I share the DIY repair sentiment, but the other commenter was right. You saved them money by opting yourself out of their warranty, which is free to you, but costs them money. Now, if you had used the warranty and then repaired things yourself after it’s no longer free, that would be a nice FU to them.
The funny part is that rather than respecting this, they chose to cryptographically pair the parts, so they stop working if you replace them…
According to the post linked in the article, it’s under ~/Library/Application Support.
The good news is that ~/Library isn’t world-readable by default. The bad news is that it’s still very easily readable by any process running under the user and by any other user with admin privileges or access to sudo.
With MacOS, specifically, it’s stupidly easy and unintrusive to enable disk encryption. Outside of that, programs can save key-value pairs to Keychain (a credential store) and use that to store a randomly-generated encryption key.
It’s true that any program running with the user privileges and within its session can open the file, but once the user logs out it’s unreadable.
If the data was saved to the login Keychain, it should only be accessible while that specific user is logged in. The existence of vulnerabilities notwithstanding, it should actually be reasonably secure as long as System Integrity Protection is enabled and the program in question isn’t running. SIP stops users (including root) from messing with system files or processes, and the Keychain requires a user password prompt to give programs access to entries created by other programs.
Now, considering all the above… it would have taken a day at most to figure out how to encrypt the data before it gets written to the file so it’s not just sitting completely out in the open.
You don’t at all see how this could be abused in the exact same way as what you’re complaining about, do you?
For example, maybe Trump relaxes some restrictions on China, and the Chinese government just so happens to decide to host an expensive event at one of Trump’s businesses afterward. It’s not a bribe; it’s business as usual™
I subscribe to the theory that they do, but instead take inspiration from them.
But think of the profit improvements!
I think we all know that one of those two things will never happen in the land of the free and home of the mass-produced automobile.
Cardiovascular disease is a bitch, eh?
Thinks that water destroys magnets.
No no, you see: water is 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. Hydrogen is a key component of nukes, and nukes destroy magnets. Trump was telling us in code, because the baby-eating Dems are looking for an excuse to have him replaced with a body double so he can’t give obvious messages.
—Some Qonspircy Theorist
I hope the satire is obvious
How has nobody mentioned Sonic Colors yet?
Type-safe lipstick :)
To offer a differing opinion, why is null helpful at all?
If you have data that may be empty, it’s better to explicitly represent that possibility with an Optional<T> generic type. This makes the API more clear, and if implicit null isn’t allowed by the language, prevents someone from passing null where a value is expected.
Or if it’s uninitialized, the data can be stored as Partial<T>, where all the fields are Optional<U>. If the type system was nominal, it would ensure that the uninitialized or partially-initialized type can’t be accidentally used where T is expected since Partial<T> != T. When the object is finally ready, have a function to convert it from Partial<T> into T.
It seems pretty obvious to me at this point that the DNC would rather lose than have an actual progressive win.
It’s not in their interests to let a progressive win. Just like their counterpart, the DNC takes a shit ton of bribery donations from corporations lobbyists. Bringing in a progressive who would reform the system or push back against pro-corporate policies is biting the hands that feed them.
I’m mad that Biden and the Democratic leadership seems to have put their own interests above the interest of the
partypeople.
The interests of the party is the interests of the rich :)
The system is set up in a way that the only viable options are between two evils, unfortunately. Under a FPTP system where the only good options are minority parties that won’t win a single seat in their districts, you’re left with the choice of voting for the lesser evil, or voting for your morals but increasing the risk of the greater evil winning.
It’s a no-win situation.
The Democrat party is just as corrupt and bought out by corporations as the Republicans are, but at least they aren’t trying to get the country to circle the drain as quickly.
You have to pass new laws to match the digital world.
They did—it’s called the DMCA, and it’s working exactly as they intended it to.
I looked at the more detailed specs, and here we have:
3 x audio jacks
2/4/5.1/7.1-channel
If using 2-pole aux jacks, those 3 back panel female connectors only provide 6 independent channels. If the case has a front panel connector, you can push that to 8 channels.
The only way you’re squeezing 7.1 analog out of that is if you use the front panel as LR, use two of the three back panel ones as surround, and share center with the sub between the last remaining connector. But, that’s assuming that two of those back connectors aren’t for mic or line in.
Maybe you could squeeze digital output through those jacks, but then you’d need a compatible receiver. Either way, stupid design for such an expensive motherboard.
who is going to put a ryzen apu in a topend mobo??
The Ryzen 9 7950X has integrated graphics, but if someone is willing to dump that much on a processor, they’re probably buying a GPU with it.
I wonder how long it will be until the Supreme Court overturns this one.