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Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB drive is just an unencrypted SD card in a fancy case in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MiskatonicAlumnus@thelemmy.club 21 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (5 children)

Because it will only cost them "billions" if someone can come forward to the court and claim "billions" in damages. Good luck with that, when your product is a USB drive with flashy labeling.

Will you be the first to take them to court, to recover the damages from you being deceived for this dopey drive? The judge may actually award you double damages and order them to pay you $200!!!!

catnip for lawyers everywhere

lololololololololololol!!!!!!

Microsoft killed Windows 10 to push Windows 11, but Windows sales crashed 27% as holdouts still refuse to switch in c/technology@piefed.social

[–] MiskatonicAlumnus@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 day ago

I refuse the update as well, and run Debian on a virtual machine when I am done messing around with gaming or whatever. Not doing any damned dual boots any more at this stage of my life.

Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work in c/technology@lemmy.world

Sam Altman Absolutely Hates the Idea of People Running Their Own AI Models at Home, Argues They Shouldn’t Own Computers: He'd prefer if we surrender all our RAM to data centers. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] MiskatonicAlumnus@thelemmy.club 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Getting your CPU cycles from The Cloud works for many use cases, but not for consumer electronics yet. One day, of course, but that day is not here yet.