Lka1988

Michael Knowles has a seriously punchable face

I don’t disagree, however, there needs to be some form of security so the average Joe (or their kid) doesn’t accidentally press the wrong button and rm -rf the entire device (exaggerating of course, but you get the idea).

Exactly, and this also ties into my first point that the people who know, know what to look for.

I’ve rooted/jailbroken every single phone and tablet I’ve owned over the last 15 years. I wouldn’t have it any other way. I cannot stand the artificial “security” blocks out in place simply because a company thinks rooted users are somehow cheating or committing fraud or what have you - the people who do that are gonna do it no matter what.

True. Nintendo is extremely cutthroat with their IP, they like going after emulators and similar.

Sony shipped literal rootkits with their software years ago.

True.

email is starting to disappear

The fuck it is lol, do you have any idea how much email is used in literally everything? How old are you?

integrated FTP client

Why though? SFTP is leagues better.

Syncthing isn’t going anywhere. The Android app is the only thing that was dropped, and that was only because of Google’s increasingly-difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.

Syncthing-Fork is the spiritual successor to the original Android app and can be found on F-Droid.

That fork is what the Syncthing devs recommend. Pretty sure it’s fine.

Syncthing was only ever self-hosted…

You really need to clarify your comment, as it’s already causing confusion.

1. The official Syncthing project is going strong, and is not the same thing as the Android app.
2. The Android app was discontinued late last year due to Google’s increasingly difficult requirements to publish on the Play Store.
3. Syncthing-Fork is now what Syncthing recommends for Android users.

"[…] This service is being developed in partnership with Flower AI, which leverages Nvidia’s confidential compute to provide private remote processing in the event a user’s PC isn’t powerful enough. Sipes emphasizes that any remote processing features attached to Thunderbird Assist will always be optional, in the interest of ensuring complete user privacy.”

That’s a lot of words to say “we made an AI that totally won’t suck up your data, trust me bro”

playstation

The game console, made by Sony, who famously keeps trying to fuck everyone else over?

Because people are stupid, will fuck up their device/s, and then complain to the manufacturer about how their device was ruined.

It’s an incredibly stupid argument, but it’s their argument nonetheless. Something something “for your safety/protection/security/etc”…i.e. “Trust us”.

I think root privileges should be available as well, but in a way that 1) only someone who knows what the fuck they’re doing can access, and 2) can be done entirely locally, without calling to a server controlled by the manufacturer.

Absolutely a fair point.

…it looks like pretty much every other 75% tkl out there ¯⁠\⁠(⁠°⁠_⁠o⁠)⁠/⁠¯

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t doubt that Logitech would be “borrowing” designs, but this sounds like a bit of a stretch

I did the same shit as a teenager, big fucking whoop. How about we focus on the Nazi part of this asshole.

Same here! We had it on a Macintosh LC 575. I will never forget those sound effects haha.

The hypocrisy is that if an average person did something like this (such as, IDK, Aaron Schwartz) they would have already been swiftly prosecuted and made out to be an example of “look what will happen to you”.

It’s just the two-tiered justice system being what it is, again.