New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician

mostlysignssomeportents:

Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the
Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a “feature” that
allowed handsets to detect when their screens had been swapped (even
when they’d been swapped for an original, Apple-manufactured screen) and
refuse to function until they got an official Apple unlock code.

Now, this system has come to the MacBook Pros and Imac Pros, thanks to
the “T2 security chip” which will render systems nonfunctional after
replacing the keyboard, screen, case, or other components, until the a
proprietary Apple “configuration tool” is used to unlock the system.

Apple does not tell its customers that the computers it sells are
designed to punish them for opting to get their property repaired by
independent technicians; the details of the T2 came from a leaked
service manual.

https://boingboing.net/2018/10/04/welcome-bootlickers.html

honestly, the wait for TWOW doesn’t bother me anywhere near as much as the fact that we’re going to get it and we’ll all read it and write meta and cry over character deaths..

and then we’ll have to wait all over again for ADOS.

i can handle one wait pretty well. idk how i’m gonna handle two

arachnaboy:

pacsdaughter:

poetiic-motion:

sapphiredoves:

Dear White People,

THIS is how you ally. THIS is how you use your privilege to help us. THIS is how you earn our respect. The White college students in Cape Town, South Africa knew the police would not shoot or harm them so they created a human shield to protect the Black protestors. I’m crying. I’m crying.

BOOST THE SHIT OUT OF THIS!!!!

Yo I’m fuckin crying

When you have privilege and others don’t, you use that privilege to help others. You don’t just stand there and watch the less fortunate suffer.

Privilege ain’t shit if you can’t do anything good with it.

garashirs:

garashirs:

listen. i know tumblr is unlikely to last another three years, let alone three centuries, but please consider: the ds9 crew using Space Tumblr™

sisko:
positivity posts about how much he loves his wife and kids. censors
curse words in case his younger followers see them. has a social
justice/political discussion sideblog with far more followers than his
main, much to his indignation.

jadzia: tumblr famous,
and actually deserves it. genuinely funny and nice as hell. her selfies
always get millions of notes because she’s stunning and looks kind of
like she could crush you with her pinky finger.

worf: warriormale

kira:
runs a social justice blog with tens of thousands of followers. will
not hesitate to call you out on your bullshit. has forced people to
delete with a single scathing comment about their bio.

bashir:
blog is a mixed bag of inexplicably funny shitposts, tacky aesthetics,
fake-deep literary quotes and cryptic, emotional vent posts he deletes
five minutes after posting. links to his space tinder in bio. annoyingly
horny on main.

o’brien: generic humour blog with
little to no original content. doesn’t really use it for anything except
messaging. less and less active now that he upgraded to space discord.

garak:
runs a fashion/aesthetic blog, but somehow involved in more drama than
every other station member combined. has a folder with thousands of
screenshots saved on a data rod, just in case he ever needs pull up
receipts.

odo: discourse blog, lives for drama, remembers that embarassing post you made three years ago and archived it just in case.

dukat:
“anti-sjw. pro-egaletarian. i’m everything that tumblr hates. are u
triggered yet? kek ;)” red and black blog theme. claims to be tumblr
famous but half his follower count is hate follows and porn bots. calls
women “females”. 90% of the Discourse can be traced back to him.

quark: constantly mistaken for a spambot. tries to sell you bitcoin.