BREAKING: Judge Rules Mass Surveillance Cameras Unconstitutional #privacymatters

If I can't play it in ten years without asking the publisher's permission, I didn't buy a game. I rented hope.

Me: I'll install Linux to be more productive. Also me, three weeks later: on my ninth distro, tweaking a terminal theme I look at for 20 minutes a day. Productivity was the friends we made along the way.

In 2016 Juicero sold a Wi-Fi juicer for $699 that squeezed its own juice packs. Then reporters showed you could squeeze the packs by hand just as well. The company shut down the next year. oops. 🧃

Nintendo's 1995 Virtual Boy was sold as portable, but you played it on a table stand with your face pressed into a red visor. Games could even pause themselves to make you take breaks. Nintendo took the hint and pulled it within about a year.

um @Google , what gives? #privacy

Laptop repair step one: remove 14 screws, three hidden under rubber feet, one under a sticker that says 'warranty void if removed.' The FTC has warned companies those stickers likely break US warranty law. What do you think? #righttorepair

xkcd proved in 2011 that 'correct horse battery staple' beats P@ssw0rd1! by a mile. Size does matter. Pick 4+ random words or let a password manager generate something long. Just not that exact one. Every bruteforcer has it memorized now. 🐴

Apple once made a game console. The 1996 Bandai Pippin cost $599, ran a stripped-down Mac OS, and flopped so hard it regularly shows up on 'worst consoles ever' lists. Apple would rather you didn't bring it up.

Noooooo

In 2000 RadioShack handed out free CueCats: barcode scanners shaped like a cat, so you could scan a magazine ad to open a website you could have just typed. Each one had a serial number tied to you, so the cat also knew what you scanned. Ancestor of the QR code menu.