bonk you with the corny bat

Stahlin is a protected class, you know.

Hardcorn

Maybe Polymarket can predict it?

How long do you figure before they get the Flock AI declared a police officer, therefore any damage to an AI-enabled device counts as assaulting an officer?

Sure, but there’s no reason they couldn’t be built into an enclosure that looks like other security cameras.

Alternatively, you just build a little box that has that extra stuff and plugs into a normal security camera, and you bury the box in the ground or put it inside a locked utility cabinet or something.

The next stage of this is going to be models of Flock cameras that look like other common security cameras, or a Flock module that plugs into existing security cameras and adds them to the network.

Yeah there’s probably a lot more people reporting them recently.

This time last year there wasn’t nearly as much public awareness.

the thoroughbred of sin

Brand New Day

I mean making the machines to make chips and making a factory that uses said machines are two different things.

True.

There are already factories in China making DDR5 and DDR4 ram now days.

Are they actually fabricating the silicon, or just packaging it?

No slave labor needed. All you need is a modern, advanced, high skill, responsive industrial base which China has.

Sure, like the people working at Foxconn:

https://truthout.org/articles/a-suicide-survivor-the-life-of-a-chinese-migrant-worker-at-foxconn/

Qubes

You’re welcome, and yeah growing pains every time with a new install. But you do it a little better each time.

One recommendation - when you do reinstall, don’t use the default/automatic partitioning. Manually set up your /home directory as a separate partition from /root. This lets you reinstall the OS without having to touch your user files. When you reinstall again, all you have to do is select the existing /home partition to use as the new install’s home (and make sure not to format it). This makes your install a lot more flexible, and your OS a lot more disposable.

If you do manual partition configuration, don’t forget to also create a /swap partition that is at least 1.5x the size of your RAM.

I could probably backup most of my important data to a flash drive but I’d rather not.

You should ALWAYS back up any important/irreplaceable data before making any changes to your hard drives, even if you think the risk is low. Accidents happen.

You can move the drive from one slot to the other, the drive’s UUID should not change. You’ll just need to change the boot drive selected in UEFI. Physically swapping the drives will be faster, easier and less failure-prone than trying to move your boot and root partitions between drives.

For editing drive formats and partitions, the best tool is gparted: https://gparted.org/

It’s convenient to have gparted installed on a USB drive so that you can live boot it and use it to make changes to the system drive(s). With gparted you can simply erase the Windows drive and create a new partition formatted for Linux (probably ext4).

If you are not already familiar with editing disk partitions and formats, you should read some tutorials first: https://gparted.org/articles.php

As for encryption, some Linux installers have this as a selectable option during the install process. If Mint does, you should consider reinstalling anyway to use that, as you are more likely to have it working properly.

If you just want to encrypt your data partition(s) you can implement LUKS with cryptsetup: https://linuxvox.com/blog/linux-luks-encryption/

Note that this is the most basic use, it does not cover FDE. If you want to also encrypt /boot so that your computer will not start without being unlocked, that is more complicated to set up:

!! YOU SHOULD READ A LOT OF INFORMATION BEFORE ATTEMPTING THIS !!

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1470391/luks-tpm2-auto-unlock-at-boot-systemd-cryptenroll

https://cryptsetup-team.pages.debian.net/cryptsetup/encrypted-boot.html

Be aware that doing anything wrong in this process is likely to leave you with an unbootable system, and unable to recover any data from the encrypted partition/drive. You need to be sure that the steps you’re going to take are relevant for your hardware and OS before you start, and that you have all of the necessary utilities installed.

Again, if Mint has a selectable option for this in its installer, you will have much better chances of success reinstalling with that.

Don’t skip the backup.

Not likely. It doesn’t matter how much slave labor you throw at it, getting a new fabrication machine to the necessary precision to make modern chips requires a lot of time.

It is way too late to be starting a new chip fab for it to be relevant to the current market. If they are producing reliable chips 5 years from now that’ll be fast.

You really need to see just how bad these things are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJlxkLawZrw

It’s a slightly animatronic mannequin. They’re so garbage. This is what they brought to CES to show off, like they’re proud of it. Tickle Me Elmo was more life-like.

Bad Horse?