Good information, thanks.

Yes, true. But like I said, there are third parties who have the tools and expertise. It's not rocket surgery.

Totally agree. I break screens more often than I wear out batteries, but if I have to open the phone for any reason I have the battery replaced just on general principles. The price and turnaround are both reasonable.

At a minimum, I'm guessing.

So.... Google is using data from a bankrupt airline that had customer service and reliability problems through most of its life?

And people are going to be using AI trained on that data?

What's their motto, "Share and Enjoy"?

You don't have to buy a particular phone, you can buy parts NOW to repair your phone.

I ran over the Galaxy 10+ with the truck. Took it to a third party, had the screen replaced for $90 and when I discovered the finger sensor no longer worked, brought it back and had the sensor replaced for cost of parts. (He regretted not doing both at the same time and gave me a break on labor.)

Now that I write that, I have a dim memory of Apple using some kind of DRM on their parts that prevents third parties from replacing the screen. So maybe they do have a point, if you have an Apple phone. The only one I ever used was the one issued to me by an employer.

The point being, anyone adept with tools can already replace the parts on existing phones, or if they're not adept, hire it out to a knowledgeable third party. And if it violates the warranty, so what? If the warranty was still in effect, you'd use that. If you're using a third party, the warranty has run out pretty much by definition.

Screens are commodity items.

Clever.

> Totally different from hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis, right?

I think the difference is, people generally can't start hurricanes, floods, and tsunamis.

Well, maybe floods.

First, if the method is a video selfie, couldn't an AI video be used to fake it?

Second, do I care if people believe I'm real or not?

"It appears that the agency has an offline copy of the wiped data"

Well, like, duh. Had they not, they should all be immediately fired. And never work in IT again.

I don't mean that in a demeaning way. Z80 assembly language was my first professional programming job and I spent some years being the department SME. I'm very interested in this, but I don't currently have a use case. In the present time, where we have 64 bit Raspberry Pis, I'm sad to say that I'm not sure there is one.

I'd love to be wrong about this.

Unfortunately, the software I need to be able to run makes heavy use of the GPU. I don't think Windows VMs have that level of compatibility yet.

I think the hot setup is to run it in an AWS instance. That way I could have access to the software from pretty much anywhere. But I don't expect that to work either.

Yes, exactly.

Nor will my mom's machine, mother-in-law's machine, and wife's machine.

As I depend on a software suite that doesn't yet run on Linux, I'm kinda trapped. My machine is studly and in fine shape. I'm not going to replace it at this time.

So, Microsoft can continue clutching their pearls.

Or.... they could perhaps come out with a version of Windows that doesn't depend on TPM 2.

Or, I could bite the bullet and switch to Linux. I already have Mint running on a laptop, and it's pretty nifty.

...It's ennui.

It's not clear how the writer, Ana Nogueira, got the job. She appears to be a decent actress, but her only other writing credit was a short film eight years ago.

But anyway, the issue doesn't seem to be "superhero fatigue" but bad movie fatigue. It's not even worth getting angry about. We had a good run, time to look for other genres. Maybe I'll go see Iron Lung.