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Ripped right from wikipedia: "A backdoor is a typically covert method of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer, product [...]."

Given you can't be arsed to google that on your own, I don't see s point in arguing.

An OTG setup needs all 5 pins of the micro-B connector. USB A cannot be used for OTG. If a USB-A port can act as a client, that's not OTG, it's a botched implementation.

Downloading and running binaries isn't anything to worry about. Many apps do that to circumvent the update delays that apple and google put in place.

Browsers also download and run code from any website you visit. The security measures make sure that this code can't just do anything, just like on android.

Same, but just at home unfortunately. Using windows for the occasional game that doesn't run properly on linux is fine, but actually engaging with OS stuff is just hell.

Today at work I spent an hour fixing onedrive and it turns out that the permissions for the root folder of onedrive are just fucked most of the time. Team microsoft's solution is to just put everything into the documents folder because that's usually fine.

I feel like windows specifically interferes hard with my ADHD because I keep thinking about this crap. My colleagues just deal with it and then do something else, but my brain keeps getting stuck on it. I'll sometimes even do stuff that would definitely work on linux just to test windows. Sometimes it feels like I actually learn something, but more often than not I just find another broken thing and get frustrated.

Today I even caught myself checking out the vscode-nvim extension just to use my mouse less but the setup for windows was two pages and the one for linux was like one command.

Now I'm looking for a different job and I hope they have proper tools. Not sure if I can bear much more microsoft crap.

Sorry for the rambling, in the middle of writing I just felt like I need to get this off my chest and kept going.

Found out two weeks ago and don't have a diagnosis yet, but I've been very open about it.

I struggled hard at work before and my boss is excited that I now know why and very keen on helping me deal with it. Unfortunately those kinds of bosses are rare and we'll be parting ways in a few months, so I'm unsure about how I'll handle it next time.

Those are a massive security problem if you connect them to the internet though because they never get updated and we tend to use them for much longer than any phone.

As someone who studied data science up until a year ago: Consider that carefully. The whole space is moving so ridiculously fast that half the stuff you learn will be outdated in 2 years.

If you want to get a job in the field right after getting that degree, it makes sense. But if you already know how to program, learning AI stuff for 2-3 months can also get you that job. It's quite a new field, so the requirements aren't formalized yet. That path would probably make more sense for ADHD.

Here's another random thing you should know: In the windows 11 explorer, you need to right click on the filename to get the proper menu. If you right click somewhere else on the line that isn't the filename text, it gives you the menu that is supposed to show up when you click on empty space.

Windows just isn't for ADHD people. There's so much crap you need to keep in mind to use it and every little thing is a distraction.

ADHD and mental health in general. I just found out two weeks ago and now I'm binging Dr. K and whatever similar stuff youtube recommends.

I reckon it'll be a challenge to stay mindful of all that stuff when I find something new to hyperfocus on, but at least I know in advance this time.

Tiktok is indeed more malicious than any other app I can think of, but it isn't a backdoor.

US tech is backdoored just as hard as chinese stuff. None of the companies involved need to know when and for what the government uses backdoors, so they generally don't.

I'd recommend against Ubuntu. It uses snaps and it'll teach you that the hard way eventually by having very weird issues.

Mint is based on ubuntu but says no to snaps, so that's a good place to start.

LLMs are big, so you either need a powerful PC to run them or use cloud services. Linux users tend to not be fans of either, so it'll probably take a while before anything big happens.

Besides, for the things where an LLM actually makes sense (like a copilot-style code generator), there are already implementations.

I was in the same boat two weeks ago and I looked at youtube videos explaining it. Now I'm sure I have it and I have an appointment for a diagnosis in 3 weeks.

I can highly recommend ADHD Jesse to find out what ADHD is and what it isn't and to learn how different people deal with it as well as anything from HealthygamerGG to understand how it (and a lot of other mental stuff) works.

I hate that I have to support this to use grapheneOS.

Make sure that the addons can only be used by VScode. There's vscodium for now, but microsoft could easily shut that down.

Please look up "Embrace, extend, extinguish". VScode is open-source for now, but all the microsoft extensions you need to turn it into an IDE have DRM on them and microsoft puts work into trying to make those extensions not work with VScode forks.

WSL is the same thing. They start by embracing linux and soon they'll start installing MS crap into the guest system or shipping their own distro that's filled with it. This is the extend part. The final goal is to extinguish desktop linux and make everything WSL to be able to track it all and harvest shitloads of data.

VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it's filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there's DRM on your python LSP.

Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren't any that are as easy to set up.

Pen support on linux is amazing. On the T935 it worked without any setup and was much better than on windows in terms of input lag and turning the touchscreen off/on properly.

I used Xournal++ and while the UI is a bit small on a 13" 1080p screen, it worked perfectly.

Now I remember another thing you should probably look out for: Don't get anything with a higher resolution than 1080p. Fractional scaling on linux is basically not a thing, so the resolution determines the size of any UI.

German here and it's been a while.

My parents came back from a vacation in austria recently and told me about what they heard on the radio: The austrian government did two separate things that actually benefit citizens in one day.

They didn't remember something like this happening in germany in the last 20 or so years and neither do I.