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I'm still in love with Panasonic's Let's Note series, still made in japan and very durable

vaio brand got bought and reincarnated with very uninspiring lineup

probably get resurrected by some Taiwanese laptop oem/odms

this is the sort of functionality that only appears when the pain in the retail is felt by the corp. though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

Presumably the signing requirements are the same as the normal USB DFU process?

> though can't say I think it's a good idea though.. feels like a free rein for state level adversaries...

All iOS devices have secure boot that (unfortunately) can't be disabled.


Most ;)

Some have vulnerable bootroms, yes, but I doubt those can use this new restore process anyway

At smaller scale if a problem affects 1 out of 100,000 customers you just eat it. But at Apple's scale and profit margin they can afford to fix it.

This may be an outgrowth that just sort of fell out of their project to allow updating the software on iPhones in the box.

they did that so people wouldn’t buy a new phone that had been sitting on the shelf for a few weeks or whatever and then immediately have to update the OS. By using a special device they designed they can power up and update the phone with the latest OS in the box so buyers are almost always up-to-date when it hits their hands.

But the fact that they did all that probably means that they had everything they needed to do this. Or maybe that’s how they “update” the phone, they don’t update the OS like a user would they just reflash it completely.


do you have family?


most likely they don't have


thanks... I can rest easy that this is possible cause to why my kitchen scale is so slow... do not get a SOEHNLE Page scale if you value your sanity. It is so slow it can serve up counting down ads....


what I'd really like is some comparison between all OSs in handling these and maybe we'd have new OS some day? I remember the scintillating days of OS/2 Warp/BeOS/linux distros and everything called itself windows killer. I feel like an old man shouting at cloud but I swear Windows used to be slow and then got pretty snappy around windows2000 and nowadays I feel like it's back to win98 days in terms of latency/response


Depends on the hardware used to run it. Windows 98 on a Pentium 2 or 3 with 64+ MB RAM is quite snappy.


where were you in 1994


slightly unrealistic but fun idea.. makes me wonder if there are any benefit in AI powered caching algorithm or maybe that's what all the cloud providers are reaping benefits from...


https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-use-per-person-vs-... is probably where the inspiration comes from...


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