Unfortunate but true. Some of these sites are reporting the Signature 27 as having storage configurations as big as 1 TB - if that gets confirmed, I may just spring for that. I’ve recently realized just how much better FLAC sounds compared to streaming, but it takes up so much more space. It’s either that or I find myself an old discman and start carrying CDs with me everywhere. At least a CD player would have a headphone jack!

It looks like Graphene has confirmed that the 27 is the one, though they haven’t put out their official announcement yet. I won’t be surprised if that comes out later today or tomorrow.

Good to know. I’ll have to keep an eye out then. I gotta admit, I was hoping out hope for a headphone jack and expandable storage, but I knew that was unlikely.

Are we sure that’s it? I thought we weren’t getting a GOS-compatible phone until next year, but the 27 is apparently expected to launch in November.

Agreed. Misallocation of resources by a bunch of astoundingly credulous capitalists is a far more likely apocalypse, even if it wouldn’t make for a good Roland Emmerich movie.

Fair enough. This is honestly about the limit of what I would be willing to do as far as DIY electrical is concerned. Anything more complex, and I’m calling a professional.

Easier than replacing a light switch, which I’ve also done. And then had to re-do when I accidentally put it in upside down. The main thing about doing any minor electrical work is to ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS turn off the power at the breaker box and ensure it is off before you start. Better to be cautious than a crispy critter, lol

You can modify the outlet so that only one plug is controlled by the switch. It’s very easy to do, actually. I had to do this in my home for that exact reason, incidentally - the only available outlet for my PC was on the switch. Just modified the outlet, and now only the top plug is controlled by the switch. I have the lamp plugged in the switch half and my PC in the other half.

“Do you have nothing to protect?”

I’m feeling pretty justified in sticking with Wacom. I only replaced my first tablet because it had a 4:3 aspect ratio and a serial port. (I could’ve lived with the latter, but the aspect ratio was making things skewed on a modern display.)

There was an old episode of TrueAnon about the links between Epstein (and the CIA) to MIT that went over some of this stuff. I’m sure there’s probably a book or article about it somewhere, but I don’t have any better citation at the moment.

It’s so hard for me to read anything by Cory Doctorow or Ed Zitron these days because there’s always this giant, gaping void where class analysis should be. Is this the time they finally connect the dots, I ask myself? No! It’s never the time. It’s always enshittification this and business idiots that and never, ever a single whisper about capital. Brian Merchant and Ed Ongweso Jr. are much better in this regard - if you haven’t read anything by them I recommend you start.

As to the actual content here, this is precisely what the internet was always created to be. Do you think the DoD sorry, DoW created this as a happy accident? Just to help people? It’s always been intended as an anti-informational weapon and a surveillance network in-one. And all the attempts by vassal states to wriggle out of the trap will prove futile. China is the only country handling it the right way, and no capitalist nation will ever have the motivation to follow their example. There’s too much money to be made in making their own little tech fiefdoms.

I cannot imagine being excited by advertisements. Sounds like something out of Fahrenheit 451 or Brave New World.