Greetings fellow human!

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There should be no bailouts without an equivalent equity transfer from the bailee to the government

Incoming FOX “we’re just an entertainment network” defense in 3, 2, 1

Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

Because it’s done in the open and it’s accepted as part of the cost of the device. This is an expected consequence of our adtech surveillance economy where devices are now subsidized because they can harvest data about you, your usage and your behavior to sell on an ongoing basis. We’ve been screaming about these sorts of practices since the late 90s and consumers have just blithered right along with every new and creepy intrusion because they get cheap things and don’t think about the real costs or consequences. And so … Here we are.

I’m just waiting for them to add a sideband channel to some LoRa network so they can exfiltrate data even when their devices are “offline”

The neoliberals of the 13th and 14th century

Provided you paid your tribute and obeyed the Khan’s laws they were cool with just about everyone. Fail to do either of those things and you’re in for a bad time.

Interesting that the one has such large capacitors in it. I imagine that is as last-ditch effort to keep the board powered long enough to finish flushing all of its caches in the event of a power failure.

That’s exactly the point of power loss protection (aka PLP.) As a side effect of not needing to wait for a flush after a write synchronous write workloads are dramatically faster on enterprise drives with PLP.

Edit: To add a bit of detail - you don’t need to wait for a flush after a synchronous write with PLP because the drive firmware can lie and immediately return from a flush call because there’s enough backup power to complete that flush if the power were cut.

Hell even Costco probably has photo paper

There are sequels?

https://thehardtimes.net/blog/stolen-valor-this-guy-got-his-marlboro-windbreaker-from-a-vintage-store-and-not-from-smoking-cigarettes/

I mean, it’s pretty straightforward to run sting buy operations and then go after the platform selling illegal products. I’m surprised there isn’t an ATF taskforce devoted to combing the usual internet marketplaces and then filing federal charges.

How else are they going to maximize wealth extraction?

I don’t use Samsung unless I plan to unlock and root the device. I have 70+ apps disabled on my Samsung tablet and it’s finally usable. Hopefully someone else comes along with a high spec OLED tablet sometime soon so I can stop buying Galaxy Tab S devices.

I for one support the AI centipede and hope it shits into it’s own input until it dies

I’m waiting for someone to knock it over with their car and shoot it, that’s the American way after all

It’s mostly fine on my phone, just go landscape to see the broken bit

You’re just now noticing?

Acquire large amounts of polonium