I use andOTP for two factor authentication. It's free and open source, and available from the F-Droid app store. It allows you to backup your cryptographic keys in plaintext, with a password, or asymmetrically encrypted using OpenPGP. I keep my backups in a fireproof safe on two flash drives.

If I assume by the word "Pub" that they are in the UK, their country has only existed for 103 years. Obviously, that doesn't mean the end of the people, or the pubs, just the end of that system of government and/or territorial border.

There's no shame in it. Constitutions and bills of rights need to be updated as people become more enlightened and civilized. The US would certainly be better off if it had had more constitutional amendments over these 250 years. Maybe then it wouldn't need a revolution.

24 and a half hours. I showed up the first day and found out the training period was unpaid. They advertised $15 per hour W-2-style position, but when I showed up, they offered a totally different 1099 contractor position where most of my time would be unpaid. I went home and researched, and confirmed my suspicions that Vector Marketing was a total scam. I came back the next day and chewed them out in front of all the other trainees they were trying to scam.

It used to ask. I haven't tried in years. Maybe it only asks if you also create a gmail email address with your account.

First, I don't like Google's terms.

Second, if I try to create an account using a different email address, it usually complains that I don't have a real phone number, or every phone number I have or can borrow has been used too many times to create a Google account (I've never made one, but I've lent my number to a graphic designer who needed multiple accounts), or it blocks me at the Recaptcha ("Your computer is sending automated queries").

For my current main email address, there is already an account created for it, which I did not make. This account was "suspended" as of the moment I first knew about it, with no reason given. Google said it would be automatically deleted if not signed into for several months. For a while, it seemed deleted. A year later, another implicit Google account was created in my name, and suspended immediately.

Each time, I learn about the mystery account because when I try to send email to any Gmail user I get a bounce message from [email protected] stating "The account [email protected] is disabled". Using Google's forgot-password system, I get confirmation that the account exists, and is suspended.

It's kind of a big problem, because tons of people use googlemail.com servers to handle their email, even if the nominal domain isn't gmail.com. When I opted out of Discord's change in terms, that bounced with the same error message from [email protected]. Contacting Sparkfun's tech support to tell them I can't order from them because of Recaptcha, I also got the same bounce message.

I have to disagree about the idiot proof. KDE Plasma and Mate Desktop are more idiot proof and easy for newbies than Windows 10-11, yet have more features in their simple control panels.

I've had no bootloader problems in the last 10 years of Debian, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu (15-20 installs, plus another 20-30 if you count VMs.) However, my work computer's bootloader was semi-bricked twice in 2019 (Windows 7).

What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don't know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?

Is there any way to view this link without having a Youtube account? I can't make one.

Transformers can increase voltage while decreasing current, or increase current while decreasing voltage, but can't increase a signal's power.

1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it's when Special Relativity came out.

That's older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it's also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.

In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.

Hegseth himself is a bigger threat to the US than China will ever be.

I assume bash scripts using jpegtopnm | pnmtopng are also in the neutral good category (from Netpbm).

Turn signals are not optional.

Yes, I think he will (except the ones that fall over to threats, and give in to 47's demands).

But that's not the point. It's possible to have a safe factory staffed by happy, well-paid workers. If it were actually true that manufacturing would return to the US as a result of the tariffs, that manufacturing shouldn't be considered an inherently bad thing.

I like git add because then you can do git diff --staged

Are they trying to say it's inherently miserable to work in a factory? So let Chinese workers do it instead of Americans?

It shouldn't be miserable to work in a factory. The overhead pneumatic drill shown towards the end is just like a drill I used when I worked in a factory one summer in Chicago. It was perfectly safe, and the people I worked with were well compensated. (I was not, because I was only 16.)

I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it's always bad.

In 2019, when I visited a Chinese factory for work, the assembly line was tight enough that all the workers bumped elbows constantly. One person had a very loud compressed air tube to clean off components, and wore hearing protection and safety glasses. The person next to them had no hearing protection. Another person was testing blindingly bright LED shop lights, and wore sunglasses, but the people next to them had no protection. This would have been considered totally unsafe in the US.

I doubt much manufacturing will return to the US, but if it does, then even by 2025 standards it wouldn't be as bad as in China. With OSHA gutted by the current Republican administration, it's getting worse, but we still have more worker's rights than workers in China.

Because assault rifles (or any fully automatic rifles) are highly illegal in the US, and very rare in practice. If it was an assault rifle, its existence would have been as notable of a crime as his brandishing and threatening. The police would have been unlikely to let him go, would likely have confiscated the gun, and would have reported all that to the media.

The Nintendo 64 had no 64-bit games.

They probably would have taken more flash and RAM with no advantage in performance.

Nobody knows. The police didn't say. There are no photos close enough to identify it.

The article says "gun" seven times. It's accurate and gets the point across about his crime, unlike "assault rifle", which falsely states that he had an illegal type if gun.

"Rifle" is a word that everyone knows is a type of gun. Even if not everyone knows the specifics, news people should at least look up the word before using it if they don't know. It's wrong for news people to use falsely the phrase "assault rifle" because of their ignorance.