Except that is false. The number of legitimate customers buying RPis and then upgrading the RAM is zero. It costs more to do so than buy the correct RPi to begin with and the only way to make this financially viable is to use RAM chips which are virtually broken from the onset (which is precisely the fraud this is trying to stop).
On the other hand when Sony removed Linux support from the PS3 on the other hand it not only affected many tinkerers who were actively using the platform, but researchers as well. You can see no end of it on the PSdevwiki. People were optimising flavours of linux especially to run on it and then turning them into research clusters thanks to the excellent cost / performance ratio of the IBM Cell CPUs in research applications. You know Yellow Dog Linux was released not only specifically for the PS3, but specifically for running clusters of PS3 in the scientific community? People were doing actual research using PS3 clusters and that was killed by the change. Even the NCSA ran a PS3 Linux cluster.

It did however have a positive effect. About a year after the PS3 Linux support was dropped my university decommissioned its cluster thanks to being unable to obtain spare parts to keep it running, since new PS3s couldn't run Yellow Dog. That meant the old PS3s were scrapped which was great since it provided us in our optics lab a source for the (at the time) very expensive 405nm lasers which we needed for our research. I spent quite a bit of my post grad ripping apart PS3s to get at the goodies.

This isn't troll bait. I actively enjoy arguing with drinkypoo.

Ooh yeah. That's a good one. Remember THEM!?

I don't think there is a solution. In all seriousness, if I were starting my career from scratch today, I would avoid anything that can be done purely remotely, and quite likely go into a skilled trade - Not romanticizing "hands-on" work, I realize it has its own down-sides, but it's becoming increasingly clear we'll still have elevator techs and plumbers longer than we'll have programmers and accountants.

AI has effectively already killed white collar jobs going forward, whether or not those outside tech have noticed yet. It can more-or-less replace junior-level workers today, and with no juniors there will be no seniors later and no principals twenty+ years from now. Though even if we somehow find a way to backfill the experience pipeline, I have little doubt AI will be coming for even the best of us within a decade. Maybe it'll hit some unforeseen ceiling before then, but that's not a bet I'm eager to take.

I don't know whether they are believable or not, because I found them too boring to pay attention to, even with the faces shifting. (Morphing might have been more interesting.)

There are places where it happened to people. It isn't widespread. And I'm not sure how many people were affected.
OTOH, they were used as the reason/excuse for raised electricity prices in several places, and I never heard that the prices went back down.

To my eyes, they *aren't* releasing it to their targeted market, they're releasing it to a test market, where they can improve it with large scale testing. When it gets good enough, they'll push it to the intended market (marketing) at a relatively high price. (Cheaper than people, though.)

It seems clear to me that the case they're aiming for is marketing. The problem is that they need to cross uncanny valley. (OTOH, it also seems they're getting close to doing that.)

That doesn't change the argument. The water that dilutes the waste isn't, itself, radioactive. If it's soluble, the dissolved mix is going to be heavier. What can change it is if there are strong currents near the location, and here "strong" doesn't mean very strong, but just enough to keep the heavier parts from settling lower through turbulence. Another thing that can change it is if it is adsorbed by passing organic molecules (e.g. the skin of fish or shell of crabs...but fish are more mobile).

Only 5?

Seems like a department that size would almost certainly have more than 5 instances of abuse.

Weird Al also recently released an educational video about the brain recently: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Well yeah... that's entirely the point here.

You can't get cucked if you didn't have a girlfriend in the first place. The Raspi people made a change that affects virtually zero of their customers. That's not cucking by definition.

Liz and Upton promised you precisely nothing. Android 4.0 on the Pi was nothing more than possibility that never left early development. It was never officially announced by anyone. The best you ever got is that running Android on a Pi "looks promising" to quote the man himself. That you misunderstood it and got excited is your failing, not theirs.

Yes by creating a low cost tinker device and seeding a community of support. Fuck them right? What have you ever done other than bitch and moan on Slashdot?

Still waiting for your design to show them how they did it all wrong. How fucking dare they not be perfect unlike your godly self? *Note, the only thing godly about you is how big of an arsehole you are at times.

They did precisely none of that. In fact they changed PSU supplier and re-designed the powersupply section of the board under a new revision. What the fuck happened to you? Did Liz kick your dog? Or did Upton fuck your wife or something? At the risk of giving you an inadvertent complement, I've never seen a bigger hateboner than yours.

Feel like that's not what is being said at all. It's saying in a world where they are willing to lie about capacity and have the technical ability to do so, they *certainly* would also have the ability to defeat this mechanism to lock out changing the RAM chips.

It just seems on the face of it a bit silly when the reporting is 'they are blocking supply chain BS by blocking ram modules' but at the same time 'but don't worry, you can easily undo the lockout'.