Sure, but they probably had to spend time and money checking before they could release it.

Because the parent(s) have their $100k+ office job and have to continue working when they get home.

The median salary is $51,000, with the median household income being $84,000.

The kid is coddled by society because 'we can't punish kids anymore because that's child abuse',

People need 2 jobs to make rent, and tech companies are profiting massively by relentlessly pushing massively addictive device behaviour and your solution is to start beating kids to see if it helps.

Next you'll be telling me that GIF isn't pronounced like "whiff".

It's not that simple, because some of the data in there might be proprietary. Sometimes manufacturers of electronic components only let you have them if you sign an NDA. Accidentally releasing even stuff like schematic symbols and associated notes could cause problems for CERN.

I had a quick look because this is of great interest to me, and it seems like they don't have any 3D models. My guess would be that it's for licencing reasons, because even though the models are often freely provided on manufacturer websites, that doesn't mean they are free to distribute. Presumably the footprints and schematic symbols were all made by CERN.

Often the hardware is the same, but they have software locks in place to e.g. stop you using WiFi bands that are not legal in the US. On top of that they have to provide support for new firmware, and TP Link often replace devices that are out of warranty but which were bricked by a firmware update.

They can't win. If they don't pay they get sued by students for not securing their data. If they do pay they encourage further attacks.

The time to win was before the hack. Now all they can do is pay, and hope they picked the cheaper option.

Android has had this for years. I'm not sure if it's the same on every phone, but on Pixel long press the bar at the bottom of the screen and it opens Google Lens or whatever it's called now. From there you circle what you are interested on screen, and it invokes Gemini AI on it. It can also do stuff like copy text or translate it for you, which is handy when you need to use an app in a language you don't read.

Chromebooks are great. They just work, they are cheap, and they cover many people's needs easily. My mum is on her second one and went from monthly tech support issues with Windows to smooth sailing for years.

How many of these companies will bother making updates for US models after they get banned from sale anyway?

Same thing happens with humans.

It's worth figuring out what your threat model is. There probably are ways that some government agencies can get into iPhones or decrypt these messages, and they probably are collecting all the encrypted data in case quantum computers can decrypt it later.

But are they going to waste any of that on you? Unless you are a high value target for them, and unless they intend to avoid any judicial process where their capabilities might become public, they probably aren't going to use their best tools to help the local cops break into your phone.

I'm on a Q820 from 17 years ago at home.

Still runs fine, still had more RAM and disc than a number of new laptops which is a bit sad.

I remember the nimbus!

My school had a network of discless machines.

They could also boot into BBC mode with a reasonably good BBCBasic interpreter and RM mode as xxx well.

They were pretty good in their niche, really though the Archi was a fool 32 bit very fast RISC computer that knocked the competition into a cocked hat. Struggled on a bit but then vanquished into the embedded space until a few years ago.

In Europe, Ford is not a prestige badge. They are competing with the likes of Renault, VW, Nissan, and Honda. And now of course the Chinese brands like MG, BYD, Jaecoo, Sonoda, Cherry, Omoda, and others.

They just aren't offering much for the European market. We aren't keen on light trucks, and most of their EVs are shitty fossil conversions. That just leaves the dwindling fossil market for them.

Could also be a warranty issue. Some poor designs rely on firmware to enforce limits and prevent damage.