Wait. You say Microsoft is doing the same thing they've done a dozen times before, again? I'm shocked, I say. Shocked.
........ well, not that shocked.
Basically the EFF exists to defend pedo rights
You are disturbingly confused and thinking of the (GOP) RetardedKlan Party whose head is a literal 34-time convicted felon, pedophile who admitted in a Howard Stern video to invading locker rooms of underage girls at pageants, and all-around Treasonous Shitrag who wears caked orange makeup to hide his syphilis blemishes.
But do remember, there are a LOT of people out there with a LOT of disposable income.....
I don't think there are *quite* that many who can *responsibly* buy a $2,000 cell phone...but, at least in the US, carriers will effectively finance phones with little to no interest, so it ends up being an additional $56/month on their phone bill for three years (maybe carriers will do a 2-year contract at $83/month, but I doubt it'll be as popular).
While I think that's exorbitant personally ($700 is kinda my limit, my last few phones have been $500 or less), I can at least understand that there are a lot of people for whom their cell phone is their primary computing device, with the laptop on the side for the occasional task that requires a full-sized screen and/or keyboard. I've spent $3,500 on a laptop in the past ($5,000 in 2026 dollars), so perhaps on a per-hour-of-usage basis, $2,000 isn't absolutely atrocious if the phone is truly kept for three years. Assuming three hours of usage per day = $0.61/hour.
it's possible the porcupine is still alive today to pester other tech bros on vacation in the jungle.
We can only hope.
I just put a new touchpad in my Lenovo P15v and it was an ordeal. First of all, Lenovo doesn't have the part (not the original, nor the two alternative parts they list) , so I went with an aftermarket replacement part that is working like crap and I will have to replace yet again. The repair is was what I consider a major repair job. Had to fully remove the entire mainboard, which means thermal paste needed to reassemble, etc, in order to replace the touchpad, which is a mechanical part that will wear out in time (for example clicking down on it wears out eventually). And this is on a "workstation grade" laptop.
If only Lenovo wasn't the only company I can find with a laptop keyboard that is acceptable to me (dedicated PG UP/DOWN keys and dedicated Home / End keys), I'd like to try something else at some point.
Last time I checked, my vehicle is not a legal entity that can be cited for infractions. Whatever person is sitting behind the wheel of that vehicle is not known by a camera. I can't believe these things haven't been totally obliterated in court. In my state, the tickets you get from these things are actually from 3rd parties contractors who run them, and try to sound very official, but they are not actual summons through a court.
COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from a corporation whose president codes in octal. -- J.N. Gray