Enshittification seems damn inevitable these days.

Me: History is so old.

History: UR old.

And without any compass you’d be walking circles.

That’s ok. So do I.

Performing sufficiently for cheap production cost, they’d be a low RISC high reward investment.

I have a supposedly smart washing machine that came with the apartment. Setting it up in my locked down appliances network, it didn’t work with home-assistant, required cloud access and wanted me to open up ports in the firewall. Nope. No network connection for you. You are a regular dumb old washing machine.

“52 inspirational quotes should be enough for anyone.”

Old man Filofax

Is a pun. Paw, pa, father.

Among the four disputed patents is one concerning improvements that reduces the number of steps – and thereby overall delay – when transmitting an uplink package; a Wireless Wake-On-LAN Power Management technique; an invention that allows a user to initiate a diagonal scroll at any location by using two fingers; and a hinge block that enables a laptop to convert to a tablet.

Welp, I guess Lenovo goes on my black list too then.

You know when you have an issue with your Linux so you air it on a public forum and are overrun with useless comments that you should switch to Arch because it’s so much better and you’re stupid if you don’t?

Yeah.

Because no need to fix when it works good enough.

I’ve been paying the €5 ad free subscription without other premium features for years until they announced that it will be discontinued from next month.

So then I am going to take a new look into ad blockers.

Good job, YouTube.

The big question is, how un/reliable are these drives.

Firmware is software that makes the hardware do what it is supposed to do that runs on the hardware itself.

The term is used somewhat ambiguously though.

• Sometimes it is just the pure functionality, “if button is pressed, flip the lights on/off”.
• Sometimes it glues communication with the functionality, “if signal is received over some interface, flip the lights on/off”.
• Sometimes it has an operating system, “when power is on, initiate communications with hardware and interfaces and load software if it is present to interact with any of these”.
• Sometimes it is a package with both operating system and software, “when power is on, initiate communications with hardware and interfaces and load software that I know is present”.
• Sometimes the OS and/or software in the firmware package has a helpful front facing user interface.