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@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.

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.

Do you think it’s possible for companies or individuals to not comply with court ordered surveillance and search warrants?

Companies can’t, no. That’s precisely my point. Hence your argument that iOS is more “secure” than any other bar Graphene is disingenuous. iOS is developed by a company which can be (and likely already has been) pressured into compromising its users on behalf of three-letter agencies. The NSA slides are strong evidence of that.

Large collectives of devs spread out all over the world, however, can withstand such pressures since they’re hard to get a hold of. The developers of OSs such as Graphene, Debian or Lineage could easily resist such attempts, simply because they’re not a legal entity incorporated inside a single jurisdiction.

You’re correct in saying that Apple is “selling” privacy and security (as in: marketing, pinky-promising). They may be selling that story, but I ain’t buying it.

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.

There’s good reason to suspect that it’s very terrible from its privacy and security perspective.

If you remember you remember I guess.

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

FTFY

the only decent version of Windows

Please stop romanticising Win 10 just because it’s less shitty than 11. There is no decent Windows.

Reminder: Win 10 introduced

• mandatory telemetry (you can only choose between some telemetry and firehose telemetry)
• a built-in keylogger
• built-in advertising
• aggressive nag screens containing dark patterns trying to trick users into “upgrading”