https://lemmy.world/post/27344091 

Hardware-level components like Titan M can execute processes that users cannot audit or disable, raising concerns about opaque data collection.

my conspiracy theory is that HP just kills mice that are alive for too long

HP is that kind of company.

My right-out-of-warranty Logitech M590 mouse lost its pairing to its USB-receiver upon booting up Windows after using the mouse in Linux for weeks out-of-warranty. I bought another one, and that too did the same the first time I booted up Windows after the warranty had expired.

Finally I searched the issue, and it’s normal. I had to install a non-default Logitech software in Windows and re-pair the apparently broken mice to their receivers. Both mice work again, except the older one’s left button is acting up a bit.

A non-asshole company would have notified me “Your mouse receiver needs an update that requires re-pairing the connection manually. Do you want to continue the update?”. And why the hell would a mouse receiver need an update when the warranty ends?

Obviously the purpose is to make the mouse appear broken with plausible deniability and bluff the customer into buying a new mouse.

In online stores you can find extreme numbers of different brands.

My mom’s cat ate Nestlé Purina until he stared vomiting too often. He had acquired allergies to the fillers in it and now has to eat hypoallergenic foods made of actual meat, or straight up meat. Read the ingredients and be appalled. It seems cheap, but there’s very little cat-digestible food in it.

Putting an application’s functionality in a hardware interface can be prohibitively expensive. You need a good interface for designing a weekly program for curtains, coloured lighting, and fridge/freezer noise profile, for example.

Maybe he’s trying to perform above his IQ. Some people can’t learn some things.

The companies started it in the 1980s.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Grown up in Microsoft-contorted concept space, hard to think of anything better. Thinking limited incremental, starting from a bad place.

Free yourself, unlearn, wash eyes, air the brain, make a clean slate, pure design, intuitive for a new generation of children, helping all life.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Artificial scarcity enforced by capitalism.

Not unintuitive for lack of trying - some big minds tried hard and failed. Jerome Bruner, Seymour Papert, Alan Kay, Bret Victor.

Alan and Bret are mentioned in the “Sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration”:
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Amiga user: “Everyone knows the floppy save, but how do you save to the hard drive?”

Save to folder:

C-discman:

C-cassette player:

Ford Model T came with a complete manual for disassembly, maintenance, and repair. It made a generation of Americans fluent in mechanics who then went on to win World War II, to the Moon, and higher up skyscrapers than ever.

“Learn this as a child:”

“Do this as an adult:”

Never again. Right to repair doesn’t do much when the manual is so expensive only brand-dedicated repair shops can afford it.

One day I had my phone charging on the same table I was measuring a liquid from two glass dropper bottles. The phone heard me shaking the bottles, clinking the glass pipettes, and dropping the liquid into water. I’ve never ever talked about dropper bottles as I didn’t know what they are called before this incident. I had bought the liquids with their bottles about a month before, and I’ve only ever referred to them by the brand name of the liquid.

My Quora feed 20 minutes later:
“What are the advantages of using dropper bottles in chemical processes?”

More incidents: https://www.quora.com/Is-Quora-listening-to-my-conversations-Why-do-suggestions-pop-up-relating-to-what-I-am-talking-to-my-friends-family-about-offline/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Wouldn’t be a problem if someone took dating as seriously as Skyscanner takes flight tickets.

Could be a publicity stunt by a nearly forgotten brand.

Agreed, but people seem to have lost the understanding of hypertext.

Why did they think the word is blue? How is that not obvious anymore?

Except https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_activation

Neutron activation is the only common way that a stable material can be induced into becoming intrinsically radioactive.

A phone can notice when it’s in the hands of a security expert and start acting normal. Before dieselgate, Volkswagen cars had been emissions tested for years without finding anything suspicious. Turned out VW used the car’s sensors to detect when it was being tested.

Similarly before dieselgate, Volkswagen cars had been emissions tested for years without finding anything suspicious. Turned out VW used the car’s sensors to detect when it was being tested. A phone can notice when it’s in the hands of a security expert and start acting normal.