sanpo

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

$3 ink from a bodega

That's actually a fair price for 3rd party replacement.
I used to work at a computer shop, and people only ever bought the cheapest available cartridges.
We also used to do printer repair, do you know how many printers had to come in because of shitty ink?
The answer is zero.

And anyway, in your example the printer manufacturer has no business tracking your ink usage, whether it's by spying on you and phoning home, or recording this info in the printer's memory.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 52 points 3 months ago (8 children)

People being excited about getting spam from a scammer.

What a time to be alive...

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 months ago (6 children)

That's a very charitable way of looking at DRM.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Company's PR dept saying "we didn't do it" is not proof of anything.

If they're not blocking 3rd party cartridges, why even implement DRM?
Do they have so much extra money that they're developing features they're not planning to use just because they're bored?

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I’m not excusing burning down innocent people’s property

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz -1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I'm not excusing burning down innocent people's property, but Teslas are not cheap.

I doubt anyone who'd lose one would have their life destroyed.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

You can have one, as a treat.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What exactly is Signal supposed to do here?

They're not supposed to be able to help in any way, how would they determine if a specific user is using Signal for phishing or whatever without decrypting their chats?

Being European would make zero difference here, unless the European service is backdoored.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's going to be really difficult in a standard setup.

If you really care maybe try something like Tails.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's not like physical media makes any difference anyway these days.

Actual disk often gets just a glorified installer, and even if it includes the entire game you're likely to have to activate it online anyway.

The "own your games" ship has sailed long ago, unless you only buy no-DRM and your own backups.

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 0 points 2 years ago

Sure, right after they implement other advanced features, such as AFK detection on Wayland!

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