Samsung already makes a bunch of "smart monitors", putting there the same software they use on TVs. Not sure about other manufacturers, but would be surprised if they don't catch up soon.

You might be confusing Switzerland with something else. Switzerland is low tax, private and expensive healthcare and childcare.

> Imagine one day we wake up after the usual yawn-inducing sham elections in Russia and Putin won as usual but a large chunk of the country, probably a plurality of it, is utterly convinced that it was completely fake and that Navalny won. Without anybody using violence to do it.

Exactly this happened in Belarus in 2020. Government wasn't shy of using its power though, many people got long prison sentences, many people had to run, nothing changed wrt to dictatorship. I don't see anything inspiring in this story honestly.

Not for transitioning, for "struggle to achieve transition".

To be honest, both are struggling to achieve the transition, for better or worse.

Looks like you are indeed getting an older page. Try https://archive.is/8aUdC

As German IT news media has retracted the "Synology reverses" story based on the content they are reading in the press release link, I suspect there is some Geo-stuff involved here (I tested this from multiple German IPs now and always get "the other version").

> DS Plus series (DSM 7.3): > HDD > Not Listed > Supported for: > New installation and storage pool creation

This is the main change. Other series (not Plus) are still locked down.

Certainly has nothing to do with "official" drives being crazily overpriced.

The sales team should be able to sell the value proposition using hard facts.

"The official drives have a MTBF which is X longer which saves you Y amount of time and Z dollars, but the choice and the risk is up to you."

If you compare the branded version vs the equivalent model from the manufacturer you'll find that there's a markup but it's minimal.

> Even if they don’t offer it to travelers, it doesn’t mean they themselves do not have Internet connection

It usually does, it requires quite a bit of equipment and it doesn’t make economical sense to install it and not sell it to passengers. Airplanes have other means communicating with the ground and airline offices though.

It’s not like making a video of someone saying a number, given a single photo and any voice sample is a very difficult problem today. We can just fast-forward a few weeks into a world where this „registration“ is already broken.

Blur is boring, but swapping faces or other recognizable features to something similar but AI-generated sounds cool.

Sounds like the central idea of the "scramble suit" from A Scanner Darkly.