For setting up a solid web-based alternative, Leaflet is a great tool for viewing many different tile/vector sources. If you're looking for a more hardcore GIS tool, there's always ATAK, but it has a steep learning curve. If you simply need maps on your device and be self-contained, Google Maps on Android lets you save maps offline.

NexSAN devices required a special firmware patched hard drive, then were sold at several times the price of the same drive without the firmware. This is a bad business model IMHO, when a hardware refresh was time, we went with one of their competitors who's systems were built around regular SATA drives. (Use case here is bulk and data integrity, not performance). I will give NexSAN some credit though, nearly 100 hard drives ran the better part of a decade with only 3-4 ever needing replacement.

It would have to be optional and non-default, of course, but I argue there is a use case for it.

How about having the fingerprint unlock utility allow for the registration of immediate shutdown (maybe even wipe) finger prints? Maybe be able to configure 1 to unlock and 9 to wipe. Feeling lucky? Legally I have no clue how it would stand up in court, that's not my profession, but it would provide a technical anti-coercion tool.

AI is really good at boilerplate implementations and boring stuff, and I think this is simply an indication of that programming languages really need to evolve.

The payday loanshark shops have really popped up everywhere here in south Texas the last 10 years. They are truly a cancer on both the economy and the vulnerable populations here. Pawn shops are probably more fair.

I have an 830ish credit score, but still have interest rates of 20% or more. I pay my statement balance every month and haven't paid a dime of interest in years, however, it would be nice to be able to very occasionally put something big on there without these crazy high rates.

I've said this for years. It is time to cut off a decimal place as has diminished in value more than 10x since it was introduced. To simplify, we only need 2 paper notes, and 2 coins.

• (coin) Dime
• (coin) Dollar
• (paper) Ten Dollar Bill
• (paper) Hundred Dollar Bill

That's it. Having said we need to simplify cash, we absolutely still need to keep cash as over-reaching data mining companies as well as government simply have no business knowing where every penny we spend goes.

...for considering Linux instead. Seriously, this is mostly about milking existing customers for more money and "creating" a hardware update dependency on it. This unholy backwoods agreement between MS and a certain PC manufacturer really needs to be investigated.

Interesting reading:
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Get pilfered from. Every. damn. time.

We need to educate this senator. Simply running an AI model locally does not send any data to Chinese servers. I'm able to run most of the Deepseek models locally and can confirm no data goes out. The thing can't even touch the network. (running on ollama here). It is open source and available to anyone who has the hardware to run it. Also, the open source community resents being threatened like this. The 1st amendment protects our right to open source our creations, and if someone in a foreign land uses it, so be it.

The problem comes about using it (or any other model) on non-local datacenters. This is an issue with the hosting of the model, not the model itself and can indeed result in data being stolen. All cloud services suffer this vulnerability. Grammarly has the same exact issue. Be careful where you route your confidential information. Yes, beware cloud services. Running a local AI model on your own server (even Deepseek) protects against this sort of leakage.

We need human studies ASAP.

Saturated fat is much less likely to be damaged by heat. It's quite stable. Seed oils are only pushed because they're dirt cheap, mostly the result of heavy subsidies. (earlier, Crisco and margarine were pushed as safer replacements for lard and butter...it's now common knowledge they aren't.) Humans just haven't eaten seed oils very long, but we have eaten animals, and likely some plants, for millennia. Plants have evolved chemical defenses to prevent the digestion of seeds, so they stay viable through digestion to be deposited a distance from the mother plant. Concentrating the stuff in seeds with the goal of producing oil as cheap as possible without killing anyone outright seems problematic. I feel a lot better not consuming bottom-dollar crap that just scrapes by in toxicity.

Most iPhone Owners See Little To No Value In Intelligence.

There are mini-split units available that can handle direct DC connections. These are made to supplement your primary HVAC, and don't require any interconnect to the mains. They don't back feed the power grid, but instead provide heating and cooling when the sun is shining. They indirectly help grid operators by reducing summer peaks.