As someone with a birthday right in the middle of summer, the weather is nice but it feels lonely af too because everyone is on vacations

Basically through a notification saying I need to setup the voicemail iirc

That’s in the specs apparently

A UICC consists of a CPU, ROM, RAM, EEPROM and I/O circuits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_integrated_circuit_card

I thought that could only happen in third world countries like the US but unfortunately this is in France. I’ll reboot my phone to show you.

Edit : well, apparently that’s related to connecting to the carrier’s network because right now I’m in another country and it doesn’t happen

I can show you a screenshot of the shitty app it installed the first time that happened, that it appears I can’t uninstall without rooting the phone. Keep in mind I bought the phone directly from Fairphone so it was not “SIM locked” to my carrier :

I looked again for more info about that app and it appears they are pulling that shit with the phone constructor’s consent. After all they are the main mobile phone carrier in France by a huge margin, which probably helps for these kinds of deals. I would have liked to have been consulted too though…

Cartoon reindeer smoking

Idk I had several people warning me about that when I lived in Quebec, and I very rarely saw people driving with snow on their roof, so I assumed it was enforced quite seriously

Reusable disposable heatsink. The process is a bit smelly though

How could I forget the best Belgian cultural export ?

> buy fairphone because I hate constructors adding their bloatware to my phone.
> Boot it up, insert SIM.
> Next reboot, my carrier tries to get me to install their shit with a permanent notification (thankfully I can hide it, just have to do it every reboot).

How the fuck is that even legal

That shit can get you a nasty ticket in Canada. They know how dangerous it is

Might be their ISP. I know mine routes my stuff through some datacenter somewhere else in my country if I use ipv4 (probably because they don’t have enough ipv4 addresses for everyone). Which I do, because their IPv6 protocol shits the bed if I actually use the bandwidth I’m paying for 🙄

Belgian fries, Belgian waffles, Belgian chocolate ^^Belgian ^^weed

He is a shiny fella indeed

As someone who recently got a kitten, I am blessing past me for buying corded cables “just in case”

You can use the same username since they’re unique per instance. I had the same one on Lemmy.world

That’s understandable, I didn’t know that specific emblem and had to look extra hard to notice the coat of arms since it’s quite discreet

That’s clearly a Ukrainian watermark. The letters are Cyrillic and there’s a small Ukrainian coat of arms at the bottom

Yoooo how the fuck did I miss a new creeper world ?

ROG is Asus.

Also I don’t think I’ve ever had this issue with my previous, nor my current rog boards. I never use their drivers CD so maybe that helps

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Platform_Security_Processor

If I was a government intelligence agency I’d probably sell my soul to get access to these…

I get that they have legitimate use cases for corporations, but why are there virtually no consumer grade CPUs without that stuff ? Surely they would be less expensive and no one would miss the features on their home computers.