You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.
Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of “don’t put shit on my PC without asking,” but here we are.
Moore’s New Law: The price doubles and the stock halves
I dunno, but it’s a pain. Hiding low-level components from the user to make it more user-friendly.
I have an old 2014 macbook with a busted GPU temp sensor. The Mac firmware assumes the worst - that the computer is dangerously overheated - and therefore throttles back the CPU by 80% and runs the fans at full blast.
Fixing it on Mac required a number of third-party tools and flashing a custom firmware. I then installed Linux on the device - about ten lines of script that read from the working temp sensor on the CPU die and write a scaled value to /sys/ in response.
So much flippin easier on Linux.
The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.
U.S. law enforcement is out of control with this animorphs shit.
He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.
Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.
Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.
I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.
I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.
The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.
It’s a shit ouroboros, Randy!
I just had a little magnetic clip for my air vent where I could attach my phone and put up a map.
I’d sooner go back to doing that than use a “Gemini-based AI assistant” in my fucking car.
Holy shit, yes. You can watch leftist content for years, but heaven forbid you watch one gaming-related video and it assumes you’re an alt-right racist gamergate incel.
I have 16 GB in my 2014 laptop that still serves as my daily driver. 8 GB twelve years later is a joke.
Have you ever tried it? It sounds like a ping nightmare, especially for multiplayer. You gotta wait first for the game server lag and then again while you wait for Nvidia to remotely render your draw call?
I know this service exists but it has always sounded absolutely terrible to me.
And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.
I’ve always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.
They were chatting with ELIZA and vibe coded the whole thing
Troubleshooting tips on the inside lid of a washing machine.
Problem: Washer does not start.
Possible Cause: Lid is open.
Solution: Close the lid.
And so on.
The second paragraph discusses an incident that occurred at San Francisco International Airport with the same circumstance. Should have indicated that’s what I found weird because it should have been prevented. The southern courts have been less protective of individual freedoms. Might be legal there under the border exemption according to their courts.
It depends on port of entry. The ninth circuit, which covers San Francisco, has upheld that entrants can refuse to provide a phone pin, but other circuits have found differently.
So odd that this happened in California because there’s a pretty powerful set of protections in place in the ninth circuit specifically - not that the current admin gives a shit about the law.
This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.
The images are being generated by editing photos of real children. It’s not fictional characters. This is discussed in the article and has been widely reported as this issue has been in the news.