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TechNerdWizard42

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  • Anybody using a framework laptop?

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  • I love the idea of Framework and I buy laptops that do what they do. But from MegaVendors™

    For example my Dell has socketed RAM, now with 128GB in it. It has a socketed CPU and GPU "card" with a mobile Xeon and Quadro rtx 5000. 5 M2 drives inside and a 2.5in area. Battery is pluggable and changeable. The trackpad and keyboard are held in place by a few screws and ribbon cables like everything else. With a small Phillips screwdriver I can replace anything. WiFi card is socketed. Antennas are SMA connectors. I've replaced the shell even after a security inspection dropped and damaged the metal enclosure...

    I buy it because I can upgrade it within limits as long as the upgraded parts play nice with the main board. A framework promises to do the same except allow a mainboard upgrade. But at that point you're probably buying everything. How many times, going back to desktop days, have you upgraded the entire system's motherboard and not the CPU, GPU, RAM, etc..

    And at that point you're really only reusing the shell and screen and battery. The stuff you interact with everyday that will deteriorate or get dirty. And battery has a finite lifespan. Makes sense to upgrade the package when those need upgrading.

    I view the framework as a great solution for a picky system user. It's not for upgrading. It's for customizing while you have that system. Allowing the maker of 2 or 3 SKUs to sell 1000 different laptops. Versus a Dell that sells 1000 different SKUs doing that internally and some of them allow you to do it externally like mine.

    I wish them the best and I may buy one next time I need a beefy laptop. But their current specs don't come close to matching what I can do. And their parts don't work for my use like physical 3 button trackpad for example. When they do, awesome. But then, why not just go with the Dell? Who will send a guy to me anywhere in the world for free to fix or swap hardware... ANYWHERE. And no it's not a corporate purchase, I own it personally and the warranty is standard.

    I may buy one to support them once their margins go up and the demand cools. But until then, unfortunately it doesn't seem to solve an actual consumer problem. It solves a corporate SKU problem that fixes itself as you become a big company.

  • Americans, how do you feel about being stored in a database by government agencies like the NSA?

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  • Poison the data as often as possible. I'm getting kicked off more and more services because my data doesn't match their fingerprinting. I don't verify any identity. Even the private databases with addresses, cars, employers, etc are all filled with random junk data making them useless. I can't "pass verification" because the source is stupid. I take that as a small win.

    Biggest part was getting tf out of that shithole country. Life is much better now.

  • Apple AI vs. Microsoft AI

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  • People who use and trust Apple, are idiots. They gasp in wonder when they receive such new advances like arranging icons on your screen. Did this with my Palm Pilot in the 90's and every phone, even Windows Mobile phones on 2002/2003. But now it's "NEW"!

    Same thing with AI and Apple. Too stupid to actually know any better. But when Daddy Apple says you are going to use it, everyone fawns.

    Sending your data, all of it, to a cloud is not privacy. I guarantee this is part of the content scanning and reporting requirements being seen across the globe. It's under the public relations marketing to prevent CSAM, human trafficking, drug crimes, etc. But anyone with a brain cell knows that's not the why. That's the way it can be sold to fear mongering groups.

  • Chinese military harassed Dutch warship enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea, Netherlands says

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  • Just not stupid like you.

  • Chinese military harassed Dutch warship enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea, Netherlands says

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  • Ok go fight them yourself then. Stop dragging other countries in.

  • Chinese military harassed Dutch warship enforcing UN sanctions on North Korea, Netherlands says

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  • There is no such thing as international waters. China's exclusive economic zone is one of 17 in the world that cannot be sailed through or flown through without prior authorization and only for peaceful transfer. No "war games" and no deployment of weapons. Just passage with prior authorization.

    The Dutch and Australians have violated this and are now complaining.

    Also this week in the news, Russia is sending ships off the coast of Cuba for similar war games. The coverage in the US is about escalation and being provocative.

    Which is it? Stop being such stupid hypocrites.

    Also for any of you stupid Americans still wondering there is a reason the US and NATO does this just like a reason Russia does it. You try and provoke a response so that the potential combatant airplane and naval vessels make an appearance. Then you capture and study every reflection and image you can to see if they have adapted or changed. Also why the US and China and Russia all fit extra useless bits onto their ships and planes as both decoys and radar signature invalidators. You want your stuff to look as shit as possible visibly and via radar because you're being spied on.

    Make no doubt this is why this is happening.

    Edit: Americans are yet again proven to be fucking stupid.

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  • Lol that piece paper is not a god. It's useless jibberish written by traitors starting a now failed nation.

    You have no rights in the USA. Everything you're granted as a right, you are also denied as a right by other laws. It's the playbook of a tyrannical society. Name ANY law that you have a right to, and then look up to find another law taking that exact right away from you.

    Just like a tyrannical society, you're guaranteed nothing. But you can fly under the radar if you agree with the political powers that be. Which is no different than any country at any point in history.

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    TIL: How The IMF and World Bank Debt Trap Countries and Force them into Austerity

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  • Very good for you to learn.

    When you're ready for the next step, you may want to process why the leaders of these institutions (the West) are so hell bent on preventing China from both gifting and loaning across the world for their projects.... This is how to start to see past the propagandist lies and see the truth. It's all about profits.

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  • And what is the justification for the US attacking human rights?

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  • What I said doesn't disagree with what you said.

  • Sharks attack three swimmers off two Florida beaches

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  • Mommy Shark and Daddy Shark? Doo doo doo doo

  • IDF rescues four hostages from Hamas captivity in daring Gaza operation

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  • 271 (and counting) people murdered by an ethnostate to extract 4 prisoners of war that were offered in multiple negotiated treaties for an end to the continued Genocide.

  • Say Goodbye to Cloud Anonymity? New US Regulations Demand User Identification

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  • Really this is already true because of payment systems. Now it's just another verification of end user against payee.

  • Federal Real ID-Compliant Licenses or ID Cards Will Become Mandatory for US Domestic Air Travel

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  • The national ID database fight has been lost already. The next thing is really biometrics and facial data. Still "optional" in places and creepy enough for some average people to care.

  • Israeli military rescues four hostages alive from Gaza, including Noa Argamani

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  • But to the IDF the 200 people killed weren't people. So the math maths.

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  • Same reason why Teslas are banned on Chinese military bases. Data goes back to US servers that are accessible by the US government at any time.

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  • There is substantiated proof of Cisco and Juniper switches having US government backdoors through the management ports. They also have the capability of decrypting everything that passes through them and mirroring to an external host.

    I cannot say any more other than you will find that the NSA continuously denied all the backdoors that global security researchers were finding and Cisco denied putting them in. You will also find in leaked Snowden documents absolute proof that the NSA was behind it and did implement the backdoors and they do exist and work.

    I at the time being a lowly semiconductor designer with access to unreleased networking gear from the big guys, cannot say anything about what I know those spying piece of shit devices do. But I will say, go look up the Snowden documents. They speak louder than any random on the internet.

    And China has made a stink. It's one reason their great fire wall is setup. It does somewhat prevent citizens from using western tools, but they know they do and really don't care much. What it really is, is a way to monitor everything in and out. All the edge is Chinese hardware, no backdoors for the five eyes. Those prevent the backdoors, that are known or theorized, to be used. So essentially they are backdoored equipment inside a security fence that disallows the backdoor to establish a connection. Bad actors from within could make this bad for China. Or very very tricky phone home algorithms, but you have to be careful how it's implemented in unfriendly territory.

    Most of the other countries just don't give a crap. If the Ivory Coasts data is being spied on by the 5 eyes or China, they don't care. Nobody cares about them either. It's just the sad state of world power. Those that care, have a side.

  • Russia issues stark US statement as relations hit new low, declares US 'an enemy' state for first time

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  • Very true. But nobody cares or believes it. When you start saying that US made hardware like network switches, cryptographic algorithms, telecom radios, etc all have backdoors to the 3 letter agencies in 5 eyes plus the internet distribution over cloudfare or "the cloud" in Google, Amazon, Microsoft, then people just think you're a tin foil hat conspiracist.

    The people are too stupid and ignorant to care enough to demand change. Why did the US lobby so hard to get Huawei off market? Because of course there are backdoors into the Chinese intelligence agencies. JUST LIKE US DEVICES! But nobody seems to make that correlation. China bad, China hardware spying bad, is the only thing they can get in their heads.

    Good to bring it up, but nothing will change. 99.9% of people don't know what DNS or proxiing or caching is let alone Cloudfare. It's just "the internet". Some are aware of some agencies the US and five eyes have, but most don't believe what they actually do and are capable of. The US is the best producer of propaganda in the world. Hollywood is amazing at it, as are US media sources. The FISA bill that just came up for reauthorization and passed had a whole PR campaign about catching terrorists and stopping Russia and China and Hamas. Nobody stopped to think how and why they even have any of that info in the first place and how it's collected.

    Keep being the crazy uncle ranting about government spying because the world needs it.