And they are always forcing updates on you (or annoying you incessantly to where you give in and install the update) that load in new services that make money off you, like ACR. They don't disclose that it is there and enabled by default, and hide the ability to turn it off way down in the settings where 95% of people would never go.

Texas AG just won a settlement with them that they must disclose ACR and only enable it via upfront consumer consent. And no more selling user data to China. That really says how shady they are when Ken Paxton of all people force you to do something ethical. https://www.texasattorneygener...

This is being driven by an event that happened in Austin right after the Iran war started. A guy downtown started shooting random people, but nearby cops responded in less than a minute minimizing it to 2 deaths. But waymos literally stopped in the street perpendicular and blocked ambulances from getting to the scene quickly, even when they called the remote assistance and told them a mass shooting was occurring and they were police and they needed to move the car right now.

That was an isolated instance. I cant imagine an earthquake, tsunami, tornado, flash flood or wildfire. People would die because of these things getting stuck, snd no rrmote control if the infrastructure is getting destroyed around you.

The royal british navy was created to protect merchant trading ships from pirates. Unless every major entity that interfaces with the external world is government owned, then our national interests will be facilitated by private companies, and protected by the government if deemed critical enough, as it should be.

The only other 2 options are govt everything like north korea. Or private everything which would be insanity.

A car without the infotainment system and onstar is what people ask for. Power windows and mirrors, heated seats, ultrasonic sensors, none of that is an invasion of privacy. But the data aggregator and network connection is not needed.

They just did this to everyone who purchased perpetual licenses. We told them to F off as the last version we could download was good enough and we literally cant use their cloud services which are the only updates they push now.

Tempted to forward the Altium sales guy this article. Maybe he'll realuze what they did is probably illegal.

Now take all your arguments, but instead of us normal people taking money from the content producers via ad blockers, make it about Google who trained their AI on that content, then stepped between the content producer and the consumer to present that content as its own and take all their ad revenue.

Who did it worse?

Not every model humans have come up with. Pamela Anderson in 90s Baywatch? No flaws there. And incomplete? Please, she was complete...

Nowhere in the body was it ever suggested Mint is in trouble. Like the headline wasnt even related to the content. This article should be removed just to stop this type of thing from being acceptable.

I believe this is a real limit of FAT32 though as the header only allocates 4 bytes for size. Same as .wav files. I guess nobody wanted to waste the bytes imagining files could ever exceed that size.

ACR is actually pretty interesting tech. They take 1 pixel and send that in. But the combination of the color of that 1 pixel over time can correllate it to what you are watching, assuming they have the 1 pixel samples truthing set.

Shady as all. I had an LG TV and they force auto updates on you, or annoy they hell out of you until you do update it. Then they snuck it in on an update and you default agree to it. You can only turn it off by digging down to their "About This TV" section, and then view the user policies you are agreeing to. Then you can turn it off. Most of this extra stuff you can turn off, except for the privacy policy or else your TV basically will not work.

I installed a pi-hole on my network and blocked LG via the smartTV list. Half my blocked queries are from LG trying to phone home.

Captain Steve was also the first and loudest one screaming the flaps weren't deployed and was quickly proven wrong, indisputedly. I'd take anything he says with a grain of salt.

I design full ocean depth (6000 meters) electronics. Getting rid of the titanium pressure vessels is a huge savings in cost and galvanic risk.

I have personally used this same SanDisk SD card at full pressure (10000 psi) inside an oil filled bladder for read/writes, as well as potted in polyurethane. Never saw any data issues.

When we proved it we thought it was cool, but didn't realize it was newsworthy. Most ICs do fine at full pressure. The only ones that fail have air voids in yhem. Like crystals, or MEMS sensors.

I can already hear the phone call from my parents trying to figure out where all their files went. Just like the last time one drive got enabled somehow. Took me half a day of work to figure out what was the most recent version of things, get it all off OneDrive and back onto their machine, and to disable that crap.

At this point Microsoft is just being predatory on the elderly.

Next day while at work, text alerts arrive of Geek Squad work scheduled by Gemini. Dave rushes home as UPS and Geek Squad vans pull away. Ding...a text alert from UPS arrives with a picture showing the box they just picked up, to be delivered to Google. Dave runs inside to see his PC dismantled and all the hard drives gone.

User: "What’s in the box Gemini? What was in the box?"

Gemini: "it seems that gluttony is my sin."

User: "What’s in the box Gemini? What’s in the fucking box?"

And this product built on the back of the product line (Nest) they purchased and ultimately destroyed. Is it irony, or something else that they are abandoning Nest officially to push this new line of home automation?