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Samsung did restrict side-loading recently,

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202808

I'm sure that Google will do something like that as soon as it faced the US's carrot and stick they signed-up for.


That's not really sideloading, though. The stock recovery doesn't let you install apps or anything like that, it's meant for loading official versions of Samsung operating systems onto devices that got corrupted somehow.

You can probably try to use the stock recovery to flash a custom ROM, but I doubt it'll work. Custom ROMs rely on tools like TWRP or LineageOS Recovery for a reason.


I think we can only expect the demand for privacy to grow into the future given that people tracking in a trenchcoat schemes are popping up everywhere through governmental and private efforts trying to gather data for ads and control.

People are getting brainwashed into giving away information on the web and real life.

In the US it's not rare to link accounts through phone numbers that are required in web forms and store memberships.

In Chile they started asking for your National Id with so many stupid pretexts that people got conditioned into just giving it away. It wasn't like this 10yrs ago. I'd rather have membership numbers.

It's technically public information, so collecting Ids is legal, but it's also a universal primary key within the country that allows merging any user-related table you run into.

Retail says it's just to associate it with receipts in case you need that later, but I'd rather just get a photo of the printed receipt for later than rely on them to find my receipt. Supermarkets, Drug stores, and petrol stations tie it to (possible) discounts or points at check-out, which is price discrimination and it's illegal, but we are in our way to get surge pricing as soon as the new US bootlicker president begins his period next week.


Giving out the Ids directly is stupid. Any sane scheme would use unlinkable attestation.

He means that he agrees just to bait a new, better deal.

And they'll be terminated by Jan 2027. Anything too scandalous will be done in secrecy thanks to code&project silos.

Next victims of "AI productivity gains"

Just disable recall, copilot, ai, intrusive cookies, ads.

It's not fine just because you sneak a button to (temporarily) get rid of it. Just make features worth enabling instead.


Well, if your Mac mini is to be painted Space Gray then the only way to go is to put in there a few $40 space-qualified screws made in the US to justify the price increase.

It's a file in the 10-500kB and passwords are read way more often than added.

If it's even tracked as an implementation issue, it probably ranks very low and fixing this requires a lot of care not to screw up things with the safety and feature rollout.


Are you perhaps being bit by Linux's default 2s USB-autosuspend? I bump that to 30s (60s?) in my kernel command line arguments

It is set to 2 seconds based on `cat /sys/module/usbcore/parameters/autosuspend` but the input latency only happens in games. Outside of games it's fine. Also in game, if I continue to press keys faster than waiting 2 seconds, it still lags.

That makes it unlikely it's related to this auto suspend, especially since it only appears to happen when I use my 4k monitor, but I did set it to 30s just to rule it out and it made no difference. I brought it back to 2s afterwards.


So, the complaints against USB coming from PS/2 were around the switch from pushing inputs to polling with a relatively low rate on vastly slower CPUs. Nowadays CPUs are much faster and parallel; and the polling rates are in the 1-8 kHz as opposed to 100-400Hz.

I don't see any pro gamers carrying in any kind of PS/2 device, they even moved to wireless so the differences are likely meaningless these days.


And I completely missed on all the optimisations that have been going into the USB and scheduling stacks.

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