This person has never seen the power bill for running a high-availability server with several failovers once in their lives.

How about this:

At the apartments I recently moved out of, there were no quarter slots on the washing machines. They were an app that required a bluetooth connection to pay.

So if you lived there and didn’t have a smartphone? Go fuck yourself, you don’t get to do laundry.

Unless you bothered to check the laundry room when you were looking at the apartment, you wouldn’t know. No warnings.

Seriously, DOGE could be literally installing ransomware that kicks off if anyone tries to block them… They were hooking up random fucking servers right into secured government systems and were given write access at some of those government systems.

I haven’t tried FreshTomato, just know it exists. I used to roll DD-WRT but I’ve moved to OpenWRT because I prefer code that is auditable.

The best that they’ve got is that TP-Link is competitive on pricing. Oh no they’re not bilking consumers and still make enough money to function, that must mean something shady is happening! Or maybe they’re just a company who isn’t all-in on ripping off consumers for overpriced tech gear?

Also, the argument that some models force you to log in, sure, if you’re a technically un-inclined dingus. If you are technically inclined, literally nothing is stopping you from installing something like OpenWRT/DD-WRT/FreshTomato on your TP-Link router and bypassing the login requirement entirely by replacing the firmware with an open source variant (note: DD-WRT isn’t actually fully open like OpenWRT and FreshTomato). The point being that their two major arguments for why TP-Link are dangerous are defeated pretty damn simply.

If I can avoid logging in by installing fresh firmware of my own, and the only other major argument they have is that they’re selling at lower prices then competitors… well, that’s pretty weak tea.

Oh but all the US hardware with spyware from the NSA/FBI is just fiiiiiiiiiine.

As always US wants the data, they just don’t want anyone else to have it.

It’s also a laugh for them to say “fuck you consumers you don’t get to” when the federal government already fucking blew it with SolarWinds.

Personal opinion this is much ado about nothing. In other words this article is baseless fear-mongering.

Trump is a bigger national security concern than fucking TP-Link and no one in power is seriously talking about removing him.

His economic moves will devalue the US Dollar and put it at risk as a reserve currency. Who is gonna step in? China.

But boo hoo, we should ban TP-Link! What a fucking joke. If you’re really “worried” about China, get rid of Trump yesterday.

Google doesn’t need access to all his unpublished research if he’s ever mentioned anything about it online or in an email that went to a gmail address.

Further, University of Cambridge runs on Microsoft Exchange and University of Glasgow uses Office365.

Not to put to fine a point on it, but they don’t need access to your computer and this feels a little bit overhyped.

Also just because it came to the same conclusion means about as much as it coming to the wrong conclusion, does it not? Since there is no actual “thinking” in these devices? How do we know the “right” conclusion wasn’t merely a hallucination?

The cruelty is the point, and always has been.

Yes please I hate fucking virtual keyboards and haptic feedback.

I literally go out of my way to use shit like KDE Connect to not have to type on a shitty phone virtual keyboard

A lot of immigrants are paid more highly in the US than they are in their home countries.

The Indian Rupee, for example, has a poor exchange rate with the US dollar and they have higher salaries in the US.

So they take an H-1B job and they make enough to take care of themselves in the US and usually have US dollars they can send home to their family which can be exchanged for large amounts of rupees.

Current exchange is rougly $1 USD to about ₹80 rupees.

This will change as the US economy tanks and people stop using the US dollar as a reserve currency.

I’ve been saying this for years now. The wealthy here are now international wealthy. They don’t care about borders. Musk hops his private jet and goes wherever the fuck he wants whenever he wants and no governments seem to be in his way.

They are done with the high standard of living in the US. They think we’re coddled and don’t deserve it. They’re done trying to bring up international living standards to match America and are all-in on bringing American living standards down to match the rest of the planet.

This is the strip-mining stage of American capitalism. They’ve turned all the economic tools that they used to subjugate South America (Chile for example), using Milton Friedman’s Economic Shock Treatment here at home in the US.

They really don’t give a damn, they’re done with us. We’re being dropped like a jilted lover.

As the standard of living and pay in the USA quickly tanks and becomes less desirable than where they’re from, those people will stop applying for those positions.

They can’t force foreigners to sign up for H-1B visas. The whole point is the salary is currently and the USA is currently a desirable place to live. Won’t stay that way long. They’re literally tearing down all the things that made it desirable to begin with.

No way we’re making chips stateside with the Department of Education on the chopping block.

So many schools will close and you sure as shit ain’t training people who can make top of the line chips with no fucking schools.

Maybe if they weren’t all in tiny cramped apartments with paper-thin walls and multiple roommates they wouldn’t need to wear headphones all the time.

Also, voice chat doesn’t work very well with speakers and microphone without a lot feedback.

Just in time for their prophet, Curtis Yarvin, to be pushing a full-scale surveillance state!

Googlers aren’t on our side. They want to rule. They think being a fucking admin on a server makes them cut out to run society.

They want to tear down democracy and basically replace it with administrator rules and access control lists.

https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/

Supposedly works on all Kindles, I haven’t actually done a deep dive yet, just have it bookmarked since yesterday.

This is why I never once purchased a book from Amazon even though I have a Kindle.

Pretty pumped to jailbreak it with the new jailbreak.

“Sideloading” isn’t an actual thing. It’s a word the industry made up to make installing your own software sound dangerous.

All traditional Windows applications were “sideloaded” and back then it was just fucking called installing an application.

Prior to the bullshit ass Microsoft Store, sideloading was literally the only way to get shit on Windows.

Linux also always allowed you to install applications directly. Everyone just uses package management software at this point because it’s all well managed and easier to keep things updated, but you can still install things manually with make.

If this leads more people to understand that “sideloading” is some contrived boogeyman bullshit for just being allowed to install what you want on the device you fucking own that’s a good thing.

No ethical consumption under capitalism, yep.

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