Typical snobbery.

The Sinclair was rather ridiculed at the time as “not a real computer”.

Nothing ever changes - Instead of being excited by someone having the skills to implement chess in 670k of memory by using freakin’ machine language, and appreciating the Sinclair for what it is, they compared to what they had.

I mean wow, if you’ve never done machine language coding… I’m flabbergasted.

Account? What account

Hahahahaha, I actually laughed out loud

Hahahaha that’s awesome

Shame that.

As someone else said, Prevent is also an option (which would include backup in my opinion).

Though backups can get encrypted too, if it’s not setup to prevent this.

Prevent, in my opinion, is the path.

Anuto is fun, I really like the back-to-gradeschool graphics

Ok, now this looks impressive, since they publish the API and CAD files for you to build your own add ons.

I can’t think of add-ons I’d want - I’m more for smaller phones today, so the bulk doesn’t really appeal to me. But I’m eager to see what people create (may already be some stuff posted on 3D printing sites, I haven’t looked). Maybe an add-on battery that’s the size of the back but really thin?

Edit: LOVE that it’s a plastic phone. Please, more plastic phones, they’re lighter and tougher.

Lol, nice.

Not that it matters, really, as it’s all about battery chemistry, and there’s no such thing as a free lunch.

Apple may do something differently than Android manufacturers, but they all have the same choices - tweak the voltage/current profile, manage temp, limit recharge bounce when a phone sits on the charger.

Actual answer: fast charging will always do more damage than slower charging. It’s all tradeoffs, and I will trade my battery longevity for fast charging when I need it. When I have time, slower charging is fine.

I’m tech savvy, been in IT for nearly 40 years. Wrote my first program in Fortran on punched cards.

Linux is no easy switchover. It’s problematic, regardless of the distro (I’ve tried many over the years).

My latest difficulty - went to install Debian and it hung multiple times trying to install wifi drivers.

Mint can’t use my Logitech mouse until I researched it and discovered someone wrote an app to enable it. The most popular mouse on the planet doesn’t work out of the box.

Typical user would be stumped by these problems.

I can go on for days about “Year of the Linux Desktop” (which I first heard in 2000). Can Linux work as a desktop? Definitely. And it can be pretty damn good, too, if your use-case aligns with it’s capabilities. But if you’re an end-user type, what do you do a year in and realize you need a specific app that just doesn’t exist in Linux?

Is it a direct replacement for Windows? No. Because Windows has always been about general use - it trades performance for the ability to do a lot of varied things, it includes capabilities that not everyone needs.

Linux is the opposite, it’s about performance for specific things. If you want a specific capability, it has to be added. This is the challenge these different distros attempt to meet: the question for all of them is which capabilities to include “out of the box” (see my mouse example - Debian handles it just fine).

This is also the power of Linux, and why it’s so great for specific use-cases. Things like Proxmox, TrueNAS, etc, really benefit from this minimalism. No wasted cycles on a BITS service or all the other components Windows runs “just in case”.

Yea, would’ve been a lot better if they demonstrated how someone could be tracked by the cell modem that many cars have had since the early 2000’s.

Or even a MITM for that part, showing how a few vendors security is weak (I bet most have nominal security).

Buried deep in the article:

Hackers stole admin credentials for these devices.

So, yea, you have the creds, you can modify the OS any way you want.

It wasn’t because the devices were EOL (as implied in the beginning of the article), it’s because of poor credential management.

I think SMS Backup Restore can export to HTML.

Nice solution!

My last couple have been used, off Craigslist. So slightly older models. That also means they are less likely to have the phone-home nonsense. And I refuse to ever own an inkjet again.

Currently running a 2013 HP consumer B/W, and a 2018 Canon Color laser. Neither care about internet.

Why the hell does a printer need to “call home” for anything anyway?

Man that really grinds my gears. So now I need to isolate my printer in a VLAN and only open a port for my server to access it so it can be shared there, to keep it from accessing the internet.

I’ve found refurbed HP lasers (older ones, that have NICs but before this web crap) - they’re looking pretty attractive…

That would be dual homing using both cell and wifi networking.

I don’t think iOS can do this - and I’d be hard-pressed to make it happen on Android (honestly I don’t think it can be done, maybe with root, even then, I’m not sure).

You could either ignore the special bit “requirement” (though with MDF I suspect it’ll be problematic), or reproduce it using two bits, or just buy the bit, it’s $20 on Walmart/Amazon/Ebay, a pittance in the woodworking world.

Wow, 50 lbs (~20 kg) per stud, with a bunch of screw holes in the base plate. Problem solved, and you could just use a number of wood screws into the ply panel, just spaced well apart (like 2.5-3 cm), and anchor into a stud where you can with a long lag (3"/~8cm).

Or if you can only hit a stud on one side, use a single Molly on the other and a couple wood screws in between.

I recently went to buy tickets to see a stage play at a local community theater. Turns out last play I saw there was 15 years ago.

Wtf? Why do you have info on an account I haven’t logged into in 15 years?

Until there’s real fines for data loss, these companies won’t change. Hell, for all I know they have friends in the dark web/hacker world and “leak” credentials to them.