KeePass allows offline password management, though I am not sure if it supports card/ID autofill.

Bitwarden is mainly online only, but does support card/ID autofill and allows users to self-host their data if desired.

Not overly familiar with other password managers, but it would not surprise me if one of them out there has the best of both worlds.

But then wouldn’t this be “Apple prevents UK and 7 Eyes nations from spying on citizens?”

People in the UK are out of luck but the whole reason they’re turning off encryption there is to prevent governments from having a backdoor into their service.

The BBC article clarifies (not sure if NYT does as well, I can’t read it)

Users will have a grace period to opt out of encryption before their data is deleted. Apple states they do not have the ability to automatically unencrypt the data.

I know Apple is an American company but what does this have to do with the US?

I do not own a Steamdeck, but I will offer my hot take:

Medical professionals say that you should use your bed only for sleep and sex. Sitting/laying in bed at other times causes psychological associations with other activities that can interrupt its primary purpose.

I treat my gaming devices with a similar mindset. I have a work PC and a gaming PC, and never the twain shall meet. Not that I am worried about the enticing distraction of video games while trying to work, but rather when I settle down to play games, I want to do so with no distractions or thoughts of work. If I’m gaming on the same device that I spent all day working on, it’d be harder for me to feel disconnected from work, and my gaming experience would be diminished.

I’m sure this is not a problem for many out there, but that’s my own preference that has served me well for a number of years now.

Didn’t Signal get big after Musk endorsed it? What gives?

That veers into subjective territory, though. From your example, going to a vegan community and declaring that you don’t believe veganism is sustainable would be seen by most as not contributing to discussion, but just trying to troll or incite a flame war. I’d consider that detrimental and downvote.

On the other hand, asking “How can we make vegan lifestyles more sustainable?” would be something worth upvoting.

Communities are not necessarily places where people go to debate or have deep discussions, often it’s just to find solidarity and meme out with good vibes. I’m not going to go to the Elden Ring community and say “Elden Ring is trash”, even if that’s a valid opinion for someone to have, because that’s not really the right place to have that kind of discussion.

Guessing it’s likely due to Apple’s approval process. You can try to patch 1 major issue but they won’t approve an update unless it also adds compatibility for all of their new standards and features.

Not to say that’s unreasonable of Apple, but if the game’s not making money on that platform anymore I can understand the decision to just pull it rather than sink more resources into supporting it in perpetuity.

Plus it’s just not a good remaster anyways, they really bungled up the multiplayer capability. I don’t think anything of value has been lost.

Why remake perfection?

For me it’s a combination of them making games that all seem to represent everything wrong in modern gaming, coupled with all of the sexual misconduct among their leadership that they covered up and have still not been held accountable for.

Just be careful, some soaps can have abrasive elements. Not simply like, microbead stuff that companies try to use to make microplastics sound healthy, but many soaps with trace minerals or similar. Good for dead skin but can scuff up lenses over time.

I’m suggesting that if Trump wants to cross the Rubicon, let Trump be the one to cross it. No need to meet him on the other side first.

In theory yes, Google should face no consequences for publishing an inaccurate map. There’s actually an old tradition of publishing maps with at least 1 inaccuracy in order to catch forgeries, which has never been a legal issue in the US. It shouldn’t be any more controversial than a published document choosing to call Jerusalem “Al-Quds”

In practice, I imagine Trump will throw a tantrum and try to argue that Google doesn’t have the right to say no to him. And if that’s the stance he wants to take, disregarding the constitutional protections that Google ought to have, let his administration waste time and resources arguing that in the courts. If he wins, then we can all stop pretending the constitution means anything, and if he loses, it’s a blow to his ego, resources wasted, and we can turn the focus on other companies to say they have an ethical obligation to change the names back.

Why wouldn’t it? Google’s just a company, not an arm of the government. At best, maybe there is some sort of accreditation process to have their maps called “authentic” or “accurate” or whatnot, but I’ve never heard of any US law that penalizes the publication of an inaccurate map.

I mean, they are to an extent. The laws of the US are ostensibly supposed to allow citizens to call things whatever they want. If the government wants to throw a hissy fit and say the constitution is meaningless after all, let them do it. At least then we could give up all of the pretense that they are supposed to care about what it says.

Can we keep this specific to Rampart?

I’d say you’d have a point if FromSoft didn’t just publish two major games within a year of each other (Elden Ring, Armored Core) and then a game-sized DLC on top of that.

Could Nightreign have just been another Elden Ring DLC instead? I don’t know, maybe. But it’s not priced as a full game and I’m not sure why people expect it to be one.

A lot of other AI models can say the same, though. Facebook’s is. Xitter’s is. Still wouldn’t trust those at all, or any other model that publishes no reproduceable code.

Deepseek is not open source.

I am hoping that is the case, but I do have to say that this one boggles the mind just a little bit to be launching without significant features that the previous games had like hotseat multiplayer and limited era games.

I think storefronts should take an extra 10% cut of any early access title sold, added to a pool to be later returned to the developer as a payout once the game officially launches. That way they still get some cash inflow while development is still ongoing but there’s financial incentive to actually finish the game eventually.