... at least if it's any kind of public video. What was the question?

Yes, I have to confess I let YouTube autoplay me in whatever echo chamber it wanted from clicking on two related videos. I eagerly watched the documentary as someone recommended it and couldn't find anything, ANYTHING new. I'm sure they might have this or that snippet or old picture or interview that was never presented before but nothing I could pinpoint, certainly nothing groundbreaking.

You can't multiply THESE (Apple) passkeys, but otherwise nothing stops you, they're just some certificates, or if you want some large numbers. There are plenty password managers that handle (completely, as in presenting them to web sites, etc.) passkeys on your machine, under your control. I presume the GP has such control as he says specifically the passkeys are backed up already in a flat text file.

Keep it encrypted on your $MEDIA. You keep multiple Yubis for access.

That's a solution looking for a problem, or more for creating a problem. It's a very common use case for people who want to stay sane enough while trying to unnecessarily shoehorn Yubikeys in their workflows, but these really aren't made to just keep a regular secret symmetrical encryption key to your backups or password manager. You CAN use some feature to achieve that but it's pointless as the host machine sees the secret data and is doing all the decryption. You are better all around by just using a regular password here.

The whole point of these cryptographic tokens is that they're themselves different machines, air gapped (or if you want connected through a dedicated and very limited interface) from the computer/phone that runs a general purpose OS that can be compromised. This comes with great inconveniences, like you can't multiply them (so you need to register multiple keys separately on all your services, and some don't accept multiple passkeys/FIDO - PayPal I'm looking at you), you can't back them up, they have limited capacity and so on. But once you go "darn it, I'll just do everything on my computer in a password manager" you can't roll that back by putting some access control based on Yubikeys, it does nothing, it's still everything done on your computer.

Yea, this. It'll also be more reliable, be harder to subvert, have no hallucinations and so on. And could run on a potato, not need a 16-32GB GPU and even then be like "oh and it's only a small 12B model".

YES. This happened to syncthing (which IMHO is THE thing for such things...). They got denied to storage in February 2014 https://github.com/syncthing/s... and eventually in October they gave up developing the Android app at all. There's now syncthing-fork (it was actually since earlier) as a personal project (as opposed to the official one which I presume was under Syncthing Foundation's umbrella, even if mostly a one-man show) and funny enough that had no Play Store shenanigans as far as I know. Sure, going forward anyone in the know should be installing from F-Droid, you never know with Google.

Yea, this. Plus they need to spell out what we're looking at, mostly everything nowadays wants some wifi connection and an app, and will most likely leak at a minimum everything you are doing with the device, plus what it can see around, your wifi password and so on. Also it'll have autoupdate ota capabilities enabled by default, so it can literally do anything they might want it to do at some point including to attack other machine, bound only by its hardware capabilities.

It's not a "setting" it's an unwanted "feature" at most, that silently partly zeroes out your files if you don't give this "all files" access to your app. It's nuts IMHO.

And they are? Samsung is selling for sure many more than Google. Oh, but they still run Android. So is the FairPhone you wanted.

First "all files access" refers just to the files you can anyway see in your file manager, which isn't a lot. You aren't getting any access to OS files or other Apps data, unless they save it in the shared storage.

Second, this access is needed in order to get uncensored files too, yes, for your security Google is generally censoring (as in binary changing) the files presented to the apps otherwise: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataH...

Yea, but the funny thing is how they're doubling down on this ARM nonsense. Basically everything they have now is just some weird stuff that doesn't run any of the older Windows drivers (think printers, etc.), SOME of the popular software got ported (like most browsers, well Google Drive took more than 5 years, etc.) and some runs under emulation but it's completely unclear where they want to go with this. Also, even if generally ARM is good with Linux (think Raspberry Pi) this is awful, as in not usable in any practical form yet (some day, maybe). The only Intel devices they have are now relegated to the "business" line and starting at $2000 or so (for a light laptop equivalent to a $850 now MacBook Air).

... given that they run the 0.8% Windows ARM, which is called Windows but it's in fact a totally different niche OS.

This is a different move: they introduced now the 1 inch smaller but WAY, WAY worse devices in many ways for about the same price as the base price of the much better devices. If they leave the base "good" devices in the price list it makes anyone considering the new ones stupid.

It doesn't matter what they did with it EXCEPT BURNING (which I see now you're backing down from, and agree it didn't happen, and it's correct because it would be ridiculous) somebody had to produce that thing for them. Or failing that if let's say the landlord had a house gathering dust and nobody lifted a finger except to say "take the house, give me the money" now the landlord is having 1200 Euros (or whatever the amount was) every month to buy a MacBook or a phone or tires or gas or whatever.

Where do they say that everyone receiving the money just went ahead cashed out and burned it? I'm sure I didn't miss that part.

Except it doesn't increase the work everyone else has to do because they didn't work any less than they did before.

So a bunch of people can go and say buy a nice MacBook, or an expensive phone, or goes through an expensive sets of tires at the race track, whatever, EVERY MONTH, all with helicopter money. Nobody is working more (or having less from what they worked) in order to accommodate that?