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That’s not the case that’s normally referenced, why don’t you cite the 1991 case while you’re at it ;)

PS: they did release technical details once the mitigations had been released etc. And these were released to tech researchers earlier, and proof of concepts were shown etc. https:…

the radio literally has a squelch knob on it, and turning the knob is required if you want to not hear static constantly or if you want to hear your traffic when they call you, so …

Wasn’t that judgement recently vacated for failing to prove the case, though?

not only are they not going to do that, Sony’s android phones delete the firmware if you unlock the bootloader

it's funny that they have to debunk the "root is root, why would AMD patch this" that goes around every time there's a serious issue that allows guest-root escape from virtualized …

OK? Well, the iphone mini series did not sell fine, objectively so. It was a bad seller even with the bump from the novelty of apple releasing a mini, and it declined even further …

"squelch codes" probably conveys the meaning more correctly. people understand the idiom that just because your radio has squelch set (too high, perhaps) that it doesn't mean someo…

> To bring this point home, for years there was hubub in the industry that Nintendo would bring out some kind of Switch Pro with 4k output and faster guts, rumors swirled around an…

I don't disagree, but the market placement of the iphone has nothing to do with the continued poor sales of the mini series every time it's been tried. And the mini ran for multipl…

are you seriously suggesting that sony put used pc hardware in their consoles? that's terrible even as a point of comparison.

> Only because they are underpowered with old hardware. yes, adversity breeds character. did Star Wars get better when Lucas got unlimited money and green screens? Having hardware …

Microsoft was upfront that they didn’t think a mid-gen price cut was in the cards, so here’s the series s, it’s what we can do and we’ll do it right now, etc. They were right and n…

No. Mini did notably terrible across every generation it's been tried. https://www.slashgear.com/1234403/apples-decision-to-cancel-...

iphone 8 plus, bought refurb in early 2019. replaced the battery once (and got a replacement since the battery wouldn't pair). it's getting to be time. usb-c is a big feature incre…

swapping on an m4 with a midrange pcie 4.0 SSD is quite different from swapping on a celeron with a low-end SATA SSD or spinning rust, plus linux/unix/macos is generally much bette…

> When a battery goes bad, I toss it in the recycle bucket, and buy a new one. I currently have 10 of them and they're on rotation. not to pick on you but it’s baffling the way som…

you literally make an appointment on the website and check in and then walk to the back of the store and drop your phone off

I’ve never seen a literal “this product sucks because I refuse to learn about it” given as an explicit argument before, usually it’s just implicit, thank you for this

A single 3090 won’t even fit the model. OP is talking about running a 405B model, it needs close to 200gb of memory just to open it which is why we’re talking about mac studio and …

you can calculate the area of the tensor and raytracing units by measuring+comparing die sizes between the nearest 20-series and 16-series chips. Contrary to the assumptions a lot …

no need to apologize, I was just using a windstar as an example of a generic 90s minivan, not as some super specific example. :) that's an interesting comparison tool! but yeah my …

flippant tone aside, this is a thing that actually happened! not just after they release, but they would definitely show "abridged" versions of movies on daytime TV, with a little …

There’s lots of vehicles that can’t get on a freeway. There’s a sign on every freeway onramp. That’s something we literally already handle so that’s not the problem. If that were t…

“if you don’t like trucks having 8-foot-tall grilles maybe you should just go back to living in the woods!” what a thought-provoking and non-inflammatory prompt you provided us