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Comment Re:Solving the wrong problem. (Score 1) 10

Yes, but this is not the data protection or consumer's rights authority investigating but the antitrust watchdog. Completely different department. In which way publishers and/or Apple are allowed to track users is a different matter. Here it is about Apple tracking them while keeping the data and their monetarization for itself.

Comment Re:High end cables are a waste of money. (Score 1) 101

Friend of mine, a quite serious, intelligent guy, non-technical used to be a convinced audiophile. In a discussion I asked him how his "audiophile" equipment could make recorded music sound more "realisitic" when there was no "audiophile" equipment used to record it because no studio in the world follows audiophile "standards" through the whole production chain, assuming that this sort of tech even axisted at the time of recording (which it didn't, most of the time). So, to make a difference his audiophile machinery would have to add somethig that was not there at the time of recording thus altering the sound. Which makes the whole audiophile idea collapse. I could see his world crush in his face and he never mentioned audiophillistery ever again.

Comment systemd.bsodd (Score 1) 25

It will as soon as with the next rolling upgrade be integrated as "systemd.bsodd". It might break boot, logging, TCP/IP routing and power off, will require all system configs to be encoded in cuneiform, but realistically there's no alternative because the old DRM panic screen is obsolete and beyond maintainability.

Comment Re:Physical vs. Digital (Score 1) 36

If you're relying on Amazon for anything, you've had it coming, IMO. There are other sources for ebooks and readers. I've got around 1.500 paper books but I'm not going to buy any more of them if there's an ebook edition. Physical books are way too heavy to justify their exclusive use. And let's not even start with travelling with sufficient reading material for two or three weeks...

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