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gtvwill
3y ago
That's called impersonating an officer and is wholly illegal af. Those services whilst available are asking for a knock on the door from folks way nastier than your local cop shop. Rip. That's got state entity attraction written a
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gtvwill
3y ago
Holding information that is integral to a criminal investigation hostage to a fee. That's criminal af. Jailtime should be the only answer. Legit I'm gonna crack a bottle of champagne the day that holding companies criminally liabl
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3y ago
Just require police presence. Pretty easy to get around. Use third party aka police to verify validity. The firm involved in this should have its board thrown in jail (vw and their contractor). Holding investigative information related to
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gtvwill
3y ago
Most car companies share models with other companies just re badged. E.g. Toyota 86/subaru brz. Holden astra/opel. Tbh most car companies actually design and release bugger all. Toyota for example have run basically the same model
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gtvwill
3y ago
Devices get a fail for repairability. So yes there is more to performance than cores. For instance the entire Mac lineup are mostly unrepairable e-waste in the making with excessively wasteful design choices behind them. The company has a a
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gtvwill
3y ago
Bs. Not sure why you think it but every system has cloud backup these days, folks regularly broadcast multiple video streams at once from home and a plethora of other activities that require upload. Please stop spreading such misinformation
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gtvwill
3y ago
By formula you mean bot farm...
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gtvwill
3y ago
You'd still expect to see them in the offices. Some of these places run > 10'000 devices. All dell. Not a Lenovo on site. Maybe dell just had a better salesman up this neck of the woods. I was a Lenovo and Dell tech at the time
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gtvwill
3y ago
Have fixed multiple hundreds of laptops over about a decade across hundreds of clients. I've literally seen one ThinkPad the whole time. It had some weird ass 1.8 inch storage drive down one of the side rails of the chassis which is wh
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gtvwill
3y ago
More e-waste for their portfolio! Repairable devices with long term use planned on inanimate and dumb components or gtfo apple. The companies ethics towards waste and repairability/reuseability is non-existent.
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gtvwill
3y ago
Started with inserting their referral links into clicks way back in the early years. https://decrypt.co/31522/crypto-brave-browser-redirect stuff like this.
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gtvwill
3y ago
They realized they were gonna get bad looks for it so they covered that shiz up as if it were a mistake. Marketing damage control.
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gtvwill
3y ago
Why would you want to? Existing cars suck to work on compared to an electric. Ice needs too many parts it's inefficient for moving vehicles. Legit ditch all that running gear and give me hub motors on suspension arms. That's it. D
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gtvwill
3y ago
Ran a rpi for well > 1yr running Ubuntu server and 3cx off the SD card. Longest uptime was like 90+ days only dropped because my town regularly has power outages. Same card had been in use for a good year prior on another rpi doing a dif
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gtvwill
3y ago
Yeah nah two wheels > 1. My kids are accident prone af so I'll give em any help they can get to mitigate that lol. But also the Honda appeals because it's a big brand. With that comes a lot of users and hopefully lots of mods.
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gtvwill
3y ago
I've been daydreaming of stacking a 5 pack of em in the boot for family use exploring places during weekends away. Kids would have an absolute ball ripping around on one of those.
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gtvwill
3y ago
Is the answer capitalism? Because I'm pretty sure it's entirely capitalism. Regulated markets under the guise of free protect profits of the few at the cost of the masses. 2023 and y'all still don't have free universal h
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gtvwill
3y ago
Eh no surprises. Apples grossly predatory on many fronts. No surprises they give zero pucks about data integrity for users. Your a cash cow not something their genuinely trying to help.
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gtvwill
3y ago
Apple also operates in Australia. Which by law means they can and almost certainly are backdoored by our intelligence community and they aren't allowed to let you know. Most of these one touch zero day attacks are left there for the us
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gtvwill
3y ago
Braj I spent 9 months surrounded by bushfire smoke and I live in a traditionally no fire rainforest region. Imma get the shits if you don't take this as seriously as I do because the consequences of not doing so have reared their heads
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gtvwill
3y ago
https://www.cabac.com.au/p/cable-wire-management/cable-ties-... Don't let any cable try and flex it's authority on you. Use biggest thickest zip ties you can + a set of pliers to yank the zip tie closed.
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gtvwill
3y ago
DW there is help. As someone who started in dumpster rack gear you too can come to realize you can probably get more grunt and use out of a pegboard with half a dozen nucs or old laptops screwed to it than a 42u decade old heating unit. The
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gtvwill
3y ago
Dead set. Until other companies get ontop of their waste/longevity/upgrade paths. They can duck right off. Frame work laptops or nothing. Ethics of waste > everything else. Apple is a e-waste machine along with dell and hp. The
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gtvwill
3y ago
Just go into a pub west of the Great divide and slap down a few beers over fri-sun. You'll have a job by Monday if you chat to a few locals. Probably start up north at the moment its a bit cool for down south. Do 5 to 6 months harvest
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gtvwill
3y ago
Lol who cares? Stop trying to monetize everything. God darn I can't wait until scarcity of knowledge is obliterated by ai. Copyright kills innovation and culture. Nobody gets paid. Stop thinking you need to be paid for everything. Ai e
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3y ago
I mean, what kind of OS company would want to build software for another companies competing os??? ... https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/microsoft-corporation/id... :)
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gtvwill
3y ago
Well if they were really for productivity they would have made all their software offerings over the last 20 years cross platform in order to allow users of other systems to feel such amazing productivity boosts. But they didnt, they walled
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gtvwill
3y ago
Lol no they wouldn't or they'd have done it ten years ago. Apple is after your dollars they care nothing for what's better for you for productivity or any ethics outside of profit really. Their actions over the last 20 years
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gtvwill
3y ago
Because the guy is literally parroting waffle from right wing propaganda machines as if it's well thought out commentary. When it's not. It's just blatant propaganda with disregard for the truth. "A blockbuster new inves
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gtvwill
3y ago
Yeah it's not. It's right wing propaganda trying to pass off the disregard of right wing propaganda by the wider community as some kind of attack on free speech when in truth we are just sick of the bs lies and manipulation and lo
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