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It probably goes deeper than you expect. A friend of mine unknowingly bought counterfeit Darn Tough socks from Amazon, and only found out when he sent them in for warranty repair. Clough42 has a video on YouTube about identifying counterfeit Mitutoyo calipers (though I believe they came from Ebay rather than Amazon).

Mostly no. Dead leaves that were just lying on a trailer without getting cleaned in advance and bits of decorative plants that broke off are probably the worst offenders.

ChatGPT Images 2.0 3 months ago

How'd you conclude that artists are doing fine? That doesn't match my experience or observations at all.

I’m surprised to hear that it was such a common failure. I used plenty of lighting devices back in their hay day and plenty of USBC devices since they became common. I don’t tend to treat those devices gingerly and have far more issues with USBC than I ever did with Lightning, even accounting for the fact that lots of devices have USBC but only phones and mp3 players had lightning.

15 Years of Forking 4 months ago

My naive fix would be to disable extensions from accessing form field data without explicit approval. Hell, add different approval boxes for read, write, and hidden-text.

What am I missing?

In general, considering the overall cost of the measures, I would think that there is a valid reason and that "it does not make sense at first glance so it's just a security theater" does not hold.

What’s your sense of the overall cost of the measures? It’s not clear to me if you’re saying that high or low costs help justify them.

Apple Music got extremely slow for me in (atypical, granted) situations that used to be perfectly snappy. I keep recordings of a radio show in my Music library, with the whole series tagged as a single album, each "episode" as a separate disc, and each half of the episode as its own track. This makes it easy to scroll through, browsing to pick what I want to listen to. But now with 26 Music has been chugging whenever I open the album - it takes ~20 seconds before it starts responding smoothly again. I'll concede that having 1000+ discs within a single album isn't a normal use-case, but this has worked properly for the last decade before they screwed it up.

IMO 500 watts of sustained electrical power is a fair bit, especially compared to every other electric device these households are likely to have.

What brand of pliers were they, and did they seem to be made from recycled gum wrappers?

A trick I learned when you want to flip the breaker but don't want to go all the way back to the panel is to just stick a screwdriver into a light socket.