Also the required diacritics use the number row on Czech keyboards so you need a numpad or type numbers with Shift.

You’re right, they got called out as a “honeypot” for basic KYC and not having E2EE (which you can’t with email AFAIK)

The only thing that turns people off is that they cooperate with governments. Well, if you’re using it for your business you shouldn’t worry about that unless it’s illegal business, at which point you have bigger problems

I wonder if they’re really that stupid to give up this super-efficient means of soft power over some progressive things they’ve done or intentionally handing influence in parts of the world to Russia for a bit of money for themselves while taking a calculated risk of maybe having to retake control militarily (which is more costly but could be a problem for the next admin).

Even after they stopped producing phones, they could have made a killing licensing the patent to phone case manufacturers.

The article is absolute trash for not mentioning this. “Their iconic keyboards…” is the closest it gets to describing them.

Thankfully, there is a link to the patent at the end.

Abstract

A keyboard comprising a plurality of transparent keys. In use, the keyboard is attached to a device such as a mobile device, to overlie a display screen of the device. One or more images displayed on the display screen are made visible to a user through the keys, which may be pressed by a user. User input is determined by identifying a pressed key, and the image or part thereof visible through the key when pressed.

Basically a detachable keyboard of transparent material as a display overlay, providing tactile feedback while the LCD allows for backlit and customizable key labels. I don’t remember seeing a practical implementation of this IRL or in media but I might be too young for that.

Not free as in FOSS because it’s limited to non-commercial projects, but they’re Valve. Devs will probably be able to strike deals if their monetization schemes aren’t exploitative.

He’s reasonably trustworthy. I trust his utility more than Micro$oft but less than Linus Torvalds.

CD drives were too big so drives were developed that only took half a CD, which is shaped like a C.

I wouldn’t be in the mood to start raising a child st 84

There is even a Windows (Powershell) example for Winutil:

Stable Branch (Recommended)

irm "https://christitus.com/win" | iex

Better than explaining how to make a .ps file trusted for execution (thankfully, one of the few executable file extensions that Windows doesn’t trust by default) but why not just use some basic .exe builder at this point?

Obligatory “they better make it a script that automatically creates a medium for silent Linux Mint installation, modifies the relevant BIOS settings and restarts” to prevent obvious snarky replies

I thought that the subscription money was what would keep them afloat for longer

You can assign them manually but to this day, they are the last to get used when auto-mounting drives.

Unix rules

Idk how hard it is to make a browser addon but a website userscript won’t be enough, those don’t have access to the filesystem obviously.

How are you expecting to get 10 years of experience for your entry-level job by age 20? You need that to succeed in the job market, and let me guess, you also wasted so much potential by passing up on that opportunity of being born to Linus Torvalds.

Did you set it up? You can totally make a POTS emulator with VoIP, GSM and whatnot with some cheap hardware.

You’re right, systemic theft (corporate and institutional) is way more damaging than petty theft and people don’t talk about it nearly enough. Both occur at different rates in different countries but mostly based on opportunity, not culture.

DuckDuckGo doesn’t track your activity so they only target ads based on your current query and technical details. They determined it would take 30 years to compile Gentoo on your rig so 40+ is a good guess for your age.

Half of Europe: Romanians steal everything!
Otther half of Europe: Czechs steal everything!

Meanwhile…

What? You can specify a torrent download location over the web UI. Do you want an interactive picker?