or that earworm “manager is an askhole, went with oracle anyway”

Maybe a year or so ago, but now those same people are starting to understand the definition of criminal is flexible.

What’s funny is someone at flock is likely seeing this as a business opportunity. “With flock+ we will detect downed cameras and send a technician out to replace them instantly. Subscribe now!”

Meanwhile, municipalities are less than thrilled about defending throwing money at something literally no taxpayer wants.

This problem might solve itself really. Let the buisness majors sell the hangman their own nooses.

Lemmy presents, IT the musical. Including such memorable songs such as “PC load letter, what the fuck does that mean?” and…

Typically we work in IT or theatre.

That’s why you do this as part of a massive crowd of people that don’t know eachother. Overwhelm them.

Bring laser pointers to protests

You can get the same thing cheaper via Craigslist and they’ll have a harder time tracing ownership. A crackhead hawking stolen hardware store crap is not going to really be as helpful to the surveillance state as they’d like.

They’ve already been analyzed and their security is atrocious. It’s ancient android nonsense. It’s theoretically possible to break into the wirelessly, that’s how bad these are.

The whole thing is about grabbing as much data as fast as thy can. There’s damn near nothing keeping it restricted or secure. Might as well be an open IP cam on the internet.

Will they even bother trying to rebrand this or just pretend it doesn’t exist?

That’s the whole joke. Bender isn’t demonstrating some common evil. Bender is an uncommon evil. That’s the point. He’s doing a preposterous thing with psychopathic comfort.

This predates that but there was a pattern emerging. Apparently it wasn’t that the airbags failed to fire but that the computer didn’t activate them in the first place.

Then again, my mother is a fucking Karen who lost a legal fight against someone driving a government vehicle off the clock so whatever. Point is, grandpa chose what hospital she went to based on the quality of their parking deck.

There’s a lot of civic owners form the late 90s and early 2k’s who would have an opinion about faulty airbags. My mother can’t even feel her bottom lip now because of this airbag shit.

….she hit the steering wheel, bit it off, had it stocked back on, but the nerves were severed.

Unless you guys start calling your right wingers Americans this will happen to you too.

Apple silicon has been a huge success. That transition had a million ways it could and should have failed but he pulled it off.

AirPods basically took over an entire market. You either have AirPods or a knockoff of the same idea. That’s basically it now.

The watch….needs some attention. Everyone has one, no one knows what it’s for. I pay for things with my watch and people are floored it could do that. I’m like “why the hell did you buy it if you didn’t know what it can do?”

The iPhone is good. It’s not great. It’s overpriced as fuck. But the product itself, even the air, is good. The latest round of software for it is a disaster though. That holds true for all of the software this release cycle. Across everything except the appleTV, things were made measurably worse.

It just so happens that Android is also getting worse. I loved Android being there to save me from Apple when they finally pissed me off enough to leave and cheer them on from the sidelines. This year, I was finally ready to make the jump and leave and then Google says they are effectively killing third party OS development and locking down the platform. Also, Gemini is going to run on everything and you can’t do anything about it. You can’t turn it off, you can only turn off your ability to interact with it directly. Because AI.

I bought another iPhone, and now I’m looking at Linux phones seriously and thinking to myself “why not?”