The main blocker is MFA. I can technically work around Google Authenticator (I use Aegis currently) because I can run it on my laptop, but I also need Okta verify (work VPN), Symantec VIP (bank), and the Steam app.

And some other very nice to haves:

• Signal messenger
• SSH client
• Libby app
• Organic Maps

I can find workaround for the rest.

That said, wouldn’t it just be easier to uninstall the apps that cause distractions?

you hand picked 2 peices from that whole page. The first one when you read the example below doesn’t even fit your case, so you left that out.

Words have meaning given context, I pointed to the definition that fit the context. When talking about wealth and assets, “money” means anything that could be easily converted to cash. I didn’t copy the first because it wasn’t relevant to the context.

Then you had to do mental gymnastics to make the second one fit.

I provided two to drive home the point.

How about an example. If I said, “how much money does Elon Musk have?”, that would obviously include his stocks and whatnot because he probably only has a few million in actual cash, if that. If you ask how much money I have on the street, I’d assume you’re talking about cash in my wallet, or maybe cash in my checking, and I wouldn’t include my stocks or even savings balance.

Context matters a lot.

But when conversing with normal people, you will be hard pressed to find people who agree.

Are you saying that if I asked how much money you have in your retirement account, you’d say $0 because you only have stocks? If so, that’s really weird.

My vote is Podman with an immutable distro, like OpenSUSE MicroOS or Fedora Silverblue. Here are my reasons:

• rolling base, with very minimal footprint, so you don’t need to worry about upgrades
• podman runs proper rootless containers, so you get better security vs docker, which tends to run as root (breaking out does less damage if you manage permissions properly)
• deploying a new service (or moving a service) just means copying configs and running, no concerns about what the host has
• there’s nothing special about the host, so if MicroOS or Silverblue are abandoned, just copy the configs and data to a new host

It’s a little more work to set up, but once things are running, it’s drama free. And I think that’s the best thing to optimize for, keeping things boring is a good thing.

If we’re going to change the name, it should be the department of the military/armed forces.

That is basically Schrodinger’s cat

No, it’s not.

Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment is about things where observing state will impact the state. That would maybe apply if we’re talking about something unique, like an ungraded collectible or one of a kind item (maybe Trump’s beard clippings?) where it cannot have a value until it is either graded or sold.

Stocks have real-time valuations, and trades can happen in near real time. There’s no box for the cat to be in, it’s always observable.

money

Look up the definition. Here’s the second usage from Webster:

2 a: wealth reckoned in terms of money

And the legal definition, further down on the same page:

2 a: assets or compensation in the form of or readily convertible into cash

Stocks are absolutely readily convertible to cash, and I argue that less liquid investments like RE are as well (esp with those cash offer places). Basically, if there’s a market price for it and you can reasonably get that price, it counts.

When my stocks go down, I may not have realized that loss yet from a tax perspective, but the amount of money I can readily convert to cash is reduced.

Yes, my net worth went down.

The point of “you don’t lose money until you sell” is to discourage panic selling, but it’s total bunk. When you assets lose value, you do lose money, and how much that matters depends on when you need to access that money. As the article says, you may not care that you lost money if you don’t need to access the money, but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re now poorer if your assets drop in value.

Nope. Not a brit, so probably didn’t see it in my circles.

It gives more info as to the consequences of clicking that button. If they just ask if you’re in the UK, people could reasonably assume they’re going to serve UK-relevant content. If they say it’s for ave verification purposes directly, people will know they can click the other button to avoid the spyware.

I’d prefer: “I’m in the UK and want to be age verified” and “I’m not in the UK and don’t want to be age verified.”

Probably a bad motherboard then. CPUs generally don’t just die, unless there’s some kind of excess voltage or something. If you weren’t aggressively overclocking, that sounds like the mobo isn’t doing a great job at controlling voltage. It could also be a bad PSU, the CPU is the last thing I’d suspect on the second failure.

If your CPU hits 3 digits, then throttling isn’t working properly, because it should kick in before it hits that point.

Our self-hosted ones are quite good and get the job done. We use them a lot for research, and it seems to do a better job than most search engines. We also link it to internal docs and it works pretty well for that too.

If you run a smaller model at home because you have limited RAM, yeah, you’ll have less effective models. We can’t run the top models on our hardware, but we can run much larger models than most hobbyists. We’ve compared against the larger commercial models, and they work well, if little slowly.

Yup, I’m not worried, just noting that I’ll be among those who will lose money.

Unfortunately, me included, since my retirement money is heavily invested in US stocks.

I don’t know much about copilot, but some quick research shows it uses GPT-5 for the chat feature. I assume that’s what’s meant by the average queries in the article.

No. Is that a problem?

If you need to fix something, you should know what it is.

“Regular office work” is a pretty broad category. Yeah, it’s probably not useful in retrieving records for someone or processing forms, but it should be useful for anything that requires research.

My point is they could if they were concerned about data leaks.

Nah, it’s surveillance with a side of sensible modernization.