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Comment Re: You know it kind of bugs me (Score 1) 75

Phones that run stock Android are usually pretty good at letting you uninstall/disable anything you don't want.

Disable, yes. Uninstall, no. If it's pre-installed it's part of the system image, which is mounted read-only and protected with fs-crypt. Actually modifying that would require root access to remount it rw and to disable fs-crypt.

That would also, of course, completely destroy the Android security architecture, leaving you wide open to all sorts of attacks. If you want to do that, get an Android device that has an unlockable bootloader (e.g. Google Pixel), unlock it, then do whatever you like. And be sure not to hire any evil maids.

Comment Re:For what? (Score 1) 56

Interesting, that explains a lot. Until now, I thought I might want to try Cursor, but I already have VS Code with Claude and GitHub Copilot, so why bother!

The integration is a little better in Cursor; the main difference being the in-line edit diffs. But I bounce back and forth between Claude Code and cursor, so I end up just using the git diff view to look at changes about 80% of the time, so it's not much better.

Honestly, my reason for using it is that I have separate Claude and Cursor token budgets -- though I set Cursor to use Claude so I'm using the same model both ways.

Comment Re:Either China is a threat or it isnt (Score 1) 49

China is a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. China isn't a threat, when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. American companies are a threat when it allows them to game the stock market to get rich quick. Getting the idea here?

Comment Re:Well, let's face it (Score 1) 53

You don't need it on consumer hardware

Except for, you know, illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, naturalized Americans and even American born, and all the other people targeted by their governments.

If your government breaking into your house and applying hardware-level attacks to scrape your secrets out of the RAM of your running computer is seriously part of your threat model, it's almost certainly very, very far from your biggest concern.

Also, you should probably consider turning your computer off.

Comment Re:Sanity did prevail (Score 1) 76

The thing is, only about 10-15% of the population are independent thinkers and only about 20% can be convinced by rational argument (about 30% on questions not (!) important to them). The rest is like the person you described. No insight, no understanding and completely closed-off to facts. There is no known way to reach them. Sometimes a major catastrophe in their lives can do it, but even that is not assured to.

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