ExcessShiv

No that's how they used to work. For quite some time now, BLE wireless has supported them connecting individually (but as a single unit) and the phone streams to them both simultaneously. So there's no primary unit and both can function independently without the other. Cheap ones may still be using the old primary/secondary method IDK.

There's just so many other options for making (plenty of) money, that doesn't involve actively participating in making the world worse.

U wonder what kind if person thinks "you know what, today I will go in an make the world a little bit worse than it was before"...I simply cannot understand how people are willingly working at a place like Meta.

everybody loves a good donglover.gif

Short, non-intrusive ads sounds tolerable, until you remember these fuckers will enshittify everything they touch and make the experience forever degrading and worse to increase their profit. It is never enough.

I fucking loved spider-pig, second only to tobey

This place has devolved into just images some may find mildly entertaining.

If by "pinky promises" you mean contractually binding letters of intent, then yes. This is standard procedure in any manufacturing industry when dealing with orders of massive quantities, because it normally also requires investment from the manufacturer in equipment which they don't make on non-binding "pinky promises).

FWIW this monitoring is only during the written exams (relies on installation of a specific software, that you can just remove again), and it's the school doing the monitoring not the government.

Edit: they also encourage schools to give pupils better conditions and more time for making written assignment at school where there can be both help and supervision, instead of at home.

I wonder how long until destruction or removal of these will be considered an act of domestic terrorism...

all butterflies are just moths that fly in the daytime

I mean, that's just plain wrong though.