The good news is that the mic is a piece of cake (relatively speaking, as someone who has tinkered with electronics before) to disconnect. Will it throw any errors/refuse to boot? Dunno, haven't seen that attempted yet.
MelodiousFunk
Fascism 101.
This is the sort of thing that could be actionable, in criminal or civil court.
The rich:
This is something that even larger corps struggle with. My old company would buy some other company, lay off a bunch of people, others would quit, and then it was shocked Pikachu faces all around when That One Thing stopped working in an office they turned into a ghost town and, well, no, nobody was going to be there until Monday morning to power cycle etc. True lights out/OOB reachability is WORK. And there's always going to be a SPOF somewhere that requires hands on-site.
Do what you can, when you can. And thank you for all that y'all have done so far.
I don't even know how many MP3s you can store with 400 qubits.
That's ridiculous. Nobody knows how long a gallon is.
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Thanks for the heads up, try not to stress too much.
That was my thought as well.
The problem is that there are people behind the scenes goose-stepping on regardless.