The counter argument on this is, you need to be an authorized person on the account to enable and considering authorized people are the people who are paying the bill they have full control. In the eyes of the Telecom the authorized user owns every device that's on the account so they say they want to track it they're allowed to track.

If you're worried about privacy and someone tracking you that's part of your plan, you need to isolate into a separate plan. You lose so many areas of privacy by being on someone else's plan, like the saving money is nice but they can look up your call history, some carriers allow you to look up SMS history it's not good

very true

I'm more surprised that it wasn't already on WSL, WSL has been out for /awhile/ now. I used to use it for cross platform development before I moved my gaming rig over to Debian

discord is not a forum (even if they want it to be with the forum channels), its never been a good location to store information. That being said, its amazing for real time communication unlike forums. I hate that devs use it for FAQ and bug forms and stuff. I stopped reporting bugs if it requires me to join a discord.

I didn't realize covering your mouth when yawning was a norm in general, like I don't cover it at all.

Note: it's not like I yawn directly at people or in peoples faces or anything, I just don't cover my mouth.

Timeshift uses incremental backups under the hood (using rsync) calling them snapshots. As long as you are using the rsync one and not the BTRF style one, it works the same. I can load my current setup from a live disk and restore just the same.

Basically the first backup ever done is a "full backup" then every backup past that is an incremental one.

Being said, my off site backup isn't using a cloud provider, my risk case doesn't need that, I store backups locally and then clone to an offsite every once and awhile

I have timeshift running hourly regardless if using the system. Once the initial backup is complete, any actual performance drops are very negligible since it uses incremental backups, I don't even notice the program is running most the time. As for automated maintenance, I don't really have anything like that, I run an update manually every few days, but I could probably configure unattended-updates to do it for me, I just don't like the idea of automating that.

I mean that does seem to make it pretty simple. However, the US imports roughly 460B annually from china, whereas china imports about 165B annually from the US. and China while doesn't import as much as the US does, it also has vastly diversified it's imports so while it might hurt losing the US if an embargo did occur, it would harm the US way more. About 14-15% of all imports the US does is from China, the US is only about 7% of China's overall imports.

I'm not even convinced that it was a Chinese restaurant. I feel like he was talking to Vance or Musk and thought it was the Chinese Government.

With how fast boot times are nowadays? I shutdown nightly and save me the hassle of having to worry about some weird oddity occurring, usually it doesn't but every once and a blue moon plasma hangs on the lockscreen and I get greeted with either a broken desktop or a pitch black screen, both usually are easiest to resolve via rebooting anyway.

Not to mention the steam deck has a weird bug on it that if you leave it powered off for too long, for some reason it decides to just not turn on anymore unless you hook it to power. Super annoying because it will turn on and say something like 80 or 90% power, but the button won't actually boot the system unless it has a power hookup. I've on a few occasions had to use reverse power charge from my phone to the deck to trick it into booting on the go. Once you hear the beep saying its turning on you can unplug it. Weirdest thing

Honestly for me it was starting Young. I can say wholeheartedly that if I hadn't been working on operating Linux style systems in high school, there is no way in hell that if I tried starting it today that I would want to put myself through the hassle of not only learning it but also fixing it

So I'd have to say an energetic and perseverance and ambitious Style mindset

this is what i meant yea, just delay shipping to store outside the initial batch until all preorders are completed. Or in a perfect world not at all until preorders have been made.

Just have everyone join the queue and call it a day, or better yet, make release day a Nintendo only thing, and then after pre-orders are handled, then start giving to the stores.

This is so dumb.

"We had way more preorders than expected, in order to fulfill our preorders, we will be delaying in store sales until after preorders have been completed"

that would be such a simple solution. It's not like they are out any money either way, and pushing an instore sale date back to make other prior commitments work isn't a horrible thing, it just means that people who didn't bother to preorder won't get it day 1, but most who wanted it day 1 would have pre-ordered it anyway.

In my eyes your native language is the language that you learned from birth because it's the one that you started. It doesn't have to be the one that you're the most proficient but, it usually is. The definition is

the language or dialect first learned by an individual or first used by the Parent/Guardian with a child

Your primary language is the language you use the most which in your case sounds like it's English

From what I saw it's pretty soulless, I didn't play it much past beta, I have it cause never bothered to play it and been told it mainly died off.

I keep it 68F(20c) downstairs, but the main house temp is regrettably 73F(22C) and I fight to keep it that low because the rest of the house is cold blooded.

I can't understand your situation but, I personally would be cutting contact regardless of disability. Nothing stated effects your decision making process, they are willingly having those values even if they may not understand the impact of their decision, I would rather stay far away.

the A series as a whole has been nothing but a disappointment from my observations. The a50, 51 and 52 have all sucked, the a11 and a12 series were subpar at best and the a20/21 series might as well not existed.

after the third continuous series of disappointment I stopped following the series though so maybe it's better.

3 days in my opinion is too long imo for a default, if the entire point of it is to increase the security, the default gives 3 days worth of time for an entity to obtain a way to access it via some form of exploit or other means. That's far long enough for most shipping options to send the device elsewhere that may have the appropriate tech to do so.

A 24h limit would significantly decrease the margin for exploitation. I agree the setting should have multiple time intervals though, I just think 3 days is way too long for the purpose of the setting. It seems like a "we wanna do something that sounds good, but won't rock the boat for the powers that be"