Not that HP isn’t aware or not ticked off about this, mind. Recently they threatened to brick HP printers that use third-party cartridges if detected

Try that in EU.
I dare you. I double dare you.
<Jules Winnfield>What does ECCN look like?</Jules Winnfield>

Woohoo! More training data to AI overlords. (Consent on by default of course)

Yes and no. That model still gets updates. One I have has no active support licence, so it has to be updated manually.

No. It’s proprietary custom SoC that runs heavily modified unix on ARM.
But software is solid and patches come out lightning fast.

Same idea here. Fortigate 30f (since I can dl updates manually), Fortiswitch 124e (same) and 2 FortiAP 421E’s (ditto). All but ap’s I could grab from employers “ditch bin”.

If couple reports are true, it is already breached and can be mined for info.
Edit: https://www.wired.com/story/total-recall-windows-recall-ai/

I presume from superb owl that you are from USA.
No. It was deemed legal and fair use as was recording radio on c-cassettes.
Considering digitizing, Web stores are full of usb capture dongles and rca/scart adapters. Obs and Videolan are free and easy to use.
For editing, Openshot is free and quite easy to use.
All these are available on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Sounds like 'murrica.

Obligatory “Way ahead of you” post.

Meanwhile, one level up:
“Hey, look! Our planetary simulation has developed it’s own planetary simulation.”
“Cool! Lets set up a pool how many recursive simulations there will be in 100 years.”
😉

Their private ftp seems to have disappeared as well as site admins contact info. I thing “going private” means “going away completely”.