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The problem is that apparently, often enough that is just not the case.

On laptops, the LED is not powered with the camera, but controlled by it. And on smartphones, if it's a green dot on the display it can obviously be bypassed in different ways given the right vulnerabilities.

Also, aside from that, your condescending attitude is frustrating.


What are Jack and Jill parties? (DDG only gives me generic listicles for how to plan a wedding shower.)


More or less spin the bottle meets strip poker meets fapping. The ADHD tiktok video format plus effectively doing this in a zoom room instead of in person is new I guess.


You have to enable a setting to see apps marked with that anti-feature when searching


So it hurts their goal of evangelizing off of other people's volunteer infrastructure....so sad...anyway ..


As described in the README, the combination of root access and locking the bootloader has the caveat that it's easy to brick your boot partition by accidentally making changes to it. That causes the signature check to fail, and then you have to unlock the bootloader and wipe all your data to re-flash it.

I don't know if there's any good solution to this, since all this seems to be necessary for the security model.

EDIT: Wait, isn't this what A/B partitions are for? (ie, you can brick one partition and still boot from the other) Also, shouldn't it be possible to flash an image signed with the correct keys without unlocking the bootloader and wiping the user data?


It also has the caveat that protecting against privileged attacker persistence doesn't work by definition, so it only provides protection against physical attacks. The protection against physical attacks is also reduced through having the keys available on a lower security device as would typically be the case.


You would spend some time outdoors being active, which is good for you but also entirely possible without killing animals. I'd argue that's the same for meat.


> DP has a HDMI compatibility mode that allows a DP output to output a HDMI signal, but at the wrong voltage. The external adapters are just level shifters to bring the signal voltages into compliance with HDMI, but their entirety passive devices.

That's DP++, which is not supported on all DP outputs, and notably is not supported by the USB-C DP AltMode.


DP++ seemed to work fine on my Samsung S24 phone when I tried it after seeing that comment and was curious.

I've got a pile of passive adapters because I have an esoteric device that has broken DP audio but HDMI audio using DP++ works fine.


He did make a "sequel" addressing that: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SkL9vzW7nY0

You usually can't do much against anti-repair or anti-consumer stuff alone (especially in organizations), and that people often feel like they're the only ones who care in a five mile radius. The idea is that the clippy pics activate people to actually do something, because they feel like that precondition of others also caring and wanting to do something is fulfilled.


I sometimes think about trying keyboard things like this, but I'm pretty much always on the go with my laptop. My desk at home can be described as just the horizontal surface that happens to be near where I sleep and sometimes do other stuff, not my primary place of doing computer activities.

Is there some kind of very portable ergonomic/alternative typing device? Maybe something designed for steno or whatever. It would be cool if I could just hold it in my hands, since often that'd be more comfortable than the surface my laptop is on.


Some models include a carrying case, but I'm not sure I'd describe them as "very portable". For example the Glove80 has a hard-shelled case, but the case itself is probably bigger than most laptops. The Moonlander packs smaller into a soft case that folds like a wallet, but it's less protective.

There are designs with far fewer keys that could probably be carried around more easily, but then you have to learn their layer/chording system.

The Svalboard has an extra issue that some folks prefer it to be placed below desk height, such as attached to a chair or sitting on an under-desk shelf, so it's not something you can generally just put on a table in front of the computer.


You actually can connect two machines via USB-C (USB4 / Thunderbolt) and you get a network connection.

You only get Link-Local addresses by default, which I recall as somewhat annoying if you want to use SSH or whatever, but if you have something that does network discovery it should probably work pretty seamlessly.

See https://christian.kellner.me/2018/05/24/thunderbolt-networki... or https://superuser.com/a/1784608


You only get Link-Local addresses by default

The same thing happens with two machines connected via an Ethernet cable, which appears to be what this USB4 network feature does - an Ethernet NIC to software, but with different lower layer protocols.


Crossover cables, get'cher crossover cables here!


AIUI, most NICs these days do what is called "auto-crossover"; i.e., they'll detect the situation and just do the "crossover" in the NIC itself. A normal cable works.


Yes, the name is Auto MDI-X and is standard since on-board 1Gbps Ethernet NICs became the norm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-dependent_interface#Aut...


Non-USB-shaped older Thunderbolt, down to version 1, can do this too, iirc. But you do need the expensive and somewhat rare cable.


ssh is fine:

  ssh fe80::2%eth0
where fe80::2 is the peer's address, and eth0 is the local name of the interface they're on.

Unfortunately browsers have decided that link-local is pointless and refuse to support it, so HTTP is much more difficult.


Depends on your definition of sale, but influencing elections comes to mind.


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