Sunk cost "fallacy" helps the scammer a lot.

They start with a trivial amount and build from there. Each time, it's emotionally harder for the victim to accept the romance they built in their minds does not exist, AND the money they paid was not spent on a good cause.

It's much easier to deceive a person when their subconscious is collaborating with the scammer.

Today I noticed that Firefox is showing a speaker icon all the time. Closing my pinned tans one by one showed that it's because of ChatGPT.

Now I had this question: does it really impact my battery life?

I can't rely only on the CPU energy. Maybe keeping an Audio pathway causes other hardware components to be unnecessarily active.

One way I could think of is to run on battery, and compare how fast it discharges with and without the tab open.

Are there other ways to reliably measure energy usage and narrow it down to individual processes/tabs?

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If they ever sell their 12" version with AMD cpu, I might get one as well.

Encouraged my friend to buy one, his feedback: "best piece of tech in my past few years."

Landed on a Lenovo Idea Tab pro, which has so much junk pre-installed that keep installing other malware on it.

We need rules that take companies responsible when they trick people into hands of scammers.

As long as I can't unlock its bootloader, it's not much better than that iPad.

> I'm 30 this year, and computers don't have the same level of whimsy and excitement as they once had.

I'm 45 and computers are more exciting than ever. We choose what to get excited with, or oven nothing at all, which happens to most people at some point.

I've never been a die hard fan of Linux, but in the past decade and half found the trade-off for me to favor using Linux.

It's a device made by people like me (umm much better than me in some fields, but the mentality is similar), for people like me.

It does not disrespect me in design, functionality, in PR talk, and my relationship to the system is not adversarial.

For now, my incentives to use the system aligns with that of the system creators.

I choose tools I use, configure them, report bugs, and occasionally contribute fixes. But when I can't, I work around them, yet never get used to the workaround.

"Habitual mitigation" does not happen in me, and it's partly intentional.

I have created bad software in the past, but when I saw how people work with it, I could not be proud. Learned to look at software like a user, and don't want to unlearn that.

I believe (or maybe I hope) software will be democratized and people will start to demand good software.

This. I get Frame.work and install Fedora. Use Firefox for everything possible. Once my current phone dies, I'll get a Fair phone, Motorola, or whatever gives me control.

Can't complain if I keep choosing hostile products for some convenience

When he realizes he's committed a terrible crime, the next day he goes back to believing he's a US marshal. His last words:

- this place makes me wonder...

+ Yeah, what's that, boss?

- Which would be worse, to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

This is a sad reality of life, that leads many, to choose a fantasy over reality. How many of us consistently avoid this trap?

Solar eclipses happen rarely enough, and frequently enough, to act as milestones in my life: I can review what happened since the previous one, and make a plan for the next one.

They are some of the most magnificent natural phenomena, much more interesting than what's expected.

The only other one that I got to see in perfect conditions was in my home town, Isfahan in 1999. I hope this one is perfectly clear again, and I have some resolutions for the next one.

Imagine your car would only let you drive on road approved by the manufacturer, obviously, for your safety. But then they would approve roads only if 30% of anything you paid for in that road would go to the car company.

Sounds stupid? Well phone manufacturer taking 30% of everything is exactly that to me.