I bought a new XBOX drive off amazon once. Stickers says void if opened so I didn’t open the case till I found a larger drive and was going to swap the drive in the case. The drive inside was dirty as hell. Like it spent years in a dirty factory. SMART report looked good, but the drive itself was from 2011, but the controller board was from 2017. Some retailer was grabbing old drives and swapping the control board, I assume as repair or likely to falsify drive use hours.
I reported to Amazon as seller fraud, initially they said you are way out of your return period. So I had to explain it doesn’t when I discover a seller has commited fraud, it is fraud.

Interesting. A lady I worked with was there. She said initially the soldiers / convoy were friendly as they were just people too, and students brought them drinks and food since they were just at a standstill forever. Until the order came to clear the protest.

Thankfully Linux OSs exist.

Same, I’m running homeassistant. Things that are out of the way like PC under desk get WakeOnLan from HA, or chandeliers, and grow lights for my wife’s indoor trees get smart treatment. Kitchen lights are switches, because if I’m in the kitchen I will be by the switches and opening phone to launch HA app and scroll to a smart light button would take much longer.

Nice

To me the issue is tik-tok could be used to sideload data gathering for China, such as government officials camera or microphone use, beyond the worry of poisoning our society with propaganda. There have already been binary apps with malicious backdoors. Compared to a weather app that may harvest location, contacts, etc, but most likely verifiable content.

But that’s why I don’t install garbage apps, run GrapheneOS and Linux to try to minimize data gleaning.

Must be the cyanide on the whistle

The funny thing is they have enough money to not kiss anyones ass for their rest of their life

Aside for all his pedophile view points, he is correct about infantilizing 12-17 year olds. We have helicopter parents removing every roadblock for children, they grow up not knowing how to plan or resolve conflict.