Well, now that you bring it up…

If you want that, just light up the first and last LED always.

I’ve had the thought that if I were to design a psyop campaign, a pretty solid option for dominating the discussion would be to come out swinging and accuse everyone else of being an agent. That way, people have to either constantly defend against accusations, or they conclude, rightly, the accusations are baseless and decide to disregard the very idea that there is a psyop going on.

Ah, right, I got my acronyms confused.

VS? Wasn’t x86-64 originally an ARM creation?

Sure, but that’s usually done through a UPS cabinet, not on an individual device level.

Appliances that don’t depower when unplugged sound like an incredibly bad idea.

More like a formed plastic sheet with contact pads glued on the underside. The whole keyboard was just a PCB, plastic casing, and a button sheet.

So what you’re saying is, the complaint about China spying on people boils down to piracy?

Oh, sure, especially if it’s the same few users. It’s just mildly surprising to not even run into them.

Really? You never ran into the endless “…furthermore, .ml must be defederated” posts?

There’s always the worst possible option: they’re true believers. They genuinely believe the rest of the world is freeloading on the US, and that (atlas) shrugging them off will make everyone else collapse.

Man, it’s like they’re allergic to common standards