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Ah excuse me for that. 2 years of additional lifespan is still painfully short for a deprecated OS. Even free OSes like Ubuntu LTS get more years of support than versions of macOS …

You can stay on an older version for a little while, maybe a year at most until it stops getting patches. Then you get to make the choice of using an OS that's vulnerable to exploi…

It's worth noting that Google, the big bad guys of privacy, uses a proper E2E encryption scheme.

It's been a while since I've used macOS but its firewall is one of the worst I've ever used, it might as well not even exist. It lets everything through by default, prevents you fr…

That's exactly what happened to my mother, she owns an iPad and an iPhone and she's constantly being squeezed for money because her two devices' backups max out her storage. She ra…

It's unsurprising, but it's also another nail in the 'the restrictions on users are for security purposes' coffin. Not allowing 3rd party replacements of the entire mainboard? Okay…

I don't think anybody really disagrees that redistribution is a copyright violation and the youtube-dl software doesn't provide any facilities for uploading or re-broadcasting cont…

Well Remdesivir was originally developed as a treatment for Ebola before the current pandemic, so it isn't a specialized treatment for COVID-19. The fact that it has small and diff…

If Apple wants to make their own users hostages that's their choice and Epic shouldn't bend to it. Apple has totally shattered the illusion that their walled garden model is about …

Crown prince of Saudi Arabia hacked Jeff Bezos's phone by sending him a video over WhatsApp, so its definitely something that agencies are already hard at work on.

Google Chrome (desktop) does not contain ads/"suggested content" on the New Tab page. For that reason alone I'll continue using Chromium on desktop until they actually pull the tri…

Yeah the original BW gameboy used a modified Z80 which was old even in 1989. It took 4 AA batteries and had twice the battery life of the 6-battery (?) Game Gear.

They have a 3G model, I'm using right now! They also have a 4G 8110 "Bananaphone" that runs KaiOS, a sort of 'inbetween' smart-and-dumb phone.