that is cool, but primary purpose of a phone is to make and receive phone calls. there are better tools for watching netflix.

yes.

well, the primary purpose of a PHONE is to be able to make and receive PHONE CALLS. anything else is just a matter of convenience.you can use maps, make photos and take notes without a phone, the same can’t be said for phone calls.

you can’t really disconnect yourself from the cell network, that would beat the purpose of having the mobile phone ;)

did not know that. but from the image, that seems like something that is inside of the phone? not really something you casually flip on the street.

my idea is that anytime you would flip the switch and lock the screen to put the phone in the pocket, its spying capabilities would be physically disabled.

Let’s assume it can read wireless network even with wifi turned off, it still needs to find a network and a password to connect to it.

rather than hacking wifi, it connect to mobile internet even without sim card. that is much simpler, the mobile internet is basically anywhere and it is free as part of some spying cartel with the mobile network operators.

any new car also spy on you and you don’t need to provide sim card for that.

i dream about a phone with hw switch, which would be used to lock the screen and at the same moment it would physically disconnect microphone, camera, and gps module.

not saying it is complete solution to the privacy problem, but it would be good start.

there are people in the world who buy new car because their 2 year old one is already too old.

depends on the definition of paying. is he giving you discount, or is he paying more than the car’s worth?

if it is the latter, then i am fine keeping all the fucker’s money and set the free teslas on fire.

linksys is owned by foxconn since 2018, the times when they were cheap brand of cisco are long gone.

i don’t think there is single mikrotik that can’t function as a router. the fact you can configure them as software bridge does not change that.

the rest answered here:

there are some but they are definitely in the minority. also this regulation is focused on home and soho devices, it specifically mentiones tp-link, which is really not enterprise brand.

also the regulation from what i found is so vague, that i suspect that for the author router equals to “that white box with antenna sitting on my table” and is very likely they have no clue about difference between l2 and l3 layer and what router actually is.

there are some but they are definitely in the minority. also this regulation is focused on home and soho devices, it specifically mentiones tp-link, which is really not enterprise brand.

also the regulation from what i found is so vague, that i suspect that for the author router equals to “that white box with antenna sitting on my table” and is very likely they have no clue about difference between l2 and l3 layer and what router actually is.

there is not much wifi access points that are not routers at the same time and i doubt that said regulation would make such a minor a distinction.

also keep in mind that the news articles are specifically talking about tp-link products.

unfortunately we can only guess, because only official document i have found is as vague as the news reports.

https://www.fcc.gov/supplychain/coveredlist

Routers^ produced in a foreign country, except routers which have been granted a Conditional Approval by DoW or DHS.

They also really want to talk about tokens like they’re some kind of currency

i think it is better than pizza fridays for them, because they probably can’t barter pizza for free.

there isn’t really anything revolutionary described in the article (maybe with an exception of these detachable ports).

i have no idea how much things got worse in the last few years, so it is possible they are fixing something they broken lately, but again, presenting it as something new, when it is in fact something that thinkpads were known for since the last ice age and is why people are using them, is just strange to me.

it is really on the level of “omg you guys, did you know that ferrari is doing really fast cars?”

this is their most repairable product as of yet.

thinkpads were always repairable, that and durability is their number one attribute. you present it as if it were somehow new thing.

wtf are you talking about? this isn’t “hitting the market”, this is staple of the thinkpads for ever.

rather than accept loss

these models were trained on all the fine knowledge and wisdom we share all over the internet, what would you expect? 😂

I know most of this stuff will be specialized server hardware

it actually won’t be, at least not for the hard drives. the prevailing strategy for quite some time now is to just use the cheapest available disks and deal with the failures on the software level. those disks will ultimately fail anyway and the increased price for some super-duper enterprise reliability server disk is not really worth it.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

That being said, wtf does “relinquishing digital files” even mean? They do know they still have the “originals” and there is no way to prove how many copies he made, right?