The walking wannabe cool™ cliché of midlife crisis with unlimited monies had affairs?

Omg, leik so messed up!

It would be horrible if it was national law.

Not for Android directly (tho very encouraged via monopoly bcs Google gets all your data via playservices + profits via playstore), but for other proprietary spyshit (eg preinstalled Facebook app, sometimes users can’t even uninstall the app, unless they fiddle with adb) & additionally in cases of megacorps manufacturers get further revenue from users via their own telemetry shit (eg Samsung collects data from your environment that Google misses & sells it to data brokers).
(Why else would a random company preinstall so much third party shit? Ofc they don’t do it for free. And everyone is interested in spyphone quantity bcs more users means more data. Much like gaming consoles & printers are kinda subsidized/can sell at a manufacturing loss.)

So sellers of hardware without for-profit stores & no further revenue streams from spying on you have to charge users clients all the cost upfront on the sticker price.
(Not to be confused with the fact that spy-free phones don’t have such economies of scale as eg Samsung so their costs per unit are noticeably higher bcs of that too.)

Oh, just Graphene compatible, my bad (I think this isn’t even the fist time I forgot that, ffs).

The battery in the new Signature 27, which uses silicon-carbon anodes, has a capacity of 7,000 mAh in most parts of the world — but only 5,500 mAh in Germany (rated capacity: 5,350 mAh)

…

I want Graphene* with decent periscope zoom … that isn’t Google. But ouch. Tho I do get that it doesn’t get any subsidies from preinstalled bloatspyware.

(*well, I want a Linux phone with 10× zoom camera, but I might as well wish for a dragon)

Lol, same-ish, lazy gang ftw.

I very much agree with you - I would use more fans on the outside enclosure, possibly behind more barriers so the sound is never direct (it has to bounce off walls before getting out). Eg a vent cover on the outside or simply vents mounted inside the case (not directly on the outside hole).
(Possibly also keeping the positive pressure inside the enclosure for dust control.)

However there might be an argument about HDD noise that is fairly particular to the drive models.
Maybe op just doesn’t like noisy HDDs & isn’t that bothered by fans (I centrally am more bothered by enterprise HDD noise than the noise of quality fans), so the solution is HDD-noise oriented (and I think it works in that regard).

(And yes, I do pick my HDDs by noise too.)

Depending a bit on OPs needs, this is the quickest & easiest fix I know of.

Could have just hacked the TV like a normal pro.

Sanctified danglers

I’m already buying an m3 book to run Asahi, I guess iPhone is next?

(Ofc /s or /jk but kinda funny)

Blessed plums

“Slop me, mommy!” is the command.

They leaked all the free HDDs (still hot!) in the AI datacentre near you!

Are they new to profit maximisation?? Did they forget to paywall that info? Don’t they know they could charge monies for that exact personal info, like the rest of the megacorps do?

Remember - you should probably consider that anything you “give” (ie they have the ability to get from you, regardless of tos) to a company can or is getting to known & unknown third-parties. At the very least for targeted ads.

But it’s tough in cases where alternatives don’t really exist, or are there significant hurdles for average ppl.

Oh, … I got caught not reading the article, but I assume that goes for Microsoft as well - they do use indexing, right? Have since ever (but in those days you had to manually enable indexing, bcs slow HDDs at the time really bottlenecked)?

By “instant” I meant for indexed content (including installed things, etc). Idk, I don’t search much locally, but if I need a txt file from Documents that how I get it (Linux tho).

Doesn’t Spotlight on Macs work the same-ish or did they enshitify that too?

Edit: The article only says that they turned off Bing results (and added a toggle for the store)? That’s just how Windows users using O&O experienced search this whole time, right?
I don’t immediately see how this is different to eg KDE search functionality (also with added cools that I can do it in desktop, not having to click the search/start before).

That’s like them deliberately closing a strait (for profit), and then reopening it to much glory to their very achievement.

And they didn’t even debloat telemetry, they just turned off the ads.

Also what local search these days isn’t close to instant (which I would say it’s faster than “crazy fast”)?

Well, in a capitalist society you better have some (financial) capital, otherwise you are just another system slave.

Wild how we allow it (the system) to have so much concentrated power, and not like dismantle it out of principle alone (not to mention all the illogical, needles, or directly harmful things that it’s doing).