Wingman4l7

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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Then Sony got sued in a class-action for removing support for OtherOS!
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
The program is still BS, and was only even done solely to head off Right-to-Repair legislation which was not going Apple's way. Board-level repair is pretty crucial for data recovery when the hardware manufacturer insists on soldering
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Not for much longer if Apple has their way -- they've been pioneering "parts pairing", which would kill third-party repair: https://www.ifixit.com/News/69320/how-parts-pairing-kills-in...
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
...or they'll just cut out the behavior training part, and we'll have Sleep Dealer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_Dealer
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
It's a tactic that's been abused by third-party sellers for a long time now. They list a product, organize a bunch of paid-for 5-star reviews on another platform (you buy the product, submit a 5-star review, and they refund you t
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
There's also the old concept of spun liquid mirrors, (1994, Amateur Scientist column of Scientific American): https://optica.machorro.net/Optica/SciAm/LiquidMirror/1994-0...
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Mobile-first has become mobile-only, especially for apps that love to abuse smartphone permissions to collect data about you. This just feels like a natural extension of that priority.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
For anyone who works in electronics refurbishing or recycling, it rings extremely hollow as corporate greenwashing, because Apple devices are notoriously and increasingly hard to repair, and getting impossible to reuse due to software inter
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
As someone who did something similar and also practiced underwater a little, holding your breath while sitting in a chair or even walking around the house a little is substantially less exertion than swimming / diving.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
I've never seen a disk connector failure, but I've constantly seen disk failures. Soldering your disk to your mainboard also makes the cost (and odds of failure) of data recovery much higher.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
We already have... they've destroyed reparability by soldering in the SSD and the RAM, and they turn into soft-bricked e-waste every time someone donates one and doesn't remove their Apple cloud account first.
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
As someone who bought a ~$150 knockoff plotter, I wouldn't recommend them unless you're unsure and just dipping your toe into the hobby. The plot quality will suffer -- even small amounts of backlash or slop in the mechanism and
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by Wingman4l7 3y ago
Where is the MECC for the 21st century? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECC
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
"Reasonable proof of legitimate ownership" translates to "record of first-sale purchase directly from Apple" only , from every example I have seen. They have steadfastly refused to differentiate between the concepts of
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Activation locks are all server-side; they control if these expire or are enabled -- so they already have a backdoor inside every device, essentially.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
More greenwashing garbage from Apple, a company that has been building devices with notoriously and deliberately poor repairability for years, and more recently, has been taking a giant shit on first-sale doctrine by refusing to provide any
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
There are a couple well-followed free utilities that turn off all the Windows telemetry and clean up the junk from a fresh Windows install. They're trusted by communities that would instantly abandon them if they showed signs of &quot
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Sounds like Aereo -- I saw them referenced in this Ars article from the Wikipedia page on Zediva's court case: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/why-johnny-cant-...
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
There was a company that didn't even do the "middle" part VidAngel did (the DRM breaking) which probably muddied VidAngel's case -- Zediva. You just rented an actual DVD player with the actual DVD in it, which they stre
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Just because making something that enables novice-computer-user bad actors is trivial, does not somehow justify it being ethical to do so. What if we just... thought twice about making it this easy?
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Boston's got some of the solar-powered ones, I've seen them late 2022: https://blog.eink.com/bostons-ink Looks like they were also using them for transit at one point, but I haven't seen these myself: https:
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Yep, there are some Chinese manufacturers making them; I occasionally see information popping up on them on e-reader devices news websites. As you can see though, still not cheap.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Reading this exhaustive list, I couldn't help but think... this is what regulators are for . They're supposed to do all this homework so that the individual consumer doesn't have to, because they couldn't possibly hope
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Of course not -- but you still have to put in the effort to "just look at it". They set the bar on that effort extremely low, taking an exploit that required expertise to deploy, and put it in the hands of anyone who could operat
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Why the hell is this exploit being fully provided for use via a handy-dandy web interface? An image /cleanup/ tool is one thing... this is very irresponsible.
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
The key takeaway here: Access is king. I would bet that every time some stupid licensing agreement expires and a TV / movie streaming service has to remove content from their platform -- content people reasonably expected to be there,
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
> King County Jail in Seattle What's notably bad about this one?
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
There was already a baseless suit by a very sue-happy Silicon Valley lawyer -- a clear money grab -- which appears to have been largely dropped after an initial hearing did not seem to go their way. I wouldn't be surprised if this is
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Indeed -- very frustrating. It has been commonly understood that the holy grail, "room temperature superconductivity", always has also implied ambient pressures (or at the very least, pressures not requiring a diamond anvil) .
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by Wingman4l7 4y ago
Sounds like something the "DoNotPay" robo-paperwork-response startup guy Joshua Browder would be interested in implementing: https://twitter.com/donotpay

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