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I have no proof, this is anecdotal, but I suspect they used a forensic analysis tool like Cellebrite, GreyKey, or Magnet Axiom to extract all the device data and search it, which makes it a cakewalk to filter for keywords, images, files, and the like. cops use this shit all the time, as do their terrorist friends all around the world.

and not just education that makes sense.

this is a great way to put it. I grew up isolated from culture, from the world, and from the personality, curiosity and interests that kind of exposure can give - and now that I'm knee deep in adulting, I don't know how I would go about learning more about culture and humanity, especially since I'm stuck working full time to keep the lights on (and pay my student loans).

If I felt that I could do a bachelor's in gender studies or social sciences, I would. I wouldn't expect it to make me rich, and I'm already a network engineer and systems geek, so that pays the bills anyway - but I'd do it because I think that's something that would make me a more balanced person, and that would make my work better as a result.

same, my lifetime license is paying off right about now tbh

agree 100%, I just find what limited joy I can in pointing out that this is likely bullshit and at best a con. I also get a kick out of shitting on Musk for pretending to know what he's talking about when it comes to tech :)

depending on how badly Starlink fucks up the deployment, this could actually make the performance worse especially if airtime and spectrum are limited which I would assume would be the case. Elon throwing APs every which way isn't likely to make that any better.

this is like getting a flat tire on your handcart and buying a G Wagon with no wheels to fix it.

this was nothing that some Ethernet and some APs couldn't fix. and as for the cellular issues, you're literally the White House. Throw up a femtocell, you already have fiber for backhaul.

this is such fucking nonsense. Starlink is fixing precisely none of this.

I'm barely an engineer but I can guarantee you that anyone with the ability to build a single actual functional server could run stuff better than these clowns. they fucked up so badly that they exposed a open mail relay to the entire fucking NOAA. I'm a dumb removed but that is beyond belief, if I did anything nearly as reckless as that on a corp network I'd be in handcuffs before the top of the hour.

this isn't just risky - this is begging to be plundered.

I am so fucking tired of this same shit over and over again. when will we at least have some douchebags in government with some sort of fortitude?

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and killing others in them while watching YouTube.

also, as a bonus, the video was transphobic and the creator is a fucking bigot.

I can't speak for everyone but I find facts and history important when discussing the behavior of any person or organization's behavior.

Steve Jobs did make Apple very successful - but at the same time, Apple still did bad things and those things are a part of what he did, for better or worse, and refusing to critique them is also not advisable.

because they allow third party stores and less lock-in does not mean their product is better

each person can choose the product that suits their needs

less lock-in is better for user choice and user experience, as defined by the meaning of lock-in. If a user is massively inconvenienced by a service or device when they attempt to move away from it or if something else fits their needs better, that stifles user choice because the switching costs are too high.

your original comment mentioned that users want their devices to "just work" - do you think Apple's more aggressive lock-in is conducive to devices "just working" when the user wishes to switch to Android or PC as opposed to iOS or Mac?

okay so you are right about people wanting their tech to work, but it really is categorically untrue that Apple is the only way to achieve that, or that they achieve that consistently at all.

Take for example the Google Pixel: price competitor to the iPhone, has parity with iOS on software updates, features, and functionality. I got my mom the Pixel 6 4 years ago, and she has never had an issue using that phone. in fact she uses it so heavily you'd think she's a power user, despite having used a flip phone until 2018. it certainly can break, but I can buy Pixel genuine parts on iFixit and replace my battery or a friend's.

Windows is actually ass, I'm not defending it - but it does "just work" for many non-technical folks, as bad as it may be.

and let's talk about MacOS and Mac computers in general. Have you tried doing something as basic as snapping a window on stock MacOS, or worse, had one fail in some way and needed to have it repaired?

Soldered SSDs that you can't remove are not user friendly and don't "just work" when 20 years of photos just went up in smoke because you needed a board-level repair expert to de-solder and read the NAND chips only to discover that they're dead, not to mention having to buy a new machine every few years as the chips continue wearing out, and are serialized and paired to the device so you cannot replace them. Obviously, the customer won't understand all that. But they will understand that they lost their photos and spent thousands of dollars that they could have saved, not because the repair tech wasn't skilled at their job, but because hostile Apple design lost them 20 years of photos and forced them to get a new computer.

not to mention Apple's literal crime against privacy in the UK. Also, those SSDs I mentioned? FileVault backs their encryption keys up to iCloud by default, meaning if your key goes to iCloud in the UK, the police and anyone who gets access to iCloud can decrypt and read the full contents of your machine by booting it into recovery mode and decrypting the volume with said key, because Apple bent over for regulators instead of just disabling iCloud for their users entirely and blaming regulators, or just leaving ADP as is.

I'm not sure what you're defending Apple for.