So Toyota, Subaru/Toyota and Toyota

Little column A, little column B.

Or

Por que no los dos.

No

Kelvin. There’s no “S”

Or children’s DNA 🤔

Everywhere

You could use Bluetooth.

Keep a dummy bluetooth device at home, let your phones connect to it, but disable media/phone going to it.

Then use that BT as part of smart lock.

Not pretty, but it does work.

Isn’t that partly because the US has like 52 sets of law (50 states, DC, Fed) and maybe more (County/Parish, etc)?

Installing apps in Windows is a privileged process. This keeps the average user from corrupting a system.

The only users that can install apps are ones with Install Apps permission (I forget what it’s actually called). Anyone in the Admin group has this. The group Users does not.

In a business/domain environment, very few people get local admin rights. For a home user best practice would be to run as a User or at most Power User, and only do admin level stuff when logged in as an Admin.

No one does this, of course. (I certainly don’t, even though I know better. It’s just easier to not do risky things and maintain backups).

And this really exposes a major challenge with FOSS.

Names have meaning - it’s why Office is called Office.

This gnu naming isn’t much of an issue, because this is stuff only technical folks handle. But if we want end-users to embrace things, we need meaningful names - meaningful to them.

Whenever I tell my friends or family to install Jellyfin so they can access my media, the look on their face says it all.

MediaMonkey - alright, I get it (yea, not FOSS)

Plex? OK, if someone then says “think MultiPlex Theaters”, you get it. (Also not FOSS)

Jellyfin? What is that? Jam on a sharkfin?

These work really well:

Resilio SYNC (Yeah, not FOSS, but the name makes sense)

SyncThing (FOSS)

FolderSync (not FOSS)

Notice a trend here?

I have a printed spreadsheet for all the software I use - if I haven’t touched a service for a couple months, I’ll forget the meaningless name.

Ugg, Tolkien. Uses 89 words when 23 would do. Then adds a dozen more just for good measure.

I’m an avid reader - read over 200 novels before trying The Hobbit. The man spent a page describing the Hobbits front door.

So you can create entire languages (which is very impressive) but adds nothing to the story (it’s just something the reader has to contend with).

Immersive is one thing, that’s beyond the pale.

I’ve seen it 3 times, I’ve read the book twice (probably 20 years apart).

Meh. If I need a nap I’ll just turn down the lights.

Not to say your opinion is wrong, at all. Visually it’s a stunning movie. Clearly you see something I don’t.

But story? As I said I’ve read it, twice (maybe 3 times, and the second book too), and never found the story to be very compelling.

I really wanted to get what people like you see (which explains why I’ve seen/read it so much). Frankly, there’s little there in the story other than a semi- sentient computer having a breakdown from being given conflicting orders.

Then the whole star-child thing comes across as Clark needing a McGuffin.

Exactly.

Phones don’t age the way they used to. For most people, new phones offer little.

If they’d learn to simply reset it when it goes wonky from installing a million things…

I’m hard on phones from a software perspective - I do a lot of testing because I’m the family IT. I’ve always used 2 year old phones. My current phone is a Pixel 5 running a Lineage fork, and it works great. I’ll replace it when hardware (other than screen battery) dies.

Because people like to keep their jobs?

Because people like to keep their jobs?

Can you imagine what it would take to deploy something like this?

Lots of pirating going on…

Fuck inkjet. If someone gave me one I’d go Office Space on it and throw the remnants away so it can never harm someone else.

Yep, I’ve had 2 only because it was the hardware I wanted.

Oh, they were very nice to hold, sleek, futuristic. And both immediately got cases so I could hold the damn things.

The only reason we want thinner phones is because of material like this causes us to put cases on them, making them wider.

If that’s the case, reversing the characters would be misandry.

Or, perhaps, it’s neither, and just a meme that’s been used a million times.