I have a former stray given to me by a friend who was feeding him on his porch for a year or so. Said stray now understands this home is a safe place. He wants handled, but must stay on the ground. He want food but all the time. He wants to sleep with you, but not actually sleep. He wants to play on the bed. We wants to snuggle but will wake you up with a tooth or claw piercing your finger a minute before the alarm goes off.

He’s adorable. He’s an asshole.

I don’t think valve should hesitate in jumping into the mobile market. It’s ripe for disruption, especially right now and valve has no issues throwing money at new hardware.

fixed it! its a weird fedora thing… https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/nut-server-documentation/83708/14

sean@hooty:~$ systemctl status nut-driver@printerUPS.service
○ nut-driver@printerUPS.service - Network UPS Tools - device driver for NUT device 'printerUPS'
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nut-[email protected]; enabled; preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
             /etc/systemd/system/nut-driver@printerUPS.service.d
             └─nut-driver-enumerator-generated-checksum.conf, nut-driver-enumerator-generated-devicename.conf, nut-driver-enumerator-genera>
             /etc/systemd/system/nut-[email protected]
             └─override.conf
     Active: inactive (dead)
       Docs: man:upsdrvsvcctl(8)
             https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/upsdrvsvcctl.html
             man:ups.conf(5)
             https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/ups.conf.html
             man:nut.conf(5)
             https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/nut.conf.html
             man:usbhid-ups(8)
             https://www.networkupstools.org/historic/v2.8.4/docs/man/usbhid-ups.html

again, you didnt counter, you just said “nuh-uh”

I dont mind not getting the last word but that seems important to you and I’m petty so guess how this is going to go?

I’m not entirely sure all cops are anti-Luigi. I work at a health insurance company and it’s sort of an open secret there is a sizable number of us on his side.

Healthcare is complicated. Private health care does not solve a single goddamn problem. But there are degrees to how bad it has to be and fuck if United didn’t go out of their way to make it worse.

Cute. You assert you are right by ignoring my point completely. I gave an example where a switch that does nothing could be used to convince you it did something. You basically said “nuh-uh”.

Beware software updates. Google has already announced the Gemini mandate is being rolled out for all devices next year.

Let’s say I install a button on your car that flips from “broken” to “fixed” my itself. Anytime you complain something is wrong, I flip that switch to “fixed.” That doesn’t change anything. The switch just tells other things to do something. It doesn’t enforce anything. It’s basically telling Google whether you want it or not, not actually obeying you.

It’s true profit can benefit from people being mad at Google but abandoning Google services doesn’t automatically make you a proton user either.

Mobile provides can remove it from their end if they feel the device will “harm or degrade performance of their network”. Some American cell phone providers are doing this with Linux phones already.

https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android/53771/ and https://proton.me/blog/turn-off-gemini-on-android were easy enough to find. If I remember correctly the grapheneOS guys spoke on this too.

I don’t have to show you. Google, the people who made the fucking OS, told you that’s how this works!

I mean, Google came out and said what they are going to do. its hardly a conspiracy theory.

You aren’t going to get such a device enabled on the american cellular networks. The duoploy wont allow it. You would have a better chance creating a new network that doesnt need cellular technology. something that behaves more like a cordless phone that uses whatever wifi, packet radio, reticulum node, etc as the base. You wouldn’t be able to get a straight phone number without a VoIP subscription but thats also not a terribly big problem as phone numbers are a terrible idea in 2025 anyway. We should have revocable keys exchanged at will that are unique to each contact. Either side can block communications effectively that way at any time and you couldnt just call them from a different number or sell the key to a different scammer or something.

Really, a 5G capable phone running linux isnt a big enough goal. Mobile communications needs a profound shift away from the legacy model.

Apple never opened that door. Google did, but they never intended to keep it open. it was there to catch up with apple. they never intended to do any good here. it was there to speed up development and win people over, then after they are already there, google can close the door and screw them all. That’s what’s happening now. It was a bait and switch.

The router does not handle mdns discovery. That’s a Linux service. The router can answer questions from other clients but if has to be given the answer by the host in the first place. That’s what systemd-resolved and avahi do.

It is not.

Nope, it’s still running in the background. You just turned off its ability to interact with you but can and does still interact with others.

You actually turned off geminis ability to serve YOU. You never turned off Gemini itself. Google won’t allow that. It’s still running in the background send your data to Google and its advertising partners. Google has publicly stated this is the intended design and they will not allow turning that off.