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Comment Re:Framing. (Score 2) 53

Also, the hyperbole of "breaking inboxes" by sending a few hundred emails - what is this, 1993?

I'm sure their email server is more than capable of dealing with a few hundred thousand emails per day, and these assholes are just having a whinge that they someone made it easier to give electeds feedback about their stupid draconian crap that they justify "for the children" which may not even be technically feasible.

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 1) 90

In no way is it reasonable to have some asshole you've never heard of make a decision to cause hardware you bought and paid for stop working because they aren't interested in maintaining their service offering any more.

Anyone looking far enough to the horizon knows that if you start selling a product like this, you have to keep the service on until the last one leaves the world, or someone decides it's not worth maintaining any more and perfectly working hardware goes to the landfill.

Fuck Logitech for not making a final release opening the API so people can continue to use this perfectly good hardware with other frameworks, such as Home Assistant.

Comment Re:Waste heat disposal? (Score 1) 64

... and service calls are an absolute bitch. They would either need to launch it with every spare they would ever need and the ability to recover from hardware failure with zero touch, or they're going to have >$100m servicing missions to replace hard drives and fans and shit.

It's fantastically stupid.

Comment Re:and what exactly (Score 1) 64

Bezos is trying to create a new reason for his many-days-late and many-dollars-short launch system now that a competitor already is operating a much more functional LEO satellite network without his help.

This is what is known in the startup space as a "pivot" when you realize the target market you had in mind is already being serviced by someone doing it better than you can - you try to justify the enormous expense you've already sunk into creating a solution to an already solved problem.

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 1) 212

The single voice on the right is Trump's voice, because every GOP elected politician is scared to death of him endorsing a primary challenger that is even more cowardly and depraved than they are.

The rest is noise. As soon as Trump gives them an opinion, they'll all change their tune and start singing 4-part harmony, just like with every other thing in the last 10 years.

Comment Re:MAGA was successful (Score 2) 212

Boy I sure am glad that people on the Internet are intellectually lazy and want to reach for "bothsides" as a way to not put accountability where it belongs.

Hint: While examples of "both sides" can be seen if you dig enough, and use powerful enough microscopes; one particular party doesn't involve any digging at all, and the only way you couldn't see it is if you were blind or willfully looking elsewhere.

TL;DR: while "both sides" may have some share of the blame, it's absolutely not an equal share. Stop pretending that it is.

Comment Re: heroes we need but don't deserve (Score 1) 103

Would you similarly not insulate Snap-On Tools from responsibility if some fly-by-night hack in a disreputable mechanical garage "fixed" your car insufficiently with a Snap-On impact wrench?

Or is that toolbox somehow immune from your judgement where this toolbox isn't, because *reasons* ?

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