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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a comment somewhere that to exploit this a person has to be physically in the area (i think it was in a radius of few meters iirc). Thats not much better i guess since its not had to be around random iot devices but it at least prevents mass attacks (if true).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. On older devices there isn’t much testing of newer versions of the kernel so they can be more broken than an older version.

  Case in point, recently on an old laptop (~12 years) I noticed video performance was real bad which I later found out was due to modern distros defaulting to the iHD intel graphics driver. But iHD is only supported from 5th gen (Broadwell) onward. So, on older devices anything depending on the graphics driver for hardware acceleration (like video decode) fails and falls back to software rendering.