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Seems like you can "Permanently Disable" ME using their BIOS on Thinkpads.

The money stolen from the Bangladeshi central bank robbery was also directed to Philippines casinos.

https://www.livemint.com/Industry/ZFo31eoIE2QjFBlGDX6Q8M/Ban...

Considering IT hubs like Bangalore[1] and Chennai[2] are running out of water, most prefer emigration.

[1]https://www.news18.com/news/india/on-verge-of-acute-water-cr... [2]https://www.livemint.com/industry/infotech/work-from-home-re...

I've used alpharacks and considering the performance of their VPSs, I'm sure they're heavily overselling their services. Same is the case with i83 and their cheap NATed VPSs.

On the other hand, I've been using Frantech/buyVM and the dirt cheap $2.50 VPS from vultr, and never faced any problems with them.

Might be an issue with LastPass. Bank login pages in my country acted weirdly with Lastpass. I've since switched to Bitwarden and haven't faced any issues.

Mostly because people who listen to local songs are already using gaana/saavn/youtube, which arguably have a better catalogue when it comes to indie artists and songs in local languages.

And people using Jio already have access to JioMusic/Saavn.

They also attacked tor: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d7yp5a/carnegie-m...

This seems like an exercise in masochism. Why would you want to code on an OS targeted for smartphones and without any native compiler support?

To those who want LTE connectivity, I don't think you know there's a device called the Thinkpad X1 with this functionality built in.

Or is it that coding on tablets is considered "hip" these days?

If you're not afraid of using the command line, dm-crypt is a much better alternative: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_...

(Needless to say, the Arch wiki is an excellent resource for those getting started with Linux.)

A similar project: https://www.ventusky.com/

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13559581

They were bought out by a Chinese consortium a few years ago. Other than that, they have an in-built VPN (SurfEasy) that mines your data: https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/

https://ffprofile.com does almost the same thing, albeit without the memory stuff described in this gist.

Speaking of processors on a USB stick, is there any cheaper alternative to the USB Armory? : https://inversepath.com/usbarmory

Amazon does sell directly to consumers via their Cloudtail store, which is a JV between Amazon and Narayan Murty.

https://www.livemint.com/Companies/1EdpKoAY7GoZLh57pXuwkO/Am...

Related CCC talk:

https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2015-6799-how_to_destroy_a_laptop...

Great website.

On a side note, you can see the Himalayas doing their job: https://www.ventusky.com/?p=32.15;78.51;6&l=pressure