For 99% of drivers, the on-disc ones

op will wipe the disk

as long as you have an Internet connection you can download any that aren’t on-disc

if windows update can guess correctly what kind of device you have

The remaining 1% can be obtained directly from the OEM

I did not have that experience last time with an acer laptop

there are. for one because of the license key, but also because it’s not rare that its hard to find all the drivers that make all of the laptop work

It’s possible because block devices can be read just like files (except often the permission differences)

you can use the sha256sum command to do this. there are a few siblings of it with different algs. gui tools also existof course

discord and google docs. say no more

then make it default off and switchable with a kernel param, or if its a lot of code then make its compilation optional and default off

well codeberg’s CI system is almost a copy of github actions, so there’s that

the actual problem is not that you need an additional account, but as OP said, the terms. with an account they can tie all your searches, what repos have you visited and how often, and other non-public activities to you. basically the same data mining that youtube, facebook and others do, just in an earlier stage

Pretty sure roku ones don’t allow to be used until you accept their terms online

system apps have whatever permissions they want, and you can’t remove them. so much for easy permission management, when the adversary is the manufacturer

well only if that becomes possible at all

No more upgradable storage, no easily swappable batteries, no more repairability and no more brick like durability.

that’s your Modern Approach

the change is to signal a modern approach to the ThinkPad range

framework exists now

that’s true but they are quite expensive.

A refreshed New Tab layout is being rolled out to users in the US and Canada, featuring a repositioned logo and weather widget to prioritize Web Search, Shortcuts, and Recommended Stories at the top.

before anyone starts complaining, yes I know several people in close proximity that use the news&weather windows taskbar thing, so this probably has a reason to exist

finally release notes have been uploaded!

probably only OP will see this though…

got it from a thrift shop, I don’t even know what that square thing is

According to you, only a half dozen of people are not idiots on this world, correct?

why would everyone, or even just I as a kind of technically adept person, use steganography daily? what problem does it solve?

nctsomething is always the motherboard. the CPU is always a different sensor group

but also because reading the policy doesn’t help much when there are no options (brands) that are acceptable

put it on a damn VLAN with no access to the internet. maybe through a whitelisting proxy. otherwise you won’t know if it just evades your measures by using some encrypted tunnel or anything

wow, this has blown up!

some additional clarification:

I2P is not universally supported by any bittorrent clients, because a bittorrent client needs specific knowledge about how to connect to the I2P network through an I2P router (by using the “SAM” protocol).
the java based biglybt bittortent client has pretty good support as I hear, it supports I2P-specific DHT and Peer Exchange. DHT is used for peer discovery without a tracker, Peer Exchange is another tech that helps with finding more peers.

qbittorrent (and a few others that use the libtorrent programming library) has got support for I2P around a year ago, but its experimental so far I think, or at least it hasn’t been tested that much.
these bt clients don’t (yet) support DHT and PeX for I2P torrents. the functionality is missing from libtorrent and its single dev is very busy already.

if you are interested about the technical aspects, here are some more words about using bittorrent with I2P from a developer perspective: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/bittorrent

I don’t think this is anime, it’s cartoony to me. not sure if this makes it any better to you.

though true that piracy is not an open source project, but something broader, maybe a lifestyle or mindset, so it’s a little unusual that the mascot is for that