The comical part is that they spend all this time bloviating about security and privacy, and yet their devices are still getting owned in a bespoke, targeted fashion.

Finally someone figured out that releasing a self-replicating worm that tries to infect everything it possibly can only shines a huge spotlight on your exploit to get it patched as soon as possible. Instead, if you have a workable exploit and you only use it on targeted devices, it's far harder to investigate unless you can lay hands on the device, or the exploit code.

Apple and their long-time users have had this coming for a while, due to the smugness about security over the past several years. Comeuppance may be at hand.

And why would you expect Google to release software patches for other manufacturer's devices? For example, why would Google be releasing software for a Samsung Galaxy phone, when they didn't make the original release, and they didn't make the hardware, and they got no money from the sale of that hardware? That's a Samsung responsibility, so maybe don't try blaming Google.

And if you didn't notice, Google has equal or better promises of extended support than Apple does. The Pixel 8 will still be getting security patches 7 years from release.

As for GrapheneOS - it's a harder to use, less capable Android. Pretty sure that's not going to work out for most users.

Just wait. All the aircraft that Boeing has been cutting corners on are still out there, still flying every minute that their owners can keep them in the sky.

Do you really think with all the cost cutting and balance-sheet engineering that those chickens won't come home to roost?

Just check to make sure all the bolts are installed on the door.

So you've never thought about the ramifications of having an effectively shorter stopping distance reliably, and the relationship that velocity, distance, and time have with each other?

What an absolutely moronic statement.

You can be certified as the safest driver on the road, with 50 years experience driving long-haul and never so much as hitting a pot hole, and it makes absolutely no difference if the next guy on the road is:
- drunk
- speeding
- distracted, such as fucking around with their phone
- driving a shit box car in woefully inadequate state of repair
- driving in a manner that outpaces their skill
- making an emergency maneuver to avoid a risk you don't see, and making a choice to have a vehicle-to-vehicle accident instead of a vehicle-to-pedestrian accident
- etc.

The only time that "I've never been in an accident" is a flex worth hearing, is if you only drive on closed private roads where you're the only car out there. Otherwise you're just being a wank that isn't considering the whole problem - namely everyone else.

They don't install the radar array in new vehicles, which means that they are maintaining an entire separate code base for vehicles that still have the radar array, or they aren't using it on any of them.

Which do you think they'd opt for?

The automatic wipers are fucking terrible, and they haven't done a single thing about it in at least 7 years.

Just give me a sensitivity adjustment slider - that's all it would really take. They either are constantly wiping away nothing, or never wiping away rain until the entire windshield is covered. It's like going back to a car that has "intermittent" wipers, but it's fired by an analog timer that is not adjustable in any way - may as well just use the "mist" button / lever.

We mandate safety requirements for all sorts of potentially dangerous devices. Why is this different?

"Expenses" is also a handy excuse. "It wasn't the gambling - it was the expenses that ate up my bankroll." Followed of course by asking to borrow money.

One thing that has always been true - what bookies say about their results and what their results actually are are two quite different things. In the long run what happens in any particular event isn't important. The long-term profit is determined simply by how many bets they took in. The more business they write the more money they make. Sure, there can be outlier events, but they take steps to mitigate those so they don't go broke.

If I do 5 minutes of searching, will I get a similar quote about all their biometric login crap that still makes me put in a password / PIN every 3rd time because it cakes it's pants?

I'm so over Windows 11. Time to see if there's better support for my laptop under Ubuntu 24 than the last time I looked with 22.

There is but one audio emoji and it is typed as Control G.

Unless you're on a real VT100 (not an emulator) in which case there is also ESC [145q (which would turn on the 145th keyboard LED but instead does something else, as there are only two keyboard LEDs).

We have meaningful elections every 2 years at the federal level.

When is anything not confirmation-biased to have "timing vis a vis the election" exactly, with that frequency, and the speed at which civil litigation moves?

Stop accusing the government of some kind of partisan garbage when they actually do things they are supposed to do, but they happen to be things you don't agree with. And also: maybe figure out why you have some kind of deranged attitude towards effective government that actually enforces regulations which make sure you, as a product purchaser, get what is being advertised.

FYI you're the one being a partisan hack here. There is nothing partisan about enforcing regulations against false advertising and product fraud, unless you try to make it partisan. And you are the only person doing that.

So an agency actually starts doing their job, and you:

1. think that's a bad thing for some reason; and
2. think it should stop; and
3. think it's because of politics, rather than a government agency just trying to do their job properly.

That's not very complimentary to you, because you're literally defending companies that scam their customers with fraudulent products.