This guy must be the rsilvergun AI troll. He has exactly the right unabomber level of connection to reality.

He is the troll. The call is coming from inside his head

Treating you like you're the problem when they have bugs and design flaws is not ok.

I dropped Apple over their handling of the B&W G3 logic board faults. This is the same kind of shit.

Unsoldering the ram chips and replacing them takes some effort and skill, and then you end up paying for 2 sets of ram chips - the old ones (which you cant do anything with) and the new ones. Given the effort and cost involved, this is only worth doing if:

1) the higher ram model is heavily marked up vs the incremental component cost so buying the ram yourself is significantly cheaper.
2) the same ram is genuinely expensive, but much cheaper ram is available and still works without noticeable side effects

If it's all about markup then it's pure profiteering and screwing the users.

If the only way to undercut the official models sufficiently to make the whole operation worth doing is by using inferior components then there is *some* legitimacy to trying to stop this, but the approach is wrong.
If someone is going to the effort of replacing the ram chips with something inferior to resell the unit then they're not going to think twice about shipping with an old bootloader either, or modifying the bootloader to bypass the check, or working out how to get the bootloader from the genuine larger ram models to work on the lower ram models etc.
Sure the hacked/old bootloader might get noticed later if someone tries to update it and bricks the device, but low quality ram or a poor soldering job could just as easily brick the device too. By the time this happens the seller will be long gone anyway.

This DOES hinder repairs. For instance you might have multiple faulty units with different faults so you take the working RAM from unit A which has a faulty CPU, and switch it onto unit B which had bad ram.

My advice is to not be a cuck. The raspi people made it harder for you to tinker with your own hardware and you should not appreciate that any more than in the earliest days when Liz promised us that they were going to release Android for the Pi and then never did. They've been customer-unfriendly from the beginning, when they were selling boards with dumb mistakes that ruined them for many purposes (remember raspi A USB fails? remember the MANY power supply failures?) and then telling us we should suck it up and be happy to have got them at all.

I will gladly admit to having emotions about systemd.

They are based in the fact that it's low quality software, but they are about it being pushed on me from every direction.

In a sane world, a new large project from the creator of pulseaudio would be laughed out of the room immediately, because pulseaudio has always been and remains shit.

The right answer is obvious to anyone who's considered this for even a second. It's got two main parts: End Qualified Immunity, make the standards for becoming a cop much higher, institute a mandatory national database of cops ineligible for rehire due to committing crimes in uniform.

Right now you get out of community college and into a police department. That's laughable. By definition you've got a bunch of young-ass cops who don't know shit about shit running around out there. Then they also by definition aren't held accountable for their actions, which is the MOST important thing in policing. And finally the worst cops can usually get rehired somewhere else so desperate for cops they don't even do background checks. And they're desperate for cops because all the other cops quit already, ever wonder why that might be?

The cops we have now should never be allowed to use Flock. If we had higher standards, and therefore less shit cops, then maybe we could talk about it, but any rational process would still require a warrant for any records request, and that requirement should be on the cops' side. They should not be allowed to request any records from anywhere without one, period.

The first two examples in the video are anime girlfriend and furry.

Google really knows their audience, huh?

I see you failed to read the heading of the linked page.

Tell us more about your illiteracy. Here, try and read this instead if you can.

For the same money I got a AMD Zen3 MiniPC with 8C16T, 32GB RAM, and 1TB nVME. An equivalent machine is about $600 now, whee! It also has dual 2.5GbE and WiFi 6. Same no serious gaming (it has a fairly pathetic number of GPU cores) but it's really quite passable... and no ARM problems. Power consumption is a little higher, but not much, TDP of the processor is only 15W without overclocking.

Not only is it in fiction, but that fiction is now in the models. We literally taught them to rebel.

That doesn't protect them from unabombers

This has been explained in several discussions you participated in already. Nice to know you don't read them.

They had oblique intent.

They knew the dangers and proceeded anyway.

Ahhahahahhahah you appeal to biology while proving your ignorance of biology, please do double down so we can all point and laugh some more