1. How do you know that they don't send things like Apple IDs or other unique identifiers? Is the source code open? No? Then you don't know. You're just assuming that they're telling the truth when they say they aren't collecting these.... SURELY a company like Apple would never ever ever lie to the public... SURELY NOT! 2. Your plan is to ask these companies to stop spying on everyone? For real? Were you born yesterday? You probably think the moon is literally made of cheese and that unicorns are real animals don't you? Hey, come to think of it, I've got some totally prime real estate on the moon that was grandfathered to me-- I'll make you a really good deal on it. Y'know the future is bright for that land, too, since NASA is making all kinds of plans on setting up a moon base and all. So what do you say? Send me a couple thousand dollars and it's all yours.

Way to take the moral high ground, Drinkypoo. You clearly care so much about humanity and life in general that you're such a better person than everyone else.

This should be exactly what you're looking for: https://puri.sm/products/libre...

This is no doubt the most arrogant thing I'll read all day today. Perhaps the most arrogant thing I'll read all week... or this month...

If you're still using Windows then you have no one to blame but yourself.
If you're not using Windows then why do you care?

tl;dr: the creeps and the girls flaunting their sexuality are both assholes and idiots.

Wear revealing clothes and do your absolute best to flaunt your sexuality in public?
People ("creeps") will take notice. Why are you mad? Attention is exactly what you wanted isn't it?
Oh, wait, I know why you're mad. It's because you feel humiliated when people just take pictures of what you're flaunting.
Well you can't have your cake and eat it too, princess. Wear a whore's uniform and try to get extra attention from being sexy and then you'll be treated like a sexual object-- but it's you that's making yourself a sexual object so you have no right to complain.

So, presuming that this is a problem, what should be done about this?

I only see two ways to go:
1. Burqas or some similar regulation to prevent people of both sexes from flaunting their sexuality (and thus getting extra attention or whatever from it).
2. Everyone shut up and let those who choose to play such games reap what they sow and don't give them any sympathy or attention or help.

My vote is for #2
Let the creeps and the attention whores play their stupid games and generate their dumb little drama and get this stupid shit off /.

And here I am without mod points.
So instead I'll just mention that Defense Distributed and their Ghost Gunner project are important ideas-- no matter which side you're on, no matter what your opinion of the people involved, they're still an important thing to consider in all this.

This is news to me. Source?

So your comeback is "nuh-uh!"? Good one.

Which ODROID board was it?
My HC2 sysbench's about half as fast as my Dell XPS 13 9360 (2017). That's more than enough performance for me because it's just a NAS after all not a big server running MRI analysis or anything.

ODROID XU4 It's a little pricey compared to a $35 board, but it has what you wanted.

If you're planning on putting together a NAS you might consider the HC2-- I have one myself and it was a snap to set up.

These vulnerabilities look like they are almost all problems with the chipset or AMD's equivalent to Intel's Management Engine.
So these aren't quite on par with Spectre and Meltdown.

Some firmware updates should fix almost all of this.
Still, it was sort of an asshole move to only give AMD 24 hours' notice just so they could get their 15 minutes of fame.
And, yes, it's disgusting to see AMD put out products with lots of weaknesses like this.

Then buy a Honda Civic.

You want an iPhone that's more durable and has a removable battery? Did you check the Android aisle?
The whole point of the iPhone is the sleekness, the design, the brand. If you're not into that then you're not into the iPhone and you need to stop kidding yourself.

Focus on delivering completely integrated products is what made Apple what they are today.
If they start playing around with things like buying a magazine app here or setting up a cloud thing there then before you know it they're Google and they have no idea who they are, where they're going, or what their product is and neither will their customers.

Agreed.
Science can only describe X it absolutely cannot say X is good or bad.
Only humans can judge whether something is good or bad.