Thanks, that does sound familiar. Maybe it was the gpg bit that confused me before.

Is there a simple guide to checking checksums? It doesn’t seem like it should be complex but half the time the distro’s instructions don’t work for me!

…can I have my custom ROM now?

I’ll second this, seemed to work without any issues. You can even install ChromeOS Flex on it if you still want to use a Chromebook after they stop getting updates!

Don’t worry, it seems like it’s just scaremongering: this is for managed work phones which you should only have been using for work stuff anyway

They both seem to cover that fortunately

Oh that’s cool

Not something I have any interest in using, so afraid I’ve never tried it

I tried it out recently but the gesture typing seemed way worse than heliboard

You didn’t fill in the survey when the password inspector sent you that email? Rude!

Can’t run the risk of being fingerprinted, privacy and anonymity first!

“After all, when using text-based online communication, we lack the body language or tone-of-voice cues that convey this information when we talk in person or on the phone.”

This quote is from 1982 and yet we all still fall into the same trap today

That’s the thing, for many Windows users it has been giving you a good time for years. Windows 10 was actually pretty nice to use when it came out; it’s life has been a classic death-by-a-thousand-cuts of becoming spyware, but the users are so used to it they aren’t aware that their delicious drug isn’t giving the same high and is now fucking them up.

Is “AI” just a meaningless buzzword? Like, is there actually anything in common between this hurricane tool, the LLM chatbots, and the image-generation stuff?

Good news! I’ll often pick up random indies from itch.io and nothing kills my enthusiasm like on-screen buttons being the only controls. It was fine when I was emulating pokémon over a decade ago, but for anything where you need passable reactions it’s just not a good experience. Touchscreen controls are for when you want to be looking at what you’re clicking, if you’re looking elsewhere then you need physical buttons so you can feel where you’re clicking.

Do we think it’ll be ready when they can give it specs to match the steam machine so there’s a single target for developers, or the more exciting option of building something arm-based using whatever fex wizardry is going on in the frame?

Because we, the techies, are a tiny minority. There are billions of comparatively clueless users who can apparently easily be scammed into installing malware. Governments and banks will be exerting significant pressure on Google to make their phones “secure”, and they can actually threaten them. I don’t see this as some grand conspiracy to destroy the hobbyist scene, Google just doesn’t care about the individual.

It was the first android tablet that was actually decent

Not something I noticed from several years of use. Every touchscreen I’ve used has behaved the same since they moved from resistive to capacitive!

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