PostNord is not state-run: it’s privatised, and operates mail for both Denmark and Sweden.

Any electronic device with firmware in flash. The charges will have decayed a long time ago, leaving a paperweight.

Sufficiently diligent far-future archaeologists may dissect and catalogue the devices well enough to develop a taxonomy of components, having their own names for components, CPU architectures and such, but they’d then be left with something like “this was a programmed control device of the Xargx Valley type, variant 13, only with a screen, a speaker, two microphones and a motor actuator. We speculate it may have been a domestic appliance, a children’s toy or part of a transportation device. Alternatively, it may have had religious or ceremonial uses.”

Exiting from consensus reality?

First time as tragedy, second time as crypto AI scam

It predates Illuminatus!, which came out in the early 70s. The foundational text of Discordianism, the Principia Discordia, was published (i.e. photocopied and sent out to fellow fringe dwellers) around the mid-60s. Illuminatus!, however, popularised it.

Does he have a large adult failson he could parachute into the position?

Does he spend 20% of his income ironically?

Musk is neither a Tesla nor an Edison; he is a Barnum.

I wonder how hard it would be to make some minimal placeholder resources/assets, sufficient to build the game and for it to run, even if it won’t look good or be particularly playable.

The only way it could be more unsubtle is if it was chopped up for steel, which was used to make artillery shells for Russia

tfw your old subculture from decades ago becomes a lot of people’s sexual fetish

I’m guessing they don’t actually have any offices, assets or staff in Sweden.

Signal don’t block users from countries where they are banned, and in fact have options to make bypassing firewalls easier. OTOH, it’s a lot less likely that they might be arrested and extradited to Iran or China while on holiday.

What proportion of their GDP is that?

And a decade or so before your targeted ads switch from fast fashion, adventure holidays and entertainment to things like lawn care products and orthopedic footwear.

People have jailbroken the Car Thing and are using them to control home automation/media playback and display information.

I’m guessing that, unlike the Spotify Car Thing, there’s no conceivably useful application a jailbroken one of these could be repurposed for.

Surely it’d be something like “which is your favourite Shrek movie to goon to?”

Someone needs to tell Carole Cadwallader to move her resistance headquarters out of the Nazi bar. There are a lot of people who’d subscribe to her journalism if it didn’t also involve funding the enemy.

Isn’t Balena’s entire business model taking things that could easily run locally and wedging a cloud dependency in to allow them to be profitably enshittified?

No, use Hannah Montana Linux like a normal person