End to end could still - especially with a company like Google - include data collection on the device. They could even “end to end” encrypt sending it to Google in the side channel. If you want to be generous, they would perform the aggregation in-device and don’t track the content verbatim, but the point stands: e2e is no guarantee of privacy. You have to also trust that the app itself isn’t recording metrics, and I absolutely do not trust Google to not do this.

They make so of their big money from profiling and ads. No way they’re not going to collect analytics. Heck, if you use the stock keyboard, that’s collecting analytics about the texts you’re typing into Signal, much less Google’s RCS.

Unsolicited advice: there’s wide, double-sided tape on Amazon that’s inexpensive. It comes off without taking the couch fabric with it, and if you put it where she scratches, she won’t. Giving her something else to scratch is a great idea, and it will help her change her habits if you also discourage her old scratching places.

Something like this - I’m not vouching for this brand, it was just the first result.

Psh, it’s like you’ve never cooked meth before 🙄

And that, kids, is a great use of RAID: under some other form of data redundancy.

Great story!

So dumb. At least some of the characters will be black and gay.

“Netflix and chill” didn’t become a thing until after it was mainly streaming, and you and your date could pick something neither of you wanted to watch.

Is the Maillard Reaction basic food science? Few people are creating recipes, and if you’re just following them, you don’t need to know it to produced good food. Heck, people cooked for millennium before Maillard identified the reaction.

Still, it had a “moment” a couple of years ago when it seems as if I saw it everywhere. Maybe the downvotes are just from fans of uncertainty.

I don’t know that it’ll affect the echo chamber effect; you create that through your subscriptions, and avoid it by browsing “all.” What will be impacted is the amount of simply shit content, both from idiots and from bots. Moderators’ jobs will get harder: the bots follow the people.

The downvotes imply many people don’t know about the Maillard Reaction.

RAID 1 is mirroring. If you accidentally delete a file, or it becomes corrupt (for reasons other than drive failure), RAID 1 will faithfully replicate that delete/corruption to both drives. RAID 1 only protects you from drive failure.

Implement backups before RAID. If you have an extra drive, use it for backups first.

There is only one case when it’s smart to use RAID on a machine with no backups, and that’s RAID 0 on a read-only server where the data is being replicated in from somewhere else. All other RAID levels only protect against drive failure, and not against the far more common causes of data loss: user- or application-caused data corruption.

TBF, odds are good some of the first in the tank are the same size as the baby. I don’t blame him for being wide-eyed.

This is a market opportunity. Screen real estate is solved; we just need a clever mobile keyboard/mouse solution. Maybe some sort of haptic feedback gloves.

The high-gauge cable on the plug is chef’s kiss

I can’t imagine playing Factorio on a Steam Deck, so I haven’t gotten one, but it’d be nice to be able to being my factory with me on the airplane. I figure some AR glasses would make for a nice display, but the controls need most of the keyboard, the mouse, and as many mouse buttons as you can afford, and I haven’t worked that part out yet.

They’re so delicious they’ve become extinct in several places. English colonists ate all the turtles in Jamestown, Virginia, and while nobody claims that it contributed to the famine that killed the settlement, maybe.

Never had it, myself; turtle is one of the few animals I won’t eat, for no particular reason except I like them and haven’t developed a taste for them. But I hear from everyone that has that they’re delicious.

Doesn’t justify eating endangered species, even if you aren’t against eating meat on moral grounds.

Are compatibility issues common with ZigBee? I went down there Z-Wave path years ago, somewhat arbitrarily. I’ve never checked devices for compatibility, not encountered any that didn’t work. As of today, I have 58 z-wave devices connected to HA.

My controller supports ZigBee, and the previous owner left some devices in the house (window sensors, mostly), and I’ve tried unsuccessfully to pair them; I haven’t yet really spent any time trying to troubleshoot, but I’ve been contemplating adding ZigBee to the mix because they’re sometimes cheaper. I really don’t want to have to struggle with compatibility, though. It’s just one more thing to have to fuss with.

There’s such a huge diversity of Orb Weavers! I love jumping spiders (Salticidae), but Araneidae is a close second.

We had a missus living in a boxwood in front of our house, and she was everything but small. With her legs, she was at least the size of my palm, with beautiful coloring on her thorax and her legs looked almost like she was wearing opera gloves. A bit like the picture below. And, yes, her webs were massive, but hers were out of the way and a bother to no-one except her prey.

You could probably fit it all into AZ. You’d still need oil wells and refineries somewhere; there are still plastics involved. And rare metal mines - mines in general, for metals, so you’d probably need outposts in other states, and then a rail system to get materials to AZ. Feeding people would be hard on AZ, though, so you’d definitely need to clear forests in the Midwest and put in a bunch of factory farms to produced food.

The US might have enough of everything to support this, although I suspect some rare metals would be difficult to source, as many of our’s comes from other countries. However, maybe you could stockpile enough to last. You need the rare metals, but maybe a few tonnes of processed would be enough to last?

I understand; I’m saying, you’d need to take back an entire industry to produce photovoltaics, batteries for storage, the computer control systems; or the high-tensile composites needed to build wind turbines, the fine machining to produce electric motors and wiring, and the cranes and such to raise them. You’d need to clear swaths of land for either, although you might be able to set up in the great plains, but in any case, all of the current renewable tech is high tech supported by countless other industries. You’d be taking back a civilization, to make it all work. And then you’ll need agriculture to feed all those people, housing for them to live, clothing, and so on; and which native tribe are you going to steal land from to put all of this?

I’d be happy to sacrifice a leg to save my wife. Save her and several other people? Win. She obviously wasn’t feasting needlessly.