I have hundreds of logins, the convenience of a password manager is just too nice.

Sure. My point is that self-hosters tend to let services sit without updates for months if not years at a time. That’s fine if you don’t expose anything to the internet, so keep that surface area as limited as possible.

Arch is mainstream now, gotta go with something like NixOS of you wanna be cool and still use Linux.

Video games do, which is why I buy so many story heavy games. If the industry moves more toward live service games, that’s fine, I’m just not going to buy them. There are plenty of non-live service games to choose from that I’m absolutely spoiled with choice to the extent that I’ll never play all the games I own, not to mention games I want to buy.

Yeah, live service games suck, so play games that don’t suck.

I don’t see an issue with it. There’s no good way for Steam to know where the key came from, you could have been gifted the key, got it in a bundle, or stolen it from somewhere. Since they can’t tell, they don’t know if your review is compromised.

When I’m reading reviews, I don’t personally care about that, I just care what the review says, and I’ll read 5-10 before making a decision if it’s a more expensive or longer game. A lot of reviews are pointless (e.g. “nobody will read this, so I’m gay” or whatever), so I very much appreciate helpful reviews regardless of the source.

Sure, there are always things you can’t control in a mobile phone because modem manufacturers don’t like to give up that control (and I’m sure there are regulatory concerns as well).

My point is that if you don’t want Gemini, Copilot or whatever, you can make choices to avoid them. Each choice has consequences, and some just reveal issues you had ignored up to that point (e.g. your modem issue).

But why not a paper notebook? For me:

• easy to lose/forget to pack on trips; can’t lose a cloud service
• paper doesn’t have a good backup mechanism
• can’t copy/paste into my devices from a paper notebook
• I’m much less likely to use good, random passwords with a notebook

I use Bitwarden, which gives me a lot of convenience, allows me to self-host and iwny data, and encourages me to use really strong passwords.

Default passwords, old insecure versions of apps and system packages, etc. “Just getting it working” usually leaves things insecure, and you usually need to take things a step further to secure your publicly accessible services.

Bots randomly attack stuff, and if you leave something insecure, they’ll install a bot net node.

Exactly. I have a few ideas for that, but I’m not nearly to the point of funding them:

• start/join charity to help people get out of debt
• create a game dev studio to make my dream games
• finish building my P2P Reddit alternative

I’m working on the last two in my spare time, but I’m not willing to quit my day job and rely on the those to pay the bills. If I got a windfall, I’d consider it, but of not, I hope to be there in my lifetime 50s. We’ll see.

I’m sure many (most?) have something similar.

I wonder if this represents an increase, or if people already susceptible are just moving to LLMs from forums or wherever else they were getting their confirmation bias.

Neither did my laptop, desktop, or phone. I use Linux and GrapheneOS, so I don’t deal with most of the nonsense people have been complaining about.

I get the phone thing, because phones are relatively insecure devices, but they could have functionally separate systems in one box.

The main problem I’m trying to solve is the weird UX where I need to select a payment method even after paying on the payment device. If it was designed as a complete set instead of separate units, I think they’d fix that.

Yup, if I was worth an obscene amount, I’d still work, but the nature of my work would change. It sounds like he found something he enjoys that happens to make a ton of money.

I’m sure that’s why he doesn’t seek attention, he already has too much.

It’s a Steam Deck, he has big hands.

Could you clarify? Because I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing.

We buy most of our produce at Costco or something, where we avoid the self-checkout. At the grocery store, we’ll usually only get a couple produce items and the rest will be stuff we can’t reasonably get at Costco, like snacks, drinks, etc, and most of those have bar codes. If we have a bunch of produce or a full cart in general, I’ll get the cashier, but 9/10 times, we’ll take self checkout since it’s faster.

There’s rarely someone waiting where I live in the burbs, there’s usually about half the machines available unless I go on the the day before a major holiday or something.

I don’t understand why the card reader and the screen are separate units, just combine them like those Square kiosk things that counter order places have.

Yeah, I only do that when my kid wants to “help,” and that usually means messing with the squeegee/sponge thing.