throwaway2056

> so-called “average” users, as opposed to sophisticated users like myself, “power” users. I’ve always felt, however, that the dichotomy and alleged opposition between sophisticated and unsophisticated computer users is false and counterproductive.

Not so easy.

The reality is that a majority just want to avoid typing ridiculous passwords/TOTP - and those UI are awful design. FaceID or Press fingerprint and move on. That says a majority that do not have Tech support children.

At some point OP should move to a different hardware.

Does your govt not buy memory, chips, computers? They pay premium for that. In addition, so middle manager in govt will say - I will work only if I have Premium AI Claude subscription. 100s of companies are doing that. They will fire workers - cause unemployment - affects economy- health etc for common citizen.

This bet includes you.

Pretty sure something in your hardware failing

We regularly buy dell latitudes or ThinkPad TPX series NEW ones for a large University. 100% Linux only usage.

Usual sleep/resume problems. No other problems

All problems with gfx you state are often listed in all dell forums - with windows.

Aliexpress style mini HT PC are always with poor drivers - even on Windows. Not just bazzite.

Seems true but even at 2x that price people want some reliability. As someone that has used .gov.in services - it is unreliable. Yes, many gov services can be done online -great kudos (otherwise people will start personally attacking me for being unpatriotic). Portals like license, passport, Aadhar (identity) card sites frequently undergo so much down time.

Never happened in the last several years.

Just install Ubuntu and remove snap. We are doing this for our University pool etc and encountered no issues.

Make a list of all ppa before proceeding.

What is your use case?

You should try to communicate to managers (that are US citizens or greencard holders) that decide on H1B/outsourcing.

True. But the common man on the street wants things to be cheap. This is not sustainable unless on imports cheap h1b (or other overworked foreigners).

Edit: This is not meant to support h1b.

Ideal case - people that are not on H1B and work in these companies - contact your CEO/managers. People don't do that. Instead are happy to argue (or downvote) here.

In other words... general people don't need it.

> 'm not claiming that this is a step in the direction of fixing academia; I'm claiming that, because academia is currently broken, we shouldn't assume that the

Why?

If you go that far then

- senate

- scotus

- violence

- SV

- tech bros

- lies about AI

What is not broken.

The idea of academia is it is an investment. Look at internet, DoE, Genome, vaccines - a lot from academia. Companies barely do that.

Rules of DJT, SV, FAANG.

> I tried turning off Smart Features and oh my, that's not usable.

Why? What did it do?

This is the problem. Overload. It is not a google problem. If you get 200 emails - even without AI - just by using Thunderbird or k9mail (android) it will be a problem.

edit: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/15604322?hl=en

I cannot find that "Messages and attachments might be reviewed by humans, so don't share any sensitive or confidential information."

anywhere.

Of course, there is nothing wrong about changing the provider. Variety is good.

- Google just needs to tell DJT

- Vietnam get 50 % tariffs

- Change the ban

- Easy peasy for Tech bros.

I know some webhosting provider that used one VM for every user. Now they moved to using this. Firstly low resource usage. If one uses ZFS or btrfs then one can save storage as in common bits are not duplicated across system containers. Note this is a system container - not traditional container. This one can be rebooted to get the previous state. It is not ephemeral.

All phones ask for PIN or pattern in addition to face/fingerprint. Use that.

For the average user this is safe enough. (i.e) keep google/apple password safe. Then all is fine.

> exporting and FAANG lock-in

You don't ever have to even sign into FAANG if you can put up with inconvenience.

- Buy a U2F FIDO key like OPEN SOURCE https://solokeys.com/ or Yubikey etc - You can register this key directly at the website or - Use https://bitwarden.com/passwordless-passkeys/ - Every password manager need to implement it obviously

> Doordash

I would assume apps that are non-geek oriented will do quicker adoption. In my experience, many people are looking at passkey like a

- Password manager that is automatically working fine on their phone - Apple or Google takes care of everything. And users think of it like 'Sign in with Google/Apple equivalent'. Press fingerprint/face-ID and all just works.

Only PITA I expect is that banks type dinosaurs will screw up this (like they did with 2FA - with custom apps and non-standard implementations). I wish W3C would some way ban these but banks are somehow escaping standards.

TBH, this is better than custom UI that blocks password manager copy paste.

I just use the term throwaway instead of JohnDoe. A quick search:

https://abcnews.go[.]com/US/hit-run-drivers-kill-people-jail...

If I find the legal podcast link then I will link it here.

I definitely listened in a legal podcast that somehow juries award lower sentences to road accident deaths as compared to others. Seems strange.

Does this mean the legal team do not understand tech? How come a company like Google/YouTube have no checks-balances when sending things like this? Or do the top-level not have powers over legal team?

thank you.

Please don't give such justification. Power corrupts, misuse.

- Would you also allow your team mates to know same data about you to them?

- That would be a level playing field.

- Or at least MS tools should 'automatically' report to the User that an Admin did LOOK into their habits.

- This way you will not have intelligent people working in your team. I am saddened that Google does this.

- Are your teammates aware that you can do this?

If anyone from gitpod is reading please

- stop sending me emails that your 'workspace' is going to be deleted spam emails constantly.

- I have disabled all notifications but still get constant emails telling of new plans etc.

- Dark or grey patterns: The unsubscribe is 'written' in smallest font size, and grey - impossible to click.

Please Stop

This gets worse when reading developer documentation

- Github does not allow for 'web' VSCODE to have English (if I use non-English OS locale or browser).

- Google - developer sites (API) translate it to local language. While one can chane it; for reasons unknown this reverts back if one logout and relogin. BTW, most EU devs reading developer documentation still want to read things in English, as it helps better communication with rest of the world.

Thankfully you are in the USA... + have > 300 in your account when it falls on the floor. Others will get a robust Xiaomi or Moto

- it will survive falling on concrete

- or if lost buy a replacement for $100- $200

It is one thing keeping a $1500 phone for 5 years. (though I have never seem flagship lovers that kept it for 5 years. They are too obsessed with keynote every fall that they buy new every year...)

Others love buying newer when it breaks.

Seeing many of verge's articles to kinda force commoners to buy this is refreshing - cheap is good these days - for most people.

> HTC

That was a different time. poor cpu.

These days a "almost new or good" phone from amazon warehouse for $250 P6a is good for most people. Even a decent Moto G-series for $150 is good enough for whatsapp, fb, emailing, maps, uber. Common man can live with that speed.

> Conclusion? Buy an expensive phone (within reason) and use it for five years. Or longer.

Buying for class/show off, gaming or every day I photograph/video my life is different. Then you need expensive. Or if you are in sales/marketing. IMHO such people with expensive devices

- scratch it, break it

- They don't go to client with broken device

- No one that wants to have state of the art uses a phone with shattered edges.

- such people also buy new-tech to keep up with tech

- rich/prioritise money to phone (instead of shoe or etc). all OK.

It all depends on user profile.

You are lucky if you find a mum with 3 kids or cafe owner or a fruit seller using TOTP in keepassXC. Do you know they would prefer a phone (not laptop/desktop)? They dont have laptop.

I understand your argument from a philosphical or idealistic view. You are correct

People know Google/FAANG rather than bitwarden.

If your family knows bitwarden then kudos. I am living in a different world.

> Like, you are laying out exactly how vendor lock-in happens, but your point seems to be that vendor lock-in is fine and we should just stop talking about it. "

- We can talk about it

- And we are now.

- But people in power don't understand (or care).

There are no equivalent, easy option. I wish some company like proton mail or some one else would run a phone with all equivalent google services. But they don't.

> They'll use Bitwarden or Dropbox and it'll be fine -- easier than setting up a new phone.

Are you sure? People would ideally like

- Buy phone

- sign in google/apple account

- All apps installed and ready to consume/produce MEDIA

> Do people really think that passkey is easier to back up than Bitwarden is?

People think in different way. They know 2 things

- Google/Apple username + password

- get SMS recovery info (again I am not recommending - people are simplistic). May be you can replace this with some other option

- For example, facebook allows for nominating a friend or a facebook for recovery

- Enter the code

- ready to consume/produce MEDIA

> They won't need to wonder if their new phone is compatible with anything,

Average Joe has brand loyalty so that they will stay in whatever. Usually. If one goes to Samsung, they usually stay there - even if Pixel is better.

> They'll use Bitwarden or Dropbox and it'll be fine -- easier than setting up a new phone.

Where is the 2FA for dropbox or bitwarden? is that file supposed to be accessible without 2FA?

I agree to your no-vendor lockin sentiment but this means some one should invest and build a platform neutral + verifiable thing.

And even if some decent govt steps in people will claim it is all to track you. So EOF.