This is just what they want no? Fewer foreigners visiting the US is good in their books I thought.

I imagine all cases prosecuted for destruction of networked Flock and Axios cameras are going to struggle to get through a jury. It's a clear privacy violation and everyone knows it.

Wait I'm confused now, if you play a legitimate game online using a switch which has previously had a flash cart used it can be banned? I was under the impression that as long as you didn't go online it was fully undetectable, allowing you to use legitimate games online as you want without needing to switch between emummc and sysnand. Nintendo probably doesn't care about the homebrew software in the same way they do piracy, but unfortunately for them that's all the flash carts can do, hence why from their perspective I say every version is cracked.

I'm not up to date on switch modchips but last I checked you needed to solder a flex pcb such that it made contact with pads under a BGA chip. As it goes that's quite intensive rework for a hobbyist. I'm an electrical engineer and use professional BGA rework equipment at work regularly. Our success rate for BGA rework is like 80% for ICs that have been desoldered and resoldered before. Sure you don't need to remove the chip to get the flex PCB soldered, but the risk of shorting balls and needing to remove it on an expensive piece of hardware is too much for many hobbyists.

We have legal precedent that the police cannot use GPS trackers. A similar case was opened for the APLs in traditional speed cameras, but they were determined to be constitutional since you have no expectation of privacy on a public road and a camera can't be used to track you like GPS. The networked APLs accomplish the same result as GPS trackers just without technically using a GPS tracker.

They're going to need to drastically change how the platform looks if they want to succeed. In typical Chinese app fashion the UI is incredibly bloated and overwhelming, not what a Western audience wants at all. They also won't be able to match YouTube's CPM so creators won't bother switching either.

Considering how incredibly easy it is to do piracy on real switch hardware they really shouldn't care at all...

And there are flash carts that work on every model now. They don't work for online play of course, but neither do traditional modchips/softmods.

I don't use Fairphone, but I am a bit of a mobile network nerd. I'm on US Mobile which is a unique MVNO that allows you to move between any 2 of the 3 US networks as you please. You have to have signal to initiate a network change and sometimes it takes a day, but for premium mobile service they're great. I mostly just stay on ATT and T-Mobile, but depending on the rural area you visit Verizon and T-Mobile is also a reasonable combination. My point in the comment above is to not discount T-Mobile, their network capacity in cities and suburbs is miles ahead of Verizon and ATT (I'm ignoring UWB since it requires you to be outside and line of sight to a tower, it's not practical for the vast majority of cell phone usage which occurs in a building).

The Fairphone is the only modern phone I know of that has limited bands, so you'll need to use a T-Mobile based MVNO. The best deal on the T-Mobile network is Mint Mobile, providing 1yr of unlimited service for $180 if you port in a number. They're directly owned by T-Mobile and I used them for several years quite happily before switching to US mobile. Google Fi also occasionally runs promos bringing their plans into the $15/mo range. The only reason I'm not still on them is the requirement to port in a number to get that $15/mo price for a year. I tend to change network every single year to always get the best deal.

The absolute best phone plan deal recently is the Total Wireless $20/mo 5g BYO plan. Uniquely the price is guaranteed for 5yr and it includes unlimited priority data + 10GB international roaming every month. But it's on Verizon's network.

Bakeries in the US (or at least DC) will often make actually good tasting pop tarts. The store bought ones are always too dry for me to enjoy regardless of brand. It's like eating cardboard.

Fairphone or not T-Mobile isn't anything like what it used to be. If you're in a major city or suburb it's worth taking a serious look at T-Mobile. I'm on US mobile which is a MVNO that allows you to freely switch between all 3 networks with two simultaneously active at any given time. 90% of the time T-Mobile has far better and faster coverage than either of Verizon or ATT. It used to be that Verizon was by far the best, but their network capacity hasn't kept pace with T-Mobile's growth, even if your Verizon plan has priority data (as mine does). This difference shows most when network capacity is limited.

T-Mobile's rural coverage isn't as great as either of Verizon's or ATT's, but it's absolutely good enough for every road trip I've done. And when visiting family in rural northern Wisconsin only T-Mobile and ATT have reasonable coverage in their area. You can use a Mint Mobile trial SIM to see for yourself.

I think Verizon knows this too, all of the cheapest MVNOs have been switching to use Verizon's network in recent years. The ISP mobile networks you can often get a year of for free also nearly all run on Verizon now. If you're paying for your service, the Total Wireless $20/mo BYO plan with unlimited priority data and 10GB/mo of international data is the best deal out there by far. Verizon certainly wouldn't be providing MVNOs with the lowest cut rate pricing if they thought they had the best network.

By far replaceable batteries. You used to be able to purchase physically larger and higher capacity batteries to get insane battery life, but because they would include a larger rear plastic for the phone it would still look normal. Now we have to waste space and lose efficiency with external power banks.

Going from Biden to a campaign with actual energy behind it is incredibly refreshing.

These attacks are more around the encryption and all require a fully malicious server. It sounds like Bitwarden is taking these seriously and personally I'd still strongly prefer it to any closed source solution where there could be many more unknown but undiscovered security concerns.

Using a local solution is always most secure, but imo you should first ask yourself if you trust your own security practices and whether you have sufficient hardware redundancy to be actually better. I managed to lose the private key to some Bitcoin about a decade ago due to trying to be clever with encryption and local redundant copies.

Further, with the prevalence of 2FA even if their server was somehow fully compromised as long as you use a different authenticator app than Bitwarden you're not at major risk anyways. With how poorly the average person manages their password security this hurdle alone is likely enough to stop all but attacks targeted specifically at you as an individual.

Normally Trump does what's best for the ultra wealthy, but de-dollarization of the world economy appears to be good for nobody in the USA. I have no clue what they're trying to do, I suspect he's just lost it and there's nobody left to tell him these tariffs hurt his croneys too.

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if we're already too far along to save the dollar's position globally. Globally that's probably a good thing, but for any of us in the US it's decidely not.

LinkedIn has some of the most obfuscated and complex ad targeting settings I've encountered. There needs to be a retirement to have a one click solution to disable ad personalization.

All of these vehicles can be reported for illegal parking on NYC311. It's a bit of a pain to do but from what I've heard they're acting on reports much faster than they used to lately.

This is how Dallas got a Republican Mayor. They elected a Democrat but less than a month later he flipped, such clearly premeditated party changes should be illegal, it's not what the voters thought they were casting their ballots for.

Their access to news is controlled and for some topics all available news is what we'd call propaganda. Particularly anything about Japan or the Taiwan issue. Most people I know there realize this to an extent but without any other information do still believe the core idea even if skeptical of details.

But at the same time I'd argue there's no such thing as a population that's not propagandized. In the US the big news corporations only will present views favorable to their profitability and continued growth. Sure they disagree with eachother, but it's still always a pro-business view. State news from Russia is (I'd argue rightly) not available on many US platforms to discourage it's influence for example.

Nah, USB-C is plagued by non-standard electrical configurations, non-standard charging protocols, and non-compliant cables. Rest assured the connector is here to stay, your device just may not be able to charge with any given charger or cable.

It's much easier to build rail in places that weren't designed around cars. Even in rural China people live in condos and apartments with parks between. This helps with NIMBYism and combined with the already large amount of green space left in Chinese cities such systems can be built with the only real concern being the engineering itself. But China is also in a good position for that, as their workforce is incredibly well educated with more engineering talent than they can even fully employ domestically. All that PLUS the political will of a single party state meant it was a very different situation than California.

And that's before you even consider ridership, where even the best possible SF to LA route would still pretty much require you to get a car or taxi once you get to LA (because LA was basically torn down and redesigned for cars).