Posts by ThatOne

> If I do, should I enable it just for one week (and regain the bit of protection against scammers) or do I enable indefinitely?

Come on, the only two cases where this applies are either you're senile and don't trust in the continuity of your judgment, or you install something on some elderly relative's phone.

In other words, people who will use this feature usually should be savvy enough to not fall for "very urgent" support scams. Meaning they can leave it on forever.

No, it's specifically if you don't have an Xbox that you're supposed to be shown what you're missing

Re: Is it actually useful?

> We're gonna need more, larger impactors

Or smaller asteroids...

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Serious now, this is promising, but based on the assumption we'll spot the offending asteroid a long time in advance. For bigger asteroids this is credible, but then the impactor would need to be proportionally bigger, with all the technical problems launching it. For smaller asteroids on the other hand, the chances to spot them in time get proportionally smaller too. So, yes, it works, but is far from a silver bullet impactor.

Re: Depends

> You seem to believe that at this moment (not 50 years ago), the U.S. government is better at this than commercial companies are.

Obviously "at this moment" there is no U.S. government, there is only the court of the orange king.

But generally speaking, non-profit or long-term research can only done by government funding, because companies never look beyond the next fiscal quarter. They are only interested to fund research they can turn into a profit rather quickly.

Re: Just a way to accumulate bugs

Don't be a pessimist: "Updates" doesn't necessarily mean new features. Most updates will be just changing the placement or shape of some buttons, or tweak some color. The point is to look fresh, new and frantic, not to having progressed towards a browser-brain interface by the end of the year. Apparently frequent releases look good, they sound industrious.

Re: Strange world

> the intention to reduce corporate debt

Of course, but where is the benefit if by reducing debt you also reduce future profits?

In both cases future profits will be lower. Maybe the sold assets did earn you less than you would spend to pay off the debt over a period, but I don't see how that difference could be big enough to make the share value increase by 81 percent! Nah, definitely unable to understand the logic...

Re: What is a PC ?

> The tenacity with which that thing clung to its MS operating system was astonishing.

Sorry but that's not my experience: When I bought my latest laptop it had Win11 preinstalled (obviously), which I decided to keep for firmware updates. So I shrunk it down to the minimum, and used the freed space to install Linux. Worked like a charm, the laptop reliably boots to Linux, and I never had any unexpected Windows burps. For the record same thing happened with my previous laptop: Initially on Windows, shrunk, added Linux, no problems.

As already stated, hotkeys on boot require repeated hitting. AFAIK that's a BIOS quirk, since it all happens before the OS gets anything to say.

Re: "mobilized the agencies that fight this sort of incident"

> the moron who thinks he's a playboy.

For those who aren't familiar with France's who-is-who, who's that?

> denying the possibility of problems and blaming the user

I'm doing neither. The fact is, what you describe is not a common issue, and since it happens on all your computers, there has to be a common factor. Assuming those 6 computers don't all use the same sound hardware (pointing to a driver issue), that leaves us with the OS installations. Maybe done from faulty installation media? I don't know, I'm not a computer expert. I don't say "it's your fault", but you have to admit that the only thing (we know of) that those 6 computers have in common is your Mint installation. And there has to be a common factor.

_{Unless of course you prefer to think that Linux Mint hates you personally, they have somehow detected which computers you have installed, and have sabotaged them just to spite you... :-p}

Re: AI

> constantly restoring VPN button to the most prominent place in the toolbar

Strange, I have Vivaldi as a second browser (for websites which don't work with Firefox) and I've never ever seen a "VPN" button.

Maybe because I've unchecked "Enable Proton VPN for Vivaldi" in the settings?

> secured by a single master password

Well, you can use a big, utterly complicated one. You should be able to remember one really safe password. Or use a really long passphrase?