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  • even then, the ruling that you show here stated that CA sided with Georgia in the case as well, they stated that future business should hold to CA’s laws due to the customer being a CA resident, but that due to the company residing in Georgia, they are not liable for past damages. It was basically a case of “we believe our law is correct but we have no jurisdiction to actually chase this and if it goes to federal court it will be tossed due to federal law favoring one party consent”



  • Just adding in, The Android developer page does clarify this problem. It will be a default on and will require the user going out of their way to turn it off.

    They have a direct question there labeled as the following.

    If I want to modify an app and install it on my own device, or if I’m a power user, is there a way to turn this verification requirement off

    And then the response is as follows.

    We understand this is an important use case for many developers and power users. While the verification requirement itself is a core OS feature to help protect the broader ecosystem from malware and can’t be turned off, we plan to offer two paths for experienced users to install unverified apps:

    • Advanced flow: We are building a flow that allows experienced users to proceed with installing an unverified app after going through a series of clear warnings. This new mode is designed to resist social engineering, helping users fully understand the risks, but ultimately gives experienced users the choice to accept the heightened security risk and install the software. We are gathering early feedback on the design of this feature now and will share more details in the coming months.
    • Android Debug Bridge (ADB): Developers and power users can still use Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to build, test, and install modified or unverified apps on their own devices, which remains the standard method for development work.

    Honestly, it doesn’t seem all that different than how fdroid is currently configured on Google. I expect that you’ll have to enable an option on top of the unofficial sources toggle that also states unverified apps.

    Being as they also specify what the Android debugging bridge is as a second bullet point, I expect that it’s not going to be through ADB like a lot of people were worried about as well.


  • I decided upon seeing this article I should update my current windows 11 iso.

    They have definitely changed the download flow since the last time I attempted.

    In order to download the latest windows 11 iso on a non-windows system, you need to go to the download page, select the last option, verify the connection select region and then verify the connection again, upon finishing it they now give you a 24h time limited link.

    This seems very counterproductive to convincing people to go back to windows if they had already bailed, I would have thought they would want as less restrictions as possible on the iso itself in hope to get people to go back.




  • Just don’t buy Triple A titles.

    The last “AAA” title I bought was elden ring for 30$ (unless you count Silk Song)

    There are plenty of indie style, A or AA studios that are in the 5-30$ range.

    The more people who move over to that type of mindset and buy from small titles, the more apt that large companies are going to lower their prices.



  • they have already done this for at least the last year or so easily. I noticed it when I requested by data package last year, theres a clear area on it that infers both your gender and your age in it.

    They are just acting like this is a “new system” but in reality its a system that have had for awhile now, just didn’t have any public facing usage of it.

    For anyone else that wants to see it themselves, and they have a discord takeout. its located at the very bottom in the events file in activity/analytics.

    the end of the file shows json objects that indicate what your predicted age and gender is.

    edit: I found this file isn’t a static location, it is still in the activity/analytics directory in one of your event files, but you need to search “age” or “gender” to find it if it isn’t at the bottom


  • mmmmm lets see here

    for the pavillion 16…

    $34.99 a month with no protection plans available and no option to buy out over time and requires a 650 credit score…

    or $979.99 for a one off purchase with the ability to have a protection plan ontop of it (this same laptop is also on a sale via HP for 429$ if you use their financing system…)

    I don’t see how this is helpful to the general consumer. The typical user doesn’t replace their laptop every year, and at the prices they give you end up breaking even around 2 years. You would need to be processing an upgrade at least every 2.3 years in order to make your money worth it. I’ve had the same laptop for 8+ years now. I don’t know anyone who had a laptop fail outside of accidental damage prior to the 2 year mark. Most system issues appear prior to the one year warranty end date if something was /going/ to happen.

    I can see how this could be helpful for a company that has temp workers… but even then it’s not like the company couldn’t just re-provision the laptop and give it to the next person.

    I could see this being more handy if accidental was included on it, but out of the current offerings it’s just not worth it for anyone.




  • sadly, it’s a little more complex than just enabling it. The supported self host deployment uses docker, and the docker containers that are available don’t contain the interfaces for voice or video calling as they are not up to date.

    If I understand it right, to enable it would mean you need to either pull the source yourself and run it off of docker, or make a custom docker image using a version of stoat web that contains the ability to do voice calls.

    reading the draft of the linked issue, it looks like the author isn’t doing voice call for the reason that they don’t know the proper way to integrate it into the docker image.

    So to answer it: yes it looks like you can use voice servers on the current self hosted model, but you can’t use pre-existing docker images, and it will require you to manually add the new web UI in and patch where needed.






  • The scary part is how it already somewhat is.

    My friend is currently(or at least considering) job hunting because they added AI to their flow and it does everything past the initial issue report.

    the flow is now: issue logged -> AI formats and tags the issue -> AI makes the patch -> AI tests the patch and throws it back if it doesn’t work -> AI lints the final product once working -> AI submits the patch as pull.

    Their job has been downscaled from being the one to organize, assign and work on code to an over-glorified code auditor who looks at pull requests and says “yes this is good” or “no send this back in”


  • They are very nice. They share kernelspace so I can understand wanting isolation but, the ability to just throw a base Debian container on, assign it a resource pool and resource allocation, and install a service directly to it, while having it isolated from everything without having to use Docker’s emphereal by design system(which does have its perks but I hate troubleshooting containers on it) or having to use a full VM is nice.

    And yes, by Docker file I would mean either the Docker file or the compose file(usually compose). By straight on the container I mean on the container, My CTs don’t run Docker period, aside from the one that has the primary Docker stack. So I don’t have that layer to worry about on most CT’s

    As for the memory thing, I was just mentioning that Docker does the same thing that containers do if you don’t have enough RAM for what’s been provisioned. The way I had taken that original post is that specifying 2 gigs of RAM to the point the system exhausts it’s ram would cause corruption and the system crashes, which is true but docker falls for the same issue if the system exhausts it’s ram. That’s all I meant by it. Also cgroups sound cool, I gotta say I haven’t messed with them a whole lot. I wish proxmox had a better resource share system to designate a specific group as having X amount of max resources, and then have the CT or vm’s be using those pools.