A 20 minute video on how to replace your battery with batteries that are glued down and you need a pry tool to remove them and hopefully not puncture them is not exactly what I would call user-replaceable batteries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFxS5wQ5Bhc

I’m talking about ones like the Samsung Galaxy S3, Nintendo DSi and Nintendo 3DS, etc had where you could just open the cover, take the battery out, and then put the new one in.

The hardware was certainly designed to be less repairable and phones less upgradable. Gone are the days with user-replaceable batteries and MicroSD card slots.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta, so you should expect that they will do this soon enough if they aren’t doing it already.

Sure if that was all they had in mind. This is also about collecting info and controlling what people can do, the content is just an excuse as a means of doing so.

Sad to see France is heading this direction, Canada was very close to heading this route too, thankfully it didn’t end up that way.

I think there’s probably no chance of that, unfortunately it will just be innocent people who suffer.

Honestly that’s probably a safer bet.

Yeah, OpenVPN definitely doesn’t have light spec requirements 😅 thankfully hardware is unfathomably powerful these days.

Or be like me stuck in the 2000s using OpenVPN still in 2025 lol

It’s more common with mobile-based connections like satellite connections or mobile-LTE data based connections, I believe.

I mean when I was young and used to play with rocks I had a favourite rock, I mean even painting rocks was a thing. No need to go thousands of years back lol

That would have been an impressively outdated install of Jellyfin lol

I looked at the release notes and wow yeah you’re not kidding, this is going to be a very scary upgrade.

They aren’t really direct competitors, though.

They avoided direct competition by previously being cheap enough that people could afford a Nintendo console and a Playstation or Xbox, and their video games have been so good that buying a Nintendo device was always a no-brainer.

They focused on selling games, not consoles.

Yep. Nintendo is unfortunately extremely smart. Nobody can say they don’t make good games, it’s all the other things about them that are problematic.

I don’t expect much from it, and it’s not surprising since Microsoft won’t even put the effort into making their own handheld rather than just partnering and making a modified existing one.

Plus, I use Linux because I don’t want to use Windows.

Yep. My work is very strict about security except for when it comes to LLMs, and then suddenly they’re surprisingly lax about it. It’s a bit concerning actually.

Not surprising at all with how uncertain and how difficult things are these days.

It is based on Unix yeah but Linux and Unix are different enough.

And here I am, still using OpenVPN in 2025 lol