I wish they wouldn’t do that. If i have to hear about Southern New Hampshire University again I’m gonna hurt somebody.

If I agree to free thing and have to watch ads, aight fine.

But at least make them different man, i hate that they play the same one over and over again. It does not make me want to buy your product.

Shocked i tell you. I am shocked.

No way an app would collect data it doesnt need. Preposterous.

Next thing you’ll tell me is that tiktok is doing the same thing!

Yea thats part of the reason I said generally. As I said, newer to linux and still learning but flatpaks can be more secure because they are sandboxed is my understanding.

That said, you’re not wrong to point it out. Sandboxes arent the be all end all to security of course. Any security is defeated if the end user doesn’t use logic and practice saftey when it comes to downloading any software.

Oh man, this show was my jam when i was growing up. This and samurai jack were so cool.

I was really glad that samurai jack got a reboot/ending but for Dexter, since it was more episodic and didn’t really have an overarching plot, I’m cool with it just being what it is.

Thats actually why i stopped to look at this cause i thought for a sec they rebooted this and feared id get more of my childhood ruined.

I’ve seen good answers here but I just wanted to chime in as I’m a newer Linux user and as I’m learning more from running Fedora as my daily driver instead of Windows, I’m learning a lot and hope to help others learn as well.

Typically, most common software that you want to use will be in the repo for your distro or in a flatpak of some kind. If you’re downloading from your distributions repo, your typically not going to encounter viruses. Flatpaks are also generally safe as theyre sandboxed so the interactions they have with your system are generally read only.

That said, still use caution. Don’t run commands that you find online unless you know what they do, use ublock like you mentioned you already do, only download software from trusted sources and use the checksum to verify the files integrity and safety.

From the sound of it, you’re already doing what you should be, just wanted to add this if there were any other very new users with similar concerns about viruses.

From what I can see just from a quick google, its in reference to a tiktok.

“What’s one move in bed that makes a man go crazy every time?”

One of the women immediately answered in her Southern accent and laughed:

“Oh, you gotta give him that ‘hawk tuah’ and spit on that thing, you get me?”

https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-what-hawk-tuah-mean-viral-tiktok-video-girl-craze-explained

How else are they going to train the ai on all your information if you opt out?

From what I’ve heard, most people that are for in office work like having the separation between work and home.

That being said, I think most folks want remote work or at least remote hybrid. It just makes more sense especially for me. I live far from my office (140 mile drive roundtrip), and working 3 days a week from home has been a god send.

Something like a chromecast would be the easiest solution.

Me personally, I just like having a media pc hooked up to my tv. I bought an amazon fire tv cause it was fairly cheap for 4k and its never been hooked up to the internet.

Absolute blasphemy.

How else will i have left over rice for fried rice if I make just enough?

If they leave a voicemail then its more legit but yea same here. I’d rather not have my phone calls be used as AI training.

Rejoice brother as you are amoung friends.

Well now im very jealous lol. Good for you man, thats a banger deal.

I specifically buy easy dinner stuff while.im out shopping for the same reason. I spent an hour getting food so now imma take it easy and eat this mac and chicken strips from the deli.

88 x 8TB drives? 704 TB of storage?

You got a whole damn data center lol. Good stuff dude. Was this off of ebay or direct from a company? I’m curious to know the total cost.

Im in this post and i dont like it.

But all of the stuff on my to do list has been slowly whittled down so im at least making progress. Thank you meth.

How about a pizza party champ?

Bout time. Ticket master has been ruining venues and driving up ticket prices for years: https://www.cbs58.com/news/ticketmaster-accused-of-running-underground-ticket-scalping-project-to-drive-up-prices

I’ve seen some cool stuff about heat batteries. Very interesting implementations of old technology.

Yea I wasnt sure if this was something new or not, but I’d agree that carbon capture isnt nearly as interesting as some of the new battery storage or renewable energy tech thats being developed.

Fortera intercepts carbon dioxide exhaust from the kilns where cement is made and routes it back in to make additional cement. In its first effort at commercial scale, the technology is being added to a CalPortland facility in Redding, California, one of the largest cement plants in the western U.S. It opens Friday.

Fortera’s process sucks the carbon dioxide out and pipes it into a machine where it is turned into a solid. Its technology works at around 1,800°F (1,000°C), which requires less energy and emits less carbon.

When the captured carbon dioxide is mixed with calcium oxide, it turns into a kind of limestone that becomes cement-like when wet. This product, which Fortera calls ReAct, is blended with other ingredients to make concrete.

Fortera uses a 15% blend of ReAct in concrete because that is all that is allowed under existing industry standards that regulate material strength and durability.