Every internet of shit, phone, tablet, and other sorts of device manufacturers should be required to push/post a root unlock firmware for their devices before they can stop supporting them. There's too goddamn much ewaste from everything already. If they're going to abandon their devices, at least make it easy for people to unlock them and do whatever else they want with them.
Don't understand this part. Why is this not an option?
(Yes, I saw you have a solution, but you can't nerdsnipe people like that and then leave them hanging 😉)
A truck loaded with Worcestershire sauce is driving through Saskatoon, Saskatchewan when it collides with a Nissan Qashqai.
The truck then careens down the road and hits a car from Massachusetts, injuring the two otorhinolaryngologists inside. One of them, suffering from Schistosomiasis, has a myocardial infarction.
A bystander witnesses the entire event and quickly calls to report the accident on his Huawei.
The emergency operator asks the bystander, "What happened?"
"It's hard to say."
The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining 🌧📶
Happy April Cools! A few people and I decided lying for April 1st is cliché, so we're surprising you with truthful essays on unexpected topics.
Mine is about the hardest hardware problem I've ever had to debug:
https://predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-works-when-its-raining/
mpg at least makes sense to some people who use it all the time.
Nobody ever uses minutes per kilometer though.
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks.
10 years of a code of conduct has, I think, resulted in a healthier Debian community, and so I am proud to have been part of the process that made Debian into what it is today.
Even so, most of the credit of that improvement should go to the community and DAM teams, who do most of the mediation and enforcement of the coc.
Here's to hoping the next 10 years will be even better.
$ Enya16🔥 | 
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tire has slow week edition
oops i dropped my C++ compiler
the C++ compiler: clang
'iRefers' sounds like something you'll find in apple API reference docs...
I've already reposted this but it's worth repeating the key points of this excellent article:
- EU doesn't require #cookie #banners
- EU doesn't regulate cookies
- EU regulates unsolicited data collection at odds with the service requested by users
- If you see a cookie banner, you can suspect that the purpose of the service is dodgy or the operator incompetent
- There're easier ways to collect consent: Do-Not-Track setting in the browser
- Use #firefox