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Comment · 3 days ago
Are you suggesting that both keys should be required for decryption?

How would you restore the backup if your secure hardware device is lost/stolen/damaged?

Comment · 4 days ago
Are you suggesting the abliterated models are more likely to delete data against the user's wishes than the original models?
Comment · 4 days ago
So the models are actually more aligned with the end users and less aligned with government regulators. Arguably a good thing.
Comment · 4 days ago
> Most people do repairs all the time but that doesn’t mean it has to be ib their garage with their own tools and bare hands.

Unless you live in India or a similarly developing country, this hasn't been true for many decades.

The local cost of labor is simply too high to make it economical to repair even simple things, let alone complex electronics.

Comment · 5 days ago
> The race to make laptops thinner is pointless.

Perhaps for you, but I very much care about my laptop's size and especially it's weight, as I carry it around on a daily basis.

Repairing or upgrading it aren't really of interest to me, as I wouldn't be able to aquire the parts where I typically live anyway. And performance and cooling have already been more than good enough for me in most laptops for the last decade.

Comment · 9 days ago
I don't see how EU regulators would allow payment privacy in any meaningful way.

It will be choked out at key junctions with KYC in the same way crypto has.

Comment · 9 days ago
Maybe it's a regional issue. I have over 150 stays in my account (digital nomad for the last 10 years), and I've not once had any unreasonable charge or conflict with a host.
Comment · 12 days ago
There shouldn't be a law dictating how old one must be to smoke weed. That's a parenting decision.
Comment · 13 days ago
Yes, it is. I don't want to live in a country where everything is illegal but not enforced (until someone in power dislikes you).
Comment · 13 days ago
> Your service provider knows what they're doing.

You can't be serious. I honestly can't tell if your whole reply is a parody.

The security practices of most large service providers are terrible. That's why large data leaks and security breaches by the world's largest businesses are a daily event.

Comment · 19 days ago
I've lived in various Asian countries for the last 10 years, but I've never seen Wechat used except for communication and payments with people from mainland China.

Same with Gojek. They tried launching in other countries, but it never caught on outside of Indonesia, where yes it's huge and awesome.

Grab, on the other hand, has been very successful internationally.

Comment · 19 days ago
How well do Google Maps and WhatsApp work on the latest versions of HarmonyOS?

I assume it requires some mind of Android compatibility layer that won't pass Play Integrity checks..

Comment · 21 days ago
When I really need to run an app on my Linux laptop, it always gets its own bubblewrap container.
Comment · 26 days ago
Aren't most people directly benefiting from AI?
Comment · 26 days ago
In the US, there's currently about 300x more land used by cornfields than by data centers.

Does that seems unreasonable? We already grow more than enough food in this country and surely we're not getting 300x more value from the corn.

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