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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's obviously the trans led far left extremists!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My comment about it was it looked like a grifter's site. But the gov domain gives it legitimacy.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 61 points 2 months ago

Yeah, no prices. I move on. Same with job ads, no salary no application. If I get an intrusive ad, I'm not buying that product, I'll deliberately seek out another brand in fact.

Is that a weird attitude to have? I thought it just made sense. We shouldn't be rewarding this BS.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm wondering what combination of features would use 25w on a phone. On flagship models the battery would last less than an hour at that consumption (and might even melt :P).

Your point still stands by the way, sensors take next to nothing in terms of power. I guess the point of the article is perhaps the processing of the signals is more efficient with this hybrid chip? Again though in real terms it's a nothing-burger in terms of power consumption.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 3 months ago

I don't think there's ground even for an arrest in my (non professional mind you) opinion.

The act requires that a message be sent by any electronic means (including transmission) so, this meets that part. But the message must be indecent or grossly offensive. I would argue some pictures of a couple of buddies together shouldn't be grossly offensive.

Unless it's the police's view that it is offensive because of what Trump may, or may not have done with said now deceased criminal friend. In which case, they should be arresting someone else too.

Yes, it's a common police tactic to make arrests around the time of a visit like this. But, they really do need to be grounded in a realistic application of the law.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 3 months ago

I really feel like you should read my comment more carefully. I'm not defending them. I'm describing their rationale. My very last sentence should make clear I am not one of the normal users that will be happy and fine with this. I'm typing this, on Linux, right now.

Normal people don't care, and they would be happy with the thin veil of extra security they will gain (and be told they're going to gain), in exactly the same way the sales of the top tier mobile phones when they're boot locked and sideload locked will not dip in any meaningful way.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well, it's for a good reason in their view. Also, pretty much everyone here is not the normal computer user. The normal computer user is only dimly aware they use something called windows. The use a web browser and perhaps 3 other programs on their PC. They're going to be happy when they're told that having a walled garden improves their computer's security.

We are the minority.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 21 points 3 months ago (6 children)

It's not "arbitrary" I'd say. It's part of a long term plan to probably push a fully trusted platform. Yes, so they can ID you by hardware etc but also lock down driver installs and maybe even software installs one day.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 3 months ago (4 children)

It wasn't canon in my case, but I found with other network printers on Linux that not bothering with "auto finding" and just putting the IP address in manually (give fixed devices fixed IPs on your router to make this kind of thing easier). Most desktop environments have a printer tool that should allow manually adding a printer.

I have to say with the work provided HP PoS I last had, it was equally as difficult to get windows to talk to it, to be fair.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 9 points 3 months ago

I would have been very disappointed if no one had posted this.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, they were quite literally compiling all the worst behaviours of modern subscription services and applying it to the medical field. I guess the sad thing is that it could really happen one day.

I would say each of the things that they applied has happened on a service somewhere before (just perhaps not all on a single one). It's fiction uncomfortably close to reality.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 44 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Incoming Spotify premium plus subscription tier. With lossless audio. And then shortly after some previously premium tier features to go plus. Then ads appear on the premium, I mean basic tier (priced at the old premium price).

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