napoleonsdumbcousin

Even in actual militaries there are transponders and IFF systems. Transponders are turned off during combat, but the IFF systems are not, to enable identification for other friendly military aircraft. If something similar exists in the Star Wars universe, then those IFF systems could be hacked/infiltrated by the enemy or by a particularly skilled bounty bunter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification_friend_or_foe

Maybe I am stupid, but I don’t understand what this has to do with Kenobi’s name or him being registered. He is already dead at that point and had revealed himself to Vader beforehand.

The post assumes that he is even registered. Kenobi is hiding on a backwater desert planet ruled by a crime syndicate. Unless there is some detail in the movies I forgot, I think it is reasonable to assume that he might not even appear in any imperial registry.

Your source is just a forum quoting manufacturer marketing texts.

In an accelerated ageing study blu-ray performed worse than other discs:

Overall, the stability of the Blu-ray formats was poor with many discs significantly degraded after only 21 days of accelerated ageing. In addition to large increases in error rates, many discs showed easily identifiable visible degradation in several different forms. In a comparison with other optical disc formats examined previously, Blu-ray stability ranked very low.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/res-2017-0016/html

Apparently blu-rays are even worse than other discs. This is from the abstract of an accelerated ageing study (sadly I don’t have access to the whole paper):

Overall, the stability of the Blu-ray formats was poor with many discs significantly degraded after only 21 days of accelerated ageing. In addition to large increases in error rates, many discs showed easily identifiable visible degradation in several different forms. In a comparison with other optical disc formats examined previously, Blu-ray stability ranked very low.

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/doi/10.1515/res-2017-0016/html

The worst case I experienced was a disc that disintegrated after a couple years. It got an actual extra hole in it, in a way that looked like somebody spilled acid on it and the acid burned right through the disc. In reality it just lay in my drawer.

Just a quick reminder that discs that you burn yourself at home do degrade pretty quickly, much faster than pressed discs. I personally have had burned discs that failed after approx. 6 years. It can happen even faster if you use low-quality discs. Even pressed discs can fail after 20 years if you are unlucky.

Using 2 big HDDs (2 for redundancy) full of your installers might be safer in the long run and also easier to manage and backup.

https://digital-archivist.com/how-long-do-dvds-last-and-cds

It is actually incredible that there are 31 different dates for Father’s Day in use around the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father’s_Day#Dates

You think returning your mainstream movie ticket because the main character is not sexualized enough is not creepy? I think it tells you a lot about this person’s thoughts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion

After June 10, 2026, previously purchased a-la-carte titles will no longer be playable on Luna. However, you can continue to access them directly through the third-party platform account you had linked when you made the purchase on Luna

So the games are not actually gone, people will just have to start them directly via EA, GOG or Ubisoft instead of Amazon’s storefront.

He was “sitting on his hands” (aka doing nothing) instead of doing school work.

They did not ban encrypted communications in general. They just banned the use of Signal for official purposes, because it is not fit for the job.

The article talks about how there were a multitude of cyberattacks and phishing attempts on EU officials’ smartphones and Signal accounts. With Signal, you have full control over the whole Account if you control the device.

The EU has their own encrypted communication tools with security and accounts managed centrally by the IT department.