SteamOS (the deck) does have printer support now.

Valve does seem to be putting affort into making sure the desktop mode is a complete experience.

They are right about the drama. Making the toy act like it’s trying to hide/run for its life makes my cat immediately interested.

Sometimes.

In my experience though, services will use language along the lines “the password can’t be the same as your last password” but if you set a random password temporarily, you then still can’t set the password to the one you wanted. Meaning they are checking earlier passwords too.

In fact I have yet to come across one where you can re-use password by first setting it to something else. Have you?

I think most developers just assume people aren’t going to even try old passwords, only the most recent one.

That is a possibility. But then actually setting a completely new password shouldn’t work, yes? Because when you go to use it, it won’t work.

I doubt that’s the “more likely” scenario.

Tons of people have reset a login more than once, and then forget, which is what leads to this scenario.

When they forget the new password, but re-remember a previous one, they try to use it to log in. When that fails, they go to reset it again, and they try to set it back to the password they remember. Which doesn’t work, because it is a previous password. But at the same time it is also not the current one.

The supposed catch 22 is that if it can’t be their new password, it should work to log in. And if it can’t be used to log in, then they should be able to set it as their password.

In reality the password has already been used, but before a previous reset. So it is neither a valid new password, nor the current password. This does not occur to people.

This can happen in any correctly configured service that prevents password re-use, and is therefore the far more likely scenario.

This happens because you’re trying to re-use a previous password, which is not necessarily the current password.

The new password can’t be same as any of your previous ones.

Nextcloud Office (aka Collabora) has been the nicest in my experience.

I came from google drive. I did a google takeout of my drive contents, dumped it into nextcloud, and every document so far has opened without trouble.

The standby power of a desktop is not that massive. Especially when you don’t run a GPU or display. That windows 8 machine you have is probably fine as-is.

An ATX PSU doesn’t suck down 500 watts at all times, just because the sticker on it says it can. How much power your machine will use will depend much more on the CPU.

So just slap linux on it and have at it. If nothing else, you’ll get familiar with the software involved, and be better prepared if you end up wanting to buy new hardware for this.

There’s not really any lock-in with linux. Almost any piece of software you might run can be run on almost any distro you might consider using.

What?

The last one is like the only one me and my friends get up to.

Oh man! You just put to words why I couldn’t stand Breaking Bad, and Boardwalk Empire.

I watched the first simply because a lot of people love it, and I try to watch everything that seems worth seeing. The second I saw some clips from that I really liked, but then I just didn’t stick with the actual show.

In both cases, the series left me on constant edge, in a really bad way.

Now I realize that I kept waiting for the shows to grant me some kind of catharsis, but it just never happened. Or it happened rarely and in ways that quickly gets brushed away as inconsequential.

1. Maybe? There are ways to limit what apps are able to access the internet. Rooting, or installing a Custom ROM may be possible on your current phone.

2. I won’t break entirely. It’ll probably mostly work, but a lot of systems in normal android phones do rely on google play services.

3. Definitely. FOSS apps tend to be entirely local, not phoning home unless there is good reason in the context of the functionality of the app. At the very least, they will more often than not still work, if denied internet access. This doesn’t mean good commercial software doesn’t exist, though.

4. A VPN is probably not necessary for your privacy. Using one is potentially even a privacy risk, as you then need to trust the company providing it, in addition to your ISP. Your actual internet traffic is encrypted either way, unless you visit websites that do not use HTTPS, which is extremely rare nowadays.

Literally no-one is claiming any of that shit is democratic.

Stop confusing wartime martial law with democracy. It makes you look like an idiot, when clearly you have far more developed ideas to discuss. It completely ruins any actual argument you might make for what is right and wrong.

Such as this article you commented on, demobilising someone who should never have been mobilised is a no-brainer, and it is fucked as hell that it isn’t happening.

The US has not endured a war on anything but their own terms since the british tried to turn them back into a colony.

There are other similarly developed countries under siege with which we can compare?

Organized wartime defense is a lot more complex than kidnapping a bunch of people and sending them in the general direction of the front. That isn’t how any of this works.

I know of one country that’s behind the agression… And one that probably IS using such tactics, considering their battlefield results. One which could stop at any time under no threat to its own sovereignty.

I honestly cannot comprehend your failure to realize that wartime and peacetime standards of government differ more than a little, or that your understanding of the situation is superficial at best.

That goes for all of us, unless you happen to be an actual commanding officer on either side of the conflict?

You really haven’t looked at the legal systems around defensive service of most countries, have you?

Please. I am genuinely asking. Show me a country that doesn’t have legal systems in place to press its population into defensive service, and/or suspend elections during wartime.

I live in Finland, we have one the MOST WILLING populations IN THE WORLD when it comes to self-defense.

And you know what? The military police still regularly arrests deserters who fail to show up for their conscription. And we’re not even at war.

The alternative, is to not be prepared against threats like Putin, who will WIPE YOU OFF THE MAP given the chance.

Democracy is a peacetime luxury.

Not sacrificing thousands to save millions, is a privilege of the leaders who live in a parallel universe that doesn’t have Putin in it.

Then you must know of a country that doesn’t make ideological sacrifices while under attack and in a state of war, and has survived such hardship?

Politicians keep trying to helicopter parent the entire populations of countries.

Making sure your kids don’t go places online before they should, and have conversations with them about it once they reach an age where it happening is inevitable, is something every, single, parent, should do.

Not the fucking state.

And this has to be one the weirdest implementations of porn surveillance I’ve ever seen.