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Also, some programs, such as many terminal emulators, can cache you PW so you don't have to enter it multiple times.

Terminal emulators don't (or at least shouldn't) do any such thing. sudo itself is responsible for letting you do privilege escalation without password for some time after successfully passing once - whenever you run it and successfully authenticate, it saves your user id, current time and a session identifier (each open shell gets a unique identifier) into a file. Then, when you attempt to do anything, it will check this file to see if you've if you've authenticated within the last few minutes in this terminal, and only ask for a password if you haven't.

For more info, see man sudoers_timestamp

As others said, configure your browser to store as few cookies as you can tolerate (because some actually useful stuff will break without them) and forget about these banners.

Although I do enjoy the ones that have actual usable toggles for "legitimate interests" - how nice of them, giving me an option to disable even cookies they can legally store with just a notice, and definitely not just hiding non-essential cookies into a vaguely defined category.

So I always go through the list and disable them one by one. It does nothing but waste my time, but I do it out of spite. Oh, and when I feel like really wasting my time, I send a bug report to whatever support email I can find on the site, about how the cookie banner accidentally let me disable essential cookies and should probably be fixed.

I've explained my reasoning for all the points I disagree with. Which one do you have a problem with? CS:GO? The last version of CS:GO is still available on Steam and fully playable, the only missing part is matchmaking servers - you can play with bots or on third party servers without any problems. That seems far from gone.

CS:GO got a controversial update and got renamed. Old versions are still available under CS2, you just can't use Valve's servers anymore. Playing old versions on private servers is possible. But OK, I give you half a point for this one - you can't play matchmaking with old smoke physics anymore (but then again, it's not like it's the first CS:GO update to change the gameplay in a fundamental way).

Moving on, Artifact. It's in my library, ready to be played - Valve definitely didn't "make me lose Artifact" like you claimed. The community is dead, but there are still 40 people playing right now according to SteamDB and servers are up. One point down for easily verifiable lie.

And finally, Team Fortress 1. I assume you don't mean the Valve's game called Team Fortress Classic, because that one is still available for purchase on the Steam Store and oscillates between 40 and 100 active players at any time. So that leaves us with Team Fortress, a mod for Quake. But that one is available from ModDB without any problems, so... What's the issue supposed to be, exactly? No points, because I have no idea if there's more to your claim.

Hint: blatantly lying about some points heavily undermines the other points you make. So at least try to be subtle.

It should not be controlled by a company that is known to make you lose your games.

Are you referring to the fact that Valve promotes digital game distribution (which is a very fair view), or are you talking about some incident where Valve removed games from people's libraries? Because if it's the second one, then I would really like to hear about it.

Are you sure you didn't set DNS directly on some/all of your devices? Because in that case they won't care about the router settings and will use whatever you set them to.

Also as the other commenter said, DNS changes might not propagate to other devices on the network until the next time they connect - a reboot or unplugging the cable from your computer for a few seconds is a dirty but pretty OS agnostic way to do that.

I feel like the ingest system will be sophisticated enough to throw away pieces of text that begin with a message like "ChatGPT says". Probably even stuff that follows the "paragraph with assumptions and clarifications followed by a list followed by a brief conclusion" structure - everything old has been ingested already, and most of the new stuff containing this is probably AI generated.

I had a similar opinion when I was buying that phone - pretty much every phone had a fingerprint scanner and people generally didn't complain about them, so decent scanners should have been mass produced and cheap - but HMD/Nokia managed to make me reconsider that opinion.

For context, Nokia 5.3 is a 3 or 4 years old model, so it definitely doesn't disprove your statement, but I remain sceptical.

If a thief knows your PIN (by watching an earlier unlock), Android is now requiring “biometrics for accessing and changing critical Google account and device settings, like changing your PIN, disabling theft protection or accessing Passkeys, from an untrusted location.”

Sounds great for Pixel 6 series with their reportedly highly reliable fingerprint sensors /s

Honestly, I'm not sure what to think about this - extra protection against unauthorized access is good, but requiring biometric verification with no apparent alternative irks me the wrong way.

Maybe that's just because of my experiences with Nokia 5.3 and its awful rear fingerprint sensor with like 10% success rate. But then again, there will eventually be phones with crappy sensors running Android 15.

The downside is that you're then zooming in on the compression artifacts and all the "enhancements" we've all learned to "love" over the past decade (thanks, Google!), while the in-app zoom probably works with raw image data before zooming in.

Oh sorry, I understood your comment as saying that you couldn't get weather info with GadgetBridge because of its somewhat unique architecture. If you're using a different companion app then apps for GadgetBridge probably won't work.

Also I'm not familiar with Pebble, I'm just assuming it works similarly to other GadgetBridge-supported watches / bands like the Mi Band I use.

GadgetBridge is not really against supporting online-only functions, it just can't be part of the main app. Weather Providers is what you're looking for.