A guess/suggestion:

You have an app with a private key. The qr code contains data encrypted with the corresponding public key. Your app decrypts the data and transmits it to googles servers, proving you are in possession of the secret key.

you have at your disposal all the tools you need to learn the answer to that question within a minute

That would be great, but AI detection doesn’t work reliably at all.

Here’s a study https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s40979-023-00146-z#Sec19

a HDD can fail at any given time. It could fail within a week of buying it, could last over a decade.

What I’m saying is, if you have data you don’t want to lose, yes you should be worried. Keeping backups is the only safe option.

Windows 11

how I imagine this interview:

is it the precious?

That is some serious fourh wall shit, with the sunlight blurring the subtitles.

Oh wow that is a punishment outweighing the crime if I’ve ever heard one.

Our definitions of “fun” must differ quite significantly :|

yes, yes it was

we made literally and figuratively mean the same thing!

not exactly, it should happen automatically if nothing goes wrong or any instances are modified as to disable deletion.

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oh no, now I will always read K-app names in a german voice. Specifically this guys voice https://youtu.be/WpiYnupud34

footgun, Arch, how?

wtf

There is always an xkcd!

So many times I google something obscure, the top result is the same question asked on some forum with a single reply, “just google it”

doesn’t the nas use spinning rust?