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Would block avatars if I could, don't want to see people's vanity, just the words.

Well I like my Apple Watch, they make it less compelling to buy a new one.

Replacing my Series 8 with a new one would be a downgrade in capabilities.

Apple Watch still requires an iPhone to setup. Even the ones with their own cellular capabilities require being setup with an iPhone. Even if you have a Mac or iPad, you can't set up an Apple Watch unless you buy an iPhone. My manager at work just found that out when he got one for his son from T-Mobile and couldn't set it up because he didn't have an iPhone.

Its just dumb by design.

Microsoft Terminal supports tabs and custom profiles. It can host Azure CLI, PowerShell, CMD.exe, and Bash.
Windows ships with openssh that is usable in any of the supported cli.

I use it all the time for work to ssh into systems.

Its almost exactly what I want, so I put a reservation in. Will see if it comes out and with what specs at shipping.

Would like 4x4 instead of RWD. And a large towing capacity would be nice.

Website says 1400lbs hauling, 1000lbs towing.

Specs site says a 5ft bed.

https://www.slate.auto/en/specs

Getting it up and running was as simple as swapping my AMD RX580 for the Intel Arc A770. The drivers are open source and built into the kernel and Mesa. It picked up and started working without issues.

Its ran every game I have smoothly at max settings. I haven't had to turn down the graphics settings on a game yet. Though to be fair, the most graphic intensive game I play is No Man's Sky.

Only issue I encountered was when I first got it I had to tell No Man's Sky to use the Xe Vulkan support, instead of trying to use the old Intel HD version. Since then I've reinstalled No Man's Sky a few times. Newer updates properly detect the Vulkan support.

I was impressed enough with its performance that I bought a second to upgrade my wife's computer. She has been using that system to do modeling in Blender and hasn't had any issues with it that I've heard of.

I have been quite happy with the Intel Arc card. If they are still making them when I do my next upgrade I will likely get another.

For Linux I would recommend AMD or Intel GPUs. They are less hassle getting up and running.

I'm currently running an Intel Arc A770 and its been running great. Was a lot more affordable than recent AMD or Nvidia cards.

Yeah, in 2025 doing encrypted email is a painful process. Every option is a hack on top of a 43 year old protocol.

Here is a howto from Mozilla on pgp with Thunderbird. It isn’t a pleasant process.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/openpgp-thunderbird-howto-and-faq

Communication between the email servers is normally encrypted with TLS. The email files themselves are rarely encrypted. Most providers that do encryption of email are using local server managed encryption, so the email providers would still be able to access it.

For proper end to end protection you would want to setup PGP between you and your recipients, and encrypt the email before its sent.

No thanks, I’m good with my Analogue Pocket and Steamdeck.

Samba 4 implements Active Directory, last time I looked it was up to 2012 functional level. Samba provides a cli tool, samba-tool for managing Samba. So you don't have to use other tools for managing it, but it is often much easier using Microsoft's RSAT than the cli tool.