Good to know if your phone is lost/stolen/damaged you are shit out of luck.

Depending on jurisdiction, establishments are sometimes being forced to accept cash, to not exclude the under banked.
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I still use cash from time to time, and I am not under banked. In fact, I used cash on Saturday to buy gas for my mower, and I always use cash to buy gas for my car. Never have to worry about my card being compromised. Or anyone knowing what I'm buying when I use cash.

situations where lupus is mistaken for rheumatoid arthritis,

It's never lupus.* Until it is.

* I wanted to post a video of House saying it's not lupus, but for some reason YT is now requiring me to sign to confirm I'm not a bot. Sorry for not posting the reference.

I always tell people when setting up their 2FA not to use Authenticator. First, it does not reliably work. Second, it's from Microsoft which means they can stop it working or make changes to it at will.

Instead, I tell people to select the Text or Phone option. Text is preferred as it will always go through unless they're in a cave.

Ah yes, this moral panic is totally different than all the other times people have been whipped into a frenzy by an almost bon existent problem.

We have real problems to solve. I'll leave the fake ones to people like you.

So basically this is a new version of "Listening to Judas Priest will make you commit suicide", the Satanic Panic and all the other utterly moronic moral panics that make people afraid of unlikely things.

Oh good, another moral panic. If people aren't terrified every waking moment of their lives, someone hasn't done their job.

Having spent a whole hell of a lot of time lately on Gnome, configuring it and testing various configurations for rollout at the company I work for, all I can say is that it just works. There's a browser, and bizarrely, printers just work on Linux now in a way they just used to work on Windows, and it's now Windows, at least in an enterprise environment, where printing has become the technical equivalent of having your teeth filed down. Where work does need to be done is on accessibility, so we have one staff member who will stick with Windows 11 for now. Libreoffice's Calc is good enough for about 90% of the time, and Writer about 95%. We remain open to Windows machines for special use purposes, but most people after mucking around for a bit are able to navigate Gnome perfectly well, since once they're in the program they need to use, what's going on on the desktop is irrelevant.

On the enterprise back end, supporting global authentication has been around a long time, and if you only have admins who know how to navigate a GUI, then you have idiots. The *nix home folder is infinitely superior in every way to the hellscape that is roaming profiles, so already you're ahead of the game.

Enshittification, where even the most modest of talents is pushed aside by someone writing "Draw me a picture of a Florentine woman with a smirk" in ChatGPT.

Facebook offers services, some free, some paid, to citizens of Brazil so yes, their activities can be legislated.

This is where his supporters on /. tell us that voting for Harris would have been voting for foreign wars...

Military bases overseas are not considered U.S. soil for citizenship purposes. Been that way for quite a while...

Which apparently changed in 2020.

How are people being "exploited" if they're being paid and have a place to stay? Since Americans are too lazy to do these jobs, someone has to.

Essentially, yes. Visualizing where to go works better for me than being told to turn right in 300 feet. Since I've already looked over the route and figured out where I need to go, it stays with me.

Similar to what this article is saying that doing your research makes the subject stick better than having it spit out to you.

Tabs in Notepad is not something people wanted. Nor any AI. Nor anything else. Notepad is on the verge of becoming WordPad with all the doodads Microsoft keeps adding to it.