vs hourly really has fuck all to do with this.

Good HR people are there to protect the company, yes, but they’re also there to protect the employees.

Their primary responsibility is to protect the company, protecting employees only matters in the context of protecting the company.

Didn’t bother reading the rest, because you’re already bullshitting.

Source: almost 4 decades in very large (tens of thousands of employees) companies