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The 2015 keeps going!

I was considering upgrading to an M3 up until about a month ago when Apple replaced my battery, keyboard, top case, and trackpad completely for free. An upgrade would be nice as it no longer supports the latest MacOS, but at this point, I may just load Ubuntu on the thing and keep using it for another few years. What a machine.


> Maybe another commenter can recommend something free

https://linearmouse.app/


Shameless plug:

https://github.com/TeamOpenSmartGlasses/OpenSourceSmartGlass...

ASR is done locally on the user's phone.


Bookmarked. I will follow with interest although not sure ASR done locally on phone guarantees data is not being uploaded to the cloud.


Very cool! Thanks for sharing!


You got me curious as to which states require ID to pick up prescription narcotics as I've never heard of this living in Illinois and Colorado. Turns out each state has its own set of unique and sometimes bizarre rules:

https://www.cdc.gov/phlp/docs/menu-pdil.pdf


Where in Boulder are you finding needles? I'm yet to see one after ~4 years here, but I've mostly stuck around CU campus and Pearl and the surrounding areas. Plenty of discarded vapes everywhere, though.


Boulder Creek is the most glaring spot, but you might have trouble finding them until the homeless campers tents are forcibly removed once every 9 months. Scott Carpenter is another good spot. Park East Park is where the aforementioned kid was pricked.


I drove through Boulder and Boulder Creek.. it didn't seem like a happy place.

Denver, OTOH, seemed quite cheerful.

Did I get a proper impression of each or anecdotal anecdotes?


Anecdotal I'm afraid.


Yup, got burned by this. I had a POCO X3 (4G LTE but no VoLTE) which I'd still be using today had AT&T not labeled it as a 3G phone. Even just attempting to use it with my SIM card now automatically deactivates my plan.

Now they have a phone whitelist restricted to (mostly) mainstream brands...


>What niche does it support that direct payments don't?

For buying stuff online it removes the need to fiddle around with CCs (+ trusting individual websites with CC info) and lets you checkout quickly. It's also great if you get scammed out of your money somehow... Their chargeback system is stupidly easy and is infamous for always siding with the buyer.

It sucks when you're on the other side of the transaction, though. Used to run a Minecraft server as a teenager, and they gave me a huge amount of grief between indisputable chargebacks and locking my account once for KYC purposes.


> trusting individual websites with CC info

Websites don't keep CC info, and they haven't ever since PCI DSS has been a thing.


I also had this issue. You can easily solve the problem by disabling the Windows update service in Services.msc.


>USB-based jailbreaks

What kind of new-fangled hack is that? Here in Switch-land we just use a bit of tinfoil for our piracy needs.


I thought that vulnerability was gone since at least September 2019 with the 2nd revision?


It is, but the core vulnerability of the chipset (Tegra X1) still exists AFAIK. Granted, you need to hardmod to jailbreak a Mariko model (launch models can be softmodded), but that's basically the same thing that happened with the 3DS.


It's a different exploit. The original exploit is an issue with the Tegra's recovery mode (RCM), requiring a USB payload to be sent to the Switch at boot every time.

I believe the hardmod is a voltage glitching exploit, as described for the Vita here: https://yifan.lu/images/2019/01/Injecting_Software_Vulnerabi... . It is able to inject code through the onboard memory then load a payload from a memory card rather than USB.


I've only witnessed it twice personally. One being a restaurant job I briefly worked and the other being a small shady interior design firm my buddy works for. I'm yet to hear of a larger corporation doing it though.


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