I lost my voice while I was connecting with people in Las Vegas

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Yup, I looked at a few Ubuntu variants, not very deeply, but was trying to find something that would run acceptably on a Lenovo X60 laptop.

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Main Page - Linux Mint

Xubuntu

Peppermint - The Linux Desktop OS

Ubuntu MATE | For a retrospective future

If you have secrets on your computer, the last place you should take it is Geek Squad. Then again, maybe taking your iPhone to the Apple Genius may not be so smart, either.

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Troy Hunt: Apple's desensitisation of the human race to fundamental security practices

The FBI Is Apparently Paying Geek Squad Members To Dig Around In Computers For Evidence Of Criminal Activity | Techdirt

Ten years ago, I worked at Nokia when the iPhone was initially announced. I reflect on what the state of the art was in smartphones in 2007, which was NOT the iPhone, at least in terms of capabilities

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The iPhone is a piece of shit, and so is your face.

The Nokia E70 versus Apple iPhone

Nokia Responds to iPhone

The History of the iPhone, On Its 10th Anniversary | Internet History Podcast

While certain types of jobs have definitely left the United States, they may not be coming back, despite what the incoming President has claimed. That's because the problem is not entirely caused by shipping jobs overseas. The real reason will impact a lot more than just manufacturing.

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The Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation. - The New York Times

Those scientists who have dared to put forth serious arguments that sugar is very bad for us have been buried by the rest of the establishment. Even if they have lots of good science to back their claims up. Meanwhile, more and more of us are fat and have diabetes.

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The sugar conspiracy

John Legere, the CEO of T-Mobile US, accidentally tweeted out his one-time code for his Twitter account.

No harm done, and I'm glad he's using multi-factor authentication. You should be, too.

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How Multi-Factor Authentication Can Protect You Against the Unknown

This is not the first bug that resulted in iMessage being broken, but this locks it up pretty hard.

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There’s a crazy new iPhone bug that can crash your iMessage app for good – BGR

Yup, I got the Super Mario Run bug.

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It's been taken for granted that compelling someone to give up the passcode on their phone would be a violation of the Fifth Amendment in the US. A judge in Florida thought otherwise.

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Leaked files show what a Cellebrite phone extraction report looks like | ZDNet

Court Rules That Police Can Force You To Tell Them Your Phone’s Passcode – Consumerist