How about Kia issues a recall?

Most of these were result of the Kyndryll spin off. I’m this case they were actually cutting the fat.

The idea of letting an employee know there will be a buyback option and a pre decided price on their work laptop is actually a genius way to encourage them to take care of it better.

It might not though - it might only include direct-hire employees, they could have a bunch of contractors who aren't included here.

Edit - what I mean to say is, those low-level employees might be all or mostly contractors who aren't counted among the 2,000 or the total.

Edit 2 - but of course I'll never know, because I'm not reading the article.

It probably varies a lot.

> then the methods Apple is using for their version of “right to repair” is not a globally approved standard.

I don’t think there is such a thing as a globally approved standard for these things.

SSD's don't delete like an HDD. Recovery, without modifying the settings of the SSD, is non-trivial. One dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sd0 and you are not recovering that data. I've yet to find a recovery company capable of getting any useful data even when given the location of a text file and all they had to do was tell me what was in the file and nothing else.

It's become a phobia for quite some time now because of the laws.

It turns out the theory that some with an electron microscope could extra several layers of data was very wrong but people took it as gospel. Turns out it's an order of magnitude more difficult.

Most recovery is done from a 'they deleted the file and turned the machine off' type situation. Meaning no actual wiping occurred more than pointers to the file.

Specifically, for SSD's, it depends on the trim setting on your drive.

But even for HDD's, one solid dd wipe to full and there is not going to be any data recovery.

Now if you're talking hard drive made before the late 90's then some things can get weird and a few other factors may come into play but most of those hard drives are long dead now but even then it's still extremely difficult to recover data that's been zero'ed.

> but my point is that hardware destruction is the norm in healthcare.

It's also the norm in the federal government for similar reasons.

Good. Smart investment.

Also note: “Despite the milestone, spending on energy transition technology must immediately triple to meet the target of net-zero emissions by 2050 to combat climate change, according to research group BloombergNEF”

The average age of congress is about 60.

Blaseball already exists

> Google scans all your email attachments and reads all your emails. Facebook scans all your msg and images. Apple recently activated mandatory facial and body scanning on all photos.

Facebook doesn’t scan WhatsApp messages at least, and Apple hasn’t implemented anything like that. Where does that come from?

> The only reason Tiktok is in the news is because it is made by a foreign adversary. A hostile nation.

That I agree with, except “hostile nation” is exaggerated a bit.

May be limited to yellow brick roads.

> And I find it hard do believe that a company managing 3000 Macs doesn’t use an MDM.

Oh my sweet summer child. Companies still rely on some Windows machines that are older than some people who can fucking vote.

Companies can be cheap and unless they absolutely need to manage 3k Macs with MDM then there's no need to invest the money in that effort.

You may be fooled into thinking "it doesn't take much to manage.." - until it's about 30 minutes worth of effort to go from beginning to push out to all devices and have it installed - it does take "much". Installing profiles alone takes a fair amount of work.

I've had IT managers keep excel fucking spreadsheets of users passwords in plain text.

If you find it "hard to believe a company managing 3k Macs doesn't use MDM" then you have not worked in the tech field long enough to see just how lazy or cheap companies can be.

I've worked from extremely intelligent and efficient companies to those I wouldn't feel comfortable with HR having any personal information from me.

On a day when Exxon Mobil announced $54 BILLION in PROFIT, why aren't people more motivated to change over to electric?

Huh? Normal years you’d hit YoY budgets. Inflations have put pressure on budgets. Easiest way to hit budget. Cut humans

So then did companies consistently lay off 2-3% of their workforce each year when inflation was "normal"?

Well, he's being very newsworthy in negative ways.

Shrug.

No, but I might wish something like that for writers of clickbait headlines like this.

I had one of those small iPhones (iPhone SE I think it was) and the sound has been distorted since yesterday. I assume it was due to me dropping one of the corners into some butter, I cleaned it as quickly as I could but it has been distorted since then. Am I able to fix this at home, and if so how, or do I need to give it to like a tech place to fix it?

Ridiculous is the company not using proper MDM and blame others for their mistakes.

Apple MDM has a way to allow secure and quick wipe. Because if set the MDM to ecrypt data you can just erase the header and that’s it. Even if you recover the data it’s encrypted and the key is erased from the Secure Enclave

Lmao do you like Elon mucker?

Just left a company with over 9000 devices total and they had JUST implemented an MDM per my recommendation on 2022. It's a multi billion dollar company. Execs still don't get it.

Why Apple would force resell if they offer plenary of MDM solutions? If the company had a proper MDM or read the documentation they just could erase the machine with one click and had it ready to resell.

Looks like also the owner of the machines wanted it destroyed but the recycler wanted to do something dodgy.

Buzz Lightyear shelf meme