Riskable

For a history of Dumb Restrictions on Media (aka DRM):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

This fight goes way, way back. Microsoft worked with the media industry in the early 2000s to create a fully-encrypted media input/output pipeline for PCs in order to combat Linux adoption. Microsoft knew that it would be impossible for open source software to decrypt the media streams without making the encryption keys available so they went way out of their way to make sure things like HDCP would “protect” the media being played back on a PC from “illegal” copying.

It starts with the TPM module in your motherboard/processor and continues outward all the way though to your HDMI monitor (which has to have the hardware keys necessary to decrypt the content).

BTW: The keys for HDMI HDCP have long since been leaked so you can now cheaply and easily buy all sorts of HDMI capture devices on the cheap from places like AliExpress (they don’t ask any questions). Get one of those and your PC won’t even know that you’re capturing screenshots.

I dunno. What kind of service can you get with LowG™?

This text reads like it was written by a high schooler doing a (lame) project. Better headline: “New project at Google tests whether or not humans can tell if a blog article was written by AI”

Aside: Stay-at-home parents have useful skills! They know how to deal with toddlers and tantrums so they’re perfect for handling most IT support activities 👍

I changed the pads at around ~120,000 miles and sold the car not too long after that at ~130,000 miles.

Yet another reason why EVs and hybrids are better: Regenerative braking.

I had my Prius for 17 years and in that time I replaced my brake pads once… Because they expired (LOL). At in, they just got so old that they started to become brittle.

Still had about 1/3rd of their material remaining.

Market shows that hype is a cycle and the AI hype is nearing its end.