They should not be worried, they should be educated.

If you worry a new user enough they’ll go back to Windows or Apple because there’s less scary warnings there.

We need to make the transition as pain free as possible. Learning about the joys of kernel compilation and SELinux can come later.
The first step is "Hey, this is as usable as Windows, without stupid ads in the start menu.

Man könnte noch argumentieren, dass es in Sichtweite gilt und die Bewohner dieser Institution durchaus kurzsichtig sind.

Coconut at least…

Currently:

• VR
• Uncategorized

Soon to be added:

• Linux (tested/works on)

That feature is right on the border between real neat tech and deeply unsettling.

“Hey, my phone uses its last few electrons to turn into a bluetooth beacon to stay findable” sounds like sci-fi “reserve power emergency mode”

“I can’t turn off the locator chip in a device that holds half my life and memories” is just dystopian.

I’m wondering if there would be a way to keep it useful while minimizing impact for people who stay off the grid. A hardware switch would probably be a good start but they won’t fly with current all-touch designs.

Ah, you “work” in “marketing”?

Zur besseren Findbarkeit: Es heißt “Lateral” with Tom Scott, von lateral thinking - Quer- oder um die Ecke denken, aber ohne die Konnotation, die Querdenken seit Corona hat.

They occupy a strange niche full of contradictions.

Entering the code on the device itself should increase security as opposed to entering it on a compromised computer.

But plugging it into a compromised computer means the data is compromised anyway.

Their security is way harder to audit than a software solution like PGP. The actual “encryption” varies from actual decent setups to “entering the code connects the data pins with no actual encryption on the storage chip”

Not having to instal/use software to use them means they are suitable for non-technical users which in turn means more support calls for “I forgot the pin, it wiped itself, can you restore my data”

They are kind of useful to check the “data is transported on encrypted media” box for compliance reasons without having to manage something bigger.

It doesn’t. It carries you by having a module for absolutely everything even shooting yourself in the foot.

To a certain degree, yes. If someone at Google decides to wage all-out war against ad blockers they have a good chance. But if that costs more money than it generates, odds are that someone will stop it. Google / Alphabet is publicly traded after all and that means profit above all else.

Embedding ads into the stream would be hard to counter, but it’s far away. That would invalidate caches along the way and need extra performance to reencode the stream with the ads inserted.

That’s extra costs that are hopefully orders of magnitude above the lost ad revenue from ad blockers

Spannendes Detail:

Es ist möglich, formal fehlerhafte Rezepte an die TI zu übermitteln. Funktionierende Validierung gibt’s nicht.

Warum nicht gleich ein PDF des gescannten Rezepts ablegen, das wär wenigstens einfacher…

Ironically Sync does, too, and zooms to full width on tap, hiding the Rick roll.

Noch ein Fan des Entgenderns hier. Freue mich jedesmal, wenn ich -ys in freier Wildbahn sehe.

In welcher Luxus-Ecke von Deutschland lebst du denn, dass es bei dir Videosprechstunden gibt?

Und die Gründe für Videosprechstunde nicht möglich reichen vermutlich von zu wenig Bandbreite über keine Kamera bis zu “machen wir nicht”.

Und was ist das Problem, mit Video ist ja auch ne AU möglich.

Okay, you got me there. In all fairness, as instruction videos go, that one is on the tame side.

Thanks for posting the instructions here.

Tl;dw:

Append systemd.debug_shell to the boot command line.

Hmpff, ich fand ihn ja schon immer latent unsympathisch. Dass er jetzt mit den “Christ”-“Demokraten” Politik machen will bestätigt das irgendwie.

No, No, they don’t understand everything and nothing!