Sooo... This guy planned a fascist takeover of the American government. He is going to be held liable for what he did right?
Right?
Is anyone expecting anything else than a broken mess at release at that point from them?
IDK if I'm understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves
That's a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.
I wish the damages they had to pay were enough to bankrupt them. "Companies" that do this sort of stuff are purely parasitical in nature should be taken down.
I'd even argue that when it is blatant like that law practicing licences should be revoked and the higher management of the company jailed for attempted extortion.
I really think it is incompetence though.
She touted her killing her dog as proof that she has the grit to make tough decisions in the past. She seems to equate the ability to make tough decisions with making decisions with horrible consequences because she has no understanding of true priority management. I bet she really thought she was being a "tough decision maker" when she decided to sacrifice the chance of rescue of that poor member who fell into the ocean just so her deportation flight remained on schedule. But really, it is just an absolutely shit incompetent decision.
She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.
Heck, I'm running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I'd probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.
Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.
Wow. I don't know if everyone understands how unbelievably fucked up that is. A person overboard is usually considered an all hands on deck, high priority search and rescue operation because of how hard it is to spot the person and how finding that person a few minutes earlier can make the difference between rescuing a person and recovering a corpse. She downright sacrificed a Coast Guardsmen's life for something that could have waited. This is beyond incompetent priority management and I can guarantee that most Coast Guard members hate her guts for it now.
This isn't new. I remember seeing a promotion for this exact same printer many years ago already. I'd approach it with suspicion.
And yet the "I don't care that they gather data on me, I have nothing to hide" crowd is still clueless
Macrodroid has been a favourite of mine for automating things on my phone. This is no longer the case.
It has been silently updated at some point to become a data mining and leaking nightmare. At the time of writing these lines, this app contains 30 trackers from various third party telemetry services according to the latest Exodus report. This is an extremely high number of trackers and there definitely weren't that many a few years back. Even most junk free mobile games can’t manage to contain this many. It appears that the owner of the app has sold out and turned it into spyware to sell your data to as many companies as possible.
This is particularly worrying considering the level of access and permissions the app requires to function. If you are using the app still, I’m urging you to reconsider.
Spread the word.
"America first! We don't need anyone!"