It seems like you weren't really asking, but I'll answer anyway.

It's bad security practice, and opens up your network to attack and/or compromise, you're massively increasing the attack surface, and a compromise of one of those components leaves the attacker sat on your edge router, at which point your entire network is fair game.

Generally speaking you shouldn't expose anything on your edge router / firewall, it's a safety barrier.

You can sit things behind it in a "DMZ" and port-forward and isolate them etc so that there's no packets terminating on the actual edge device itself.m, that lowers the risk of a full network level compromise.

Chances are you might be fine and never have a problem, but it's still recommended against.

Easy type to make, but seriously, does no one even take a cursory look at the charts when publishing articles like this? The chart looks _obviously_ wrong, so imagine how many are only slightly wrong and are missed.

The fuel prices one could surely be solved with a tiny bit of validation; are the coordinates even within a reasonable range? Fortunately, in the UK, it's really easy to tell which is latitude and which is longitude due to one of them being within a digit or two of zero on either side.

I don't really want to run my RAM that slow which is why I'll probably stick with two sticks.

The RAM price was already inflated at that time, and the same kit is now £800, but in October or earlier last year I'd have saved possibly the cost of the CPU/GPU on the whole thing, but now it's be about the cost of a CPU/GPU more expensive.

On a side note for anyone not aware, 9950X3D isn't the best choice for pure gaming, 9850X3D is cheaper and marginally better, also I went with 2 sticks of RAM kit, 4 sticks is much harder to run at the advertised speed (6000) which is actually an overclock.

Im a dev and a linux user/gamer hence my choice of CPU/GPU.

Sounds quality was great and I loved the dock too.

Face palm I hadn't realised we weren't talking about _actual_ facts about him, this makes a lot more sense now.

I had most of the N range, and was particularly interested in music ones, N95 was love/hate because the music button/reverse slide was so slow sometimes, and generally it just wasn't as good as N91 for music listening with its proper headphone jack placement, and always accessible controls.

What kind of magic did that HDD have that it could be thrown around like a phone typically is without the issues we would see if we'd handled a laptop with HDD the same way?

Facts and copyright is an interesting one, because I'm surprised a fact can be copyrighted, unless it's the wording specifically.

I'm curious on what grounds they blocked the app.

Man do I miss the N-series, I had so many good phones in that era.

The question I'd ask myself is; who would _I_ trust to implement privacy preserving verification?

The only answer I can come up with right now is; myself. I would trust myself.

The third one was a little different, they just said this entire country is redundant were moving operations abroad. So everyone was gone.

It means your position was made redundant, and it allows you to be terminated with little legal complication, but on the understanding that the same position can't be re-hired for within a period, I think it's 6 months.

Of course in reality it's not that simple, you get "made redundant" then they rephrase the job title a bit and hire someone else.

Redundancy in the real, proper form is a consultation process where they will try, if possible to relocate people into other positions, government does it all the time when there's cuts, and they'll often offer voluntary redundancy where they pay you X amount to quit, it's usually a reasonable sum and should leave you with more than enough cash in "normal" circumstances to find another job comfortably, or see you through to retirement if you're pretty close.

Sometimes it's just a way to get rid of people who are shit or you don't like.

If you're gonna lose your job, being made "redundant" is the way you want to do it.

I've seen this happen plenty where companies start campaigns for reasons and then ditch it as soon a they've achieved the thing from the list above.

As far as I'm aware, it has less functionality than the OEM, so you use it to _remove_ features (good and/or bad).

Aside from that, I suppose it means you can run a more up to date firmware if yours is no longer maintained, but I'm not sure what that means in practical terms.

There's also the "hyper paranoid" fork "canoeboot" which has no proprietary blobs, and presumably _even less_ functionality.

The short answer is; if you don't know why you want it or need it, you probably don't.

I suppose if nothing else, you can run a more up to date firmware if the vendor stopped supporting yours, but I have no idea what that means in a practical sense.

Reading https://libreboot.org/#why-use-libreboot might provide further enlightenment.