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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case
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What they were doing to ThinkPads could only be explained by being hostile to the idea in principle. Not making them cheaper to produce or better sellable, but just worse preserving some obscene resemblance in looks.
What's interesting is how up until relatively recent time Lenovo was considered one of the better ones, despite more than a decade having passed since them having shown it all.
As if everyone were seeing what they're doing, their quality, their business practices and so on, but just because of subconscious association with IBM and claimed good Linux support just ignoring that.
Anyway. I'm starting to understand Apple fanboys. That kind of thing it doesn't do.
Except I don't understand how something about OS functions reentrancy and memory allocation seems to evade their developers, because I sometimes encounter bugs in my hobbies that are reminiscent of Windows or Linux or *BSDs or even Haiku like 20 years ago.
People criticize how sound works in Linux, while in MacOS a userspace program can make a sound device or a network device stuck till reboot. I mean, the only piece of software that kinda bugs me on this, pun intended, is TCL/Tk, but it can't possibly be a TCL/Tk bug if no process survives and it only happens after a TCL/Tk script has been run and interpreter abruptly ended. I'm also not blaming the OS for one problem with my hobby project, I'm a crappy C programmer after all, but the way this reproduces or doesn't makes me also suspect an OS bug.
And what's the most amazing, I've been reading about such terrible bugs for like 10 years, some of them are the same.
And it's still far more convenient than Windows and probably than Linux or some of *BSDs for me. That is, compared to Windows it's just more convenient. With other Unices the problem is that they are too convenient, that can waste time that I can otherwise waste half on arguing with people and ranting and half on hobbies. Sometimes it's time that should be spent working.
Bugs or not.