It’s only a safety feature if it stops someone from getting injured. If it just kills the device, that means they have to buy a replacement!

IIRC USB killers work because they’re sustained high voltage. USB ports can often deal with a static discharge or over current, but a sustained 200 volts will let the magic smoke out.

And Linux nerds.

The fun part is that even if you protect the factories, they’re moving more and more into automation. So the jobs will still be lost.

Sorry, best we can do is microtransactions, fear of missing out and AI slop. That’ll be $90.

Sounds like it’s even stupider than that - he wants to tariff movies sold in the US by US companies which were filmed overseas. So it not only doesn’t go through a port, the finished movie doesn’t cross borders at all.

Hollywood accounting is very experienced at making money disappear when taxes are due, I can’t imagine tariffs would pose any problem at all. Anything that crosses the border will be worth $0 and make a loss, they’ll have the paperwork to prove it.

I might be completely wrong about what Trump meant here. Which is fair, really - he likely doesn’t know what he meant either.

And we’re pronouncing it JIMP?

does he just love that racist asshole look?

It’s his way of supporting truth in political advertising.

Disney characters are proboscis monkeys:

People in the USA don’t need to travel for that, just wait.

This. Your mail isn’t going to be opened by the CEO. Hurt the business, not the worker. Mail them a box of rocks or something, the company will pay postage on it and the minimum wage guy opening packages will laugh.

I see !dadjokes@lemmy.world is leaking again.

IIRC one of the big issues with Twitter was it didn’t have anything set up to insulate the business from Musk’s idiot whims.

IIRC he fired his PR team. That’s why his reputation went down the toilet, we started getting raw Elmo instead of the shiny image his PR team had carefully crafted.

I do, because between every online service being hammered by scrapers training AI and every online service being stuffed full of AI slop, it’s ruining the internet.

Pfft, he’s just some guy distracting people from what’s important: rich people are making slightly less money! Sound the alarm!

Fucking called it

Only some Pixel 4a phones are affected, apparently.

You know… the stuff they’re doing to some Pixel 4as - reducing charging speed, limiting charge level, etc - those are the same things EV manufacturers do when they’ve got known faulty batteries catching fire and are trying to work around the issue with software.

Doing it to certain devices which you can look up by IMEI, that sounds a lot like something you’d do if you had a certain batch of batteries catching fire and knew which devices had those batteries.

More than a year after end of life, Google suddenly decides “stability of battery performance” is such a big issue that they’re going to pay compensation to people? That isn’t suspicious at all.

But then you can’t inflate the numbers by putting a 3.7 volt battery in a power bank, listing the capacity in amp-hours and implying that you get that many amp-hours at the power bank’s 5V output voltage.

I mean, where I work we’ve hired every female applicant we’ve ever had and we’re still at around 98% male. I’m not sure what we could even do about it.

• No existing nuclear industry. We can’t just send the people who built our last nuclear power plant to build another one, we don’t have any of those people.
• Massive amounts of space and tons of sun year-round for solar

We do have a huge coal and gas industry looking to pay politicians to slow down the shift away from fossil fuels though, so the party that was trying to build new coal power plants last time they were in power is talking about nuclear while they’re in opposition. It isn’t about taking action, it’s about delaying renewables.