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The difference being, websites can't just enforce any condition they wish on you just because you visited them. They can ask nicely, but ultimately what you do with the data on your end is your business, unless you're breaking DRM protection (which may or may not be illegal depending on your local laws). When you pay for something there's a stronger case to be made that you've accepted some type of contract, although again you can't just have anything in the terms of service and expect it to be enforceable.

As far as I can tell, yes. Although to be honest the "safety" aspect in a random hotspot scenario is pretty minimal. HTTPS traffic is already encrypted and protected from man in the middle attacks - at worst a malicious actor would be able to log which websites your IP connected to. And if you're using your personal device at, say, a random bar, they wouldn't necessarily be able to trace it back to you. As for this making VPNs "useless" as OP claims... I've always maintained that most of the marketing claims VPNs make are bullshit to begin with since, as mentioned, https itself already protects you in many ways and VPNs only "hide" your traffic from your ISP, if that. One legitimately useful (where legally permissible) application of VPNs however has always been accessing region locked or otherwise regionally unavailable content, which isn't affected by this vulnerability.

Yeah well, this type of thing is inherently inefficient, after all it's a quasi-brute force approach. It can do things we wouldn't be able to program manually, but not necessarily in a very speedy way. Realistically if you want to do things efficiently, especially on linux, just learning to navigate the shell and scripting (which is required for this to work anyway) is by far the best way. Oh sure, it can be useful as a tool for writers, I meant it doesn't really work as a standalone story/book synthetizer with little human input.

Well, nothing stops i.e. the kde devs from integrating it into their DE with a suite of premade scripts and feeding the text straight to the LLM. But yeah, I agree speech controls are mostly a pointless gimmick - except for accessibility, I can see it being useful for movement impaired users. The "problem" is that LLMs are just not the right tool for creative writing; it's not what they are designed to do and the way they work kind of inherently prevents it. What you get out of an LLM is what it deems to be the most likely next word, which inevitably brings it down to a sort of "average human writing an essay" level of quality, even at its best. "The average book" is probably not something I'd be terribly interested in reading, even if the model was expanded to be able to output hundreds of coherent pages.

Pretty cool, but do note that if you want it to actually do things on your computer it seems you'll need to write your own scripts for it to reference.

because. it's. building. from. source. and if you look at the dependencies for the pkgbuild, it requires some aur python modules which themselves have dependencies and need to be built from source. if that makes you mad, get a binary only distribution - but then maybe stop chasing the "most hardcore haxxor diy distro" if you're not willing to even understand how they work. the advantage of the AUR, compared to other distributions that don't have something like it, is that you have access to a much wider variety of packages that you would otherwise have to manually build and find the dependencies for; if that's not something you care about then just use something else.

Overclocking has never been a guarantee. After all, if all or even most chips could reliably reach 3-400 mhz above the default they'd just release them with those values, or take the opportunity for a more expensive SKU. As consumers looking to overclock, it's up to us to inform ourselves on what these chips can realistically tolerate, and (always) risk burning ours for the sake of a relatively small improvement.

Systemd is not slower than any other init system. If configured incorrectly, or when running too many useless startup services, it can seem slow, but at its core it's about as fast as it gets. As mentioned, one of the most performance oriented distributions is clear linux and unsurprisingly it uses systemd.

Not only is it that easy, it's the only officially supported way. Just read the wiki page. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository Specifying build flags can be done in /etc/makepkg.conf regardless of which aur manager you use (if any). That's not what bloat means under any definition. If the sources on your disk bug you, just delete them. If you don't need the build dependencies, uninstall them after the fact. By the way, yay will ask you if you want to remove them automatically. If you don't like the automatism, do it manually as the arch devs intended.

it all depends on what the rules and goals of the competition are... if it's a bunch of conceptual problems where performance is irrelevant and you have limited time to come up with a solution, C is a terrible choice. It will only slow you down. On the other hand if code performance matters and the questions are related to optimization and efficiency, then C is an ok choice. Many programming competitions will require a specific language or at least ask you to pick from 2 or 3 at most

...because that's just how the AUR works... and yay explicitly asks you whether it should keep the source files and build dependencies. Then use another distribution, or don't install anything from the aur. What's next, running gentoo and then complaining you have to compile things? Pacman wrappers are the most powerful form of aur helper because they abstract away all the work of searching, downloading, building and installing AUR packages.

You're probably counting cached memory then. Or running a load of services.

barebones wm, no frills, no applets, no animations. it wasn't really something I'd choose to use every day, but it worked. The kernel on its own barely uses any memory so there isn't much you can shave there anyway.

I've gotten arch down to two digits memory usage without touching the kernel

Might as well stop beating around the bush then https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

The problem is that there isn't really a 1:1 equivalent, despite the terrible management it still scratches an itch no other platform does (at least so I'm told, not being on twitter myself). However things like this are what's driving away twitter's main advertisers, meaning the platform's finances are going to be worse and worse the longer this goes on.

Yes! https://xdaforums.com/t/multirom-beryllium-miui-custom-roms-gsi-06-12-2020.3868734/

The lens is "just" the glass part that focuses light onto the sensor. The sensor is what actually captures the image. Not all sensors are the same, especially between phones, and therefore they can't just be swapped around like lego bricks. Now, if the industry were more standardized and phones were designed to be more repairable, this may not be the case... but that's not the world we live in right now. @wanderingfool2 data scrapes from refurbs can be solved by 1) having the drive be encrypted, which I think is already the case on iphones, and 2) diligently writing it over with random data. The latter isn't something you can easily do if you're a third party, but it could be done by Apple if they really wanted to. Though as I mentioned, with the way iphones are made there are many reasons why trying to resell them all would probably be a fruitless endeavor.

I don't think it's that easy, you'd have to design said phone (and its camera sensor) with those lenses in mind. Almost every iphone generation uses a different lens, too, which makes this even harder. And I doubt Apple is eager to share their designs and specs with a third party. Again, you'd have to rethink the whole production process with a greater focus on durability, repairability and reusability for these changes to work.

Apple is far from being alone in doing this. To some extent, demanding all iphones turned in to Apple be refurbished and resold no matter how outdated they are is probably unreasonable - however proper and environmentally friendly (when possible) disposal should be legally mandated. There's also the fact that these devices (not just from Apple) are designed to be hard to repair and to be obsolete within a few years, which worsens the ewaste problem at the root. A lot of people should probably be more mindful of their devices and try to make them last, but there's only so much you can do when, by design, they aren't built to last.

Likely because it expects your system to have old packages. This, by the way, is the reason Arch Linux officially discourages partial upgrades or downgrades. What are you even trying to do that requires an old unsupported kernel? Will 4.19 LTS do? https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts419 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/linux-lts419-headers If you MUST have 4.20 I would recommend taking the 4.19 PKGBUILD from the aur package and changing it to pull 4.20 instead, the required steps are likely the same. It's worth noting that your system may have packages installed that OP's does not. Also you may have different versions of various packages.

yes

What do you expect me to give you? A full list of every service that comes preinstalled in Ubuntu and what they do? systemctl list-units --type=service just compare the two and look up what the extra services do. And it's certainly not the google account integration that is slowing down your boot, if it really is slow. I haven't used Ubuntu in a while but I don't remember it ever being particularly slow. i3 is a window manager, not a desktop environment. It doesn't ship with applets, icon sets, animations, themes, settings menus, a login screen, launchers or anything of the sort, plus some preinstalled utilities and variety programs. DEs come with all of those and some extras for user choice, because they have to account for most users. Try pulling down the entire plasma metapackage and see if your system doesn't become just as "heavy" as manjaro.

There's no such thing as a "higher level distro", what you're referring to are derivatives. The point of them varies but generally they spawn when a group of people like a given distribution, but want to change a few things. For example manjaro is for people who generally like using Arch, but prefer a less involved installation process and having some sensible defaults out of the box. Artix is mostly Arch but without systemd. And so on. Ubuntu has almost nothing to do with Debian anymore, it's not just Debian with a nice installer. Mint is an effort to have either of those distros with an out of the box light and convenient desktop... maybe it's not to your taste but saying it has no reason to exist seems a little much. Linus was trying to run non-native software through a compatibility layer, using a distribution that is not that widely used (mainly because it's designed by a manufacturers specifically for their hardware) and expecting it to magically work without a hitch. He said at the time that this just indicates Linux wasn't ready for mainstream gaming, and you know what? I agree - if you want to run windows games without issues then just use windows, duh. But I wouldn't blame that on Linux or pop_os... it's just an unrealistic expectation. Personally I wouldn't recommend pop_os over Ubuntu if you don't have a system76 system for a variety of reasons, but it doesn't mean pop_os has no reason to exist. On system76 hardware it's probably a very smooth experience. Perception isn't objective so it's never really right or wrong... but I will say you tend to have strong opinions about things you don't necessarily understand very well. You also have to add the extra repository, and either way if the driver isn't present in the installer you might be stuck with a black screen before you even get started. That's increasingly rare because the foss drivers have gotten better, but it does happen at times. Yeah, there's more to these distributions than just taking debian or arch and adding a graphical installer... lots of preinstalled services that are enabled by default, for example. If you use arch, try counting how many systemd services you have enabled since first installation just to get a usable desktop...

I'm against copyright as a concept so I don't really care in that sense. For much the same reason I don't think this is targeting the right thing; make the models be public, not the training data.