Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people’s lives?

The thing is, just like software subscriptions, you aren’t buying a piece of software, you’re buying the right to use it. You can be pretty sure that they have legalese in the eula that says that your right to use the software expires with non-use. I wouldn’t be surprised if they can even let it expire by simple deciding to no longer support it.

And what do you think will happen if their license servers ever go offline?

For the longest time I never bought anything digital, but I eventually caved to steam. I still blatantly refuse to join other digital platforms, except gog where I can download the software and it works without any remote server.

Same for music: I refuse to use Spotify. I buy from 7digital and the like, where I can download either mp3 or FLAC.

The finance ministry of the world?

Microsoft bought it. They’re not going to let their paying userbase of millions of coders evaporate…

“company wants to hire person” isn’t exactly news, is it?

I suppose that is because you have to have a default browser. Well, strictly spaking you don’t, I suppose, but some things are going to stop working.

It’s not up to Firefox to scan your system for a list of browsers to offer you, so I suppose this is the easiest way.

As someone else said, just open up the browser you want to be default and check the option there.

As a drinker of both, I’ll have you know coffee a baked bean beverage, thank you very much.

Good. Maybe the envoy can explain the concept of freedom of expression to them. It’s going to come as rather a shock…

I feel it necessary to make an important point here: there is a reason flash is dead. It’s horrible insecure. Fortunately the interest base for this kind of thing is fairly small, because someone with ill intent would not have a hard time providing a malicious swf and gain access to your system.

Now maybe - hopefully - the steam deck makes good use of various sandboxing technologies, but I’d recommend proceeding with care anyway.

I instinctively opened rif this morning and it didn’t work. Maybe you haven’t got the final update yet.

Delicious 😁

Several of those thoughts have absolutely zero to do with AI, though. Well, none of them, because it’s ml, not ai, but that’s a different battle.

Depends. Are we taking refurbished, or returned sales?

Refurbished is going to have to be hella cheap to consider it for a highly redundant storage of unimportant things maybe raid 10 backup storage it something.

Returned sales are mostly still as good a new and returned for various unrelated reasons. As long as I get full warranty and right to return as if it was brand new, i don’t mind.

Gilbert Grape?

My religion requires me to punch you in the face. Are we both going to observe, or are we both going to be sensible?

Public bulletin boards are forbidden in, iirc, Brazil, or at least in the capital. Made for a very different view.

As if any spyware worth it’s salt didn’t install itself as service with an innocuous name. Something like “Facebook” or “TikTok”.

I mean, of course it doesn’t. All the pic abused are being sold as calamari.

radical răd′ĭ-kəl adjective

1. Arising from or going to a root or source; basic.
2. Departing markedly from the usual or customary; extreme or drastic.
3. Relating to or advocating fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions, or institutions.

I believe 2. is the most common colloquial use. It is perfectly possible to be a radical conservative; and I would actually argue that conservativism is a radical ideology, given that the world at large wants to make progress.