Except that is false. The number of legitimate customers buying RPis and then upgrading the RAM is zero. It costs more to do so than buy the correct RPi to begin with and the only way to make this financially viable is to use RAM chips which are virtually broken from the onset (which is precisely the fraud this is trying to stop).
On the other hand when Sony removed Linux support from the PS3 on the other hand it not only affected many tinkerers who were actively using the platform, but researchers as well. You can see no end of it on the PSdevwiki. People were optimising flavours of linux especially to run on it and then turning them into research clusters thanks to the excellent cost / performance ratio of the IBM Cell CPUs in research applications. You know Yellow Dog Linux was released not only specifically for the PS3, but specifically for running clusters of PS3 in the scientific community? People were doing actual research using PS3 clusters and that was killed by the change. Even the NCSA ran a PS3 Linux cluster.

It did however have a positive effect. About a year after the PS3 Linux support was dropped my university decommissioned its cluster thanks to being unable to obtain spare parts to keep it running, since new PS3s couldn't run Yellow Dog. That meant the old PS3s were scrapped which was great since it provided us in our optics lab a source for the (at the time) very expensive 405nm lasers which we needed for our research. I spent quite a bit of my post grad ripping apart PS3s to get at the goodies.

This isn't troll bait. I actively enjoy arguing with drinkypoo.

Well yeah... that's entirely the point here.

You can't get cucked if you didn't have a girlfriend in the first place. The Raspi people made a change that affects virtually zero of their customers. That's not cucking by definition.

Liz and Upton promised you precisely nothing. Android 4.0 on the Pi was nothing more than possibility that never left early development. It was never officially announced by anyone. The best you ever got is that running Android on a Pi "looks promising" to quote the man himself. That you misunderstood it and got excited is your failing, not theirs.

Yes by creating a low cost tinker device and seeding a community of support. Fuck them right? What have you ever done other than bitch and moan on Slashdot?

Still waiting for your design to show them how they did it all wrong. How fucking dare they not be perfect unlike your godly self? *Note, the only thing godly about you is how big of an arsehole you are at times.

They did precisely none of that. In fact they changed PSU supplier and re-designed the powersupply section of the board under a new revision. What the fuck happened to you? Did Liz kick your dog? Or did Upton fuck your wife or something? At the risk of giving you an inadvertent complement, I've never seen a bigger hateboner than yours.

I don't know, what do you think the problem is with going into into your App Store of choice and clicking a download button that lets you download sometime tomorrow?

People aren't complaining about installing a single app here. F-Droid is an app store. Expecting users to wait 24 hours to install each and every app is as good as a death knell, aside from an initial phone setup most apps are installed on a per need basis, not a per "I think maybe I'll need this tomorrow" basis.

Person 1: "Hey can you tell me what the x intercept of y = sqrt(23^2x + x^4) is?"
Person 2: "Yeah sure, just let me enable developer mode, reboot my phone, install Graph 89, accept the popup, and then sit and stare at it for 24 hours until Google stops blocking the installation and you'll have your answer."

And even the initial phone setup becomes a problem. What used to take an hour after a factory reset will now be a process longer than doing a clean Windows install.

Pretending like this isn't an issue (especially for F-droid) is just gaslighting.

Most humans are nothing more than word guessing machines. Or fact guessing. We do little more than take some words or facts and apply it to the conversation at hand.

I'm no fan of AI, but to claim they are limited in use-case is just stupid on the face of it.

No I didn't misread your comment. I intentionally ignored your stupid assertion that level 4 autonomy isn't considered self driving, which is precisely where the laws deviate from the reality of how people drive cars.

No, the person behind the wheel is driving the wheel according to the laws. For the record I agree with you on this, the whole point of my post is that it's the law which doesn't.

Look deeper. They can issue violations, except there's no legal mechanism for them to be paid. Waymo doesn't pay for violations, it's something we've covered extensively. When the police officer issues a ticket to a company the fine itself is not reclaimable by the government.

Your surface level view of the situation is taking you down the wrong path.

Or more accurately stories like that get you blue balled in the force. Have you ever worked somewhere where everyone hates you and doesn't trust you? It's not pleasant for anyone but the most narcissistic arsehole.

There is a brand new entrant into the industry and they are selling RAM at a higher price than Samsung per unit. So clearly the only thing driving up RAM prices is the shortage of RAM and the insane backlog in orders.

Also there is no monopoly. One company doesn't control the market. The word you're looking for is oligopoly.

No one outside of Slashdot cares. Windows 11 has a large market share. SteamOS while great is still a pittance of the actual market. The idea that millions of people are going to switch to Linux for reasons that only a bunch of Slashdotters care about is a fantasy.

It takes 10 years to enter the market. CXMT has been going full steam trying since 2016. Also the shortage is more like 2 years, not 10.

Sure if you ignore AI and market dynamics you would think that. You'd be wrong though, but then it suits the rest of your fantasies quite well.

I guess even you can eventually say something correct if you write enough sentences.

What a strange comment to make given the story literally two stories above this one.

OpenAI's autonomous agent literally just hacked a government and there's nothing that can be done about it because the laws don't cover AI agents. It's a perfect example.

Nope, it's only important to people who don't want to do anything about it and instead try and blame someone else. See also: Not doing shit about global warming because China something something.

Sure, if you want to be completely wrong you can make that claim. In reality Waymos are not under human supervision. They contact humans for support when their self-driving system disengages. That's a very different thing. There is no single human responsible for Waymos and this has been an ongoing issue with law enforcement who have been unable to issue any tickets to cars without drivers. Where Waymo has been punished, it's been under specific provisions of specific laws created for self diving vehicles - which is exactly my point.

You're probably thinking of Tesla, who very much do still supervise their shitty substandard products.

No it's not. In virtually all jurisdictions traffic violations apply to the person driving the vehicle, and not the vehicle itself. You don't need to take my word for it. Just look up how many traffic violations Waymo has committed and how many fines they have had to pay as a result.

While true it has no bearing on this case since it was the Australian government and their laws involved.

Unfortunately it does nothing at all of the sort. Generic bragging may sound like intent but needs a mountain of evidence to link it o any specific act. Criminal law simply isn't remotely as generic as you want to frame it as. In fact it's often so specific that people who actually do commit specific criminal acts sometimes get away with it on technicalities.