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i’ve seen two of these things around here. they’ve both been on the flatbed of a local towing service.

ad-skip to present day. encryption and drm is being introduced into the new atsc 3.0 broadcast standard, and some stations are already using it.

fire the computer. go back to the pigeons

verizon did the same thing awhile ago, and it was more than five bucks a month.

was still cheaper for us to keep the old plan than to switch to a new “unlimited” one, though.

same deal with the far-right alternatives to aarp. just scamming money from america’s most gullible.

my knees and back say i don’t need any further reminders. but thank you.

didn’t go to full HD(or even 720p) on Firefox on Linux

you will run into similar restrictions on other services that use drm.

or onlyoffice

my old phones (going back all the way to the ‘real’ nokias) went a full month between charges. the last two with 4g volte suck so much power, it is every 2-3 days now, including my current hmd-made nokia (only a couple weeks old) with same capacity battery as what’s stated in the article for the ‘new’ one.

i have a flip phone. i don’t use sms, but occasionally i make a quick note in the little ‘notepad’. the good ol’ tap-tap-tap is more efficient than its horrible predictive text.

it was spun-off from asus in '02, then acquired by a different spin-off in '10 which asus retains significant ownership of. so, yea, basically asrock is their “discount” brand,

for every person that figures out how to disable this stuff, there are many thousands of others who don’t, don’t bother, or don’t even know it might be possible to… which is why they pull this shit in the first place–and (usually) get away with it.

it’s not just apple anymore. all the major ‘pc’ makers have non-upgradeable laptops now… just not across their entire line-up (yet).

the ‘problem’ is: you can’t upgrade; you’re stuck with that 8gb.

want more in a year or two? you have to buy a new mac. and that’s apple’s goal–sell more product. buyers will be back (because they’re hooked on the platform and ecosystem) to buy a new one sooner than they otherwise would have.

so, tom’s swings-and-misses… again?

i personally bought them. no i don’t have money. didn’t then either. they were about $200 each, just prior to when vista started shipping (they were on sale). ram was upgraded from scrap, so was one of the video cards and one of the cpu (they were both originally windsors)–the other was bought new for ~$50 in late 2008 or so.

i have a couple dual core athlons (windsor and brisbane athlon 64 x2) at the office from that era. they are still used, even. have 8gb ddr2, dvdrw, and dx10-capable geforce cards.

just put a big pillow ‘on’ the external hard drive.

my vizio has been stuck on a tos update acceptance screen since about the time of the recent roku shit. i haven’t had the time to deal with it, so it’s just been turned off.

the legislation that needs to get passed, cannot, unless and until the house majority swings about 20 points the other way and the sliver of a majority in the senate is boosted by at least another 10.