Here’s a hot take… maybe stranding farmers in their fields for weeks at a time while the crops were dying had a negative impact on your customer loyalty. Your insistence that a “certified tech” is required to replace that $5 part, and an overall lack in any available techs to do the work, has made people search elsewhere for their purchases.

Yeah I was thinking about that. I mean Ukraine is using mercs too, that’s how soldiers from the US and Europe got involved, but it does imply a bit deeper connection.

Uh… is this confirmation that some Chinese are also fighting for Russia? Funny how Russia, who postures as a world-dominating force, can’t even fight their own war against one small country.

That’s a shame to hear, but yeah they’ve certainly changed since I signed on. Not that I expect any other to be better at this point.

It’s weird to see T-mobile taking this stance. I switched to them years ago because they were one of the few that supported unlocked phones, and even offered them for sale. Their policies might have changed on this, but I just bought an unlocked phone off Ebay this Summer and all I needed to do was pop my sim card into the new device. Hell I had to specifically install the visual voicemail app because there wasn’t any bloatware on the phone when I got it. So I guess I’m not following what their complaint is about?

“For only $1000 in bitcoin we will decrypt your files until the next time we fsck you over.”

Sheesh, lucky you! Up here in Longmont we’ve gotten squat.

Most of us can’t afford the sort of disk capacity they use, but it would be really cool if there were a project to give volunteers pieces of the archive so that information was spread out. Then volunteers could specify if they want to contribute a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes of drive space towards the project and the software could send out packets any time the content changes. Hmm this description sounds familiar but I can’t think of what else might be doing something similar – anyone know of anything like that that could be applied to the archive?

And yet I live about 6 miles from the foothills and haven’t seen a drop of rain. We’ve only had something like 3" all Summer.

Discrediting someone usually has a goal of pushing customers to another source though. There is no other source of this information, so what would be the point?