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A scheduler is part of a OS, but a scheduler alone does not make a OS.

"Operating Systems" for microcontrollers such as this are frequently just schedulers as the Application typically contains drivers and hits the hardware itself. e.g. FreeRTOS.

No, it also offers web access

Which sucks and is pretty limited. Also you are out of luck if you use android.

I don’t think it suck but you are correct about android.

People can easily do that if they purchase a bluray, so the difference is not very big.

Kinda true but I definitely do not want to purchase a Blu ray because I don't want to purchase and keep a drive around either...also I have to transcode it and save it. Just want a 1080P copy. Glad to pay $5 for one.

Well if OS2 had succeeded we would have PC's controlled by the OG evil tech monopoly which have had their business dealings in far worse things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) than microsoft ever did.

... what does that practically matter to people living in the Microsoft era?

Perhaps as evidence we need anti-trust because we cannot rely on happy accidents like IBM allowing an upstart frenemy to thrive.

Especially since it's now the erstwhile upstart frenemy that sits in the driver's seat. They have institutional memory of where they came from, so they know to be on their guard against the same thing happening to themselves.

The big problem is that there are lots of stuff that macOS won’t let you move to a external drive, like iCloud Drive.


High performance and low power laptop and phone SoC’s, no way. There exists no competitive risc-v chip.


We're all assuming that Oryon-V is already being developed.


"Developed" and "successfully shipped" are two enormously different things.


I had a kindle that died. Amazon support was top notch


And remember, the KDE project was the source of both safari and chrome (khtml was the base for safari, which google later used for chrome).


> This sort of thing could happen with any smartphone

The amount of intelligence services that could pull this off if you ordered iphones directly from apple is very very low.


A man in the middle redirecting to a fake web page could be enough to create an opportunity. I assume that in some countries hacking the internet could be still possible.

Or a terrorist could sell phones on the street for months, use them as sleeping devices, and wait until a big holiday or the super-bowl to spread chaos massively with minimum risk for him/her. So now we everybody need a way to be able to scan our devices and detect that risk ASAP. The Mossad still don't understand the mess that had created for every westerner by opening this door.


How would you man in the middle a website or “hack the internet”? Every modern browser uses TLS.


I wouldn't, but I assume that somebody with knowledge and motivation could. Phishing is still a problem. Do every country use modern browsers?

(UPDATED: I really wrote Fishing? LOL)


You only need to do that if you're targeting someone. If your goal is terror, you just sell as a 3rd party on Amazon.


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