Tesla chargers being locked down makes them pointless in regards to overall infrastructure.

It makes sense for their bottom line, but it’s shit for the consumer.

As a kid I could not imagine a bigger wonderland than E3. As an adult it’s just a cringe tradition that probably needs to die.

If the public can’t come, there’s little point. 12 year old me was right.

My comment was replying to someone saying they use it for free. So yes, people think they are using it for free. Go on about your day.

You guys all have phones, right?

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Sure but re-use of electronics is way, way more efficient than recycle.

This, at least ours have big restrictions on reselling since they were paid for using government grants- we can’t just resell to the public, so if another department doesn’t need them, they just sit around in drawers for a few years until they get scrapped. Eventually some are listed on auction sites, but at that point they’re worth so little- even $500 isn’t enough to justify the time spent wiping, listing, etc. and potential liability if any financial/HIPPA info is left behind.

Once AppleCare wears off our machines are replaced anyway. We’re allowed to just keep our old ones, especially for international travel (computers can be searched at borders, this way we only load what’s essential and if it’s stolen it’s not a big deal).

And? Point being do you think they will let you use that for free?

Possibly they should have a paid service where your info is not sold but you willing to pay?

In my two and a half years at this job I recall sending a device back to Apple for unlocking only once, and it was due to human error. They accidentally deleted the device from Jamf before unlocking it.

Our devices come from our vendor already pre-enrolled with Apple DEP. So we just have to boot them and run the new account set-up and after that Jamf takes over and enables all the settings and installs all the apps.

You're arguing against AP. Provide why you think he didn't.

I Google it and found this podcast interview.

> Then in 2019, Musk again promised that "I think we will be feature complete — full self-driving — this year," in a podcast interview. "Meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up and take you all the way to your destination without an intervention, this year."

It’s been a lot longer than 2 months.

I agree that the competition in the schools are soul sucking and robs children of their childhood. However, you have a common Western view that I don't believe is very accurate. Mostly from people that don't understand the region. To say they don't innovate or have novel ideas is comforting for the west but wrong. I've heard from the heads of Google and even Elon talk about China, saying these stereotypes are completely absurd. Intelligent ppl innovate, Chinese can and will. Half of modern society arises from Chinese innovation, to dismiss that shows a real Western propaganda bias. Not here to give a lesson on history, or shill for a repressive regime. Just pointing out that these policies can and often will backfire

The worst part of all these layoffs is they are only a mechanism to stifle wages. Most of these companies will rehire these positions at lower salaries and by a few of the larger ones doing it simultaneously they can poach each others talents in a strange dance.

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When they panic about inflation they are only talking about workers wages.

He'd be better off hiring a little person to operate each car in a hidden compartment. And paying for it with a "subscription"

Reduce, reuse, recycle. In that exact order.

A usable laptop can be wiped and resold, and could be used by someone in need of a laptop for years to come - reducing the need for new hardware, and reusing the old hardware. A laptop that was turned e-waste by an unremovable software lock can only be torn down and send into recycling, best case. Dumped into an e-waste graveyard in some hellhole country, worst case.

I work for a company that's has about 350 employees. And IT has 8 employees including me. We repalce between 70 to 100 laptops every year around fall time. I haven been with the company for 2 years and seen it twice.

New laptop are ordered. Joined to our Microsoft intune program. Given to users. Old laptop taken from them.

Once the old laptops are backin the hands of IT. Remove/delete them from our Microsoft intune program, mark them as retired in our inventory system and toss them in a electronic relying bin that's picked up by a company and they wipe/provides certification of data distribution.

I work in healthcare and laptops are almost always intentionally destroyed not repurposed. A laptop can contain absurd amounts of personally identifiable data and if it is lost then the fine for violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) can quickly exceed $1M. It starts at $100 PER RECORD! Now imagine a nurse that sees 10 patients per day for 5 years. Or how about a person doing claims review on 100 claims per day? Then there is me who processes millions of records all the time.

Since a loss of information could be so costly, it is much easier to just destroy laptops than to try to format them. One of my former employers would take old hard drives and run a government format on them. Next they would erase them (again) with a strong magnet. Then they would shred the devices in house. Then they would give the shreds to a secure documents destruction company who I think would melt things down. Admittedly that was a bit over the top, but my point is that hardware destruction is the norm in healthcare.

Yes corporate America can’t possibly have workers feeling like human beings again, best to manipulate everything in the US economy so that the human cattle return to their cubicles broken and submissive.

> Anyone can use the stock photo.

No, they can't. They pay Shutterstock or Getty Images and those pay the original creators (or have paid them).

Yeah, that’s the real issue here. Erasing the encryption keys will safeguard their deleted data on disk, there’s no reason to perpetuate the myth

I'm just saying 'they' aren't multiple entities: 'they' are Microsoft.

The activation lock doesn't change the physical properties of the device. You can still take it apart and recycle much of it.

Google has been their own worse enemy for several years now.

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