MooseBoys @ MooseBoys @lemmy.world

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The domain is registered in Finland, so someone at the top must live or have a proxy presence there.

It doesn’t need to be every country - just one.

Since the domain is registered in Finland, presumably it’d be created there. If an LLC has a single owner, you don’t need to have board meetings or anything. The sole owner would be whoever owns the website registration.

Humans who run instances are real people

This is the main problem here - the site is explicitly and legally run by a specific set of humans. Not by LemmyWorld Corp. Not by LemmyWorld LLC, but by “Jelloeater” et al. TBH this is a dumb idea. I don’t even run my own personal website as myself, let alone a forum with third-party content.

Having the admins and operators spend $50 for an LLC filing would shield the operators from most of this personal liability, even if the site itself would still be at risk of action.

Leading theoretical physicist Michio Kaku

I wouldn’t listen too closely to discount Neil deGrasse Tyson these days, especially in domains in which he has no qualifications whatsoever.

increase cost

Probably, but that’s why you make trade-offs in the design process. With a BOM of $236 and a MSRP of $750, it’s not like we’re starting from a razor-thin margin here.

and probably also the size of the phone

Doubtful - total charge capacity does depend on volume, but nominal discharge current is mostly orthogonal.

We don’t expect car manufacturers to produce engines that never need oil changes.

Of course not. But if a car manufacturer designed their transmission so that after 40,000 miles, gear 7 and 8 stopped working because the gear teeth were too worn down by that point, and the automatic selector would top out at gear 6 to avoid stalling the engine, you’d definitely have a lawsuit and recall on your hands.

This is all about norms of consumer expectations. People expect that battery life of their devices will degrade over time. They don’t expect that performance will do the same.

While WEI definitely doesn’t qualify as a rootkit itself, any useful attester is going to require aspects of one - whether it’s a phone asserting that it hasn’t been rooted, or a PC running with approved SecureBoot and TPM keys.

At first I thought the $87/mo quoted in the article was still way cheaper than an equivalent cable plan, but that was based on 2015-timeframe pricing when I canceled my cable plan, where I’d have to pay around $260/mo for Comcast Premium Plus. I just checked though, and an equivalent cable plan is only $67/mo. for me now.

Right? It’s not like consumers have an alternative to whoever their provider is.

Corn me up, snake

your argument is that it should work perfectly forever

I never said that. My point is that if a device requires 1200mA peak current draw to function at full performance, the battery needs to be selected so that it can deliver that demand for the lifetime of the device. The support lifecycle for iPhones is about 7 years, so if the minimum discharge of the battery drops to 80% after 7 years, the battery should be selected to have a nominal discharge current of about 1500mA.

Your battery is going to age no matter what

Yes, and this happens immediately as soon as it comes off the line, which is why a 6W SOC will be designed with a battery capable of delivering 7-8W of power. Current capacity specifically is generally spec’d so that it’s sufficient for the lifetime of the device, even if total charge capacity (battery life) drops. When the 6S was designed, Apple either knew they would need to throttle the SOC starting at around 2 years after purchase, or they miscalculated the current capacity degradation curve for the battery they chose. The former is shady and misleading, and the latter is just embarrassing. In either case, I am in full agreement with the court that Apple should be held liable for selling a product that does not matched advertised functionality as understood by the typical consumer.

How does one limit TDP

By designing the device properly? It’s why they don’t put a 170W Ryzen in your phone. TDP is not a dynamic property - it is a design aspect, usually one of the first ones decided upon when building a new device.

It’s also just relative scaling. A Starbucks barista might make $40k/year while its CEO Laxman Narasimhan makes $15M/year. Meanwhile, a Google engineer might make $400k/year, but its CEO Sundar Pichai makes $225M/year. So while an engineer will earn way more than a barista, as a fraction of CEO pay, engineers often actually make less. Both are symptoms of worker exploitation. It just so happens that technology companies tend to make a lot more money than coffee companies.

Strongly disagree. Current draw is a well-known design consideration for a device like this. Unless otherwise stated, devices are generally assumed to function at full performance for the lifetime of the device. It’s expected that battery life will degrade over time, but not processing performance and responsiveness. Most manufacturers will account for degradation in peak current by limiting TDP to the peak demand for the device’s future current capacity. Throttling the SOC is not something customers expect, which is why the case has succeeded.

can be defeated with two VPSes, but that’s increasing complexity and cost

A marginal increase, perhaps. You don’t need a separate VPS - just a second IP. Accept incoming traffic on port 22 on one, and set the default route for outbound traffic to the other.

Or just use vscode remoting.

Why does Windows Update take weeks for you? Even on 1990’s dial-up, the typical 2-3 GB of patches would only take 5 days to download.

I think you’re confusing “democrats” with “democrat politicians”. You’re right that politicians on both sides are beholden to big money first and foremost.

Why do you say they don’t exist? A specific past clearly exists, and if you believe in determinism, a specific future exists as well.