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?
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.
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
I suspect most people that only use their Windows computer for general stuff like web browsing, e-mail, multi media, office etc., which is probably the majority by far, will actually fall for the subscription scam.
Rain water? Seriously? God knows what’s in there. I truly build my water from source by burning pure hydrogen with pure oxygen.
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.
That’s the most significant thing keeping me from relocating to America. I prefer not having to choose between physical and financial death.
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!”
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.
Did you know that X Corp. has a website for their hamster business as well?
So I guess it’s only a matter of time until Facebook renames itself to 𝕁.
(It’s the same offset in the alphabet)
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.