If your backup is inside the same thing you backed up, you don't have a backup. You have an out of date copy.

>All my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up.

Unless the commenter was backing up their entire universe, this comment is a non sequitur.

Can we at least agree to draw the line so that if a single call can delete the live data AND all backups, they shouldn't be called "backups", but rather snapshots?

I would also say that if your backup is controlled by the same third party as the primary, it's not a backup.

They could anonymously drop off a package to the Asahi team.

A 14 year old Macbook Air is an Intel Mac, AFAIK most hardware is pretty well supported.

M series Macs are still very much a work in progress. I'm typing this on one, in Linux, so plenty of things work, but not for example USB-C output to an external display, and a lot of the processor power level / suspend stuff is still not fully there so battery life is quite a bit worse, especially when suspended. I think the situation is rather worse on the latest generation hardware, too.

Did wifi work out of the box? I really struggled with a 2013 Air.

I think I might have used a usb ethernet to install it? It was 2017 the last (and first) time I had to re-install, so I don't remember.

Hah I run my agent inside a docker with just the code. Anything clever it tries to do just goes nowhere.

Well presumably they want to make money.

As long as the handful trillionaires own everything by the end of the game, what does it matter to them?

You can ask them to type one of the following sentences:

"I know what I'm doing, and giving a random website access to my USB host is the right thing to do."

"I'm an idiot."

I love this because the idiots would type out that they know what they're doing and the pros would save time by typing "I'm an idiot."

hah I did think of the second one, but the first didn't occur to me.

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That does minimize the disruption for me. In fact I will never buy a new kindle nor buy an ebook from amazon ever again.

For me it's the other way round - I used to buy from them when I could dedrm, and ensure that they can never pull this kind of bait and switch on me. Every ebook I've bought can be read on any device I own. I will not accept any other level of service.

I've always thought we should maintain a list of people like you. Every time we cure something, like blindness in one person, one of you gets picked and your eyes get poked out. That way the total amount of suffering will be conserved, but those who think that's necessary get to be the ones who pay the price for their beliefs.

In the first half of my comment, I explained that I don't think people should suffer. I'm just also aware that if everyone can pick their child's attributes, it could lead to a nation of blond-hair, blue-eyes kids

No it wouldn't. If these traits were everywhere, then they would no longer be exclusive and therefore would lose their appeal. There is nothing inherently "hot" or "attractive" about blond hair or blue eyes.

Would you pick blond hair, blue eyes for your kids? Would black people pick it? Asian?

I wouldn't, but I can imagine a lot of people would

If you wouldn’t, why would a big chunk of the population do it? And if they did it, so what? Why is blonde and blue eyes bad?

Btw, I also wouldn’t if I could choose.