Couldn’t M$ make corporations deal with it anyways? It’s really not like they could just switch to Linux or Mac with their very specific BS piece of software of which every company has their own that runs on Windows only.
Couldn’t M$ make corporations deal with it anyways? It’s really not like they could just switch to Linux or Mac with their very specific BS piece of software of which every company has their own that runs on Windows only.
Wouldn’t it be more like Android/Linux (or Android plus Linux) because it only has a small fraction of the GNU software / libraries but still uses the Linux kernel?
Any store installing that crap (it fortunately hasn’t arrived in my country yet) will lose me as a customer. I know it won’t hurt them, but I’m not dealing with shit like that.
DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.
And even that one is useless in case of identical twins.
At that point I’d just get rid of Windows entirely. I used to have it on my laptop, and the updates it installed after booting for the first time in months broke networking. I never used that install so I decided to use the storage space for more sensible things.
The same applies for the other way around when I need Windows for something.
I apparently magically attract computers with a horribly slow UEFI so it takes a while to reboot regardless of the OS.
The category filters of electronics distributors used to be good (some still are). But then they started letting business people categorize the products, and now finding stuff without having a part number is basically a lottery.
That looks easy enough even for me to play it
If their spying algorithm is as easy to fool as Instagram’s, that wouldn’t be a major concern if I still used that bad fediverse clone.
And now you’ve got carmakers looking to charge by the month for features.
When I reach the point at which I am forced to buy a car like that, I’d just find out from where the feature gets controlled and hack in my own controller and a good 'ol switch.
I’m honestly astonished that Google hasn’t pulled the plug on Mozilla yet. After all, their missions completely and utterly oppose each other and Mozilla probably causes the biggest losses to Google.
If your prediction comes true, which isn’t unlikely, Firefox forks that already exist would probably take its spot. Or privacy friendly Chromium based browsers. I know, the latter sounds like an oxymoron, but they exist and one of them I would be hated on for naming has actually been proven to have better out of the box privacy than Firefox.
If you use a good 2FA app instead of Google Authenticator (yes, they can be used interchangably) you can use it on desktop and copy the OTPs to your clipboard. I personally use Authy, but others compatible with GA exist as well.
Also, 2FA is optional almost everywhere, but if you decide to not enable it, don’t act surprised if your accounts get taken over. These days a password just isn’t enough.
Security and convenience are just mutually exclusive and I don’t expect mankind to ever find a way around that fact.
Probably the natural law that every online community turns incredibly toxic eventually once enough people join it.
It’s probably some kind of weird reward effect in our brains. Like “Yay, whatever I just ate attacked me and I survived! Gimme some more of that!”
Linux compatibility is highest
The L14 Gen1 I have must be an exception then. The fingerprint reader isn’t compatible at all (I feel kinda taken for a ride there since it’s seemingly the only Synaptics reader without Linux compatibility) and both Bluetooth and USB are very buggy. I haven’t used it with Windows, so the latter two may also be down to crappy firmware. Either way I’m rather disappointed for the price tag and probably not buying Lenovo again any time soon.
Serious question: Why do you use Chrome, a browser made by the world’s largest advertising and spying company, when you give the slightest f* about privacy?
At least use Ungoogled Chromium if you’re not gonna switch to something actually privacy-focused. Basically the same functionality, but without Google’s spyware.
It’s one of the reasons my next phone will be Android (with a non-spying custom ROM) instead of an iPhone. Although KDE Connect is already surprisingly powerful on the latter given the limitations of the platform.
I’ve gone to use the internet basically only on real computers and throwing a whole arsenal of annoyance and tracking blocking measures at it. The ‘vanilla’ internet experience has just become utterly unusable. If I use it on mobile, I do so in Brave as it is the only iOS browser that lets you use uBO filter lists and is able to fool websites into thinking you’re on desktop.
To be fair, he may actually be a democrat, just a historic one. Their ‘roles’ were kind of reversed compared to today until somewhere in the last century if my outside knowledge of US political history serves right.
Let me guess, suicide by 17 gunshots to the back of his head? In his car in a hotel parking lot?