To add to this;

Playing modern Windows games on Linux and SteamOS is done using Wine and Proton. Wine is available on almost every Linux distro and Proton comes* with Steam.

*You can use Proton outside of Steam but it’s quite hacky and not really needed.

Junior webdev points.

Yeah I don’t see any need for desktop use, except for making a Steam console under your TV.

You can use Steam with Proton on whatever distro you want.

Yeah it’s pretty crazy how addictive it is.

Sad thing is not many people listen to drug users. Even though drug users are… the ones that have actual experience in addictiveness.

Considering we live in a conflicted world where capitalism has ruined everything, I’d say donate a few thousand of it around, but also save it and just make the right choices on what you buy:

• buy zero waste, local and bio
• buy fair and repairable phones
• buy fair and ecological clothing
• etc…

So many people don’t realize that every time they buy something in a store, they are casting a little capitalistic vote. We have to speak the language of what these evil sons of bitches speak, money. So I think for individuals, it mostly starts with us.

I’ve done a lot of different drugs, and I’d rank the addictiveness of social media between flakka and crack. (I have not done heroine or fenta)

So yeah, good job USA. /s

I wasn’t clear. I was referring to the ease of which you can verify that the hardware does what it is supposed to do. If you can verify it easily, but don’t, the ease has no meaning.

I don’t think you understand how electronics work. Maybe if you have an ugly plastic see trough toggle, but I don’t see that happening any time soon.

I also don’t understand why you are asking me questions because you’ve failed to explain something, as in some ploy to make me the bad guy here.

So… Do you verify all/most of your hardware toggles? Personally?

:') You’re a joke.

And no, I don’t use software toggles. I don’t use any toggles on my phone, except Bluetooth to save battery. 🤷‍♂️ You guessed wrong. Maybe don’t be so smug about trying to “read” someone. It ends up being super cringe when it’s wrong. 🫣

I explicitly used the word ‘guess’ to not be smug. As in, the following part is merely a guess. But hey, you can keep making it personal, but it just shows who is “cringe” here.

Now get blocked.

I ask because the ease of which something can be done is worthless if nobody does it.

How would a lack of people using hardware toggles even make it worthless? I don’t need that answered. It doesn’t.

I am guessing you use a software toggle and are trying to defend your use of it. Which shouldn’t be directed towards me. You trust it? That’s great. I’m glad for you. I explicitly said I only trust hardware toggles and explained why I wouldn’t easily trust a software one. What I do is of no concern to you.

So next time just share your opinion instead of asking a question you don’t need answered. Which I obviously noticed. Don’t beat around the bush and just cut to the chase.

Weird question. A better question would be how hard it is to check. It’s pretty easy. It only requires a multimeter and basic knowledge of electronics. Opening a phone isn’t hard either. You can easily use a clothes iron with a rag in front of it.

Although chances of code being available are quite low for most mobile devices, not to mention software takes many many hours longer and you’ll have to make sure your build matches the code (which means manually checking the code of every update).

You mean a hardware toggle? Because those can be double checked with some electronic knowledge.

I guess a software based toggle is ok for downloaded third party apps on the phone. Just not anything by Google.

And no I am only saying what I trust. I sadly have no toggle. Making an actual hardware toggle outside of the factory line is pretty hard. But disabling them on your device is pretty easy. You can easily make your USB port power only, unplug your camera and destroy the mic.

If you use Graphene on the Pixel however, I think you’d be safe from anything Google to be honest.

I have around 10 “linux extract tar archive” online searches last year alone.

My scenario was indeed handling the drives of customers themselves.

For your scenario I would just use some encrypted filesystem.

GDPR laws are a big part of it. It’s illegal to not protect the privacy of your customers. We even shipped the erased disks to a specialized company.

But also, the only way for this whole “just get them a new disk” to be profitable is if you resell the old disks as new disks. Which just sounds like evil capitalism to me.

Wouldn’t be surprised tbh.

When I worked in an IT office, we often had multiple erase and clone processes going at the same time. We used machines like this: https://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-Bay-eSATA-SATA-Standalone/dp/B005CQ12W2 (First search result). We started the process and worked on other stuff. We had a flat fee of €40 or something for a HDD to SSD upgrade (clone + erase + installation). The actual work was 15-20 minutes.

Nobody is wasting actual time when you can just have the process going when doing other stuff.

So just clone a git and delete the .git folder? Seems pretty useless to me.

In Belgium you can only buy 10ml bottles of juice with nicotine. The 50ml bottles require a booster and come in 60ml bottles so you can add the booster yourself.

There’s some very weird rules.

That is also very true.

It’s not a Tesla so I’m sure they are investigating the cause.