so, custom ROM possible?

Mostly to avoid hostage situations and revenge attacks.

Thanks, that makes more sense, but also holy shit, such a waste. I can't even count to a million in a reasonable time.

Roughly 14M personnel? Russian assault was that massive?

And spies on you, and eats up your memory and bandwidth while doing so.

Alternative title: the ubiquitous race for cheapest developers and fastest time to maket leaves everything insecure.

Because you're supposed to obey your oligarch overlords.

So, Johnny Bravo with guns and explosions? I'm in!

Wait, is that confirmed?

Say what now?

Finally some good news.

Thabks, I learned 3 new words.

Must be food stealing immigrants /s.

Whoa, thanks.

Commodore 64 gang, by the way :-D

Probably not but spyware and security cracking is a massive industry of theirs.

Because nepo babies at top levels think they are good leaders first and leadership is the best thing ever.

So, act like a million 💸 company and cover your employees' babysitting and taxi expenses. Also hire enough people.

"Why does a toaster need internet connection?"
"So it can receive firmware updates."
"Why does it need any updates?"
"Security patches because of the internet connectivity."

Half-Life 3 being ruines by tech bros wasn't in my bingo card but I'm not surprised at this point.

He's right. If vendors offered Linux based machines people would try. Valve is helping Linux adoption more than all the big names like Dell, Lenovo, HP... combined.