> demands access to quality timely journalism and commentary

> refuses to pay for it

They’d have to exclude sanctioned VPN traffic, or the entire financial system doesn’t work at all.

Almost all retailers inventory on consignment. So, no.

Dude read the Culture series, took all the wrong lessons from it and is speedrunning that horrible vision for a sorcery in his own mind.

Iceland has the luxury of not being able to eliminate the global economic landscape with one big mistake. No one here is happy with the bank bailout, but it was the only realistic option available.

Journalism’s not dead. The fact of the matter is that people don’t want to read journalism, they want propaganda and tabloid; if this wasn’t true ProPublica would have the readership that the Sun does.

Not true at all. Every well-conducted and reliable poll matters, because it determines where campaign money will be spent, where volunteers will be directed, what stops candidates make, and what issues to press on and which to pivot back to stump on.

Pretty dumb myopic take you have there, actually.

PC running OPNsense and a Ruckus AP.

We’re a few major breakthroughs away

We are dozens of world-changing breakthroughs in the understanding of consciousness, sapience, sentience, and even more in computer and electrical engineering away from being able to even understand what the final product of an AGI development program would look like.

We are not anywhere near close to AGI.

Yup, AGI is terrifying; luckily it’s a few centuries off. The parlor-trick text predictor we have now is just bad for the environment and the economy.

Have you ever wondered why you couldn’t eject a drive without rebooting? It’s not like it’s going to tell you what process is keeping it locked

Windows PowerToys has had this as a function for a long as I can remember. Before that there were programs which existed only to tell you what process was keeping a folder or drive open. On Linux lsof can do this for you.

If you really think most people are up to using a password manager, you live in a bubble.

Well that’s some FUD nonsense to excuse laziness.

Oh, that’s fine; I’ve been wrong before, too.

So you agree?

If you’re going to use a password vault, use one you host yourself and not someone else’s service.

Congratulations on mentioning a bunch of features that were baseline two decades ago.

Every Garmin has a full suite of health and exercise tracking. Smart functionality like tap to pay, messaging, app API integrations for using your watch and not your phone, integration with Garmin’s entire line of outdoor smart equipment and sport-specific tools.

They’re not comprable. If you just want a Pebble 2.0 and don’t take care of your body, go with that. If you actually live a life, Garmin’s a clearly superior choice.

2 weeks between charge

Most Garmin watches do this and they offer a modern featureset.

Several dictionary words in series cannot be “easily brute forced.”

You’re out of you’re depth and saying stupid things.

Not at all. It will lead to easier to type passwords, likely. But that doesn’t mean shorter. This could easily be filled with passwords that are four words long with special characters interspersed.