"You don't really need to take pictures anyway - let our AI create any image you want!"

But I keep all my vaping equipment - mod, drippers and all manners of accessories - from the early teens when vaping was free, unregulated and not yet killed by Big Pharma. Hell, I still have 3 gallons of 100mg nic base in blue bottles with nitrogen in storage in the freezer from that time.

I was a big vaping enthusiast for years. It's what kept me from smoking again. I've quit smoking and vaping for years, but just in case I decide to pick up vaping again - like if I'm diagnosed with cancer again, and it's terminal this time - I keep all that good stuff from a better past.

Why is the fridge running anything? It's a fridge.

It is still possible to buy things that aren't online. Lightbulbs especially.

Definitely don't buy anything that wants to get online that doesn't need it

You don't seem to understand the topic. That key is not something typed in regularly. It is the recovery key for whole disk encryption. It will likely never be typed in at all.

Tell me how you're ever going to implement this on any open-source operating system ever?

Because people will just patch it out.

It's not like it's even a boot-time requirement (thus necessitating it being in the kernel/initrd, etc.). It's an account requirement. Which means that it can be patched out in no time at all.

As far as I know, not one single open-source OS has actually implemented this requirement (they put a field that would be useful for it into systemd, but nobody's actually using it).

Apple push an silent automatic update just for your computer that the next time you type in that key, it sends it to the FBI.

Next?

We're not dealing with a bit of software piracy or finding out who stole someone's Bitcoin, you're talking about agencies dealing with anti-terrorism and wars.

Only in America could you legally argue that an unnecessary profit-making middle-man was legally required and that it would somehow "reduce costs".

I'm glad Rivian won, even though I'm unlikely to spend that kind of money on a car.

I've bought multiple cars over the past several decades. Buying cars from a dealership SUCKS. The only halfway-decent buying experience I've ever had was with CarMax.

... then that project is really can't be described as open source anymore.

Screw the solar-panel-deploying robots... it sounds like what we really need are Dyson-sphere-building robots!

Currently an M4 too. Before that Intel I5. Before that PowerPC G4. :-)

Intel NUC i5, only to run Win11. My 10+ year old i7 that's had one RAM upgrade and 3 GPU upgrades still worked and played games just fine, but it was stuck at Win10 during to the CPU generation cutoff.

All my PCs dual boot Windows and Linux, since around 1994.

I've been using Linux since around 1994. Even in the same family things diverge, Ubuntu and Debian for example.

s'okay. Biology is the only scientific discipline where division and multiplication are the same thing.