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Comment Re:Ban on updates?! And more distinctions without (Score 1) 74

I had a TP-Link device up until around 2019 but then stopped using DSL and had to buy something new, this means I have no idea about their products nowadays.
A couple of questions: are US models different to - say - Canadian or Mexican models? If they are the same, is there going to be a "Greatest wall of MAGAland" to block updates and enforce geo-fencing?

Comment Re:What A Whiny Little Bitch (Score 1) 160

after they got caught auto-adding AI.

Did they "auto-add AI"? My impression was that they were starting to look at doing this - but not on this scale - but realised pretty much from the start that a lot of people did not want it so they offered an Opt-Out.
btw, this 4GB won't be a one-time "thing", there will be bugs found and updates provided.

Comment Re:Takes two to tango (Score 3, Interesting) 67

Given what happened at the end of 2025/ start of 2026 it looks as though the PRC overlords struck back.
(I got that link from another comment here)
Of course a non-affiliated Notepad++ could just as easily be carrying any kind of malware from any state-sponsored grouping, has anyone had the chance to look at the source?

Comment Almost a Dupe (Score 4, Informative) 96

GameStop is preparing an offer for eBay is from two days ago, and some of the comments there were actually appropriate.

Because: CEO Ryan Cohen has signalled interest in large-scale acquisitions to grow GameStop into a significantly larger business. Cohen’s compensation package includes incentives tied to achieving a $100 billion market valuation.

(posted by an A/C)

Comment Re:Strange story. (Score 4, Informative) 191

If Trump wanted there would be literal rivers of blood in Iran. Instead it's only the odd supreme leader or 2 and some ancillary support staff pushing up daisies.

What about the 150+ Grade School kids who were at the business end of a Tomahawk missile on about the first day of the US's attack? The Revolutionary Guard had been stationed there around a decade earlier and the US had never got around to updating their maps.

Comment Outdated Penalties (Score 1) 23

I was in a motel somewhere on the Maryland / Pennsylvania border a couple of decades ago, and they had the penalties for skipping without paying the bill in my room. It was something along the lines of: a $50 fine or a year inside prison. (I made those figures up because I can't remember the real ones, but it came down to pocket money or a long sentence).

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