Theoretically? Although we’d need to do some testing first as a community before we confirm that’s the case (or build a solution to it).

During the “Gold Rush” era (Wild West 1800s), there were plenty of people descending onto California to try and make their fortunes by staking out land to mine and pan for gold.

However, the first millionaire wasn’t anyone who got lucky staking out a mine. It was the largest store owner in the area selling all these prospective miners their shovels to dig with.

The “AI industry” has a lot of parallels here, but everyone wants to be the store owner, and hardly anyone has a genuine need for their tools.

I think I just walked in here from searching about VR stuff, but you can 3d print a PCVR headset and assemble with off the shelf components for under $150 USD (there’s an article on hackaday), or buy used headsets for $200-300. It’s not unobtainable to most, I think.

Then you run into the problem of generalizing about a wide spectrum of ages. I’m older genZ, and have experience with all of these things as part of hobby projects and my career. Obviously the iPad kids haven’t.

Boomers are reliably feeble with technology across their entire age spectrum. Gen Alpha has very few experienced enough because of their circumstances and age gap.

Yep, the future is now, huh?

Dude, I’m an electrical engineer born in 02.

Yarr.

Considering I got rammed into twice by distracted drivers, it makes a modicum of sense.

…you know Alibaba and Ebay are right there, I hope?

Dat interface though, looking like if a popup ad was a website

Apologies, take your AI slop away from the shitpost comm. We have standards.

Edit: Even though the body of the van looks strange and the text is oddly positioned, you’ve proven it’s not AI generated. My bad.

That’s definitely true. In that case encrypting the SSD makes more sense yeah (or any flash storage)

Wouldn’t something like DBAN do the same thing but with less operations on the drive?

Fuckin’ A, I’ve seen better looking ones in MREs.

Literally the same bucket setup from 28 Days Later. Goddamn.

Insulation looks like a solid rating of “no” though.

Depends on the fork. The MPL largely allows the forks to do as they please, so feel free to check their blog posts and patch notes for reference.

… You do realize that security patches are upstreamed, correct? These forks just don’t include the ads, AI, or built-in VPN.

Firefox Forks (Waterfox/Librewolf/Ironfox) my beloved

Due to different purchasing power and average incomes between countries, online stores will usually apply regional pricing so people can afford to buy software (because if they don’t people will just pirate). However platforms like steam have the unfortunate problem where because you can gift and trade game keys, items from your steam inventory, etc… there have been cases where people will tunnel with a VPN to a nation with favorable currency exchanges/low regional prices, and buy things there despite not living in the area or having the same purchasing power.

To prevent this, platforms will prevent users from paying in currencies other than what their “home” location is, especially online (I think valve even locks games in CIS nations that make them unable to be gifted or played outside the territory).