Less repression from China I presume. Heh.

Much appreciated!

What do you say to a man with 2 black eyes/who got maced twice?

Just use wireless bro

Then you’re violating the law! Just agree to the 40 page legalese text as if you were on an equal footing.

• Let your personal pet lawyer read it if you can’t.
• Don’t forget to read every change to them, because every EULA allows the vendor to change parts of the EULA at any time.
• Enjoy having fewer rights to the bought stuff than a pirate does, because the EULA makes you waive them. Or will make you waive them.

Street smart

Well, at least they didn’t put their scope on backwards. Can you imagine?

It’s really hard to establish privacy in this age. Everything store bought will fight you on it. And everything store bought will fight different solutions, so it’s harder to stay in contact with your friends; or get them to change with you. It’s just way easier to fight the “newcomers”. And that’s a start at least.

The germans didn’t answer this, so I ask here: If I pour liquid soap without water in there and blow, will it form bubbles?

Achtung, Feind hört mit

Sounds like describing a moth. Are they maybe found more often than butterflies in Thailand?

Ve vill spread and multiply! No aisle can stop us!

Well, “schmettern” (verb) literally means to smash or to belt something. “Schmetterling” comes from the old Slavic “Schmetten”, meaning cream (the one you skim off milk), but it sounds more like it comes from “schmettern”, which is a word still in use.

Nice, thank you for the writeup!

Yeah, it’s hard to get to know people that are running around. But you can sit by the workshops or the representatives of some clubs and talk to them. Helping out and being an “angel” always helps. Haven’t done that myself, so I can’t say how social this is.

Am on the edge for the remarkable, but the pine note would be a definite buy. But I do know that the pine devices most often are tinkering devices. Don’t know if that is the case for the pine note, just saying.

This very much depends. Are there technical ways to restore this? Something like a jumper to make the flash storage writable. This would be possible with access to the firmware source code. So yeah, they can fix it themselves. Who is responsible? If the device is bricked after this: the company.

Build locked up products? Die.
Build in fuses? Better make those chips accessible by providing the plans to build them, otherwise refund your customers and die. Now everyone can build them, this won’t be a monopoly and everyone wins.

Very cool, thank you!

It doesn’t matter if they care about this. They are too dumb to do anything about it anyway. They still can get to take advantage of this. Most notable would be that stuff like “bank apps only through play/apple store” would be much harder to pull of.

Woah, how are there not the bloody remains of the bosses strung across the streets? That would happen to me once, then I would be in literal prison. Seems like a nicer place than THAT anyway.