Never did.
It was a while back, but in the great Chips War the Micron and Hynix fabs got nuked to atoms. So all memory was confiscated for the war effort.
But now that things are finally turning normal, everybody gets a daily token allowance for GeminiGPT 7.2 and you can even boost your ratio if you volunteer your bioenergy to the local GPT microdatacenter (cycling or run on the H-wheel for an hour gets x1.02 output tokens for the day).
In my country in the EU it's illegal to market homeopathic remedies if they contain active ingredients in quantities that could have an effect.
Otherwise they become regular medicine with different marketing requirements.
[2] - Art. 187 of Regulation of execution of TULPS (public security law) - Public service [hotel,restaurant,bar] owners may not, without a legitimate reason, refuse to provide the services of their business to anyone who requests them and pays the price.https://www.normattiva.it/uri-res/N2Ls?urn:nir:stato:regio.d...
I can talk about Italy because I've researched it.
The first step should be to show them the Privacy Authority press release[1] - "No to preservation of guest ID copies".
You should be prepared to be refused check-in if they're stubborn and feel like you "cause problems". The protection you have is that public service (hotel) is forbidden to refuse service by law[2][3], fine is €516 up to €3098.
If it happens you should call police to verbalise and apply the fine. Refusal by police (Rifiuto di atti d'ufficio) is criminal offence and punishable with imprisonment 6mo - 2yr [4].
You should present ID to allow identification. The host must insert, by law at most 24hrs after check-in [5], client data into police portal, like name, DOB, nationality etc.
Everything else is extra and by GDPR you should be informed of any data processing, basis of processing, duration of processing, and your rights.
You can write Garante della Privacy to signal violations of GDPR if you feel it's warranted. I know they're happy to investigate and apply big fines to larger companies, not sure about how they handle smaller companies, like hotels.
To be able to push back you should know the law requirements for hotels in that jurisdiction, so they can't gaslighting you with fake "it's for police" reasons.
While visiting Italy I've had the hotel photocopy my ID. I've researched and the legal requirement for the hotel is to fill a form on the police website, nothing more. While doing the checkout I've pressed them on the reason for keeping the photocopy ("is it for identity theft? "), the duration they were going to keep the copy etc. Basic info they were bound to disclose because of GDPR _before_ the data processing, which of course never happened.
Turns out the local policemen asked verbally to make photocopies, just in case... The hotel is more afraid of the local police than of it's clients, so they just do it.
Since I was the only client who ever asked about it, and gaslighting me wasn't going to work ("everybody does it! what do you have to hide?"), they just gave me the copy to destroy.
Other places copy IDs because they're lazy and don't want to compile the required form on the spot. Not to mention ID photocopies floating around the reception desk in plain sight...
Don't know about right, but for a while it worked better than "regular" medicine. At least it wouldn't kill you, when the alternative was intensive bloodlettings and purgatives.
PSA: somebody put together a detailed table[1] comparing security and privacy features of most common Android-based OSes.
Yes, GrapheneOS looks amazing but requires a Pixel phone, at least until the new Motorola devices come out.
During the TLS handshake, you send the domain name in clear text (Server Name Indication - SNI extension) so that the hoster can present the correct certificate for that domain.
According to who?