Karen, that you?

I am too - every single day. If I didn’t know better, I’d think I’m stupid.

Personally, I don’t.

But not everyone is able to (for lack of awareness to alternatives, technical skills, software constraints, work requirements, vendor lock-in, …). Are those people unworthy of being protected from an evil company’s wrongdoing just because they’re using the “wrong” OS?

You’re basically arguing that corporations can do whatever they please “on their own turf”. That’s not true as far as user rights, consumer protection and anti-trust laws are concerned. And it shouldn’t be.

“You’re on my property, I’m allowed to shoot you here.”

While these “ethics” do exist, they’re extremely niche. So don’t pretend yours aren’t.

@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works was faster than me (thanks!). Yes, as of now, firmware updates for existing models are only allowed for yet another year and must be discontinued after. As always in this administration, the reasons given for these measures (Chinese attacks on US infrastructure) are built on lies and misinformation (none of the attacks targeted consumer routers). Hence, this is likely just another shakedown: “pay us a bribe or we’ll damage your opportunities to do business in the US.” Depending on whether foreign router vendors opt to go this route and give in to the orange grifter’s demands, things may be different in a years’ time.

Could you in theory demand a refund from the government if you were willing to switch to their backdoor US hardware now?

From a government of the Epstein class, by the Epstein class, for the Epstein class? No. You most certainly cannot.

Old or new, doesn’t matter. They stopped allowing you to download books licensed (“sold”) through the kindle shop in order to prevent you from putting them onto your device via cable.

…which makes “cunt behaviour” even more accurate. ;)

No misunderstanding, that’s precisely what I meant and linked to.

R.I.P. Irony (100,00 BCE - 2025)

So, they had to ban uh, checks notes, apparently all routers, basically.

And ban firmware updates for existing models.

Meanwhile, Russian state hackers use vulnerabilities in old routers to poison DNS and steal credentials through MITM attacks. Agent Krasnow just keeps delivering.

Just another day in the life of an enshittificator.

Corporations like Amazon are a scourge. Switch to free and open formats, software and hardware. Ditch what you can. Hack and pirate what you must. Starve big tech.

At least for the kindle platform, they’ve stopped offering a USB option a while ago, precisely to keep people from circumventing their planned obsolescence.

“We’ve been trying to resolve this for over a month, and getting nowhere. Support is non-existent,” Windscribe said in its post. “Anyone know a human with a brain that still works at Microsoft and can help?”

Microslop. The word is Microslop, for reasons you have just experienced first-hand.

When connected devices visited the selected domains, their connections were proxied through malicious servers before reaching their intended destination.
These adversary-in-the-middle servers used self-signed certificates. When the end user clicked through browser warnings, the servers captured all traffic passing through them.

🙈🙈🙈

We really, really, really need to teach people to read error messages, particularly certificate warnings, and not click “accept” at the drop of a hat.

Did that years ago. Add Jellyfin, Navidrome and Retroarch for a perfect living room media centre/retro gaming rig.

Video content eats storage like nothing else.

And now storage is being eaten by data centres in their quest to force yet more AI slop on people in order to keep the bubble going just a little longer before the inevitable collapse.

I’ve read that YT is injecting the ads directly into the video stream, i.e. the source is not ads.someshittycompany.com, but rather videos.google.com (which you cannot block for obvious reasons). The only solution to kill ads is to use addons like uBlock or client software like Freetube, Newpipe and the like that strip out the ads in some other way.

Last attempt to squeeze some money before get these formats are abandoned in favor of competition, I guess.

FTFY

Some men just want to see the world burn. 🔥

That was before his Big Bonkers Bill and crashing the bonds market with his stupid tariffs. The markets have started to call into question whether America can remain solvent. Taking up billions only to pass the money on to the tech bros to keep their AI bubble going a little longer might not be an option, simply because investors won’t have it.