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- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 day ago:
Yeah, the OEM deals in themselves are shady as fuck once you think about it for a couple seconds.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 day ago:
One more reason to restrict Windows to a VM and run Linux or some other *nix on the host for a baremetal OS.
- Comment on Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp 2 days ago:
Oh the irony… A company known for spying on its users and selling that to data brokers blocking spyware.
- Comment on Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops? 3 days ago:
Really? AI companies going Herbalife now? Because this reminds me of how Herbalife fronts would typically pop up.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 days ago:
I’m sure MS didn’t think of that when abbreviating their executables as exes.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 days ago:
It’s optional for now except in S-mode, assuming MS isn’t legally forced to enable S-mode by default and block ‘sideloading’ of downloaded exes in Texas.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 days ago:
The hell with that, fuck you MS.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 days ago:
(4) “Mobile device” means a portable, wireless electronic device, including a tablet or smartphone, capable of transmitting, receiving, processing, and storing information wirelessly that runs an operating system designed to manage hardware resources and perform common services for software applications on handheld electronic devices.
Given the existence of handheld PCs, which just so happen to run the same OS as desktops and laptops, if handheld PCs are classed under the same category as Android and iOS devices, this has me worried that desktops and laptops will be ensnared in this as collateral damage too.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 days ago:
I’d say ‘good luck forcing this on PCs,’ but given handheld PCs would technically count as ‘mobile devices,’ doesn’t this mean desktops and laptops will get ensnared in this as collateral damage too? Like, are you going to have to show ID just to download an exe in Windows or run a
sudo apt install (program)or equivalent command in Linux now? Assuming normal Windows and Linux aren’t banned and PCs aren’t restricted to only running Windows S so you have to use an app store on PCs in Texas like you do on Android or iOS devices? - Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 1 week ago:
I wonder if history will repeat with PCs, and especially handheld PCs, in the present day while Nintendo, PS, and Xbox crash and burn should there be a second Video Game Crash.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
In the US? Basically nonexistent.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
It’s not implemented in custom builds and most prebuilts to my knowledge.
- Comment on What's the factor when you're planning to self-hosted a instance? 2 weeks ago:
Ownership if using physical hardware locally to host it.
- Comment on Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AI 2 weeks ago:
Welp, it was fun while it lasted for Arduino.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
Forced SecureBoot with only MS keys and no way to install user-signed keys and no Linux shim would block non-Windows OSes from booting.
Basically, Pluton functions similar to how mobile devices function in terms of locked bootloaders.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
In theory Pluton enforcement platform-wide, which also includes forced SecureBoot without the ability to install user-signed keys, could block alt OSes on PC though.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
If that actually becomes a thing people do, that could prompt MS to start to require either a face scan or showing some government ID just to install Windows, though, if the way Google’s handling KYC on YT if your account gets flagged as underage, and soon Android app dev, as well as KYC going out across other sites, is any indication.
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 2 weeks ago:
The Enterprise/IoT SKUs, which of course include LTSC, still let you use a local account-for now…
- Comment on I can't find a single decent bedtime story online. 90% of the articles are AI slop. 2 weeks ago:
Check out some physical books then?
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 2 weeks ago:
So what if they switch away? And how are they or their kids going to play Fortnite or League after switching?
Fortnite is probably going to be played on console, and League had a Mac port for a while but I don’t know if it’s supported anymore after the switch to Apple Silicon.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 2 weeks ago:
They’ve since relaxed a bit on the forced hardware upgrade part; you can install Win11 on ‘unsupported’ hardware now, you’ll basically just have click a prompt saying you’ll get no support, where initially it wouldn’t even let you do that.
The forced MS account login is very much an issue with the consumer SKUs and the Enterprise/IoT SKUs still let you use a local account. Similarly, LTSC in particular is barren on the bloat front, while the consumer SKUs and even the non-LTSC Enterprise and IoT SKUs aren’t much better in this regard, come loaded with bloat.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 2 weeks ago:
Forget Xbox, look at how they’re treating Windows lately.
- Comment on Excel's AI: 20% of the time, it works every time 2 weeks ago:
Everyone else who’s anti-AI:
- What is that smell? It smells like a used diaper filled with Indian food!
- What is that?! It smells like a turd covered in burnt hair!
- It smells like Bigfoot’s dick!
- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 2 weeks ago:
Find a block list, click ‘Subscribe,’ and then click ‘Block all’ or a similar option.
- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of blocklists for politics unless those got deleted recently.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 2 weeks ago:
Assuming Dear Leader Trump don’t stamp it out, of course.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 3 weeks ago:
Trump would probably launch strikes on the Blue states so he can start a second Civil War if he wanted to.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 3 weeks ago:
One more step towards the US becoming an NK clone.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 3 weeks ago:
Just like saying the open web is broken when they’re the ones who broke it.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 3 weeks ago:
You got PeerTube for that, but anyone who kills their YT account and moves to PT full time will need to secure alt funding somehow either through Nebula, merch sales, getting a W-2 job, or a combination of the three, though, even if they host on a physical server they own and not on a VPS; buying the parts to build a decent PT server is going to be a pretty heavy up-front cost in itself.