The sort of information they could gather from a site like this would be a list of license plates that somebody is worried about being tracked. I can think of several government organizations who would love that sort of information right now.

It’s a sort of Streisand effect

For data leaks, haveibeenpwned only requires your email, and they send you a notification if it ever shows up. They don’t actually check passwords.

Unfortunately there’s no secondary info linked with a license plate that makes doing this sort of notification private without just downloading the full database locally.

I’ll be honest, I have more concerns about this site potentially logging my license plate than I do of someone having already looked it up.

It’s a little like if haveibeenpwned asked you for your password to check if it’s been leaked.

I don’t think File Explorer on Windows uses fork() to copy files? If it does, that’s insane. I don’t think git calls fork per-file or anything either, does it?

I fully blame this on NTFS being terrible with metadata and small files. I’m sure everyone’s tried copying/moving/deleting a big folder with 1000s of small files before and the transfer rate goes to nearly 0…

On the bright side, you’re getting paid to wait around ( /s because I know the feeling, and it’s just slow enough you can’t step away and do something else)

Have you heard of the concepts of Internet bandwidth and compression? This article isn’t talking about poor quality microphones or cameras. You could have the best camera and microphone in the world, but it won’t do you any good on dial-up, low speed “broadband”, or unreliable connection to the Internet.

I think the random review site I looked at had some wrong data, a different one comfirms there’s no manual exposure. If OP could get your hands on one to try before buying, that’d be ideal, but might be unlikely to find in a local shop considering the age of these models.

I definitely agree, RAW seems like the most useful upgrade out of the things listed (with full manual focus being a bonus)

From what I can see, the TG-4 has manual exposure. I don’t know why it wouldn’t… even my phone has it, and TG-4 is the newer camera.

I think the biggest difference will be the RAW output. I’ve found it useful to be able to go in after and fix white balance or slightly shift the exposure, which you can’t do with the JPEGs.

The autofocus on both seems to have plenty of options for picking what to focus on. I’ve got a full manual mode on my camera, but I often just use the point tracking autofocus to pick out what I want in focus.

To me, the term evokes a feeling of an unmaintained mechanical machine that isn’t running right. Considering it seems to be meant as a derogatory term towards LLMs, I understand how it came about, though personally I can’t get over the similarity to “clunker” which is often used endearingly to refer to an old vehicle. I wish we had a term that was more associated with digital systems.

This has been one of my worries when I set up my NAS as encrypted. I ended up going through the recovery process a few times before storing any real data, since I wanted to be sure I could get myself back in if the OS drive failed or something gets corrupted and I have to unlock it from a live USB.

There’s plenty of perfectly fine used vehicles that are old enough to have physical controls, but new enough to still have a reverse camera and Android Auto. Personally I’m not buying any new vehicle with a cellular modem.

An image is a quantization of reality. An image alone is biometric data if it’s a picture of a face, fingerprint, or any other identifiable feature of a person.

On linux it’s just called running an executable

Edit: As a less snarky answer, you can run Android apps natively on linux by installing Android OS in a container using something like Anbox Waydroid.

I think the biggest thing lacking in this kind of hardware is displays. Where can you find a phone-sized 1080p display that doesn’t require signing some NDA or reverse engineering the specs? OLED would be even better for battery life.

I don’t see that probably 360p black-or-white e-ink display is going to be a good experience unless you’re comparing it to a flip phone.

Can that not run through Proton? You could probably launch it through Steam, even if you bought your copy somewhere else. I have loads on external apps added just for easy setup with Proton

Bit rot happens on much longer time scales (like 10+ years), and can happen regardless of use. Most storage media has this as an issue though, so that’s why it’s always good to have backups.

Save games probably wouldn’t have a huge effect on write endurance, but certainly in some uses that write constantly like a dashcam, it could potentially destroy the flash in a matter of months. There are endurance sd cards for this kind of application, but they usually come in smaller sizes, and I’ve still had them fail eventually.

Once upon a time I owned a GameCube memory card, specifically so that I could have my own save progression when visiting my friend’s house (who actually owned the GameCube and games). That may not really apply anymore?

On another note though, making the sd card read only means it will last significantly longer. Flash storage (like SD cards) have limited write cycles, so this preserves the games themselves while leaving the much smaller save files to be written somewhere else where they’re easier to back up.

That does seem better for fine grained control. Personally I don’t really bother with much outside the block lists, and the defaults work well, so uBlock Origin has been fine for me.

uBlock Origin will also show you a list of all the blocked resources and their domains. It’s somewhat effective against tracking (though admittedly I don’t know how uMatrix does it, maybe it’s a little different)