Well sometimes be cheeky. I fire up the mcdonalds app some days, then drive with the gps on to Wendys and leave it on while it sit there and eat. I continue to leave it on while driving back to work then I shut it off in the parking lot.

Feels better knowing they are watching. Ever since they ratted on Luigi I have been penalizing them.

We get it you want regulation since you are now big enough to survive it and realize most competitors would be hampered by it.

Yet years ago you werent for it were ya? Were ya? Thought so.

Your comment is like pretending random knock-off USB flash memory that reports 256GB will actually hold the full amount. It's pretending the cheap knock-off sdcards on amazon don't noticeably lose data earlier or run slower. Pretending knock-off SSDs don't wrap around to the beginning earlier than their reported sizes.

I don't want those people touching my hardware before me and not telling me. Cheaper or not.

So I am normally anti DRM and would normally complain loudly about this lock but if you read into it the idea makes perfect sense and it's less of a "lock" and more about "authenticity".

People were buying these with the lowest ram, sourcing crappy questionable ram and upgrading them then reselling at the higher cost which left people eventually holding the bag when the memory errors and such appeared.

When you get one and flash the official image the "lock" is in effect. Anyone can make their own image without it thus the end user tinkerers can STILL UPGRADE THEIR RAM. This just stops someone from selling a knock-off upgraded PI as "genuine" because people will likely expect to flash official images on it. This just thwarts those plans and keeps the higher quality chips around for people.

If you don't like this buy the cheap one, get the ram chip and ugrade it and remove the lock yourself. Tinkering still works....

Wow found the cop or someone with one in their family. When the next NAZI regime forms they will need police to enact their torture and the police will always sign up to do it.

ACAB to you too motherfucker.

I have always been super contemptful of courts. I look at them like you look at a court of a primitive people discovered in StarTrek who think they need to hold trial for one of the StarTrek redshirts they want to kill for some pointless stupid thing like âoeusing a communicatorâ.

Everyone watching knows this primitive court is stupid, wrong and extracting out the redshirt guy by teleporting him before they can kill him is the right thing to do.

I feel this way about our courts. You people are stupid emotion driven idiots and have no right to run your little âoecouncilsâ.

Its like an evil version of the "heads I win, tails you lose" game, spun instead as "Do as I say, not as you do".

Just in time to get screwed again. Growing up the boomers took everything. Now that I am getting older and waited for my turn, we will flip it to where old people just dont matter and get nothing. So I can be screwed again!

This is Protectionism because the cars we are forced to buy here suck. If your cars are so great why can't they compete on the fair open market and be chosen over the chinese stuff?

Oh yeah thats right. You decided to only sell F150's and stop selling small cars that are affordable for people who can't splurge 100K on a truck that gets 18mpg.

Meanwhile you fools are all complaining about 20mpg and thinking a truck getting 30mpg is good, when overseas you can buy 50mpg reliable cars and 40mpg diesel manual transmission vehicles that can be actually repaired yourself.

Oh yeah, Ford was caught asking Trump to make it illegal to repair your own car too... So this whole strategy just makes sense. If they make cars hard to repair people can just buy the easy to repair chinese ones... so we gotta stop that so Ford can fuck over the consumer without them having any choice in the matter.

Because the successful arenâ(TM)t allowed to have a culture. That is it. I said it. Pointed out that elephant.

In any group of mixed people you can identify the successful by seeing who isnt allowed to retain their own culture.

I watched kids in my high school âoeget tiredâ of other cultures and âoego be with their kindâ. When they did this other races were not allowed to follow them. They got to go do all their segregated stuff free of any other cultures behind closed doors and then return to the mixed group âoewhen comfortableâ. The most successful group cannot do this. They are followed no matter where and are not allowed to form any kind of private like minded culture. Whatsoever.

The most successful simply *cannot* do this. Everyone gets to free for all on their culture and their desire to gather like minded people will be viewed as greedy and exclusionary. But this is totally fine for the non successful groups to do. They can have their own events with race checked at the door.

This is how you identify it. Can you grow tired of the other cultures and gather your culture in private? If yes you are not the most successful group in the location you are in.

Yeah I do this when I play Whack-A-Mole. I hit one singular Mole into the hole, then I camp that hole ignoring all others while I proclaim that I have eradicated all Moles, everywhere.

Everyone believes me at my word because if skeptical, everyone will just attack that person with my fictional baby-saving eldery-helping image and not my real drunk-kid-knocking-on-the-wrong-door-with-hands-up actions..

There was a youtube video about when seemingly *all* products across multiple companies switched to non-repairable designs for things like washing machines and dryers that used to be super serviceable. He goes into detail showing an older model where the thing that holds the belts is just bolted on, then the *new* ones from multiple brands all the same year moved to a casted plastic thing that cannot be opened to replace a belt without breaking it then it cant reseal. All intentional and it would ruin any single company that did it so they colluded and *all* did it at once so the consumer has no other choice.

There is a word for this... and it isn't something that is legal.

same

Yeah no. Watched my friend get bitten by this company. Never again. You dont return to abusive relationships. Everything has changed baby they sayâ¦. Yeah then you get smacked again and others will mock you for going back because there was prior evidence of the abuse.

lol I have multiple Sparks, and a Jetson Thor, and a 256 core EPYC with 4 gpus (256gb a piece ones).

Sad I could justify dropping $20k on a Mac Studio if one was available north of 128gb these days (check the site all above 96gb are gone)