Emacs Org Mode would be perfect, but that’s a commitment if you don’t already know Emacs.

Also https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

It’s common in the US Tech industry. It’s considered “voluntary” because you could always say no and find a different job, or you could negotiate the removal of that clause. Often at the beginning they give you an opportunity to list your existing obligations that would be exempted. Always read the fine print of your employment agreement.

Now, if Tesla were to start pushing updates to older cars that made them artificially degraded or less responsive than the newer cars (as Apple is accused of doing), then that would be a worthy outrage story.

There seems to be a bit of a misunderstanding by the author here, or a conflation of “no more software updates” with “continuing to get updates that your processor isn’t powerful enough for”. You may miss out on some new features, but barring equipment failure, the original software will continue to do what it did when you bought the car.

“But once software-dependent cars stop receiving updates, they will start to get worse. Maybe the navigation system starts to crash, or the Netflix app in your Tesla becomes so buggy”

No, when you stop getting updates, the car will continue to perform in the same way, again barring equipment failure. The software itself will not degrade and suddenly start to become buggy.

The reason your iPhone seems to do that is because it continues to get software updates that are made for a newer, more powerful phone. Your old iPhone 6 doesn’t play the latest graphics-intensive and high resolution games, but it performs the way it always did. And perhaps Apple pushes iOS updates that don’t perform as well on your old phone, making it seem slow. If you were to load the original iOS and the original apps of the time period, it would perform as well as it did the day you got it.

The bigger concern for me is being able to control what software is applied to my car (right to repair) so that I can keep bloated software updates out if I prefer the way it was working previously. Currently that’s not possible with Tesla.

And they keep making it harder and harder to not use a Microsoft Account.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/microsoft-is-removing-known-mechanisms-for-creating-a-local-account

Here’s a nice list.

https://areweanticheatyet.com/?search=&sortOrder=desc&sortBy=status

Online multiplayer games are the most likely to have anti cheat. EA (Battlefield) is the most visible unsupported one. They view running under any virtualization or compatibility layer as an opportunity for cheating, so they intentionally deny it. EasyAntiCheat supports running in Linux, but not all game developers enable it. The success of the Steam Deck is starting apply pressure to change this, though.

True, nvidia does work great when it’s configured properly. Those distros that have the nvidia specific install option have done the work to do the extra config and keep it up to date. My preferred distro is not one of those. If I was buying new gpu hardware, I would go with one that has a fully open source driver.

Hello, friend. There will be gatekeepers in any community, but there are many Linux users willing to share their knowledge and experience with others.

I think the best way to adopt Linux is to jump in with both feet. Your productivity will take a hit for a while, but will grow as you learn how to do your daily tasks in Linux. Dual-booting is a complicated trap, and running a virtual machine is cumbersome. Buying or assembling a new machine dedicated to Linux will make switching easier. Normal internet browsing and web-based applications will generally work without problems, but you should check for any Windows-only applications that you can’t live without. Gaming on Linux is better than it ever has been, but there are some games that just won’t run on Linux. Avoid Nvidia graphics due to driver complexities.

Here are a couple of articles that might help: https://www.zdnet.com/article/thinking-about-switching-to-linux-things-you-need-to-know/ https://drewdevault.com/2021/12/05/How-new-Linux-users-succeed.html

While I wouldn’t recommend Arch for a new user, their wiki has a lot of deep technical info adaptable to most distros. https://wiki.archlinux.org/

Assuming that you trust what Proton says, when they receive a (possibly unencrypted) message they re-encrypt it with your key as soon as possible and they don’t log the content. So, after that point, they (or anyone else) can’t read the email contents. If it was also encrypted in transit, then there’s only a small window inside their email processing system where the plaintext was passed from one encryption to the other. It’s only decrypted again in your browser or proton mail app with the key that only you have. It’s not bulletproof, but it’s better than most providers.

Your fiber ONT box (where the fiber signal gets converted to copper ethernet) probably has a backup battery in it. This is especially useful if you have VOIP landline phone service through your fiber provider so you can call for help if necessary when the power is out. You or your provider will need to replace this battery every few years, just like with a UPS.

Agreed. Theoretically possible, but practically not possible unless you are an embedded hardware engineer with access to Sony’s datasheets and potentially crypto keys. Some sort of external box is much more practical.

assfish are soft and flabby

Your domain name could be ordered to be removed from US-based dns providers, no matter which TLD it is. That would essentially block your website from most US-based viewers without actually shutting down your hosting. Advanced users could still get to it, though. Consider hosting through Tor and a .onion address for more resiliency.

Configuring and maintaining nvidia drivers on Linux continues to be a pain. I recommend using an amd-based gpu because their drivers are open source and more well integrated.

Look into https://simplelogin.io/

They make creating random aliases for custom domains like this easy.

As for the domain name itself, anything that already looks like a mail service is good. “examplemail.com” or “mailexample.com”

Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) works great for remote access to your private services. Once the wireguard tunnel is established, then the traffic is peer-to-peer (assuming it’s configured correctly) and not through their centralized servers. Even from a mobile device.

You might enjoy reading Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/217289412

Agreed. Windows updates will very likely break your single-drive dual-boot at some point. So, use two different drives and use your bios/efi to choose which one to boot.

Edit: check out https://hackaday.com/2021/11/30/linux-fu-the-ultimate-dual-boot-laptop/

Edit 2: Framework 16 looks like it would meet your needs. It has two M.2 sockets for drives. https://frame.work/products/laptop16-diy-amd-7040

It was a very popular song in the 80s. Jenny’s phone number was 867-5309.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

If you’re ever at a store and need a frequent shopper card, this number with your local area code is usually registered.