I don't know much (read: anything at all) about kindles other than the name and that they're Amazon's own ebook reader.

My question is, can or could you (still) load epub files that you have downloaded elsewhere onto one of these things?

If so then perhaps there isn't much lost other than direct access to Amazon's bookstore and if that's the case then isn't this more Amazon's loss than the end users?

For enhanced security.

Is this less obvious than I assumed it was, or do you just not understand what it does?

Microsoft issues the secure boot keys that are used by all Linux distributions.

If they can just arbitrarily yank someone's keys like this, apparently without explanation or appeal, then what does that mean for those Linux keys? Are they subject to withdrawal for no reason as well?

That's in all of the latest versions of ssh, which is or can be installed on more than just Macs. For example, the latest version of RHEL has that warning too.

The warning can be disabled through the WarnWeakCrypto option in ssh_config, if you wish. Obviously that doesn't actually "fix" the issue that is being warned about, but that hide the warning and avoids having it continually popping up.

If the objective is to increase Internet security without any concern for what might otherwise stop working, wouldn't it make more sense to ban Microsoft Windows?

It has been responsible for more Internet disruption than any brand of router.

Why would a breathalyzer need to access anything outside of the unit itself.

Blow, analyze the sample, enable ignition switch or not.

The result is a simple binary choice and the analysis has to be done locally by its very nature.

Is this the same Super Micro that either makes or used to make computer motherboards?

Or am I thinking of a different thing altogether. I just have a vague recollection of something Super Micro several years ago.

Not really since it doesn't give you a full-screen type of display.

I'm thinking of something that would give you the equivalent of an actual computer monitor in front of you or off at any angle you choose. So to the user it wouldn't look much different than carrying a monitor around at a distance of, say, two or three feet in front of you.

I don't know if this would count as VR, but I've always thought that some kind of glasses with a built-in monitor would be useful. You see that sort of thing sometimes in stuff like Ironman.

You could see through the glasses as usual but you could have a monitor in the corner (or where-ever else you wanted to place it) at any relative size you want (since you could decide if you wanted it to appear big and far away or close up and small).

I didn't say it's wrong.

I simply find it ironic.

"I asked Claude:"

He says with no sense of irony at all....

I've used fdroid on my tablets and phones for years and have never seen this problem.

Is there any particular app that is affected this way?

"The model it self continues to be used generate outputs over and over again, and may eventually write out quite a lot of the original work."

Sure. I might use a textbook over and over again to figure out various things over the course of time too.

I have a bookcase for that exact purpose.

"some of the closed models can make reproductions of copyrighted works that are 90%+ the same as the original, like chapters from Harry Potter:"

Some people can probably quote a chapter from Harry Potter too.

It doesn't mean those people shouldn't be allowed to read any books.

I am Canadian and in the early 1980s I used to cross the border without showing anything at all, or even stopping.

I'd drive up to the US border shack and slow way down prepared to stop. The guy manning the crossing would see the Canadian license plates on my car and just wave me through. I don't recall a single time that I even fully stopped the car.

Coming back the Canadian customs guys always had me stop so they could ask what, if anything, I was bringing back. Maybe I had to show those guys my drivers license; I don't exactly remember.