Windows 11 is so broken that even Microsoft can’t fix it by [deleted] in technology

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By far my favorite Windows 11 story.

https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-breaks-windows-11-by-injecting-ads/

It doesn't get any more late-stage capitalist than this.

opens calculator and puts in 2+2.

*Calculator says "please wait while we load the answer, and enjoy a word from our sponsors".

*30 seconds later, it says an error has occurred, "something went wrong", because it couldn't contact the ad network, and refuses to solve the math problem.

Why associating your mobile phone with IRL money is stupid, example 2394982: A woman who got locked out of her Apple account minutes after her iPhone was stolen and had $10,000 taken from her bank account says Apple was 'not helpful at all' by iamonlyoneman in technology

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Being a poor person with a Linux laptop rocks. If someone steals it, they get none of my money, no way to log into any online services I use; because I always use private browsing mode; and they will probably throw it in the garbage when it boots to a command prompt instead of a GUI. Worst case scenario, they see my music and game collection.

Hell, the battery in my laptop is so crap that it will probably run out of juice by the time a thief makes it out the door.

PC Shipments Plunge 20%, Steepest Drop In More Than 20 Years by [deleted] in technology

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(South Park voice) "I haven't seen a precipitous drop in PC sales like that since Windows 8!"

HP wants you to pay up to $36/month to rent a printer that it monitors by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Reminds me of the MalwareBox One debut a decade ago, where they wanted to force you to be connected to the Internet at least once a day or else all your games would get disabled.

Unfortunately people get stupider and stupider by the decade, so this sort of business model is getting closer and closer to reality now. More and more people are comfortable with the idea of their stuff refusing to work if they aren't connected to the Internet.

Experts say the end of Windows 10 support could turn 240 million PCs into e-waste by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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More dirt cheap/free Linux computers than one could possibly want.

The place where no humans will tread for 100,000 years by boston_blackie in technology

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For years I've wondered if a fluorescent tube would be lit by radiation, without any wires, e.g. just by being next to a lot of nuclear waste. The principle is the same as Radium, the only difference is that the radiation would have to be intense enough to pass through the glass of the bulb.

EDIT: Also I find it funny that they are worried about how to warn people about this stuff thousands of years from now, when governments spent fifty years dumping barrels of radioactive shit into the ocean from the 1940s through the 1990s. And no, they knew better than to do this, even back then. It's like they did not care about my generation or the next two or three, while now we're suddenly concerned about hundreds of generations in the future.

Reddit Threatens to Remove Moderators From Subreddits Continuing Apollo-Related Blackouts by awdrifter in technology

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Reddit has outlived it's usefulness and it's time for the Internet to collectively move on. Hopefully management continues to make bad decisions which drive more and more people away until the platform just collapses like Myspace. We need more decentralization online and less censorship anyway.

Windows is Dead: Microsoft Adds Mandatory System-Wide Artificial Intelligence Engine “Windows Copilot” to Windows 11, Promising “Helpfulness.” Exactly How Will Your Data be Analyzed? by Questionable in technology

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There are actually people out there who don't understand and comprehend the fact that AI routines will inevitably be used by corporations and government to sift through every word you type and the content of every file on your computer. Documents, videos, photos, music, you name it. This will go beyond hash checking, and be more like automated content fingerprinting. "Let us help you by automatically finding all of the photos with your wife in them!"

These algorithms will eventually even run while offline. I mean while offline is still an option at all; because they are using predatory malware tactics to force people to link their computers to an online account whether the user wants this or not, and as soon as they've suckered enough grandmas in, they can prevent offline use entirely by claiming that it is now the only option due to popular demand, and "for security!"

Facebook owner Meta hit with record £1,043,744,000 fine for mishandling user data by [deleted] in technology

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There are two types of fines. Trivial ones, and big ones. First is the type that a company just pays with a smile because they made twice as much money doing the misdeeds that they're being fined for in the first place. An example of that is here. https://apnews.com/article/settlement-fake-public-comments-net-neutrality-ae1f69a1f5415d9f77a41f07c3f6c358

And then there are the huge fines; companies typically just weasel out of those.

Microsoft is able to look inside your password protected zip files by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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"Serious questions about privacy and security"

It's the cloud. Privacy literally does not exist.

PS: Malware is not the only thing they are looking for. They will also be looking for hashes of anything the government and private cartels such as the movie industry do not approve of.

Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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I wonder if Microsoft will eventually start scraping the users' logins and passwords when they e.g. check their Yahoo mail in the web browser, and just create a Microsoft account for them and log them into it.

(insert creepy voice here) "Microsoft account... You know you want it, and it's for your own good." lol

It's about the only line they haven't crossed.

Tower PCs: An Endangered Species? (13:37) ~ ExplainingComputers by JasonCarswell in technology

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The alternative to the tower PC is restrictive and locked down consumer garbage;

game consoles: check

smartphones: check

So no, I won't be dumping my tower PCs any time soon.

But what might happen though, is that tower PCs become like the Unix workstations of the 1990s; extremely expensive and only used by professionals and a select few. Microsoft and Google, not to mention the entire content/game/entertainment industry, would absolutely love this. "Use the cloud, subscribe, use the cloud, and subscribe some more!"

You cannot charge people rent when they have terabytes of storage and products that fully function offline, which is what tower systems are all about, and the entire industry is against.

Smartphone sales are so bad even the holidays couldn’t help, says IDC by [deleted] in technology

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Not at all interested in joining the Apple ecosystem, and Android phones are like renting in the ghetto. Phones running Android lose all support two months after you buy them, just like how your landlord could not give two shakes of a crap about fixing things until the city sends them a letter threatening to condemn the building.

There are things I willingly spend money on; the smartphone upgrade treadmill is not one of them.

Gamers of SaidIt: When did a video game punish you with "instant karma"? by Choclate1893Pepsi in AskSaidIt

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Playing The Nameless Mod. There's a part where you have to hire a pilot to take you to the last location in the game. The game itself is all about experimentation and exploration. So what'd I do? That's right, I killed the pilot, just to see what would happen. Would the game even let me do that? Would it force me to restart?

The reaction was hilarious. My character wound up having to fly the helicopter himself to the next area of the game (done in cinematics, not actually controlled by the gamer). And instead of a safe landing, the helicopter crash-lands (because the player character is not a trained pilot), and the result is that you start the final, hardest chapter of the game with no equipment whatsoever and minimal health.

This game is all about consequences for player behavior; stealing from the shops catches up with the player later, as does how you treat other characters. It isn't just about how you respond to them in dialog, but if you e.g. agree to help them and screw them over.

California Law CRIMINALIZES Doctors’ Free Speech About COVID (22:19) ~ The Jimmy Dore Show by JasonCarswell in censorship

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As ineffective as these seem to be at actually preventing people from getting sick or spreading the virus (am I allowed to point that out here?), the marketing of them is totally fucking nuts. It's like nothing I have seen before.

They have programmed people so well, that I am either a pincushion or an anti-vaxer. It's literally binary. For example if I've had four injections already, and nearly everyone I know who has also had the boosters, has already gotten sick, so I really don't want anymore, I'm now an anti-vaxer.

Windows Will Die: 90 Minutes to Do 5 Minutes of Work by [deleted] in technology

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Windows will never die. Microsoft could literally put unskippable, unstoppable commercials (with audio) for Pepsi and video games on desktops of the masses tomorrow, and users still would not switch away from that relationship. Eventually Microsoft will, too. If you want to see what the Windows desktop will look like in ten years, look at Xbox now.

~ Posted by a Linux user.

The Linux Desktop is Hard to Love by [deleted] in Linux

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Yes it definitely feels like some people (a group whose products start with a G) are doing their very best to tear apart and ruin any semblance of a cohesive desktop experience on Linux. Basically they have an enlightened vision for how everything should behave, and they don't care about anyone or anything else. Sometimes it feels as though they go the opposite way from the rest of the community and remove options to revert things to the way we want them to be, purely out of spite and contempt. This is especially a problem because they control not only their own desktop environment, but e.g. the open/save dialogs of other applications as well.

I think that if I wasn't as skilled and stubborn as I am, I would have given up a wile ago. I also believe that the more mainstream Linux becomes, the worse the problem will get.

So let me get this straight. I go to the grocery store and buy a lb. of ham wrapped in plastic, a loaf of bread in plastic, milk in a plastic jug, napkins wrapped in plastic, a salad in plastic, and they won't give me a plastic bag to carry it home because the plastic bag is bad for the environment? by Orangutan in politics

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If governments cared literally at all about the environment, they would make it illegal to sell consumer products by the metric tun that have glued in batteries to stop users from replacing them.

Remember that.

Saidit is its own worst enemy - a combination of mean and stupid - which keeps Saidit very small and ultra right-wing by bootylicious in SaidIt

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Still better than Reddit, where pointing out what is literally in the news everywhere (that vaccinated officials are still getting Covid) gets comments silently censored. Basically Reddit has become too mainstream, and has mutated into a place where nothing that doesn't kiss corporate/big pharma's ass is quietly suppressed.

Also, New Reddit (the design) nuff said. Okay, I'll elaberate. Every time I load a page with new Reddit, it feels like the computer is a fat guy struggling to climb the stairs.

Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022 by PanzersGhost in technology

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Copilot: The software nobody wants, but everybody will get.

Not me though, I use Debian.

Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 by Drewski in technology

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You've gotta love it, actually. While Microsoft is exclusively focused on enshittifying and making Windows worse, Valve's Steam Deck is sneaking up on them and gaining market share/momentum. Much like with the Iphone and the Ipad, it will be too late to correct course and right the Windows ship by the time Microsoft notices what's going on.

Roku patent invents a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV by PanzersGhost in technology

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Who could have possibly predicted that creating a world where consumers can only buy locked down shit that they are not allowed to modify, alter, or repair, would result in something like this?

Microsoft is stuffing pop-up ads into Google Chrome on Windows again by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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The only thing worse than pissing in your own pool, is pissing in somebody else's. Injecting ads and popups on me while I'm using a competitor's software is straight-up malware. If I wanted to be nagged, I would get married. At least then, I wouldn't have to just use my hand.

House Passes Bill Banning TikTok Unless China's ByteDance Divests App by Drewski in technology

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Here we see the latest Microsoft acquisition in progress.

If the US government wanted to do something productive for a change, they would stop Facebook, Google, and Microsoft tracking everything people do.

Whether you're filling out a psychological profile online, paying your taxes, or looking up x-rated videos, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft are watching.

Microsoft wants to make Windows Copilot open automatically on cursor hover by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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The next step will probably be making this thing pop up every fifteen minutes, covering what the user is doing, whether they like it or not. lol

Don't forget to take into account the number of users who didn't want this installed on their computers in the first place.

TurboTax and H&R Block now use AI for tax advice. It’s awful. by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Sorry about the Javascript paywall thing. It comes with the clusterfuck dogshit abortion of enshitification that the Internet is morphing into/has morphed into. Soon, you won't be allowed to read any articles at all online unless you are simultaneously signed in with Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple so that they can be assured that you are human, track everything you look at and sell that data to the highest bidder.

Anyway, as far as AI chat bots giving tax advice...

Jurassic Park said it best: They were so obsessed with whether or not they could, that they didn't take the time to stop and think whether or not they should.

How to Install Windows 11 Without a Microsoft Account by PanzersGhost in technology

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Microsoft is like that creepy uncle who doesn't take "No" for an answer, except, unlike the uncle, everything Microsoft does is sanctioned by the US government.

But just like with the creepy uncle, the best course of action is to stay as far away from them as possible. Far, far far away.

EDIT: Also, if you don't give them what they want, they'll just steal your shit anyway and say it's a bug.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/16/24074712/microsoft-edge-automatic-chrome-import-data-bug-fix

Every other month, their Chrome rip-off gets roasted by journalists for doing stuff behind the scenes that it has no business doing.

https://www.neowin.net/news/edge-sends-images-you-view-online-to-microsoft-here-is-how-to-disable-that/

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/microsoft-edge-is-sending-all-your-visited-pages-to-bing-how-to-turn-it-off

Avoid, avoid, avoid.

Russia: Be Reminded, Russia Nuclear Weapons are 100% Upgraded and Ready - Putin boasts on Fatherland Day - Central24 News by NewsGrid in technology

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Not scared at all of this old as fuck, mentally deficient sack of shit.

I do have a legitimate question though. Why is so much of the world run by people who are so old that they have mentally regressed to the state of a toddler?

Why not put a 45 year old engineer or someone with a doctorate in charge of things, instead of people who probably couldn't tell you what they had for dinner last night? Do people who are free from dementia and Alzheimer's not lick enough corporate ass, and is that why we don't let them run the show?

Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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In Reddit's defense, if you don't give the big tech/AI overlords the data they want, they'll just steal your shit anyway and say it was a bug, or for your own good, or both.

Microsoft's Debt Surges to Unprecedented 111+ Billion Dollars by PanzersGhost in technology

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It was all about getting consumers to embrace Windows phones and tablets by bringing the desktop down to their level. Huge flop, obviously. Windows phones and tablets are d. e. a. d. dead, and Windows is steadily, though slowly losing market share.

Will SORA Destroy Hollywood? by zyxzevn in technology

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I had an idea where anyone who browses the net while not logged into a Google account and a Microsoft account and a Facebook account and an Apple account and a Twitter/X account (all at the same time), is deemed to be a bot, and automatically barred/rejected from visiting most of the Internet.

You know they'll implement this eventually.

As for Hollywood, I couldn't care less if AI drives them out of business. In fact I would see it as a positive.

Microsoft Has Fallen to 0.0% (Zero Market Share) in Mobile, Tablets, and Consoles by PanzersGhost in technology

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Tablets and phones, sure. Consoles, hell no. I would love to see the Xbox fail in the market after what Microsoft tried to pull a decade ago, but even if it does/by the time it does, they will own 70+% of the game industry anyway, making it a moot point.

Chromium dev plans to add system to allow automatic payments on websites. Tech/Gadgets by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Are you ready to be nagged to death for money by literally every website you visit? You thought the cookie banners were bad, intrusiveness, dark patterns and all, don't make us laugh.

Also, this will be the scapegoat and justification the Chrome people will eventually use for reintroducing web integrity/trusted computing into the browser, "to make sure it is secure".

God I hate having everyone and everything completely figured out. And if you think providing websites with "micro-payments" will make advertising and tracking go away, falls out of chair with laughter.

Apple iMessage, Microsoft Edge Escape EU 'Gatekeeper' Regulations by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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The most entrenched players in the market get exempt from the new rules that were supposedly designed to ensure a level playing field for smaller ones. Government "regulation" in action.

Almost as spineless as the US; at least the US does not even pretend to care at all about reining in tech companies.

Small company: "We can't effectively compete because monopolists are using their monopolies in one market to drive out competition in other markets!"

US Government: "We know. Here's a quarter, phone someone who cares."

EU: "We know, we have new legislation in the works to fix this mess... now excuse us while we render it completely meaningless, by not applying it to literally the biggest companies in the world."

Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock' by Myocarditis-Man in Linux

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It would be so nice if Debian KFreeBSD had finished development, and we could just do "apt-get install kernel-freebsd" on our existing installations, while giving the people who are doing this the middle finger.

Maybe that's why they want to diverge Linux and BSD so much with stuff like Systemd and Wayland. Making it harder to escape.

Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock' by Myocarditis-Man in Linux

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I think you misunderstand the situation. The change implemented in the production kernel version, breaks drivers for all Nvidia cards. Why in the world would Nvidia want to do that? I could maybe understand Nvidia breaking compatibility for older Nvidia cards, to sell the latest ones, but there is simply no way Nvidia would want what is going on here; because even their latest cards won't work.

Also I think the kernel developers who push these changes that are designed to sabotage Nvidia and their customers need to consider that Linux may be used in e.g. critical medical equipment. If they want to humiliate Nvidia, they can make a CUDA competitor that is mature and widely supported, but instead, vandalizing other peoples' stuff seems to be easier for them to do.

Again, the breakage on display here is not a bug or mistake, it's a "feature", coded by someone to disrupt functionality on others' systems.

The quality of USB drives is getting worse thanks to re-used and often defective NAND chips including some from known brands by PanzersGhost in technology

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Quality of flash getting worse while price simultaneously goes up... smells like capitalism!

Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock' by Myocarditis-Man in Linux

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So yeah, they're breaking production systems now. This is not a bleeding-edge development or experimental environment. It is supposed to be reliable and stable. Honestly I'm tired of this bullshit squabble between a select few kernel developers trying to sabotage NVidia and fuck over us users. It has not been determined by any court of law that use of proprietary modules breaches any license, so from my perspective, what you are doing, is straight-up sabotage, trolling and subterfuge, and it's really no different than some punk-ass teenager going around breaking other peoples' windows.

Therefor, the Linux maintainers should ban and reject these select few developers from submitting further patches to the kernel, as has been done with University of Minnesota. To the developers who are breaking this, you are obviously not that high and mighty when it comes to free software ideals, otherwise you would not have allowed your code to make it into proprietary corporate shit-boxes that are swimming in closed source garbage/DRM such as smart TVs, set-top boxes and Android phones.

Patches (not) welcome.

References: https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/22/22398156/university-minnesota-linux-kernal-ban-research

Beware: The Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways by PanzersGhost in technology

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Reminds me of the Nintendo Virtual Boy. AKA their biggest mistake of all time.

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” by Drewski in technology

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I thought they backed down from this because of a public uproar. Don't get me wrong I am no Sony fan, after the rootkit thing, and Securom making my legitimate older disk based games no longer playable on a new computer; which was the entire point of the shite all along; making sure I can't still use what I bought a decade later.

That's why I'm "not interested" in giving them any more money.

Monster Hunter Rise broken on Steam Deck with Capcom’s new DRM update by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Before enshitification and late-stage capitalism, games like Duke Nukem 3D came with programs to extract the game files and create custom maps and mods, right on the official CD! When you would quit the game, it would even inform you of this.

EDIT: Also, consolidation and acquisitions in the games industry will hasten the arrival of mandatory subscriptions for games... once the big players like Microsoft can make it into a "take it or leave it" affair, as is the case with so much in the tech sector today.

Tesla recalls 2.2 million cars — nearly all of its vehicles sold in the U.S. — over warning light issue by PanzersGhost in technology

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Surprised they can't just fix this with a firmware update. They could even go all Orwellian and either detect/make sure that all sold vehicles have had the update applied to them, and/or disable the ones that have not had it yet until they do have it installed.

Monster Hunter Rise broken on Steam Deck with Capcom’s new DRM update by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Did I mention that the biggest reason I stopped buying games, is because I don't want to give some piece of shit on the other side of the world the ability to disable my stuff after taking my money?

Microsoft Deploys 'Harmful Design' Tricks to Push Edge, Say Mozilla Researchers by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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This is why I refuse to support or deal with Microsoft products today. They can totally eat me.

FCC moves to criminalize most AI-generated robocalls by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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The big companies who actually do things like this, using overseas proxies and shell services to avoid association with their brand and simultaneously dodge liability, are probably laughing so damn hard right now. "Oh no, it's illllleeeeeegal!"

You know, like the bogus net neutrality comments thing. https://apnews.com/article/settlement-fake-public-comments-net-neutrality-ae1f69a1f5415d9f77a41f07c3f6c358

The check they got from the telecom industry was probably 4X the settlement.

Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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So apparently today, programs running on consumer PC garbage have to take steps to protect themselves from their data being stolen by other supposed legitimate programs also running on the same system, that the user doesn't even want being installed or ran in the first place.

Maybe each program can encrypt it's own files or something to stop competitors from pilfering the user's data. Or society can collectively switch to an operating system that isn't literally malware.

Russia hacks Microsoft: It’s worse than you think by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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The government can't even get Boeing to properly assemble their planes, and THAT comes after the MCAS nightmare and supposed increased scrutiny.

The idea that this same government is going to do anything to punish Microsoft for lax security when it comes to customer-facing services (you don't see Xbox/Pluton being compromised because Microsoft actually cares about the security of these), is... bwahahahaha

Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free by Drewski in technology

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Imagine if a restaurant that I regularly visit started putting rat shit in my food, so that I now have to pay them extra to avoid it.

This is the gold standard of customer service when it comes to the entertainment industry (games, movies, TV, you name it), and it's why I just don't give them money anymore, period.

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill: a stack of that many laptops would end up 600 km higher than the Moon by PanzersGhost in technology

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As far as Microsoft's Ewaste Extravaganza goes, on the bright side, we in the west will have more cheap/free computers to run Linux than we know what to do with, and people in third world countries will have plenty to eat. (The last bit of this is a joke, obviously.)

Experts say the end of Windows 10 support could turn 240 million PCs into e-waste by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Not just Linuxbros. If Google is smart, they will launch a campaign to convert all these old machines to Chrome OS Flex "for free". It'd be easy theft of market share from Microsoft.

"Microsoft doesn't want to support your hardware anymore, so we will. Install Chrome OS Flex today and say goodbye to Microsoft Edge forever! It's free."

Hell, Windows has become just as much of a privacy dumpster fire anyway. In fact Windows has become worse than Chrome OS, because only one of these two feels like staying in the sleaziest roach motel in town, with nag screens, dark patterns and popups everywhere. Google may not have a great privacy reputation, but at least they know better than to do this.

HP printer app is installing on PCs whether they have HP printers or not by PanzersGhost in technology

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The real question is whether Microsoft can manage to fix this mess without fucking something else up in the process... lol

Ten years from Snowden revelations – what’s next for Tor and privacy online? by Drewski in technology

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It's depressing how little has changed, actually. Most users are still racing to adopt cloud services where all their personal data is abused by corporations and governments, and all they have to show for it is a higher subscription bill this month than the last one.

It's like they learned nothing, or they just don't care. And to think, a man threw his American life away to expose what we all suspected all along.

Microsoft defends Edge's predatory practices with cringe and audacious reply on X by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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They really are driving away the techies with behavior like this. It's so heart-warming and satisfying to see the negative sentiments towards them going mainstream. All Microsoft will have left, are the grandmas who don't know how to defend themselves from sleazy business practices, thereby ensuring that Edge becomes the new IE, where only people who don't know any better are using it. But grandmas would rather use their Iphones or Ipads to go online than a dog shit Windows PC.

PlayStation is erasing 1,318 seasons of Discovery shows from customer libraries by Drewski in technology

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This is the sort of thing that conclusively, without a doubt, proves animals are smarter than humans. Animals quickly learn not to trust, but humans are stupider than a lump of coal; stupid enough to support the same corporate shitheads that constantly screw them over, again and again and again.

Being naive and or clueless the first time is one thing, refusing to learn from one's past mistakes and continuing to make them while expecting a different outcome, is quite another.

So yeah, the customers who are losing purchased content here are getting exactly what they deserve. It's always fun to point, laugh, and say "I told you so."

Ubuntu runs 20% faster than Windows 11 on AMD's new 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 7995WX, demonstrating once more that Linux loves high core count CPUs by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Use Debian or Arch and Linux will probably give Windows even more of a thrashing. No snap crap + less bloat overall = more performance.

Maine’s right-to-repair law for cars wins with 84 percent of the vote by Drewski in technology

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You know you're living in a free country when the government dictates what stuff you are allowed to repair.

China steals IP, but America has created a world where you can't own the shit you buy and can't fix it when it breaks. Both of these are bad, but one of them is much, much worse.

Apple insists 8GB unified memory equals 16GB regular RAM by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Let's load up a 10 or 12GB scene in Blender and see what happens. This here ain't much different than claiming that a 48 inch TV has as much screen area as a 72 inch TV.

Faster memory with lower latency will not save the day when it is exhausted. And no, thrashing the solid state drive to death with a swap file is not an acceptable solution.

Microsoft is overhauling its software security after major Azure cloud attacks by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Still want to give these clowns your web browsing data and other extremely sensitive and personal information? Course ya' do!

Reminds me of that old saying, "What could possibly go wrong?"

xbox will reportedly block unofficial accessories from november by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Splash! That's the sound of five more tons of E-waste in the ocean. Still, it's nothing compared to what they have planned for the PC market with the dropping support for so many CPUs.

The fact is that if you're like me, and only interested in escapist single player games with an immersive story, and not interested in playing online and hearing shrill voices shouting obscenities in your ear, the downsides of connecting your console/TV to the Internet outweigh the upsides, by, probably a factor of ten.

Arm breaking into Intel's PC heartlands and worse is to come by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Do not want. Most ARM systems are completely proprietary, making it impossible to run a vanilla Linux kernel on them. The only reason this is possible on X86 is because it's a true standard. If we see a proliferation of ARM based PCs, we will also be seeing a large number of machines that can't effectively run anything other than Windows.

Yeah sure you might be able (with a lot of work) to make a version of Linux that runs on yours, and only yours, but you'll have no wifi or video drivers, and if you do, they will be proprietary and only for kernel versions X Y and Z. This is already how it works in Android land.

Criminals hit Canadian hospitals, Spamoflague trolls MPs by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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If I ran the world, there would be an international policy where anyone who cyber-attacks a hospital, is permanently banned and becomes completely ineligible for any type of medical services or care going forward. Doesn't matter how much you are willing to pay, if you need surgery, your only option becomes to do it yourself, whether it's a tooth-pulling or a lobotomy.

Microsoft now wants you to take a poll before installing Google Chrome by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Since they don't have a textbox to answer the question, because they have nothing but contempt for their customers and are not actually interested in what we think; only browbeating us into submitting to their agenda, I figure we can list our reasons here.

  1. I don't respond well to bullying or coersion. When you forced your software onto my computer without my permission even though I already have another browser that I am happy with, you already crossed that line.

  2. Computers exist to shut up, respect my personal space, leave me alone and do as I say. Your software fails at all of these.

  3. I trust you less than the other guy, if that's even possible.

I would actually be all for them giving users a survey, only if they allow users to respond in a text-box, and disclaim that responses will be publicly posted, if only to see what answers other users would come up with. Think of it as sort-of an anti-marketing campaign. You can even screen out all the vulgarity and profanity, I'm pretty sure it would still be a very entertaining read.

Google privacy button doesn't work, it's claimed by Myocarditis-Man in technology

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Hahahahaha

That is all.