Windows 11, Onedrive, Intel Management Engine, Google accounts, …

“… and that’s why I need you to take the power plants offline.”

For those who don’t live in the US and have an electical grid with more than one power plant.

Not anymore.

I can’t judge that. I486 structures are bigger and less complex so that the risk should be much lower.

The most powerful CPUs that most likely don’t have backdoors.

SystemD knows what it has to do.

And so it begins. How long until Lemmy will be forced to verify age?

can’t use the same signing keys as a Google Play release, which they should never have been doing anyway

Why? Same author, same signature.

I can’t see this move by Google as anything but a power grab to reduce competition

It locks down phones. Without sideloading the elite controls which messenger services can be used. They most likely can also secretly update apps and replace them with versions that leak the encryption keys.

With Google not being threatened by a competitor this essentially tells us that the elite is serious about moving to fascism.

It’s frightening to me that the comment has 85 upvotes but no reply that points this out.

A solution without demand is worthless. At first the demand has to be created. Some people value understanding and are thankful but that’s a small minority.

The sales rep offered a solution to that person’s problem.

You want that person to be right which they perceive as you want to dominate them.

So they try to resist you while they are highly motivated to follow the instructions of the sales person.

Grandma’s brunch grits git branch

Why are you given adverts for products you’ve just bought?

You could return it. They have to make sure that you stick to your choice.

What are link layers and why do you need them?

Once AI controls drones to arrest people automatically there will be no vigilantism.

Teens can travel alone and setup their phone in France or Ireland, or by their phone from a dealer. All the cool kids will have free phones and be on snapchat, forcing everybody else to follow suit.

Turning a given list of words into numbers, doing a string of math to those numbers, and turning the resulting numbers back into words is not consciousness or wisdom and never will be.

Neither is moving electrolytes around fat barriers.

VPNs will be forbidden, age will be verified.

Coincidence that all are gaining traction?

Why is it the way it is?

This just shows that bananas and mud are materials for excellent audio equipment. I am looking forward to my gold-plated banana.