Can confirm, both are an extension of Corporatocracy and the abortion of privacy.

Can you tell us more about these Bad Actors? Are they in the room with us, right now?

You sound fun at parties. Circular firing squad, much?

Fwiw, several generations of Windows notebooks have suffered from nasty sleep bugs where they wake themselves up from sleep, and drain their batteries while clamshelled in a book bag. Used to happen with my work Dells almost monthly. Microsoft’s announced win11 fix for it is one of the loudest and most venerated I’ve heard, in living memory.

Best I ever got out of the deal was a spicy pillow, no breach, and I’ve been unable to find any articles about any rash of laptop explosions which would have had very high visibility.

It sounds like you have also been as lucky as I have. May we all hope to escape the fires, a little longer.

Yes, but our gear should have sensors that know when thermal transfer is sustainably going to impact the batteries.

I’m sorry, you lost me at the ‘Legal Entity’ bit, that one always sounds like SovCit kool-aid. Got to be careful with that one, with so many libertarian crazies afoot.

Agreed! The shocking part for me is how few folks are forgetting the most basic tenets of high school econ, supply and demand.

They’re aren’t 8 billion used pixels to go around, and if there were… GOOGLE WOULD BUILD MORE. It’s an ineffective boycott.

This joining gets me a lot of downvotes on Reddit, but I’m telling you, GOS acolytes are the cross-fitters of the degoogling world.

That still drives sales and demand for future manufactured Pixels… Google thanks you for your patronage.

My gods, I love those. We should link to some.

Most other countries don’t have to rely on the antiquated network the US uses for resolving those bank to bank transactions. In South korea, Street vendors have what looks like a phone number posted on signage around their Wares or snacks and people just make effectively debit pushes from their bank to the merchant’s bank in real time with zero margins.

I kind of expect this is how the rest of the world operates and it’s only the us then sits on using its own infrastructure which it made one time, in the 1960s, and has refused to move off of since. This created a lot of the market need for a bunch of private companies to make their own little piggybacking solutions like venmo, zelle, square cash, and all the others.

Too be fair, a lot of major businesses in the US now just exist as financialization institutions extending debt to their large-scale clientele, under the guise of being manufacturing or data services. Like GM. Or Oracle.

Bazzite, all night. I’ll fortune to transition towards Linux but I still need the sad, commercial and technical predictability of Windows for some time longer.

Give me LTSC or give me death!

Mr Jonathon Swift over here, it took me a moment to recognize your Proposal was Modest, given Poe’s Law.

Perhaps it is an ESL thing? We were using it in the States in the 90’s to describe a hardware authenticator key on parallel port that allowed CAD software to run, in a drafting class.

Later (00’s) i heard it used for all manner of peripheral USB accessories.

I’m trying to imagine what the gimmick would be.

You’re getting downdooted, but I was stuck on rereading that nonsensical sentence, as well, and I’m glad it was clarified.

Business as usual, I see. There but by the grace of the gods go we all.

100% of the phones I purchase include the SIM slot. No joke.

I want even aware iPhone users lost this ability with the iPhone 14 and beyond, until your remark. I’m so sorry. :(

“These assholes included an antenna and SIM slot again!?! HTC did that last season. So unoriginal.”

Is it a Manifest v3 thing?

People keep recommending Chromium based browsers, as if Google can’t cut them off from further security updates at will, just like they are screwing with AOSP releases …

My own mother (pensioner) sent me the video asking “is this real?” But could only follow the first minutes of it.

I lol’d at that part and had to explain the brilliance of it. Then she lol’d, too.

It’s nice to share in the shadows humor, as a family, while we feel our liberties erode.

There is now enough adjacent cctv coverage to follow your approach and exit from the scene of the crime. The rush is that another Flock camera is used to identify, and then make an example out of you or me.