I believe that’s their usual release process.

Linux Genuine Advantage

Exactly, it’s why I don’t buy Logitech anymore!

Sorry if I misunderstood your comment, it seemed like a metaphor for social media but perhaps I assumed too much. My bad!

You know you don’t have to doomscroll social media right? You can just, you know, not do social media.

Maemo and later Meego yes… I had a Nokia N900 and it was an awesome phone. Basically Debian in your pocket, easily accessible terminal with root etc.

If it’s important that it keeps running then it should just be redundant and taking one node down for an update shouldn’t be an issue. I know this is wishful thinking for a lot of services but I refuse to be on call for something if the client can’t be bothered to make it redundant.

I would recommend getting a Google Takeout export every year or so. Even before it falls off a cliff it’s a good idea to have your own backups. Accounts can get blocked, hacked, etc.

Aren’t all Hue bulbs Zigbee? They have some WiFi or bluetooth models now I believe but afaik all of them support Zigbee with a bridge.

It’s definitely the way to go, and the maintenance is easy. You do need to replace the coil every now and then though FYI.

Those are definitely all valid points, though I feel a bit of UI work making it abundantly clear that it’s not encrypted in case of SMS and an option perhaps to fully disable SMS in settings if you really don’t want it would have helped further adoption. I feel like they are optimizing for a rather small subset of users and thereby hurting the rest.

While I still use and sort of like Signal, I feel that dropping SMS support was the wrong choice and I don’t like the direction they are going. They are also against federation which I also don’t like. I’ve stopped recommending Signal to people.

Oh I definitely agree. But still; when I’m running Windows the filesystem is very low on my list of annoyances.

You’d still be running Windows though so why bother

As it’s kind of implied at this point I thought I’d leave it out for once ;-)

But yes I do use Arch, btw.

Might want to look into Linux :-)

They specifically mention it’s on the protocol level which would imply it’s doing more than just blocking some ports. Not sure why you’d think China could pull that off but it would be infeasible for Russia?