US, west coast.

It’s not meant to make a person feel attacked as much as gently nudging them to use less power.

Pretty sure its even automated.

It’s not insignificant at all. Servers are beefy and take more power than a standard PC… a lot more. Further, failover servers mean you have to have exact copies of the same server up and available, which means you’re doubling, tripling, quadrupling power demands. Finally, you also have to have Uninterruptible Power Supplies, those take an amount of power as well.

It’s a huge power draw. I know because I have a bunch of low-power devices runnig 24/7 as microservices and it still increase my power bill and use by a lot. I regularly get letters from the power company about how I’m using like 3x the power of the average person in my type of unit.

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.

This is fucked up, but it’s still somehow better than a Murphy Bed backdoor.

That sounds entirely plausible to me. Once again, when it comes to PewDiePie, I have no idea what the fuck I am talking about.

Interesting, I kind of assumed that he’d been long forgotten by the YouTube crowd, but he’s still number 10 top youtuber going by how many subscribers he has.

So, this may actually have an impact on Linux perception, but I’d wager with people in PewDiePie’s age group more than younger people. He’s 35, a lot closer to my age than expected.

If I sound like an idiot it’s because I never followed PewDiePie except for watching him scream and flail in Dark Souls that one time.

It’s about an older Alex, still stuck in his ways, rethinking his life and considering “growing up,” dropping the life of crime and having a family.

Burgess was notoriously disappointed in the omission of the final chapter:

There is no hint of this change of intention in the twentieth chapter. The boy is conditioned, then deconditioned, and he foresees with glee a resumption of the operation of free and violent will. ‘I was cured all right,’ he says, and so the American book ends. So the film ends too. The twenty-first chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of the field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. The American or Kubrickian Orange is a fable; the British or world one is a novel. (Burgess xii)

It is also to be noted that it was the 21st chapter, which he viewed as the age that we truly hit “adulthood” and that was a purposeful literary choice to appeal to the idea that Alex could grow and change.

I couldn’t tell you why it was cut, nor why Kubrick declined to use it, but American versions often have it cut.

The number of copies of the A Clockwork Orange book that omit the last chapter is too damn high.

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.

I guess they really wanted to ignore how Project Mayhem had already infiltrated the police, eh?

That’s only literally part of the plot…

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.

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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.