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The incentives aren't there (in my opinion) because the average person doesn't actually want to see that level of info. They're reading (or more likely, skimming) these sorts of reviews to have someone tell them what they should buy. The reviewer could go into a crazy amount of detail to figure out all of the thermal characteristics of the thing they're reviewing, but in the end it won't make a lick of difference compared to doing "just enough" and recommending something "good enough." Especially when, in most cases, coolers on the market these days are either "good enough or better" or "junk" and it's not hard to tell them apart.

There are exceptions to the above, like GamersNexus, who do take a slightly more scientific approach to things, but at the end of the day, most people don't care.

Not the end of the world to deal with, you just have to be very careful. No harder than mobile phone repair if that’s something you’ve ever done

Part of the problem is that any given cooler doesn’t have a single W/K value. It depends on the temperature gradient across the heatsink which depends on airflow over the heatsink (and both the heat and heat density of the CPU being cooled), and the airflow depends on the case (and fans). And airflow temperature matters too (are you cooling the CPU’s heatsink with air that’s already been warmed by a GPU?)

Note as well that I said heat density - different benchmarks (or applications) will load the CPU differently, and the same amount of power consumption will result in very different heat outputs (heavy single core use will result in part of the die and heat spreader getting really hot, whereas heavy multi core use will result in the whole die and heatspreader getting kinda hot). If the heatsink has a very high surface area and high airflow it might have the ability to dissipate quite a lot of heat, but if the contact surface sucks (or is aluminum) it might not actually be able to transfer heat away very effectively without a massive temperature delta - resulting in high CPU temps for single core use even with a high cooling capacity for multi core use, for example.

Your average person can’t understand all of these variables, and the average reviewer can’t control for all of them. So, “this CPU with these benchmarks in this case with this fan configuration” is the best you can really expect. Because otherwise, what reporting are you actually going to do? “This cooler with 3.2CFM of 26C airflow on a CPU dissipating 80W on one core and 10W on the other 7 cores results in a peak core temperature of 87°C and a package temperature of 81°C” is not useful reporting. Especially because, when the average person doesn’t understand it, they’re gonna buy a case fan that says 3.2CFM on the box and then wonder why their CPU’s throttling.

> why would they make it hard to find the thing I just downloaded?

In… the downloads folder? How much more obvious does the location need to be?

You can’t change secure boot settings from the OS, even with root. You need the signing keys or to be in BIOS (if it’s configured correctly), which shouldn’t be on the device.

Now if the right kernel exploit and a secure boot exploit are chained together then it’s possible. But at the point, you’re gonna be hosed no matter what you do.

If you roll your own keys (preferably in a local HSM and use PKCS#11 for signing, with some kind of local auth) then it’s actually quite a good security feature. Obviously not for Windows, but trivial on Linux. It’s very easy to set up a hook for apt (or whatever package manager) to re-sign your kernel/init/modules on updates (requiring whatever your auth source is, password probably good enough for most people) and then as long as you’re booted with secure boot enabled, it’s a lot harder for someone with root to escalate further. Which you can then go down the rabbit hole of hardening the system to prevent becoming root, etc.

Pretty useless if you use Microsoft’s keys. But with your own, depending on the attack surfaces you care about, can be pretty helpful

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If the solution to smooth passkey use is “spend money” why the hell is anyone going to use passkeys over just using passwords for free?

It wouldn't surprise me if there's pressure from Dolby or the media companies to not do so, since Profile 7 is only used on BluRay (and the primary use case for playing back BluRays on Apple TVs I'm pretty sure is not playing backed-up personally-owned media). And, I'm sure Apple isn't losing many sales to not supporting it.

Lack of pass-through could probably be argued the same way, although it is a bit more surprising.

Today, just don't connect your smart TV to a network, and you should be fine. (Assuming there's no open/passwordless WiFi networks nearby.)

If/when devices start shipping with cellular modems and eSIMs... honestly not sure. Faraday cage? Physically remove the modem? (If that doesn't prevent the device from booting.)

Settings -> Spotlight -> Turn off everything you don't want. The first few times you open it it even tells you this.

Admittedly I haven't confirmed that this results in no API calls in the latest few macOS releases but it definitely used to stop them, at least a few years ago.

Ignoring the cost of a tape drive, tapes are cheaper per TB, yes. I wouldn’t write off used hard drives though - buying only the cheapest per TB used enterprise drives, I’ve only had a ~5% failure rate across roughly 200 drives with 2-5 years of runtime (while I’ve owned them - they usually have 4-6 years when I get them). I usually get rid of them once they hit 8-10 years of uptime (or if any get any uncorrectable sectors).

If you only need ~50TB it’s probably both cheaper and easier to just buy hard drives, even today, factoring in the cost of the tape drive. Maybe even 100TB. I’m personally backing up ~225TB off-site these days and I still find AWS S3 glacier deep archive to be cheap enough - at current prices I’ve decided the hassle of doing tape again isn’t worth my time unless I’m over 300TB.

EBay has a bunch of LTO-3 tape drives for sale for <$300. LTO-3 is 22 years old and can read LTO-1, originally released 26 years ago. I expect them to still be for sale 20 years from now, albeit fewer in number. I see no reason why LTO-7/8/9 drives won’t be readily available for the foreseeable future.

If there are, say, ten thousand license plates of interest at any given time (which seems high), that’s what, 10KB? Not really that hard to update that every 15 minutes (or hell, every minute).

I don’t really see any drawbacks with storing them on the device, they should already be quasi-public knowledge (from warrants/etc) so it’s not like there’s a privacy/security risk there

Have you ever been to India? In particular Delhi and Gurugram, and the surrounding manufacturing/industrial areas.

Probably the same way they have for the last 30 years: poorly, in a dozen different ways, depending on what that particular hiring manager thinks has correlated with successful hiring in the past