recovery records are an essential feature for… uh… certain ‘distribution methods’ about which we are forbidden to speak of.

this article might be, but the sentiment is not.

an inclusive organization that educates and empowers girls and young women is definitely on the list of people and organizations hated by the far-right.

that’s great. most of us are more than a billion dollars short of a billion.

still is, and always has been. and that’s not a bad thing.

Fedora is often considered “the new Ubuntu” […]

no. it’s not. and i’ve never, ever heard anyone say it is–until now.

system disk encryption is possible, yes.

we still play that game. at least once every week or two, i’m calling a ‘lost’ phone from another or using the handset locator on a cordless system.

imho getting windows-based games running on linux isn’t for someone ‘new’ to linux. they gotta get their feet wet first, and mint is an excellent choice for that… or they will be spending all their gaming time–not gaming.

there’s still the very real possibility they’re hoovering all the encrypted data, too. and storing the stuff to/from ‘interesting’ end points for later ‘analysis’–that is, if they don’t already have the current tech broken.

i’m on a ‘budget’ plan, where the bill is the same every month, adjusted once per year. the muni-run utility always adds more on top of estimated average bill–which i then have to pay. i always have a surplus built-up at the end of the ‘year’ of at least 1.5-2x the monthly bill amount. and no, they don’t pay interest on the surplus, but they certainly do charge late fees and interest if you ever fall behind or don’t pay for a month or two.

flash vs ssd is night and day difference for write speeds. if you write that frequently to your ventoy and write speed matters to you, you want ssd.

either make it (assemble) yourself or buy one. i have a number of clients using samsung t7 external usb ssd. they seem pretty fast to me.

i don’t use ventoy or ventoy-like devices that often, i just use flash… even some usb 2.0 ones. yea, they take longer to boot up and longer (much longer) to write to, but i don’t add or replace iso on them very often.

in a perfect world, perhaps. but we don’t live in one.

hollywood accountants will inflate the internal markup for everything, shuffle some numbers around, and come up with a 300mil ‘write off’ across all the various corporate divisions and shit.

gotta jack the price up again to afford more price stickers.

snooze… snooze… snooze… snooze… snooze…

alarm clock gives in. shuts it down until tomorrow.

but my flip phone, i have to open and push the correct button to shut off an alarm. that’s enough to wake me up enough to piss me off. so i guess it ‘works’.

dammit. so that’s why it didn’t work. i’ve had waaaaaay more than “one”.

enterprise device management and reporting unknown quantities of data back to hp are two different things.

most** hp printers don’t ship with the hard-core third-party ink/toner block. that’s in the firmware updates.

never update the firmware of an hp printer if you use, or think you might want to use some day, third-party consumables or refills.

if you ‘subscribe’ to ink, you’re fucked, as that service requires automatic firmware updates be enabled.

**some do now, those should be labeled as such on the box–‘must use hp ink for life of printer’ or some bullshit.

i have a flipper, there are no ‘apps’. i don’t even text on it.

i never willingly gave them anything, and never had an account, but i’m sure they have a ton of data anyway despite always using ad and tracker blockers everywhere, and never having a device with their apps… just from mentions and tags on peoples’ pages and what they can assemble from that and other data they get their mitts on.