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I'm not sure what you mean by "so you can't hot -plug/-unplug it". If I use it in Windows or Linux, I can eject it like I can any standard non-SSD USB stick. I'm also not sure what issues you've been having with booting from them. I've occasionally used these things to boot Linux LiveCDs without issue. Might be a compatibility issue with your BIOS specifically? I've seen some messed up BIOS's that simply defy all expectation in how they work. Then again, I primarily only use these things to transfer data between machines (primarily games), so all I really care about is their performance.

I also preferably call them USB sticks instead of SSDs, since afaik TRIM isn't supported on them, which makes them significantly worse than any proper SSD.

I have two SSK USB sticks that give me write speeds of up to 1GB/s (as long as they're not filled to the brim). I've copied things like 80GB games in something like 2-3 minutes. A real SSD will always be best, but I'm pretty happy with these USB sticks.

> it’s not even hypocritical until the CCP bans some US product and the US gov complains.

It's not even hypocritical then. Both sides are protecting their own interests. These interests are partly at odds to each other. They're going to do what they believe is necessary, even if it "seems" hypocritical. That's not a bad thing, that's just ... how things work. China isn't innocent of this either. It's so weird how people are always painting this as "US bad".

It's worrying to me that the idea of comparative advantage has become such common parlance among non-economists that it's being used to justify everything without any real analysis or justification. It's not a solution for everything and it's not always applicable or relevant. Free trade is good, sure, but that's not the discussion here. It's not about free trade vs no free trade. Nobody posed that question here, so why are you bringing it up as if it's relevant?

This is specific to the UK. What does it have to do with Europe? So, that's a laugh and a fucking half coming from what's likely an American. The US is already as close to a fascist dictatorship as you can get in a democracy with extraordinary rendition and the indiscriminate disappearing of thousands of people without due process. Why is the US so in love with authoritarianism that you embrace it so eagerly and tear apart your own constitution for it? Pot meet kettle.

Who will catch it, when and how?

I never said there are examples. However, "who you are" matters, even if you don't care. At least when the who is known, we can guage the trustworthiness and what bias exists, because there's always a bias. When who is not known, you don't know what bias to account for. That's not trustworthy and not reliable. And when the site is closed source and you have no idea how it's being run, nor by whom, you don't know "what you do" either.

The difference is that we know who's running archive.org. We don't know who's running archive.is. That's perfectly fine for private use but unacceptable for a site like Wikipedia.

It's not that difficult.

I've never seen anybody recommend WebSockets instead of REST. I take it this isn't a widely recommended solution? Do you mean specifically for mobile clients only?

I've looked for articles and don't see anything about US weapons. It would be very strange, indeed, but supposition isn't proof and I can't find anything suggesting the US is involved in anyway. Colour me surprised, tbh.

China?

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/05/sudan-advance...

I haven't found any articles implicating the US, which has export sanctions on Sudan. The only thing I could find was something about small arms from the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/28/u...

This report https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/07/sudan-constan... lists

> Weapons from China, Russia, Serbia, Türkiye, United Arab Emirates and Yemen identified

Although that seems to be mixing it up a bit, since Turkey and Russia are supporting the SAF.

Also some France-made weapons: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sudan-civil-war-amnesty-interna...

They generally patch much faster than Google.

Reminds me of that one case a few weeks back where Graphene wasn't allowed to release a patch because Google wasn't planning on releasing a patch for it for a few more months.

I don't understand how you can have mixed feelings about this.

> However, when it comes to publishing apps to the store,

This isn't about publishing apps to the Play Store. If that's all this was about, we wouldn't give a shit. The problem is that this applies to all stores, including third party stores like F-Droid, and any app that is installed independently of a store (as an apk file).

> Given the growing threat of such attacks, we need to find ways to mitigate them.

How about the growing threat of right-wing authoritarian control? How do we mitigate that when the only "free" platform is deciding the only way anybody can install any app on their phone is if that app's developer is officially and explicitly allowed by Google?

Hell, how long until those anti-porn groups turn their gaze from video games and Steam onto apps, then pressure MasterCard/Visa and in turn Google to revoke privileges from developers who make any app/game that's too "obscene" (according to completely arbitrary standards)?

There's such a massive tail of consequences that will follow and people are just "well, it's fine if it's about security". No. It's not. This is about arbitrary groups with whatever arbitrary bullshit ideology they might have being able to determine what apps are allowed to be made and installed on your phone. It's not fucking okay.

> won't have a hard time with the developer verification process

Unless any government powerful enough has reason to make Google reject developers. Hell, doesn't even have to be a government. Do anything that annoys Google, goodbye rights for your app to be installed on any Android. Why would you ignore the obvious and main caveat? It doesn't matter what store it "continues to work on". Google can revoke privileges overnight with little to no recourse for the developer, regardless of the merit of such action, the usefulness of the app, or how much people want/need that app. This is literally heading in the direction of Kafkaesque.

The best example for this is aviation. Insanely complex from the machines to the processes to the situations to the people, all interconnected and constantly interacting. But we still do "root cause" analyses and based on those findings try to improve every point in the system that failed or contributed to the failure, because that's how we get a safer aviation industry. It's definitely worked.

But they did introduce a cheaper sedan this month. It happens to be called the Model Y as well. This is unambiguously true. I think your reading comprehension needs work. It's not saying this is the only Model Y or that there is no other Model Y.

It does. It provides everything SteamOS does. So if SteamOS doesn't support the Xbox Ally X, why install SteamOS?

What does a brown flag tell us?

Maybe they need to invent a time machine to start getting immigrants from different time periods?

That's wild. Does any other company have this problem?

Ngl, that sounds like my dream job.

Aren't they waiting for DDR6?

... people care about definitions. We all care about definitions. What are you even talking about? We're not politicians and we're arguing definitions. Dude, go out and touch grass.

Then by definition it's not universal and it's not UBI anymore ...

What may work anecdotally can't necessarily be used for official recommendations for a large range of users across an unknown range of hardware configurations. If it works for you, that's fine. That isn't sufficient to make a general statement that everybody will be fine using external USB drives, particularly for RAID, especially when people will then make you responsible if something goes wrong for not making sufficiently safe recommendations. You understand that, right?

Sure. Now name people who are more deserving of the Nobel peace prize as this woman and explain their accomplishments and why it should make them a better pick. I'll wait.

I don't really understand what you're arguing for or against. That this woman doesn't deserve the prize because there are places worse than Venezuela? What does that have to do with the Nobel peace prize? This isn't a "pick the worst place on earth" contest.

I honestly don't understand any of the complaints in these comments. Is it because she's a woman? Or what? I've not seen anybody make any substantial arguments as to why she shouldn't be eligible.

A lot of brand name clothing manufacturers don't sell their products on Amazon anymore. So you can assume anything with a brand name across many clothing types to be counterfeit and not worth buying. It seems like shoes are one of the few (at least in Germany) where you're still getting legit products.

Honestly, that's the most noteworthy part of this. The EU hasn't pursued any site that just blocks EU access (see any number of US sites than aren't GDPR compliant and I can't access from Europe). The UK is threatening to do something nobody else has really done before. It's crazy, imo, because I can see a whole lot of sites immediately blocking the UK to avoid any potential litigation.

I think it's an incredibly spoiled perspective that anything that becomes a chore is no longer fun or worth doing. Practicing piano is a chore. Repeating the same piece, the same finger movements for an hour or two isn't necessarily fun. But it is satisfying at the end of the day and it is fulfilling. Fun isn't necessarily the goal. I can spend hours banging my head against the wall while trying to build a piece of software. It can be tedious, frustrating, and tiring. It's rarely "fun". But in the end, it's satisfying and it's fulfilling and tomorrow I'll do it again because I want to.