And, like I said, that’s a niche.

I’d love to use GrapheneOS myself, but unfortunately too many apps I need won’t work on it.

That’d make them even more of a niche option than right now, since some apps (most notably banking) will just refuse to work.

I’d say let them have their propaganda, at least it comes with a real improvement.

Great! I’ve seen these cables recommended here so often (despite them not being very good) I was beginning to think someone’s paid to advertise them…

We only produce what is in demand to avoid electrical waste.

That doesn’t really fit when you realize these are USB 2.0 without e-markers.

In other words: below average specs for way above average prices.
3A charging is bare minimum for USB-C, not “fast”.

These are headed for the trash as soon as the user needs anything above bare minimum.

Is it? Doesn’t look like they offer debit/credit cards.

Looks more like a PayPal alternative.

Man, deep packet inspection is some crazy stuff.

Good implementation can identify the type of traffic within seconds with scarily good accuracy.

Quite a few countries actually implement this in their national ISP’s infrastructure to block VPNs, so the citizens can’t access non-approved websites.

$3 ink from a bodega

That’s actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it’s by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer’s memory.

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive…

It wouldn’t.

USA tried to keep the encryption all to itself in the past by classifying it as munitions, it didn’t work out.

And criminals don’t care if encryption is banned anyway.

That’s a very charitable way of looking at DRM.

Company’s PR dept saying “we didn’t do it” is not proof of anything.

If they’re not blocking 3rd party cartridges, why even implement DRM?
Do they have so much extra money that they’re developing features they’re not planning to use just because they’re bored?

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who’d lose one would have their life destroyed.

What exactly is Signal supposed to do here?

They’re not supposed to be able to help in any way, how would they determine if a specific user is using Signal for phishing or whatever without decrypting their chats?

Being European would make zero difference here, unless the European service is backdoored.

No, no, I’m thinking about scheduling them!

I thought it was gonna be 6 years of attempting to schedule an appointment.

Thanks a lot for testing it, really nice to see a mandatory wait after release is not necessary anymore.

That’s an optimistic view.

But really, that’s just Google being Google.
Even years before the “AI” hype their Assistant kept suddenly losing features that worked perfectly fine before.

The issue seems a bit misrepresented by the dev.

The mentioned section of the privacy policy is true only for the logged in users that have agreed to voluntarily share their data.

Without logging in they don’t even store a single cookie on my device.