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Let’s try this one

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7695681/

AI Summary

Title: Be Suspicious of HDMI

• HDMI technology is criticized for being a “money pool” for companies, despite the existence of better, royalty-free alternatives.

• Companies developing HDMI technology charge significant annual licensing fees and per-unit costs for using the HDMI name and logo.

• Additional features like HDCP require extra payments on top of existing licensing and unit costs.

• HDMI actively sponsors tech news articles to promote itself.

• DisplayPort is presented as a royalty-free alternative that offers similar or superior functionality to HDMI.

• DisplayPort supports more features, higher resolutions, and higher refresh rates compared to HDMI.

• The Steam Machine exemplifies the issues with HDMI, featuring a DisplayPort 1.4 connector capable of 4K 240 Hz.

• The HDMI connector on the Steam Machine is HDMI 2.1 capable but cannot be advertised as such.

• The HDMI organization does not license HDMI 2.1 for Linux devices, forcing Valve to label it as HDMI 2.0.

• There’s a call for the display industry to transition away from HDMI to less expensive and more open standards.

OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?

There’s a lot of correlation and speculation going on along with deflecting potential liability.

It would seem if you have one of these drives, make sure the firmware is current, and you should be fine. (Prerelease firmware and heavy load seem to be the “triggers”)

If you don’t plan for hard drive failure, you’ll learn that lesson eventually…

Looks like you’ve got an rj45 to an rj11 cable. That would be Ethernet on one side and telephone on the other.

I think it’s insane too. I understand that tipping goes (theoretically) to the waitstaff, but I have a hard time tipping $1 per $4.50 bottle of beer handed to me. If it’s more complex of a drink than x and coke, sure it took their time.

Tipping table service used to be good amount only not drinks and tax. Now it seems to be on top the final total with 20% being expected.

I fully respect if it’s just not in the budget for you. A company has to make money somehow. I’d rather pay than get ads or worse let them collect and yet worse sell my data. Also, you can use a burner email and vpn if you want to add an extra layer of obfuscation in there for privacy.

Here’s a few links from their faq.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-trust

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-should-i-pay-for-search

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#why-does-kagi-search-require-an-email-address

I really hope I don’t come off as a shill for them. It’s one of the few companies I actually really like.

I also run proton family, and really like the product offering. Their leadership gives me anxiety though. Promos and sales are only for new customers and standard pricing is a bit steep, but you do get multiple services.

I know I’m not exactly hitting the mark, have you looked at kagi? You can personalize the weighting of results from certain sites. You can also add lenses which will let you drive results to forums, programming, academia, etc.

To me it was a bit like reliving the early days of google with the don’t be evil mantra still in tact.

Let me also say, it appears to be privacy respecting.

It has been good for me so far. If someone sees a reason I should run away from this, please let me know why and what we all should use instead, I’d appreciate it!

Ctrl+shift+tab - goes to the prior tab Ctrl+tab - goes forward to the next tab.

If you have multiple browsers open…

Alt+tab to go to the prior app then try above.

For the accidentally closed tab - Ctrl+shift+t to open the most recently closed tab

If flailing through these doesn’t get you there, you’re boned.

Let’s take the original comment at face value and in earnest for a moment.

Wouldn’t the human race be more like a parasite?

In all honesty, I don’t think the earth needs us, nor would we qualify for a symbiotic relationship. Earth really doesn’t need most of its inhabitants.

That would move to a more existential question of what it means for earth to survive or be “alive”? Support any life?

My biggest concern with these forks, is do they get the security updates quickly enough as they’re all downstream from either Chromium, Firefox, or web-kit. I’ve tried Zen a bit and had a good experience. From a privacy perspective, cookie management, containers, anti-fingerprinting, and telemetry are probably the biggest categories to address.

Again, I always have security concerns for the forks getting patches quickly. The smaller the team the more risk likely in this category. Librewolf won my vote. I use it for almost everything. If the page won’t work there, I typically have to use Chromium because the site is just poorly built.

I’d also recommend doing something to manage privacy at the DNS level for your local network/machine. Piehole or NextDNS would be a good place to start. I landed on NextDNS as it’s pretty cheap, easy, and stable. With internet, it has to “just work” or the family gets annoyed fast. I can still black-hole traffic from my network that is phone-home telemetry from devices more concentrated on collecting info for the manufacture than doing what they were purchased to do.

EndeavorOS provides a GUI installer with what’s considered “sensible” add-ons included.
It’s where I am now. I started with Mint, played with Debian some, now “Arch”-ish.

It’s been good to me.

You forgot to add, “but you’ll get fired if production numbers drop.” Without the fear in those that remain of losing their livelihood, safety, food, home, and healthcare; the effect isn’t quite the same.

Glad you found one that worked for you.

As far as I’m aware, Logseq also just uses .md files. I back those up regularly and I do use the cloud sync. The cloud sync lets me alternate use between my computer and my tablet for work. I could use just one device, but this was a significant advantage for me.

I also keep a separate log for personal work which I can add to via special shortcuts from my phone.

Logseq for notes and task tracking. It’s an open source alternative to obsidian. Life saver for tracking stuff at work.

https://logseq.com/

I don’t think I can agree with all that on a burger, though bacon, cheese, and pineapple on a burger could definitely work.

My first thought was that it was running a windows vm…

As others have said, works without it; but you probably want it there.

Order one from eBay that fits your year, make, model. You may need to get fasteners separately.

I had this same thing break on my truck. It cost $35 for an off brand replacement that fit perfectly.

Thanks for sharing the reasons for your approach.

There’s so many ways to accomplish this, such as ad guard or portmaster then add on the drivers for our choices. Finding the balance between privacy and easy of use is tough as it is. Then add in the rest of the family that’s more interested in things “just working”.