Reuters say "Crashes in Mountains", which seems slightly more dramatic.

Helicopter carrying Iran's President Raisi crashes in mountains, official says

but I don't see why a one plus should be any better than Xiaomi

It likely isn't. I just got it very cheap some years back, and don't see a good reason to replace it while it still works.

a random ROM with possible unknown interference should be safer/better regarding privacy

You could always have bad actors, of course, but these Roms tend to be mostly open source community projects, so the incentive structure leading to bad behaviour seems less clear to me, and such behaviour would theoretically be more detectable (how much anyone actually audits the code in practice is another question, of course.) In the end, running any Software you haven't written yourself involves a certain amount of trust.

That does make sense, I guess. I forget that most people aren't hardcore privacy nuts sometimes. I'm currently on a OnePlus with a custom rom, which'll probably be good for a few more years, but the only new phone I'd consider at the moment would be a pixel with Graphene.

I get people buying cheap Xiaomi phones because they can't afford a more expensive phone. I kinda don't get why people buy expensive Xiaomi phones.

If you wanna court the laptop oem market, windows is the safer bet.

Depending on how in-depth they co-operated with the windows for arm team, keeping some details confidential till launch might have also been easier that way.

There's definitely valid stuff in there, but I feel like you should always keep in mind that subverting these can also be an option.

Also, while I love good world building, I wouldn't really trust Ms. Rowling's advice on this. Not because of her other bullshit opinions, but because she's well known for throwing in stuff, and then not keeping track of it, or not thinking through the consequences.

Haven't read into this too much, but I think the affected person that made this get attention was a solo dev that was prototyping a solution for one of his customers.

And the reason he raised a stink was because he had a huge bill, as the name he chose for his bucket was by chance the same an open source project used as a sample bucket name, so whenever someone deployed it without first customising the config, it was pinging his bucket and getting a 403.

Edit: Here's his original medium post / Archive

Lucky for me, I can't afford a backyard.

Can confirm, my brother is a furry and on bluesky.

Why does that sound like a threat?

The number of concepts per colour makes this feel a bit arbitrary.

Haven't played in forever, but this seems like they're selling an A-rated, non-engineered ship. Don't think this is pay to win. I don't like it, but the game has been going for 10 years, and Frontier doesn't seem to be doing great financially, so it might have well been this or shutting it down entirely.