There is nothing short of non-fascistic government-forced bankcrupcy sell off that will actually make it cheap, so… I feel it is a pipe dream

It is sad and mystically abysmally ironic that all the books written about dystopias are seemingly being read as manuals

There is definitely an amount of valid secrecy in positions of power, half of politics would collapse if they couldnt corroborate their eggs in order in their coop. With regards to authority that defines what should be publicly auditable, it’s rather a chicken and egg situation.

Before I hatch any more puns, generally politician’s privacy at work, or anything related to their position << civilian privacy should be definitely the case. I do like the idea.

SecureErase would overwrite the whole drive (potentially multiple times). So if the ssd was close to dead, it might have just triggered it.

I think the healthy approach is to let it play out, and stop “meddling” as usual with the “free” market. Everybody’s observing free market karma at play. Let it happen, as much as it will. All those intel mbas deserve it completely.

So far AMD has a good history of not being evil.

Making more walled gardens would probably only polarize society more, not help it. But the emotion is understandable.

Refer to other comment. They don’t see “VPN traffic”, they see encrypted tunnels between two ports to some offshore vps. At best, they see a header saying “openvpn”. The article is alluding to the country effectively wanting to crack down on encrypted tunnels (because you cannot discriminate VPNs from them). At best, maybe they’re just christofascist idiots.

Fair enough

if the LGBTQ+ games were not sexual in nature (why does it not say?), then that is quite damning and I approve of this conspiracy theory.

Since fiat currencies are not connected to gold… no problem?

I wouldn’t define flipping coins as decision making. Especially when it comes to blanket governmental policy that has the potential to kill (or severely disable) millions of people.

You seem to not want any people to teach you anything. And are somehow completely dejected at such perceived actions.

LLM does no decision making. At all. It spouts (as you say) bullshit. If there is enough training data for “Trump is divine”, the LLM will predict that Trump is divine, with no second thought (no first thought either). And it’s not even great to use as a language-based database.

Please don’t even consider LLMs as “AI”.

Your argument becomes idiotic once you understand the actual technology. The AI bullshit machine’s agenda is “give nice answer” (“factual” is not an idea that has neural center in the AI brain), and “make reader happy”. The human “bullshit” machine, has many agendas, but it would have not got so far if it was spouting just happy bullshit (but I guess America is a becoming a very special case).

Correct. You’re right, without context (or as you put it - living under a rock) one comes to the wrong conclusion.

Since this sublemmy doesn’t have any requirement for the title to be the same as the source, can we actually have a correct title: “Microsoft abides to laws in EU and does <…>”, or even better “Microsoft is forced under EU law to <…>”.

The title makes it appear as if it’s out of charity and goodness of their corporate heart. (Fabrication)

Well barely. Their given reason is it’s “not mission critical” which is a statement veeeeryyy far from “We are doing it out of spite for electric cars” or “We want our oil narrative to hold from our highest echelons of social hierarchy” or whatever other insane reason

That’s just ridiculous. To spend money to remove infrastructure, out of hidden spite.

Definitely not the friends 🫥

Since it’s from china, some security trust issues aside, musing from perspectives of OnePlus and Onyx Boox, yep, you completely control the device and what you put on it.

I think you have been lulled into submission by the decades-long “Let’s make it really complicated to repair for no reason other than profits” narrative. This is exactly how devices should look. This is exactly how your TV, radio looked 30 years ago. Easy to disassemble, diagrams on the bloody box, extra fuses, relays if one blows.

Hell, this is exactly how your desktop looked and still looks. Lots of extra screws, replaceable parts. Easy to disassemble (not even using screws for the panels).