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I'm not the person you are responding to, but Proton VPN? That's what I switched to after it turned out one of the two Mullvad founders took my money and gave it to a local lunatic politician.

Reminds me of that Michael Scott quote:

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.


Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.


Opening with the title "hardware backdoors in x86 CPUs" is quite misleading, though.


We have shorter attention spans now.


Multiple things can be true at the same time. While we do have shorter attention spans, some (lots of?) developers absolutely suck at writing articles


I fancy myself as a decent writer, but I suck at writing documentation. People describe reading my notes frustrating and incomprehensible. I find it much better to use AI to untangle my, admittedly, convoluted reasoning


And some intentionally write clickbait headlines even though the have the skills to do better.


They knew what they were doing by not including "VIA C3 CPUs" before the fourth paragraph. Come on. It should have been in the title.


Imagine getting a letter "High Risk of Cancer" and getting all the way to the 4th paragraph to see it's just relevant to a race of blue aliens...


Just slap some solar panels on it!


https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/

There’s a handful of these projects about. You’d need a moderate battery but it’s just about doable!


Blacklist of what? I don't understand what a blacklist would be used for in this context. Specific unsupported hardware?


Yes.


Well, supposedly. But in my experience, there was no consequence disabling the blacklist in order to enable hardware video encoding and decoding.


My assumption would be, when there is a large corpus of crash reports for a certain configuration of hardware, knowing if it's a hardware failure, driver bug, or software incompatibly, is pretty hard. So it's probably easier to catch false positives and not get blamed for a faulty product, even if you aren't the cause. Drivers crash under the hood in windows all the time, even today, but once MS did a better job of just restarting the offending drivers where possible instead of BSODing, people thought windows was an unstable product. Which is technically true from the users perspective, even though it wasn't Microsoft's fault directly. You may have had a good combo that simply shouldn't have been on the list/was later patched/or your system is more stable that the average persons.


There was nothing special about my setup. Standard intel processor with i915 driver which I would imagine covers a fairly large chunk of installs out there.


And in my experience, there was.

One person's lived experience is another person's “supposedly”.


Having had consulting jobs working with Windows servers around 2015, this was ruined for me. Sooo many ancient out of support 2003 severs. Seeing it actually triggers some light anxiety ("oh no not another one!")


Do you know how M2 support compares to M1? Trying to figure out if M1 is the better choice for a used macbook to run Asahi on.


It's essentially the same. Afaik there is no feature the M1 has on asahi that is still missing on M2.


> Who

These dudes and dudettes playing video games

> what?

Military service


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_Iran

FWIW I don't agree with the comment chain's source, I read "regular people" as "civilians" and don't think there was any nasty connotation meant.


This is marketing. So probably suspected. Or somewhere in between.


That one doesn't seem to do bluetooth at all, I think?


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