A unimaginable level of desperation.

We’re doing the QA.

If only Keir Starmer were equipped to think of this retort. We’ll see what he does.

At least twice, according to official US bragging.

That particular breed of American Christians who have somehow concluded that Jesus’s main message was NO WANKING.

Humanity.

I’m 6 and I feel the exact same way.

Microsoft execs eager for a bonus.

Food in (some parts of) the UK got dramatically better over the last few decades. When people bash it I always wonder whether they’re working with outdated information. It used to be pretty awful. But recently when I travel from Canada to the UK the food is one thing I look forward to.

Time for a fork?

It’s interesting that in the screenshot in the article, the CPU is identified as a Ryzen 5 7430U but then it gives the codename “Lucienne”, which is the 5500U’s name. So apparently they didn’t fake it perfectly.

They’re from different generations though. 5500U is Zen 2 while 7430U is Zen 3.

Can these processors use the same motherboard? It might be a big effort to make a custom one for review, more than just dropping in another part. And more costly too, if it meant redesigning other parts.

A person could easily pick up the errors if they checked the translation, but one of the worst things about AI is how it trains everyone to be too lazy to bother.

God sounds like a jerk. It’s freezing out there.

You can pick up malware from a website or an advert on a website. You can pick it up by a friend bringing an infected device and attaching it to your home network. You can pick it up from a phishing link or attachment. You can run an IoT device that downloads malware and propagates it to other machines on your network. You can install a dodgy app on your phone. You can run an application that has a chain of dependencies down to some obscure backdoored library (xz). You can run software that downloads automatic updates and whose update server was compromised (Notepad++) or whose signing certificate was compromised. You can be the victim of a sophisticated supply chain attack (SolarWinds was corporate but it could happen to any complex software). Those are just the first few that spring to mind. And you can pick it up because someone else in your family did any one of these things or many others.

Malware isn’t just for people who do obviously dangerous things like downloading cracks and keygens. There are many vectors for it to get in.

Or I get an incurable cancer.

So you are planning to upgrade?

Of course it can be done. But governments don’t want privacy-preserving verification. They want total surveillance made easy for them.

I just wasn’t paying attention. I stopped looking at hardware specs (apart from storage and memory) some years ago when everything seemed to run well enough. I’ve been using second-hand Pixels for GrapheneOS and that’s another reason I didn’t pay attention, since they were the only option for it and I was buying old stuff anyway. I’m curious to see what Motorola and GrapheneOS come up with.

I haven’t heard Pixel phones described as “dogshit hardware” before. Aren’t they pretty much on a level with the competition?