In the meantime, you can turn off a lot of Google’s tracking, or at least their record keeping. Make sure you’ve disabled all of the tracking you can.

I won’t speak to how the UK does things, but in the US this would make for an easier criminal charge.

It can be difficult to prove that someone stole (or is about to steal) a car, or broke in to steal the contents. This is especially true if they weren’t apprehended in or with the vehicle itself. But if they are arrested on suspicion, and one of these devices is found on them, they can very easily be prosecuted for possession of criminal tools. It’s similar to how we normies can’t legally own a lockpicking kit unless we’re locksmiths.

Not removed - never added to the US designs. They were added afterwards to models being sold in places that require them.

Part of the issue is that studios have been actively trying to screw over the theaters, for the same reason. Everyone feels entitled to all of the profits, and does everything in their power to hoard it from everyone else.

Last I checked, the studio basically gets 100% of the ticket price. This can happen directly, or indirectly (theater buys the film for a set price, based on expected sales). This typically means the entire theater operations have to survive on concession sales alone.

That’s the cost of rent, marketing, administration, cleaning, maintenance, and more. All of this from your $10 popcorn and $8 coke, for 2 hours. That means a lot of corners have to be cut, making it harder to justify the cost of going in the first place.

It also means that Disney is happy to sell you the same movie on streaming, but only if they can get the same $15 apiece.

It’s true for all brands, but especially true for Lenovo - the enterprise machines are nothing like the consumer-grade crap.

A lot of people will incorrectly shorten it, and even pass it on with the error. But the advice isn’t to get a Lenovo; it’s to get a Thinkpad. Do not get an IdeaPad, or whatever other names they use for the cheap crap. Get a Thinkpad.

It’s a similar story with HP’s Omen vs Elitebook and Dell’s Inspiron/Vostro vs Latitude. The enterprise line is very different in every way.

This report draws no distinction between them, as evidenced in the one section that lists models.

As for repairability, I’ve always found it easy to find the HMM for Thinkpads. My experience is limited, but they’ve also been relatively easy to disassemble and reassemble.

I think you have that backwards. Shitty and enshittified devices have to connect to a web service, because you can’t communicate with them directly behind NAT.

That said, the two are largely unrelated. You could usually setup port forwarding, and IPv6 is common. But the real reason it gets enshitified is because of profits to be had by making it a subscription service.

In order to do business in Mexico, they must agree to Mexican laws.

In order to do business in Canada, they must follow Canadian laws.

In order to do business in the US, they must follow US laws kiss the ring.

This isn’t the first time big tech has had to tackle something like this. Usually it’s with disputed territory. In that case, each region gets to see what it demands to see, while presenting something different to the rest of the world.

Here’s the universal link:

https://lemmy.ca/post/39050251

2 upvotes (including mine), 8 downvotes.

I’ve found it to have extremely limited value, but not zero. It’s been useful as a shortcut for things I can already do myself. For instance, I can easily get syntax for a param block, or build a window form. Could I do it myself? Absolutely, and pretty easily. And I can recognize when it’s right vs wrong. But it’s marginally faster to have copilot do it instead of digging up the documentation.

It’s more like a party trick than a trillion dollar revolution. The $20/month for a full time dev is probably around the break even point for the labor savings. It’s not going to save THAT much time.

It seems that some people don’t get the joke. At least, I assume it’s a joke.

I mean, the summary did list Grindr…

I post this every time someone is looking for “free speech”, and it has been completely relevant every single time.

https://m.xkcd.com/1357/

I have no need for a truck, and I still considered getting one. The Lightning is very impressive all around.

It makes more sense if you start from the other side - EVs are a niche market, and an electric truck is a small subset of that.

The Cybertruck sold 38,965 units last year, vs 33,510 for the Ford F150 Lightning.

This is almost always relevant as soon as someone complains about free speech, censorship, etc:

https://m.xkcd.com/1357/

Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t most of them available as containers? Why would you need any hypervisor support beyond containers?

The delay on USB was to let the industry standardize on its own. The EU hinted to all manufacturers that they needed to standardize. Then it outright stated. Then because Apple was run by pricks, the EU had to legislate USB-C to force it.

Now, when something better comes along (like when mini USB gave way to micro USB, then to USB-C), there will need to be new legislation to allow that connector.

The batteries don’t live in isolation. There are other pieces that are dependent, whether for basic function or for calibration.

Example: Chevy issued a recall for mislabeling some Bolts as N2.1 vs N2.2. The fix is a sharpie to fix the label, and “reprogramming the Hybrid Powertrain Control Module 2”. I could find no information on either of these chemistries. Dropping in a LiFePO4 would require at least the same, and possibly more.

Now, if you’re suggesting simply swapping a matching replacement part (obsolete as it might be), then I’m on board with that