This one?
Here is a picture of the board for a relatively innocuous device, a tamogotchi.
https://proxy.imagearchive.com/53b/53be32971e72c1908b4a4f775b34dd41.jpg
How many components in that one picture have a serial number, batch number, or marking that can be used to identify the component? I counted 10 at a cursory glance.
Electronics devices aren’t a monolith with a single serial number. Many components have markings on them to track it for QA and recalls.
IIRC, they caught some bomber based on a serial part of a radio he bought and repurposed components from.
So yes. They do track that stuff. As for people who resell and don’t record the sale, they can track the item to that person and then sweat the story out of them.
Restricted or not, anything electronic you buy has a myriad of serial fingerprints on it that can narrow down the potential pool so suspects to a particular retail location and month.
Edit : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103
A circuit board fragment, allegedly found embedded in a piece of charred material, was identified as part of an electronic timer similar to one found on a Libyan intelligence agent who had been arrested 10 months previously for carrying materials for a Semtex bomb. The timer was allegedly traced through its Swiss manufacturer, Mebo, to the Libyan military, and Mebo employee Ulrich Lumpert identified the fragment at al-Megrahi’s trial.
You gonna crack the device open and remove any serial numbers on the components too? What about the board itself? Mfg and batch dates pressed into the inside of the casing?
I would warn that these kinds of devices are serialized, so if the cops find them, then they can be used to trace back to you.
Spoiler, the British cared more about Indians than this administration cares about its citizens.
I need someone talented to make a gif of doom, but with this cat face over the doomguy’s face.
Wait, you don’t just hang like 6 of them out of your desktop by their cables and wipe them while you sleep?
You have to get a tax stamp for a suppressor, fill out some paperwork, and wait for a bit. Used to cost 200 bucks for the tax stamp, but that fee is 0 dollars right now.
Supposedly there is a “first round pop” where the first round is a little bit louder. Has something to do with the suppressor being full of cold, fresh air. Still much quieter than unsuppressed.
So does letting the nazis win.
I bought my first firearm a few weeks ago because the risk of nazis showing up at my door had gone through the roof. Even if they don’t (and I still think the odds are good that they wont), we’re in for some massive food supply shortages this year. Even now, I’ve noticed that there are more runs on groceries, the quality, quantity, and variety of food in my grocery stores has dropped. I’m growing a big garden this year, which is the main reason I got the gun. If someone broke in before, my main plan to was to let them have whatever the fuck they want outside of the bedroom. That garden however, may be the difference between living and dying next year, and it’s not something I can just buy again, or pack up and scurry away with when confronted.
Yeah, but how are they gonna do it without their fancy phones?
Definitely don’t bring your own homebrew stingray device to scrape data from the personal phones of gravy-seals.
No, seriously, it’s probably a huge FCC violation.
Pro-tip. Sleep with nothing on!
?! You wear your yard work shoes in the house? Those usually come off before I go inside even if it is a quick grab n go.
Hotchkiss and parrot, because I like to put my own spin on these kinds of things.
For a while, Microsoft Teams was pretty good. I’d say their sweet spot was roughly 2020-2022ish. It was a pretty basic chat app with a bit of workplace collaboration and office integration built in.
Then new teams happened. Now teams can be installed to a user profile, or to the machine as a whole. Now you need new outlook to get some semblance of functionality with calendars and scheduling in teams. Now teams is deployed as part of Microsoft office, or standalone, or needs to be imported as a package, but fuck you if you have a mix of these methods in your environment. Teams holds on to your data now forever, which would be great!.. If the search function actually worked well. Now you have to sort through everything you’ve ever said to find something that someone sent you last week.
Microsoft just can’t fucking resist destroying a “good” chat application by adding a bunch of bloat.
See, this is exactly what I was talking about. No, I’m not doing any of that. Take a hike.
No, it’s not that. You’re definitely wrong. Slaves being bought, sold and abused were complying with the law, and that did not work out for them. People of Japanese ancestry were complying with the law when they were moved into concentration camps during WWII, and that was not okay. Just complying with the law is not going to protect you from harm. To add to this, black people had to fight against the law for almost a century in order to get recognized as equal to white people. Women had to protest and non-comply with the law in order to get recognized as equal to men. So active non-compliance is practically a requirement for things to change for legally marginalized people.
The real problem with explaining it all is that every time I see someone going hard to defend the absolute dumbest, room-temp IQ, stance on a situation, it’s usually you, or like 3 other people. I don’t even have to read your name to know a post belongs to you, the absolutely backwards crap you post has it’s own very unique style that lasts substance or tact. I don’t think you could be convinced that you are wrong, despite the preponderance of evidence that you couldn’t be further from the truth.
Everyone scratches differently.