Here’s the interesting thing. I found out any kind of computer use during an interview was “cheeting” during my prior job search. For years, I’d been taking notes during interviews, like names, key points about the job, answers to my questions. Somewhere along the way, that became a problem. I also used to search for things occasionally.

Silly me, I thought searching, researching, taking notes, etc., was part of the job and an indication of smart working. Now, we are expected to recall the smallest syntax detail from memory - On the spot, while being watched and timed, in a high stakes interaction.

This is less like someone looking for paid help for a business and more like a sadistic exercise in prisoner torture.

Now, imagine having ADHD and going through that.

Very nice reply, and I’m rather stunned a nonprofit did this… unless it’s one of those giant, well funded ones like NFL or Red Cross.

Understood. My issue is more abstract. It would be nice if some who don’t need it also put their support behind the concept for altruistic reasons and because they realize it could affect them when their hardware is no longer cutting edge.

As I said in my comment, I was not implying you personally had any such attitude. I was commenting on my feelings about how that statement could be interpreted and the general attitude behind it is part of what I have in the past actually experienced when I advocated for the value of building for a less l33t configuration. The attitude by at least some and perhaps many is a weaponization of the attitude I saw in your comment (again, not seeking to imply you actually had that attitude).

When enough people just don’t care because the problem does not directly affect them, the problem is not addressed because not enough people care. That is what I was attempting to say. Thus, I apologize for the appearance of saying you personally had a “bad” attitude on this. It’s a common attitude and is a contributing factor to many real-world serious social problems, and I just don’t like it because of consequences on a larger scale.

I don’t like the implied sociopathy in that assessment. It smacks of "i got mine, fuck you ". I’m not implying that is your attitude, just pointing out that people who don’t care because it does not affect them overlap the population that is all for fascism because they are in the “in” group and aren’t (obviously) harmed.

Building to work well on low-end systems does not take from high-end systems unless the devs don’t take advantage of it when it is available.even then, they are not worse off. They just don’t get something better than “the pleebs” are getting.

You know, I was rather surprised how well my 2016 Lenovo gaming laptop handled BG3. That has I think a GT640? Don’t exactly remember the device names, but they stopped updating drivers for it in 2020.

1. Future proofing
2. GenAI. Models take space, and what doesn’t fit in your 16Gb VRAM works in your much slower regular RAM.
3. Multitasking media generation, software builds, movie rips, serious number crunching, or anything else you can imagine, etc.
4. One or more virtual machines running for various needs.

I um… Just got my son hooked on the demo…it was supposed to be me.

This is what I did for a while. As your addiction takes root and you add more and more mods to get cooler and cooler effects, you will eventually start playing on your gaming PC, and uninformed spectators will think you are playing a game that just came out with sick animations. I suggest you include Serana dialog add-on and Touched by Dibella.

Don’t hate me for this… affect, not effect. "This attack will not affect you . “Your attack will have no effect on your enemy”.

I’ll review again. Last time I looked was 3 to 4 years ago.

I’m sticking with Proton for now. If Switzerland ends up being no different than the 5 eyes, I’ll be more intent on finding a replacement.

Well, what unlockable options are there? I certainly accept that I might not be keyed into everything. Fairphone is the only one i recall.

Please, don’t just snark. Enlighten me.

Well, take a look at LineageOS and the associated microg edition. They work on dozens of devices. I’ve been flashing ROM’s since the first Android phone and I’m still using my Pixel 2XL, degoogled. I still have my Moto X 2013 {with custim, now unusable ROM} because it is like a river rock. It feels great to hold.

Google phones have always been unlockable - primarily for the benefit of developers.

Calyx also offers a degoogled Android, focused on privacy like Graphene.

If one wants a phone and own it, Google is the only sure way right now.

Is 50 too late?

Tutonota is German, which is part of the already full on surveilance state.

I’m guessing his/her point involves the location of its incorporation. Any company in the “five eyes” zone can be forced to release details about its users to any member state. One must evaluate whether NordVPN keeps anything more than a few hours - days tops - to decide if it is “safe enough”. I was worried enough about this particular point that I chose a VPN that is not in any way beholden to five eyes or the fourteen eyes, which is a similar agreement.

Proton caught heat because of its release of information to the local law enforcement recently. While Switzerland is not part of the five eyes, it does have its own laws requiring a reveal in certain circumstances. I forgot the details, but I think they had an IP address that had not yet been wiped from cache, and that was enough to pinpoint the hackers being sought.

In truth, there’s no sure way to be sure. One still must trust the organization is both honest and competent enough to properly wipe any residual information. No matter who it is, some amount of information has to be in cache for some time in order to be able to deliver the service, and there also needs something tracking the workings of the system to ensure it isn’t overloaded or to find opportunities to improve it.

Je suis desolee - Je ne comprends pas l’espagnol. Parlez-vous francais ou l’anglais ? ;)

I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)

Both. Sure, the actual exchange might be made-up. The problem is that it’s entirely plausible it is real. I’ve seen this kind of exchange happen on video (which of course could also be made up). It’s common for television shows to do stories on what the “person on the street” knows about some topic. For local news stories, it’s usually to showcase how poorly educated “the youths” are today.

Periodically a reporter will go to a public place and showcase how people answer questions that arguably should be fairly easy to answer with an elementary school education or if they check in with some news source regularly and actually understand the topic. The worst ones are where they are “confidently incorrect”.

Jimmy Kimmel does this regularly for laughs. I’ve seen several examples going back decades from various local news programs. In all cases, I’m confident they are showing the 10% of interviewees that were the most clueless, and not showing the other 90%. Still, the level of cluelessness on the ones they do show is often truly frightening.

That is what i was referencing with my comment.