okay but you end up paying more - if it was just normal data plan and cost of phone it would be even, but there’s also something paid to middleman that provides something that is effectively credit and extortion services like simlock and some legal thingies, it might have smaller downpayment but it’s not this, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory

this is on top of various security and privacy implications of using a phone which you can’t legally reflash

is that some american problem i’m too euro to understand? we got rid of this anticompetitive shit in early 10s

i mean this:

So instead of using law enforcement and the interior ministry and FSB (security service) to provide security for Russian citizens, it’s being used to eradicate any opposition to the regime.

this is not a new situation

they’ve been doing that for the last 20 years, this is not news

nsa plz make a stuxnet

what are you talking about, number stations have very explicit military intelligence purpose, that’s not some lightweight trolling

from everything i’ve learned about chemical waste management and recycling, no it won’t remain contained

also does it contain lead? i bet it does, but there are no details at all

small samples can achieve ridiculous efficiencies. @ me when they 1. can scale this thing to entire panel, and 2. lasts longer than it takes to get it out of lab. silicon can pull 22% and more, scales reliably and lasts longer. also, it’s a bunch of marketing fluff, linked to other marketing fluff. if there’s anything real, you could just post DOI

people who were using these addons probably had them installed already, so it’ll only affect new users

on these laptops you can update bios from bios, just needs to be connected via ethernet

better get W10 LTSC in VM and use it until EOL and beyond, it’ll be more privacy friendly this way

wrong

it penetrates buildings just fine

yes they are, you can detect lower bands pretty much everywhere. The problem is modulation: AM sucks balls when it comes to noise rejection. Some AM stations switch to digital encoding which uses the same band so good propagation + good audio quality within some range. After you get too far away signal just drops, if you’re willing to put up with higher noise level range of normal AM radio is basically global

orrrr just ditch the entire overhyped underdelivering thing

because the sooner corporate meatheads clock that this shit is useless and doesn’t bring that hype money the sooner it dies, and that’d be a good thing because making shit up doesn’t require burning a square km of rainforest per query

not that we need any of that shit anyway. the only things these plagiarism machines seem to be okayish at is mass manufacturing spam and disinfo, and while some adderral-fueled middle managers will try to replace real people with it, it will fail flat on this task (not that it ever stopped them)

they won’t be getting anything from ASML because of sanctions, fabless is also out as TSMC also won’t supply them with chips for the same reason

this shit is ancient, 30 years old node and russians had access to smaller nodes anyway (90nm) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_4R4X7AWtU this is situation from 2022, doubt it got much better, could even get a fair bit worse

“some researcher”? dude, there’s entire ministry in India that promotes this bullshit

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/curcumin-will-waste-your-time https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Ayush