I’ve got a BIOS ROM chip sitting here on my desk waiting to be flashed with Libreboot as we speak.

How sad that you’re so desperately grasping at straws in order to simp for corporations.

Weird omission of Firefox.

It has to do with EVs in the sense that (practically speaking) every single one of them is new enough to be infested with surveillance, so (unlike with ICE) there’s no option to avoid it by going with an old vehicle.

Also, nobody gives a shit about new ICE cars, so there’s no point in mentioning them when they weren’t within the realm of consideration to begin with.

The criticism is of all new cars, not just EVs, but EVs are the only new cars that would’ve otherwise been worth considering.

Or in other words, what you wrote is a lie because old ICE cars without surveillance exist, but there is practically* no such equivalent for EVs.

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Made my own version in GIMP, to get rid of ‘new text document’ and avoid watermarks:

(Not sure which font to use, so I picked a monospaced one for added ‘cyber’. Also, here’s a clean base image if anybody wants to do better.)

“Just as” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there, IMO. Can they be subverted against the people they are supposed to serve? Of course. Is it as likely as a for-profit corporation doing it? Hell no, I’d say.

Pretty sure he meant something like “not a nonprofit or government entity.”

Not if you control the updates.

But to do that you have to have an absolute zero-tolerance policy for proprietary tyrant devices. Only Linux (or other Free Software) PCs. Only Graphene, Lineage, or similar on your phone. No new TVs, no new cars. No “smart” devices unless they’ve been flashed with ESPHome or Tasmota and only connect to Home Assistant. OpenWRT or OpnSense on your router.

Basically, you need to be a skilled IT person and willing to devote time for it all. But it can be done, with difficulty.

They’re called “Windsor chairs” (with the “hoopback” variety in OP’s picture and the “comb-back” variety in your link) and they’ve been a traditional style for hundreds of years.

Hoopback Windsor chairs are an entire style, not a specific design made by one manufacturer.

Never mind actually acting on the information, the tracking, by itself, should be an instant firing offense for every single pig involved!

What? The rats fucked the birds until the species merged?

'Cause that’s what happened between us and the Neanderthals.

Why does this need to be a hosted service/web app? Why can’t it just be a regular-ass application?

If you caught something early enough to talk about it when calling out, you could’ve made it in to work.

Ah, good riddance to OnlyOffice, then!

How rude; no need to insult the guy!

Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPKGbg16ulU (and also https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA)

Which aspect of the situation to you intend for that quote to apply to? The companies/recruiters writing the listings, or the job-seekers reading them?

Just for the record, the way I intended it was to say that I find it extremely difficult to find jobs because I have high ethical standards. Hell, I basically left my previous career as a traffic engineer in part because I didn’t want to design sprawl, and jobs doing bike infrastructure are relatively few and far in between!

they play everything up to ps1/dreamcast, n64 not so much though.

Wait, but Dreamcast is newer than N64. Did you mean Saturn or 32X, or is N64 weirdly hard to emulate for some reason?

the R36S clones on Aliexpress, i got one on sale for ~€22.

Is there anything to watch out for, other than price (and maybe avoiding paying extra for a bigger SD card, if they’re unreliable anyway)? Do ones from different sellers have different software? Should I worry about trying to avoid malware, or just assume I’m going to want to wipe the thing and re-flash as soon as I get it, or what?