I tried to solve/debug the function in my head to release urine from my bladder.
When I'm in the middle of solving a tough engineering problem, I'll wake up in the middle of the night in these kinds of stupors. I can't fall asleep because I need to solve some non-existent problem...eventually I wake up just enough to convince myself the problem isn't real and go back to sleep. It's the worst.
The difference between this sub and the fuckgrandpajoe sub is that grandpa joe won't ever gain sentience.
Lol woah, Kevin Rose, blast from the past. He had one hit with Digg, botched it, and spent the rest of his free time spitballing useless startup ideas at anyone who would listen. I think he had to be the inspiration for the Ryan Howard character in the office.
What were the symptoms? Firmware corrupted? As in BIOS/UEFI? Did this happen randomly?
Yeah, but I would say trying to contact is the right thing to do here before pirating.
Aw damn, I'm glad you knew better, that's downright predatory and should be illegal. You know there are people out there now paying their parents' credit card bills, thinking that that's just how things are. I hope that when those people find out, they are entitled to getting every penny back with interest.
Yeah, I only connect my TV to update it, and then immediately delete it's internet connection.
And yes, unfortunately updates are necessary to be sure you're getting all the functionality working correctly (ex. HDR compatibility). I've learned the hard way that the TVs don't necessarily ship with perfect drivers.
As for cars, it's not just the internet. Like apple products, they can make it impossible to repair without going to a licensed dealer. The technology has ways of making you play ball with them.
And even then, I wouldn't put it past them to sneak a cell card into the car somehow to phone home whenever it wants to, regardless of whether you choose to connect it to the internet. I know they've offered this as a feature in the past, why not put it in and just not tell the customer?
You're not wrong, they put the bare minimum chips required to run the UI in the most popular TVs, to the point that they take forever to do anything, including boot their shitty OS.
Yeah, historically that's how it worked, fewer features meant less money. The difficult part today is, the cheapest products are being subsidized with these "smart" features. For cars, as well as most other products, they are able to charge less because they can harvest your data, or lock you into their repair shops, or show you ads. We're now at the point where it costs more to have a bare bones device, and it's cheaper to sell your soul to the company.
And unfortunately, buying second hand doesn't get you out of it. Just like how digital purchases can't be re-sold or traded, "smart" cars can be remotely locked down if they determine it's been resold.
This twitter post used to be a story of a person who resold a tesla, only to have Tesla remotely downgrade the battery capacity because they determined they made a mistake when servicing a previous owner.
I'm curious what recent games you've been able to purchase physical copies of that ran without updating or validating using the internet. I didn't know any publishers still did that, at least not on PC.
Add it to the list of ethical circumstances for piracy.
In fact, for the titles I cared about, I would contact the studio/publisher themselves, explain the situation, send a death cert and a steam account, and see if they would allow a transfer or grant a new key. If not...they're part of the problem.
It's just good to know what pieces need to be in place for your system to work in case any of those pieces ever break. Normal OS installers obfuscate those pieces, so if they break you're left in the dark. Arch makes you place them yourself, so if they break, you know how to put them back.