I once realized there are audiophile speaker cables that cost hundreds of euros per meter because they are “burnt in” with some kind of awesome machine that pushes a specific amperage through it for a specific amount of time. I’m sure they improve the sound quality tremendously.

More recent Xiaomi phones for the Chinese market have locked bootloaders. Their European counterparts can still be unlocked, but they have tightened that as well, supposedly because the CCP told them to.

Typing this on a Poco F6.

A platform similar to Steam. “Good Old Games” is the name and what it started out with, without any DRM. The catalogue is much larger nowadays, they have their own launcher like Steam, and there still is no DRM.