You have a great ethos toward life. Quick question though, do you still run a joke phone hotline anywhere?

I had to fix a 40 year old faucet today. I have no plumbing experience. An ai correctly identified the faucet and the steps to repair it from photos taken on my phone. While I admire your relentless pursuit of privacy, I choose knowledge.

If a platform has a reset password feature it has a backdoorâ¦

A dystopian future where you own nothing and are happy.

Bingo. You donâ(TM)t need a blockchain when there is a centralized authority involved. The entire purpose of a blockchain is to create trust in a decentralized ledger. You can use WORM storage and get centralized immutable storage including better performance and lower costs. This entire project smells like incompetence or worse. Unfortunately, they arenâ(TM)t the only ones trying to push the blockchain magic into government systems. Someone will make a career removing these blockchain systems in the near future.

Youâ(TM)d be shocked how good an iPhone pro max camera is today compared to even a $2k mirror less camera if you do mostly point and shoot photography. Obviously the custom lenses on a mirror less for very specific purposes will out perform but for point and shoot the iPhone is just incredible. Source, I have a Sony Alpha 7 IV and find the iPhone photos better for point and shoot scenarios.

Seems counter productive to spend gobs if money developing a new file system and slowly remove functionality from your OS for it over time. Might as well just throw in the towel and support ZFS at this point.

Yeah, The Gimp is way too complex to be an MS Paint alternative... What alternatives are there though?

How can I binge and surge if they outlaw it? I guess I'll be an Outlaw.

As a computer nerd who lived with a body builder in college let me put this into perspective. 1.) If you eat a lot of food, or if you eat food with a lot of fat in it, then you gain weight. 2.) Losing weight requires a fundamental rethinking of your lifestyle. 3.) If you start doing push-ups, sit-ups and running daily but don't change your lifestyle then you will probably put on additional weight (muscle weighs more than fat). To lose weight you just need a healthy simple plan. Change the types of food you eat and cut calories, then take three days a week to begin working out. I personally lost 55 pounds in 12 months because I was dedicated to the process of getting into shape.

I have a better example, the load speed is the same even on a 100mbit connection. http://www.tunnel1.com/

How much would it cost Nintendo to re-release the NES? They could even throw all their Library on one cartridge which would sell like hotcakes in the developing world. I wouldn't hold my breath about HTC becoming a big player in this market.

What in the world are they thinking? The franchise was fun but the movie totally killed this series for many gamers.