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I get the same sort of feeling. I've been fortunate enough to go to a full size track as well, though it's a different experience.

There's something about how open a gokart is. You feel every little bump in the track, and you can see EXACTLY how close your wheels are to the edge. Even leaning for weight transfer makes a difference in a kart. I do miss having power steering though. My hands and arms are always dead after a long karting session.

Short for database. Snapshot applies the same. Technically Time Machine is a type of database.

I hadn't heard of this, and it makes me quite angry. Sooo many phones have Qualcomm chips in them, including every phone I've ever owned.

The amount of data they're collecting is unreasonable for what's actually required for A-GPS (the only actual feature this enables). And it's all completely invisible to users because they don't even include the Privacy Policy with the phones.

If I want to stop Qualcomm sending out a bunch of my data unencrypted over the web, I've got very few options, ~~all of which are: Buy a new Phone...~~

Edit: After more research on this, it seems this A-GPS request is still happening from the OS, which controls Wifi. /e/OS just didn't reconfigure the Qualcomm driver like GrapheneOS. This isn't a hardware or firmware backdoor or something like I thought initially. The article seems like an ad for NitroKey / NitroPhone, which is just a modified Pixel with GrapheneOS on it. I might look at GrapheneOS for my Samsung phone.

Can I split the rent with the ghosts?

To be fair, that game really isn't about shooting or even taking out enemies. Taking their gun only slows you down!

I should go play that again. It's got a great atmosphere (and soundtrack)

With some of the cats I've interacted with, letting them outside would probably be cruel itself. One is scared of the weirdest things, like string, and complete fails at even hunting bugs in the house. Not to mention the crazy heat waves we've been having that would definitely be a problem for an indoor cat with thick fur.

I pretty much agrre with you and everyone else here. AI is not as useful as a lot of people are pushing it to be.

I used GitHub CoPilot for several months, and some of the advanced autocompleting it can do during refactors is amazing. But I wish I could use just that as a dedicated feature (like an AI context aware find/replace).
I found most of the time CoPilot was more distracting than helpful. I'll have 90% of a solution done in my head, and then as I'm writing it out, CoPilot will recommend something that's almost, but not quite, what I want and completely interrupt my train of thought.

When I code with AI, it seems to just move all my time from coding to debugging and reading the AI's code. For me, I end up with a worse result in the end than if I just wrote it all manually, and I don't end up internalizing the structure as well.

I use ChatGPT a little differently now that I realized this. Much more like Rubber Duck Programming, where I'll set up the conversation so ChatGPT asks ME questions. For writing documentation, I've found this to produce far better and more accurate results. You can even ask it for a summary at the end.

I don't know any details on how data was leaked (Apparently "the fappening" was 8 years ago now, so I'm sure those issues are fixed). I'm probably a little biased against Apple, but I think this applies to any cloud service, and I'm just using iCloud as an example:
It may have been social engineering , but I don't think the specific attack matters much. There are millions of iCloud uses (including a lot of high profile individuals), and that makes the whole system a target. Only the most targeted of attacks would bother trying to attack someone's home NAS.

Apple had some pretty major iCloud leaks a few years ago. I don't trust Apple any more than I trust anyone else. Every cloud service has the same problem across Apple and Android.

With Apple being one of the top names in anti-right-to-repair, I can't see myself buying another one of their products.

At least with an Android phone it's a lot easier to run custom apps or even OS firmware to control your data better. Having everything on my phone backed up to my own NAS is great.

Basically every other fast charge time is quoted from 0-80% or 20-80%, something like that. So it's probably capable of around 600kw charging. I don't think we have chargers that fast, but maybe you could plug in 2x 350kw chargers in at the same time, lol

As far as I know, I've never dropped incoming emails, but I have no way of knowing due to insufficient monitoring. My mail server is in a datacenter, but I don't have any redundancy or failover. It's not worth my time to set up vs paying someone to manage email for me. Google's spam filtering and integrations are also better than I'll ever be able to achieve for $6/month Google Workplace Gmail.

It's not better than a full size desktop or laptop keyboard, but I find touchscreens are absolutely better than the tiny plastic keys on say an old Blackberry. If you've ever typed a password with symbols, unicode, or emoji characters, then you'll appreciate how bad a lot of those keyboards were. The worst of them didn't even have full QWERTY layouts.