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That's a nice fantasy, but unless you only connect to the internet from library computers, they know exactly who you are. I've used a pihole and now NextDNS because blocking as much of the tracking as possible makes me feel warm and fuzzy, but I know it's really pointless.

Oh boy, another opportunity for 90% of the people on here to post about how they only use dumb screens and anyone who actually uses a smart TV deserves whatever they get!

Except negligence is almost never prosecuted in cases like this. It's no different than allowing some bad actor to take over your computer and make it part of a botnet. Should every grandmother with a compromised smart fridge be prosecuted?

There's no reason this can't be the 2nd FA combined with a password. TFS maybe suggests it will be 1FA, but certainly does not say so explicitly. And since this is /., I will not be reading TFA to see what it says.

I really want someone to explain to me why "decibel" becomes "dB".

Mostly spot-on, except you have some nifty magic SSDs if they are seeing interactions from neutrinos. Perhaps you meant neutrons, which is more plausible, although I think it's protons and other charged hadrons that are the main source.

Given the level of detail in the rebuttal, I think there's a good chance he was a reviewer for the original paper, and the editor published it against his objections.

Figure 1 of this review clearly shows exponential improvement in superconducting qubit coherence times, all backed up by citations. There are similar more recent plots, but this is the one I found first. If I am hallucinating or delusional, please disprove this figure.

Please provide a citation to demonstrate this claim in even a single metric.

Please, *please* do not use words like "hallucination" here. It's already a somewhat ill-defined term, but it does have a generally understood context that absolutely does not apply in this space. There's already a bizarre conflation of AI and quantum computing that makes no damn sense, and I'd really like it to stop getting worse.

As for the rest of your post, topological or Majorana qubits that Microsoft favors have never been reliably proven to exist at all, much less be useful for quantum computing. But for the mainstream technologies, namely superconducting and spin qubits, every single performance metric has been improving exponentially for most of the last two decades. There isn't some fundamental blocker that will require some unknown innovation to overcome, just the continuation of steadily accumulating progress. Your "factoring 21" anecdote is also extremely out of date. D-Wave has calculated magnetic spins (oh, and they are actively doing things like solving the traveling salesman problem for UPS regularly). IBM has modeled fermionic interactions. Google has demonstrated distance-7+ error correction (not in an of itself useful, but a hell of a lot more complicated than Shor's algorithm).

My Ubuntu PC use is 90% games, 8% web browser, and 2% else. Most PC users never need anything but a browser. I was hoping to install SteamOS on it when I built it, but that wasn't an option. Instead ubuntu tried to install steam as a snap for some stupid reason, which screwed up my disk layout (apparently snaps are all sandboxed, cool, but those sandboxes must go into your home directory? Because obviously nobody would ever have multiple users with small homes and a large shared partition for big things like, let's see, games??)

It's not uncommon to find fixes for various "Linux" issues that really mean "ubuntu". If Steamboxes really take off, those forums will quickly become the most useful place to find fixes for Linux gaming, not just steam but also Heroic and Lutris and whatever comes next. I would much rather be able to follow directly than constantly go through translating arch to debian.

This is true only if "can be done" includes the fine print "maybe within the lifetime of the universe" and "a lot of RAM" means "more bytes than there are atoms in the universe".

Why can't we be allowed to keep nice things? I've been using bitwarden for years now, and I will never use anything else (other than a similar 3rd party password manager) again. Yes, there are plenty of competitors with similar features, but bitwarden is consistently top-ranked by actual security experts, and the interface is great, especially now that it can do passkeys. But that ranking comes 100% from *transparency*. The instant that goes away, nobody sane is going to keep them around.

"Always free" is nice, but not a deal-breaker. I only have free now because I don't really need anything at the premium level. I refuse to pay subscriptions for things that I should be able to buy once, but they do provide an actual service (keyring syncing), so I will grumble, but it's a valid reason.

Everyone will now chime in with how awesome their setup is with custom rsync scripts running on their home server, and that's fine. I have plenty of stuff like that. But I don't want to *have* to just to replace an already-working solution because some dipshit CEO thinks he can squeeze an extra profit this quarter. And when they hemorrhage customers instead, dipshit will still get an awesome golden parachute.

I completely agree. But fun fact, the mechanism by which bacteria move is akin to a freely rotating "motor." Spinning one direction, the flagella wrap together into a corkscrew and it moves forward. Briefly reverse the spin and the flagella fly apart and reorient the bacterium in a different direction.