Adobe is an evil company that will do whatever it takes to F its users,” one employee wrote, echoing sentiments

Microsoft : first time?

Woahh thanks a lot Dave! Very interesting thread, I’ll try on my V14 first maybe also X240 later.

If you don’t have another windows machine then I think it’s a good idea to duel boot Windows initially. I’ve been running Linux as a daily driver the past couple of years but still occasionally do stuff in Windows. It’s pretty rare these days, though!

Yup I was thinking to start familiarize myself with Linux as a daily driver. I still need Windows for some times, because of .xlsx files from work used a lot of formulas and VBA.

Damn, a 40-year-old man is a boomer and he became a minister. This really sucks…

Just bought Lenovo laptop, and thinking to start using Linux as daily OS, dual boot with Windows as I still need Lenovo Vantage.

I mean Taupo lake looks a bit low?

Thank you for the information, yes it is a bit confusing for me, because the article doesn’t explain about low water levels.

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Common enough; but I wonder if this is a symptom of new generation not keeping up with attempts to reduce emissions. Less coal/gas power generation & less wood-fired heating combining with a cold snap.

Yeah, I guess coal/gas power.still needed during the colder months.

“We will work with lines companies to, as a last resort, switch off power to locations for a short period of time.”

Asked if she could guarantee this wouldn’t happen during the colder months, Bramley said no.

“No power system can absolutely guarantee supply but as we’ve seen today, when industry comes together we can make sure there is enough in the system.”

MetService has forecast temperatures to plunge overnight, with Christchurch set to fall to -4 degrees Celsius

I tought temperatures below 0°C are common in NZ 🤔

You’re not wrong…

forr example PRC’s digital Yuan / Renminbi

https://www.adb.org/publications/the-peoples-republic-of-chinas-digital-yuan-its-environment-design-and-implications

I’m not sure this can be done more easily without root access as many Android services and Gapps are intertwined.

You can try this solution via ADB, this is just an example

pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.app

As for SMS app, I use QKSMS

I just saw this, it’s available on f-droid and play store

Deku SMS is an Android SMS app.

Deku SMS is being developed as a proof-of-concept for secure SMS messaging, SMS image transmission and SMS-Cloud communications.

https://github.com/deku-messaging/Deku-SMS-Android

Something I never understood since it never happened where I lived, why would anyone steal post box? 🤔

The timing is probably just coincidence. He probably submitted a bug bounty weeks or months earlier and it just now got included in release notes

The fraudulent orders happened a few years ago, which was alleged recently

The indictment states that the pair attempted to fraudulently obtain over $3 million from Apple through more than two dozen fraudulent orders. For orders that did complete, they obtained around $2.5 million in electronic gift cards and more than $100,000 in “products and services.” The scheme started in December 2018 and continued until at least March 2019.

You are not really wrong, TPM was designed by Trusted Computing Group consisting of big tech companies like M$, IBM, AMD, Intel, Cisco and HP.

fTPM has a bug, don’t know if it’s fixed

https://www.techspot.com/news/93684-amd-promises-fix-ftpm-issue-causes-stuttering-freezes.html

Veracrypt also doesn’t recommend using encryption that relies on TPMs

Some encryption programs use TPM to prevent attacks. Will VeraCrypt use it too? No. Those programs use TPM to protect against attacks that require the attacker to have administrator privileges, or physical access to the computer, and the attacker needs you to use the computer after such an access. However, if any of these conditions is met, it is actually impossible to secure the computer (see below) and, therefore, you must stop using it (instead of relying on TPM).

If the attacker has administrator privileges, he can, for example, reset the TPM, capture the content of RAM (containing master keys) or content of files stored on mounted VeraCrypt volumes (decrypted on the fly), which can then be sent to the attacker over the Internet or saved to an unencrypted local drive (from which the attacker might be able to read it later, when he gains physical access to the computer).

https://veracrypt.eu/en/FAQ.html

Let’s assume the attackers were law enforcers

soon “Planet of the Raccoon”

Just like his father

I do agree with you, the obstacle is that there are many applications that are not available on Linux or they’re not as powerful as on Windows. As for me is MS. Excel, many of my office clients use VBA in Excel spreadsheet to do calculations.

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Yes, AI PC like in the movie HER