Conversely, do you think they’re going to let people fire RPGs at it?

Secondary PSA Seagate use some godawful numbering scheme on their SMART results, if you’re not aware of the fact you need a calculator understand the raw error count it will freak you the fuck out.

Need to end it there before it has a chance to spread and get normalised

Haha, no worries, it just seemed like a who’s who of retired enterprise machines!

It’s a genetic superiority I’ll have you know, +30 resistance to anaesthetic.

Oh no, you’re definitely right on both counts, just raising the point that sometimes words kind of become meaningless sometimes.

Most of the examples given aren’t enshitification though.

Even better, just get some “I’d” stickers and stick them in front

Out of curiosity, what are your views on flutter?

Playing devil’s advocate here - we know voice information is being sent back to both Google and Apple, if the analysis were done server side dissembling apps isn’t going to show us anything we don’t already know.

While I do suspect they listen, I have pretty solid (anecdotal) evidence they scan text messages. When I bought my house I had no solicitor, I text my buddy to see who he used and he texted me a response.

Started to type into Google to get a number and it was the top suggested search after 2 chars. Nowhere else did I mention this solicitor, hadn’t heard of them before this, have no other searches for this solicitor. It’s not a big firm, it’s not even in my city - only explanation I have is they scanned the messages.

Presumably the demand isn’t there, £1200 is a lot for a consumer drive and spinning rust is 1/3 the price.

Sounds more like a tooling issue. The tech exists, the hardware can run it but the tools don’t exist to make it feasible in a reasonable timeframe/with a reasonably sized dev team. Corners are being cut on optimization or relying on hardware brute forcing it.

Honestly I’d take the utilitarian approach to that, if it’s a net good, then I’m probably for it - but that’s a big if.

Thats a bit tame, first page of the British passport is:

“His Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State requests and requires in the name of His Majesty all those whom it may concern to allow the bearer to pass freely without let or hindrance and to afford the bearer such assistance and protection as may be necessary”

Oi you, this is my mate and you’re going to look after him, alright.

Whoever the default is on my device.

Do you work in enterprise IT?

I’d also imagine Google won’t be prevented from owning a browser indefinitely - if it’s still worth it they’ll create a new browser and try to recapture the market, further diversifying the market.

Alright Stallman, calm down.

I try not to be too Linux fanboish these days, but what in the ever loving fuck is that about? Windows sounds like it’s reverted to 90s/early 2000s novelty crap and browser toolbars.