Hint, if you have to post that anonymously then you know it's wrong, coward.

"What exactly is he influencing? Certainly not product design. Everything Microsoft produces today is shit"

That sounds like Gates is involved to me...

This you bro? Tell your handlers to give you some better lines.

Trump is not smart enough to be a Russian agent and actual Russian agents are not dumb enough to trust him with any damning information. Trump is a Russian asset (and Melania is his handler.)

Telling them is fine, that's not what you're talking about and your use of that word is incorrect at best. I suspect it is more likely disingenuous.

I don't think it will do, because factory memory isn't necessarily any better than a replacement. It's not necessarily any worse, either, but there are very commonly cheaper and faster parts available towards the end of a memory product group's lifecycle.

I bought a Google TV because Roku gave up their only advantage, not showing ads on the home screen. Therefore there was no reason to get Roku when Google TVs have orders of magnitude more available apps. I don't understand why anyone would buy a Roku any more given that.

Trains historically used a diesel-electric powertrain only because you can't make a transmission strong enough to do the job, and if you could, it would probably be even more lossy.

Modern trains can be hybrids, they use inverter drive systems.

Nuclear power was sold with the lie "too cheap to meter" in the first place, that's literally where that saying comes from.

It was a lie then, and it's a lie now.

"One of the two is not currently engaging in genocide against a religious minority population, after all."

That is exactly what funding the holocaust in Gaza is. To the letter.

"The "Pro-Palestinian" protesters always seem to come with significant numbers of "kill Jews" protesters."

It's literally in the news right now that the guy who shouted kill Jews in the middle of one of these protests is a Jew who was doing a homegrown false flag.

"UN comments on The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights say "In accordance with article 20 of the Covenant, peaceful assemblies may not be used for propaganda for war (art. 20 (1)),"

Anti-war propaganda is the opposite of that.

"or for advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence (art. 20 (2))."

Again, this is protesting AGAINST those things.

You are literally claiming the opposite of what is happening.

You have gone full newspeak. Never go full newspeak.

Wait, you believe what Russia says about Ukraine? Everything else they have said about it has been a lie, why would you Believe this?

They'll probably just use the MAC for the initial password because, as you say, the device has almost certainly already got a printed label with it on and it doesn't involve any special characters, so no change to the manufacturing process at all - just a bit of code and a documentation update. Equally, a hardware reset would simply reset the password to the MAC as well as wipe any config info, so no issues with generating extra e-waste, unless the device with shit to start with (we are talking IoT afterall).

It's a start, but MACs are 6-octets, and the first three of those are the vendor-specific OUI, so a dictionary attack is definitely possible without a mandatory password change on first boot if you can fingerprint the device, work out the vendor, then look up the possible OUI(s), and anything else they may have done - like including the brand/model name as a prefix. Three non-specific octets is ~16.7mil combinations, so well within reach of a brute force attack given even a modest amount of time & bandwidth. Of course, the chances are non-zero that unless they're also forced to use something with more entropy the user will just set it to something stupidly easy to guess like "password", but that's now the user's problem.

You don't do it so nobody does it, what a simple world you live in.

I have upgraded the memory and disk of nearly every laptop I have ever owned. On some, I only upgraded one or the other, but they all got upgrades.

Just because you want to discard every laptop while it could still do useful work, that doesn't mean all of us are so wasteful.