The first two comments are must reads:

This is an elaborate joke:

amd64 only: modern x86_64 laptops and desktops with hardware bought from Temu or built by companies that don’t read the specs

How is this news? Wait, this is Phoronix.

And

Windows 11 Is A New NT For “Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash” Test Bed.

It mentions & includes a link to the NotebookCheck site as the source. It’s certainly NOT an unreliable site.

I understand all that, but there’s no reason for that to require a subscription. A reasonable per-use fee seems like it should be an alternative option. Even if the company doesn’t want to set up those abilities on each phone themselves (which seems odd to me considering how automated that process can be made - when provisioning the phone, pop it on a USB stand, fire up a script, and walk away while it completes), those events can’t be happening with such frequency that a subscription makes sense for anything but a larger company with a high turnover rate - one that implies said company possibly has bigger problems.

Those features aren’t free though – according to a note on the Void Phone website, “basic MDM costs are $2.50 per phone/month.”

At the 100pc minimum that’s a guaranteed extra $250/mo cost. I know that’s relatively cheap in enterprise terms, but what a racket for something that’s mostly going to be “set it & forget it.”

Quick! What crimes can we commit that require accurate time stamps to prove?

I know this, but the general populace eats this shit up. They either refuse to believe that, or “think” it’s somehow worthwhile to “protect the children” (because they sure AF can’t be bothered to parent properly).

And decades-old The Benny Hill Show.

Gotta love how it’s “better” in these assholes’ “minds” to pretend sex doesn’t exist than to actually parent them on the topic that the kids are gonna find out about anyway - often in an unexpected and/or uncontrolled fashion. I’d much rather get ahead of that and make sure they know what they need to before they come face-to-face with it and are clueless - something much more likely to result in what is a supposedly (because they sure are picking the worst way to avoid it) undesirable outcome in the end.

When it all comes crashing down, at least the Internet Archive could have easy & cheap access to it all. I trust them to handle it more responsibly than the AI bros.

THIS is what I’m looking forward to. I’m guessing it’ll start sometime next year, so shortly after Christmas '26 will be the optimal time -at least that’s my long-term plan.

Right off the bat their writing is exaggerating the realities, which makes me not want to bother reading any more.

• Dial-up connected virtually every time if you chose an ISP who’d provisioned enough modems for their customers to use.
• The “first time in history, you can exchange letters with someone across the world in seconds” was over a decade prior to that - it just cost an arm and a leg for the service to do so (something like $7-10/hr in early-mid 1980s money, if I recall correctly). And that’s just talking about commercial services available to the general public, as the universities, large businesses, and government/military that created the early networks had that ability before even then.
• One-minute video did NOT take “hours” to download unless it was in an absurdly high quality for the time - something pretty unusual because of the common speed (and storage requirement) constraints.

Yeah, maybe I’ll look at this later when my bullshit alarm settles down.

So, what’s your alternate username from lemmy.ml?

I’m gonna assume that’s a hacked copy, bc a 40yo copy-protected floppy disc still fully containing its original contents would be even more impressive.

Because it’s about shit that can’t be proven wrong to an audience that has been raised to believe in a big Sky Daddy of some variety or another. IMHO, raising children to believe in whatever religion predisposes them to believe all sorts of groundless bullshit told to them by their leaders, which is why those prone to controlling others like to push religion so hard.

That’s why you’re supposed to carry protection with you at all times.

26.52TB in NAND?!? Did i win the lottery?!?

Aww, c’mon! Show the bottom of the receipt with the total cost (in storage space)!

“Good” is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn’t changed much, but instead you’ve become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.

Haven’t RTFA yet, but I’m gonna go ahead out on a limb, and say this was one of those “if you have to ask the price, you can’t afford it” scenarios.

I’d just get an extension cable & get to soldering. Alternatively, install a converter so you can attach a USB cable.