RAM is active. It doesn’t hold the entire OS when in use even now.

They didn’t have mice that far back.

They gained a cost reduction for a single quarter of a single year. No further thought was put into it.

Right, but none of them are new. They’ve all been around for billions of years.

Remote device bricking is cheaper than researching part wear for planned obsolescence.

It’s low as a percentage of total packages, but some areas are worse than others. For instance, in San Francisco it’s necessary to leave the trunk of your car open overnight so professional thieves don’t break your window to check it.

Most of what they deliver isn’t worth stealing. If they continue trying to take over the high end courier business, though, I doubt they’ll last long.

Because they’re using an inherently insecure delivery service for expensive electronics. Extremely clear case of negligence.

If you don’t have a Micro Center nearby there’s really not a good choice. Just do Newegg or Amazon and hope for the best.

The cops definitely won’t do anything, but the paperwork can be useful if Best Buy decides to be worse than usual about it.

Tipping used to be discouraged in the US since it promoted class divisions. Then the civil war happened and there weren’t any slaves anymore and all of a sudden tipping is the greatest thing ever.

You used to be able to require a signature which would force a direct hand-off, but people got annoyed with it. Then drivers started skipping those deliveries to get through their shift faster. So now only expensive courier services and the postal service still really do it.

I think it’s a bit hilarious that touching the camera is considered such a hassle now. When I learned photography we had to finish the reel and spend a day in a darkroom before we could see the final product.

Still, I hope someone makes some open source software for you. More convenience is always better.

Apparently not anymore.

Probably not marketing; they live and breathe SEO. My guess is they’re trying to push service contracts, so they want to make their stuff impossible to look up.

They didn’t even change anything except the ui. It’s still just old rdp with less features.

Voters get together and decide who to vote for

Okay, I’m going to stop you right there. What about the voting populace makes you think we’re capable of that?

That doesn’t help if someone got a list of their hashes somehow. Then an attacker can use their own system to crack them.

And that’s if they aren’t just storing the passwords as clear text to begin with, which length limitations are often a sign of.

That sounds like the limitations of an ancient mainframe system. If so, then someone trying to brute force their way in would be more likely to crash the system instead.

Just spoof your user agent string. You’ll eventually find one they like.