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Sure? He didn't kill himself because people found out, but because he was faced with spending the rest of his life in prison.

In addition to the other things mentioned, some very sensitive applications in my organization must be run from a virtual desktop, which is itself must be run from a locked down corporate laptop.

> quite literally peanuts

If I have an income of $250k/yr and a pack of peanuts costs $2 or very roughly 0.001% of my annual income, the equivalent peanut money for ~$130 billion a year microsoft would be more like $2 million.

I find DeepSeek flash incredible for the price and good in general if it has good plans. I will typically plan using Opus or GLM, then implement with DSF

Apple often plays a game where they blend security and business interests, but represent it only as a security interest.

They own the OS and could do for private relay like what they do for screen recording: when it's in use, overlay an unhideable visual indicator that it's that it's in use. Make it visually obvious when it turns off.

> There's no organized political movement trying to tell people that seat belts and speed limits are immoral

I rode in a lot of cars when I lived in Eastern Ukraine, 9/10 times or more the seatbelts had been removed or tucked behind the seats and not intended to be used. I got some very funny/annoyed looks when I first arrived and dug around in seats looking for a belt.

There's no need for a political movement when you already have the thing (no seatbelts).

You can only do that if the school completely controls the laptop. You have to have the professor be able to verify that the student was using an approved laptop each class period. Seems like a nonstarter to me.

It's always a balance of tradeoffs and benefit. That might work, but there are already alternatives. If possible, change the design so that the anticipated load is acting on the x and y axis of the print. If that's not possible, another common tactic is to do something like partial print > insert metal rod in printed channel along y axis > resume print.

Nazis were invading other places now. The US cut off Japan's oil supply, triggering an existential crisis for Japan that led to a military attack.

If United States had joined the Axis powers, leadership very plausibly could have continued the practice of isolationism (which was the popular opinion before Pearl Harbor). It might have been a shortsighted move, but Nazis invading Europe did not sell the US population on entering the war.

> other countries have much less firearm ownership.

Interesting. Why do you think countries with lower firearm ownership rates have fewer shootings?

> my phone provider simply refuses to let you call me with it.

I don't think it's necessary to go this far. The provider could indicate something like "CANNOT VERIFY NUMBER". I imagine most people would block such calls.

> less than the cost of one of these Pis to acquire all of them together.

Before RAM went crazy, the Pi 4 was $75 for *8GB and $125 for 16GB.

Another consideration is heat and power consumption, I have an OptiPlex micro (also surplus) and power consumption is 8W-90W (standby versus peak), 5x-10x more than a Pi 4.

It's not the GPIO, it's the software ecosystem for anything you would want to connect to the GPIO.

> All built-in into consumer(-ish) CPUs.

Dude, I wish. I run a large homelab filled with consumer and small business grade intel hardware, and would love to have vpro on all my mid-high end consumer intel platforms. I have the experience and network environment to lock it all down securely, and it's very reliable high performance low level access from before boot.

It's true that some number of relatively expensive consumer-grade CPUs support vPro, but the catch is it also requires the motherboard's chipset to support it, and it has to be both implemented and enabled in the BIOS.

You rarely if ever see consumer hardware with a chipset that supports it. On all the systems I have that fully support vpro from soup to nuts, you have to intentionally turn it on because it's quite dangerous in the wrong circumstances.