What are you doing?

[LKB]

We've a movie on tap for tomorrow night, the new Deadpool offering ( not my choice... ).

Tonight, home-cooked fried chicken, salad and mac&cheese for dinner. Probably stream a movie, I'll lobby for A Quiet Place, which they haven't seen.

[DavidW]

Sounds like you had a field day in there!  May I ask which bookstore you like in Columbia?  Always looking for good ones to visit.

If you ever visit NYC, do check out the *Strand Bookstore.  Been a bit since I've visited it, but it's lots of fun to poke around in there; it's slogan is "Eight miles of books".    They also have a rare book annex.  And they also have an on-line site from which you can order.

*It's a combo of used plus some discounted new books and proof copies

PD

Temper your expectations.   The bookstore I visited, The Book Dispensary, is not as large as The Strand, The Brattle, or Powells.  It is not even the largest I've been to in South Carolina.

[steve ridgway]

Just drinking wine and posting trivial stuff on here to wind down after having to call an ambulance for someone that collapsed in the street as we were walking by .

[LKB]

Eating leftover Starbucks.

[NumberSix]

Random: There's a scene in the wonderful Reese Witherspoon movie WILD in which she comes down out of the mountains where she's been hiking for the last couple of months and enters a town in Oregon on August 9, 1995.

The town is full of heartbroken hippies. "Ripple" is playing. It's a beautiful, sad scene.

RIP, Jerry Garcia.

[LKB]

Trying to get some sleep, and failing spectacularly. 

[drogulus]

    Trader Joe's has discontinued its lovely enchilada sauce.



     I ordered an alternative from Amazon.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Trader Joe's has discontinued its lovely enchilada sauce.



     I ordered an alternative from Amazon.

That's sad.  I know that you were a big fan of it.  What did you particularly like about it?  Just curious (foodie here).

PD

[drogulus]

That's sad.  I know that you were a big fan of it.  What did you particularly like about it?  Just curious (foodie here).

PD

     I'm not a foodie, though I like food. The sauce is mild, so it goes well with the tamales I use it with which have a strong flavor. That way they don't clash.

[LKB]

Waiting for my Lyft to work. At least there's a good reaction video waiting for me...

[DavidW]

After learning about the Windows 11 feature that takes a screenshot every five seconds, I switched to Linux.

I don't care if they added in an opt-out, and then later you need to opt-in... IT IS JUST TOO MUCH. FAR TOO MUCH. And you know they are just waiting to turn it back on again.

I've had it. I'm done. I'm on Linux now.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

After learning about the Windows 11 feature that takes a screenshot every five seconds, I switched to Linux.

I don't care if they added in an opt-out, and then later you need to opt-in... IT IS JUST TOO MUCH. FAR TOO MUCH. And you know they are just waiting to turn it back on again.

I've had it. I'm done. I'm on Linux now.

Er, why are they taking a screenshot every five seconds?  *I've never heard of that before.  How is that supposed to help the consumer?  I can understand turning on an automatic backup, but...er...huh?  I know that there are also options in terms of sending reports to say Apple or Firefox (which are, they say, to help improve their programs--and I believe are also supposed to be anonymous).  And one can opt out in the settings.

*And sounds alarming!  Privacy?  And security?

PD

[drogulus]

    I sold Intel and bought Clorox.

    I sold my heinous KKR shares and bought IBM.

    Intel is clearly a special case due to the catastrophic failure of the 13th/14th generation i7 and i9 CPUs. I think the i5s are good, as I haven't heard a word against them, and I'm inclined to get a 5 series Arrow Lake CPU if everything is good with them.

[LKB]

Er, why are they taking a screenshot every five seconds?  *I've never heard of that before.  How is that supposed to help the consumer?  I can understand turning on an automatic backup, but...er...huh?  I know that there are also options in terms of sending reports to say Apple or Firefox (which are, they say, to help improve their programs--and I believe are also supposed to be anonymous).  And one can opt out in the settings.

*And sounds alarming!  Privacy?  And security?

PD

Yet another reason to stay with Win10 ( not that it's anything close to perfect, but I know my way around it well enough ).

And as far as privacy goes, Apple is worse...

[DavidW]

Er, why are they taking a screenshot every five seconds?  *I've never heard of that before.  How is that supposed to help the consumer?  I can understand turning on an automatic backup, but...er...huh?  I know that there are also options in terms of sending reports to say Apple or Firefox (which are, they say, to help improve their programs--and I believe are also supposed to be anonymous).  And one can opt out in the settings.

*And sounds alarming!  Privacy?  And security?

PD

It is called Recall and is supposed to help you search for anything you ever saw on your PC. But I don't think anyone asked for it, and it doesn't take paranoia to wonder the actual reason behind it. Since it is tied in with their copilot AI, I'm guessing it is training. AI is always starving for data to train on.

Whatever the proper intentions, it is just waiting for the unscrupulous to use it to steal private data.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yet another reason to stay with Win10 ( not that it's anything close to perfect, but I know my way around it well enough ).

And as far as privacy goes, Apple is worse...

I don't have screen shots on my computers done by Apple.

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It is called Recall and is supposed to help you search for anything you ever saw on your PC. But I don't think anyone asked for it, and it doesn't take paranoia to wonder the actual reason behind it. Since it is tied in with their copilot AI, I'm guessing it is training. AI is always starving for data to train on.

Whatever the proper intentions, it is just waiting for the unscrupulous to use it to steal private data.

I read a bit about it and it sounds like that it's something that you need to opt into now; however, how long was it operating without possibly people knowing about the issue and/or being giving the option to opt out?  I believe (due to a bit of quick googling) that maybe June was when it was first introduced?  Sorry, getting tired now....

PD

[LKB]

I don't have screen shots on my computers done by Apple.

PD

Having worked at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. for four years, I would not be so confident.

While some of what I saw there ( such as their supercomputers ) was beyond cool, I was told or overheard enough to put me off of Apple forever, as far as their products are concerned.

[DavidW]

Having worked at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. for four years, I would not be so confident.

While some of what I saw there ( such as their supercomputers ) was beyond cool, I was told or overheard enough to put me off of Apple forever, as far as their products are concerned.

Do you expect Google to be better? (I'm thinking of Android.) At least on the iPhone, there is an automatic opt-out of third-party data collection.

[LKB]

Do you expect Google to be better? (I'm thinking of Android.) At least on the iPhone, there is an automatic opt-out of third-party data collection.

The fact is, any smartphone can potentially be vulnerable to third-party data collection using the phone's hardware, independent of the OS. To combat this, Apple started designing dynamic MAC addresses into iPhone some years ago, and Android  followed suit a couple of years afterward.

( Btw, Apple can track your iPhone whenever they feel a need to, regardless of any user settings or preferences. )

For maximum privacy, put your phone in an electrostatic bag before any brick-and-mortar shopping, and power it off when not actually in use.