I think it relies on the server backend, which they’re closing down, to do pretty much anything including TTS

I think all the big stadiums actually used for these big matches are privately built and owned?

They’re not buying the product, they’re buying the IP. the article literally says that HP doesn’t give a fuck about the product/HW

users will lose access to essentially all of their device’s features, including but not limited to calling, messaging, AI queries and cloud access. The FAQ does note that you’ll still be able to check on your battery life, though.

OK that is just fucking hilarious…People will literally be stuck with a battery monitor which only purpose is to monitor it’s own battery.

I can get 10gbit from my ISP, it’s just not worth the extra cost compared to my 1gbit which is perfectly fine.

I got one a few years ago (Europe), but you just throw them out, they’re meaningless threats without action behind and to my knowledge no one has been convicted based on one ever in my country. But if you torrent copyrighted material without a VPN here, you’ll definitely be getting them.

The french haven’t put anyone in guillotines for more than 200 years (not counting prison death sentences), accrediting this behaviour to the current French population is quite the stretch.

Yeah the documentation (if it even exists) of most projects is usually clearly written by people intimately familiar with the project and then never reviewed to make sure it makes sense for people unfamiliar with it. But writing good detailed documentation is also really hard, especially for a specialist because many nontrivial things are trivial to them and they believe what they’re writing is thorough and well explained even though it actually isn’t.