In the Netherlands, the ability to swap in your own modem is safeguarded by law. I have luckily not had to deal with this.

That said, would look to see if you can remove the whole top, seems to me it would be clipped in. Then place a matching size fan, or just undersized and 3D print a rim.

I am seething at the misuse of this meme.

Yes I’ll go touch grass, begrudgingly, shut up.

The network effect is a powerful force. If you want to talk to loved ones (or more and more, businesses) you are forced to use this platform, which hands inordinate amounts of power to the likes of Meta or other proprietary platforms that only ever have their own interests at heart.

I refuse to bind myself to proprietary platforms that I have no way to leave without insurmountable switching costs. Behaving this way is not without personal cost: It is more difficult to talk to me for others which annoys them or discourages them from trying. It also makes me look like a pedantic ass on platforms like these (although my phrasing there probably doesn’t help I admit).

There are plenty of privacy and freedom respecting platforms that allow interoperability and I think it is better to use those rather than adding my bit to the network effect that makes WhatsApp the de facto standard, strengthening it further.

In this case one of two parties must join a new platform. Either they join a privacy respecting one or they can call/text. If they can’t respect that boundary further communication will not be required.

I don’t want to be pedantic in reply to a heartfelt comment but since I believe Richard himself would say this: he advocates for free software which is fundamentally different from open source.

When the meme hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s memetic!

Good luck getting in.

Would dismissing someone’s preference in favor of your own do that?

Not sure I agree.

Yes, your password manager is a single point of failure this way. But I would argue any non-SMS based TOTP is better than none, so if a higher percentage of people use it the easy way instead of not at all I consider that a win.

After all, you would still not only need the password but also access to the manager which technically is more than one factor.

What about enterprise user and permissions management? AD is a draconic thicket of confusing spaghetti, but once setup it works. What’s the Linux alternative?

I have one that runs this OS, pretty well I think. What was wrong with yours?

Holy crap, I just listened to it, it’s a monologue by Peterson. He’s just talking at Dawkins, it’s incredible. Completely oblivious.

Here it is: https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-jordan-b-peterson-podcast/id1184022695?i=1000574664589

The website is a masterclass in minimalist, utilitarian design. I just use that.

Writing by hand requires me to condense whatever I’m trying to grok. That helps in my understanding of it.

Why not mount your server as a share and use your desktop GUI to manipulate files? Then you can do both.

European here, I did use WA until Meta (Facebook back then) bought it. Then I typed up a copypasta that said something like:

Because Facebook is buying WhatsApp, I am leaving the platform. You can reach me on these apps: [Link to installer for Signal] [Link to installer for Telegram]

I have since set up a Matrix server that puppets for Telegram so I don’t have the actual client installed anywhere.

Not saying you don’t realize, but Safari already has this tech. They call it Personal Access Tokens.

I rebound cmd+~ to option+tab, because tilde is in a weird place on my Apple keyboard’s locale. Easier to remember as well.