No I don’t remember that, but consigning doesn’t require all of your data to be shared remotely, just a few encryption keys. Not even enough to know what exactly you are running (although it’s likely something from the App Store in which case they have records of what you bought or downloaded in the App Store of course).

I turned off Siri on my MacBook so I could have the old spotlight search back.

You may not understand just how prevalent bot traffic is. I self-host a small personal website that real people only actually visit once in a blue moon, but I get constant attempts to access the Wordpress admin console (my website isn’t made with Wordpress lol)

The data in this case is local on the device, but I agree it’s still an invasion of privacy

I’m playing Ocarina of Time Master Quest on the GameCube instead.

Trying to avoid tracking if only a little bit, including by my ISP.

Using public unencrypted WiFi, like what you find at an airport or McDonald’s.

Password manager is too important for me to self-host IMO

There’s also an anime with a rather similar premise

First time I met my SO’s dog he bit me. We are married now and the dog is my best bud, so things worked out in the end.

NMS is closer to Minecraft in genre than a story driven RPG.

It’s an exploration and survival sandbox game, with a little bit of story sprinkled on top.

The most similar game I’ve played to it is Out There. No Man’s Sky is extremely similar to Out There in a lot of ways, except NMS is 3D and things like mining or fighting you have to do in-game rather than in a fade-to-black style cutscene.

Give Out There a try, and if you like it, you will love No Man’s Sky. If you don’t like it, you will probably find No Man’s Sky more enjoyable but a bit bland. Out There is on smartphone app stores as well as Steam.

I want a form of government where to become president you have to travel to 7 ancient temples and at each one pass the trial and acquire the artifact

iPads have filesystem access these days. The approved apps thing I’m curious what they will do about.

They are on a path towards merging iOS and macOS and fully merging their iPad and MacBook product lines. They’ve been on this path for a while, you can see it in things like moving the MacBook to ARM, adding mouse support to the iPad, making the iPad OS more desktop-like and making the desktop OS more iPad-like.

This is just the next step on that path. The eventual goal will be all of their devices will run the same OS with only subtle variations.

Well, what is sign language for clitoris?

Too many people believe they are AI is capable hands.

Half a century of companies suing each other over code licenses suggests otherwise

I trust deepseek because I can run it fully offline on my own machine

Skinny jeans are uncfomy and hard to move in. I always wear baggy jeans anyway.

Ollama, openwebui, running the ~20GB Qwen models on a 3090

So much important government computing happens on Linux. Almost every server and supercomputer is on some form of Linux.