Re: Just bought a new PC laptop and it won't let me use it
I take it you've never dealt with a CEO before. I've never encountered one that had any form of IT equipment that was part of the official SOE.
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>> "And I'm sick of entitled wanker users running around expecting the world on a plate for free."
Are the websites willing to take 100% legal and financial liability for malware served by the adverts placed on their websites? No.
Are the advertising networks willing to take 100% financial and legal liability for malware served via their advertising network, whether by "legitimate" purchase of ad-space, or hacking? No.
Do advertisers take it as fact that if you buy a new toilet seat online, you are now starting a hobby of collecting toilet seats? Yes.
Can any advertising company explain to me exactly why they need to share my toilet seat purchase with ANYONE? No.
Advertising has been the biggest drain on QA department budgets for decades.
>> "It's a shame because there's nothing particularly wrong with Windows 11"
Apart from lack of control over your own PC, the unwanted snooping and telemetry baked into the OS, adverts on Start menu and lock screen, home users being the "QA" department for Micros~1, false hardware requirements, and forced "AI", there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
>> "Apple has had those for years. Sure, you can press the fn key to have those do f10, f11, and f12, but nobody ever does that because nobody has used function keys since the WordPutrid days."
And Apple fanbois wonder why we laugh at them when they ask for help on gaming forums.
>> "Why would bundling iMessage be anticompetitive, when they have no restriction on third party messengers?"
Why would bundling Internet Explorer into Windows be seen as anti-competitive, when there was no restriction on what you could download and install?
This is how dumb that question is.
Keep an eye on ebay, and government auction sites. You'll often find them selling ultra-cheap, because people think that once they've gone EOL support, they're dead. If you have access to various laptop parts like M.2 drives and RAM, you can even go for the more basic ones and upgarde it yourself.
Just make sure whatever model you find on ebay, is listed on MrChromebox's site.
Not to mention the time he just decided to cancel the pre-order of a tech blogger who commented on how poorly run one of the launch events was.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/03/elon-musk-blogger-tesla-motors-model-x
>> " It's ridiculous that you can't buy music sold by Amazon and hosted by Amazon because Google think they're entitled to a cut of the sale."
What's ridiculous is people thinking they "own" anything they buy from amazon that also gets hosted by them. Remember when they removed 1984 from people's Kindle's because Amazon lkost the rights to host it?
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html
How about when Warner Bros decide to purchase Final Space, write it off for tax reasons, and thus rendered it dead and forcibly removed it from people's online libraries.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/warner-bros-deleting-purchases.html
If you don't own it on hard copy, you don't own it.
Yes, you're naive. You admit to not having all teh facts, and yet you blindly argue for His Muskiness's position.
Fact: Employees in Sweden have been seeking a collective bargaining agreement with Tesla since the very beginning. Tesla have refused to play ball, so the workers have gone on strike. Other unions have joined in on sympathy strikes, because that's what happens in countries with strong worker protections.
Tesla would have been aware of this, and purposely decided to try and force the American model on a country that would not stand for it.
FAFO.
>> " I'm not claiming you are my enemy but you're acting like I am yours. "
That's because intolerance of the intolerant, is justafiable self-defence. You are the one seeking disharmony and chaos. You seek to divide the country into in and out groups. Any hatred and intolerance displayed towards you, is an act of defence, because of your own stated goals and ideals. Don't like it? Try not being a doucheflute.
>> "the Hunter laptop stuff in 2020"
What stuff? If there was any "stuff", then Republicans would have ZERO issues with Hunter testifying publicly in an open court. They would literally want him to spill the beans in order to destroy his father's chances at re-election. But they don't. They now want it held behind closed doors, despite agreeing to public testimony 3 months ago.
> >"I use an adblocker so never see adverts and generally prefer Gab as the memes are better.
You mean your safe space where you complain about imigrants should go back to where they came from, while flying the flag of an army who never won a war, while being in the very country that army failed to win the war against.
>> " In the same way your average user isn't going to find an SQL injection attack or find a backdoor to a website."
I recall so many "average users" working out that replacing "www.site.com/visitors" manually in the address bar with "www.site.com/members" gave them a back door into said website.
>> "If it were commonplace, advertisers may have noticed themselves, or their agents should have done."
Because advertisers have a dedicated team of people who sit in Xitter all day, following everyone, just to make sure their advert doesn't appear next to some douchebag's nazi rant.