Exactly. We spent four years playing into their hands, its going to take us decades to recover from that mistake.

Why make money if you can make MORE money?

Ask Texas how that’s goin.

https://www.statista.com/chart/6780/only-5-countries-have-a-bigger-gdp-than-california/

It’s gdp is more that france

Honestly, so long as people keep buying their phones they really don’t care about this kind of stuff. Sure, it was a way to drive up margins for a while, but they will just move onto their next bag of tricks to make it hard to leave.

This can be handled a few different ways.

• You can boot from a HDD and then just not ever write data back to it. This would be the most trivial solution, and it’s something people do with their Pi’s a lot to avoid SD card failure.
• You could network boot, pull the OS from the network at startup. Fun fact, this is how some rockets fly! No onboard persistent storage needed. Everything boots into and runs from ram the whole 10 ish minutes of operation.
• You COULD do a ROM as you suggested, but that’s a LOT of ROM. Seems odd to do imho.

I think he stopped because the show gave us his ending and he knows everyone hates it.

RIP

Provided the pressure is maintained from the outside, mine would work fine with a match.

Give the rapid churn in their code base these days, I’m gonna press X to doubt that.

What’s the watts-per-search of google?

Right? Let’s see this pass rigorous muster first.

Same here. The normal button is the hidden feature that I have to teach passengers to use.

When the US pulled out the Taliban didn’t have to fight to take control. The population was ready and willing to put them back into power.

This was the choice the country made. It’s not our place to step into their internal politics at this point. The US did that for years and they decided very clearly they didn’t want that.

That and insane production budgets. A lot of stream services are dumping hundreds of millions into shows that… Really didn’t need that?

Sorry, I seem to be out of the loop, who’s that and what did they do?

“I’m so smart I don’t use the tools at my disposal to effectively communicate!”

Yeesh, I think we brought some of the wrong crowd from reddit…

I don’t think that user was personally complaining, more pointing out that LW might be facing it’s first crisis of resources. Good sys-ops people don’t come cheap, and bad one often can do far more harm than help.

It’s tricky trying to handle something like this when LW is foundationally not an enterprise or anything close to a business.

Google is trying to add code to it’s chromium software that would functionally allow for DRM between you and a website. It would be a huge blow to your ability to control ads and what software runs on your PC when you connect to a site.

I have for about a decade. I use my phone as my backup map when I am flying. It has to work, every time, without fail. I’ve never owned an android that could hold a candle to an iPhone for software stability.