* Posts by MrDamage

2036 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2011

Musk 'texts' Nadella about Windows 11's demands for a Microsoft account

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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.

Avast shells out $17M to shoo away claims it peddled people's personal data

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Re: OK

Remind me to have fuckall sympathy for you whenever you get taken for a ride.

Amazon hopes to avoid labor regulation by simply abolishing national watchdogs

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Mushroom

Abolish the NLRB!

It's the only thing preventing other unions from going on sympathy strikes. Let them FAFO.

Rice isn't nice for drying your iPhone, according to Apple

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Re: Moral dilemma

Leave out the dryer sheets for wireless charging.

European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal

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Re: Well good thing the UK had Brexit

>> Britain doesn't like to be reminded of it, but it invaded and colonised plenty of countries over the years.

I preferto think of Britain as the greatest exporter of Independence Days.

Australia passes Right To Disconnect law, including (for now) jail time for bosses who email after-hours

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Trump Lite II

We already had the onion-eating budgie smuggler.

Ukraine claims Russian military is using Starlink

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Weasel Words

He's not lying if he just gave them to Papa Putin free of charge.

BOFH: Hearken! The Shiny Button software speaks of Strategic Realignment

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Tack AI onto the end, and it;s a definite winner.

Closure of Windows 10 upgrade path still catching users by surprise

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Re: To be fair…

I didn't log into my Micros~1 account for a couple of months. Next time I tried to, it wouldn't let me continue without handing over my bloody phone number. Nope, fuck that.

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Re: Microsoft wants users to move to Windows 11

Download the Windows 11 install assistant, right click, compatibility tab, and set it to run in Win7 mode.

No, I'm not joking. I've used it on 2 recalcitrant PCs and it worked.

Microsoft embraces its inner penguin as sudo sneaks into Windows 11

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Re: Sudo

Bob was a dog, not a fish.

Raspberry Pi Pico cracks BitLocker in under a minute

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Re: Less than a minute?

Not to mention, a lot of models have handy drainage holes under their keyboards in case you spill your ----->

Windows 10 users report app gremlins after Microsoft update

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Re: Alternatives

More stable OS with longer support.

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Microsoft has a track record of being the absolute embodiment of Hanlon's Razor.

Microsoft Edge ignores user wishes, slurps tabs from Chrome without permission

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Re: Again?

Silly question, but have you disabled background apps?

What Microsoft's latest email breach says about this IT security heavyweight

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Re: do they?

"Stole" source code? I'd believe it, if BillG hadn't given China the source code to start with.

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2681548/china-gets-access-to-microsoft-source-code.html

You think the CCCP's demands would have stopped at WinXP?

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Re: do they?

Did Xenix count?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

Tesla Cybertruck gets cyberstuck during off-roading expedition

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Re: Subaru diff lockers?

Who can afford a specific locker for their diffs these days? I just keep them in the shed to go rusty like a sane person.

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Re: Sports Futility Vehicle

Do you really want a hub motor to be the second point of suspension (after the tyre, and before the actual springs and shocks) when off-roading?

Florida man slams 'tyranny' of central bank digital currencies in re-election bid

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Re: @Lee D

Yes, because the guy who is willing ot testify publicly has something to hide, yet the ones who demand closed door inquiries are the paragons of truth and openness.

Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet

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Re: Alternative uses

Because geothermal, solar, wave and wind are limited depending on locality, and people are antsy about nuclear and fossil fuels.

We want clean energy, we have to start looking up.

YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus

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Re: I can smell something... smells a lot like bullshit

>> "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.

Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree

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The simplest solution, is to stop supporting CEOs who do not support open source. Fortnite's anti-cheat does work on linux, Tim just hasn't given the OK to flip the switch.

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Sorry "Dick"

>> "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.

Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS

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Re: We are seeing tectonic plates shift here

>> "The future: the OS is merely a shim between the user and the AI cloud."

Mainframes and dumb terminals. What's old is new again.

China loathes AirDrop so much it's publicized an old flaw in Apple's P2P protocol

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Re: Tap to drop makes AirDrop saner

>> Then the iPhone came along which didn't support that (because the record companies didn't like it)

More to do with them needing a selling point for the iPhone 2, than anything else.

Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content

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Re: I plan to train AI for generating videos

It's called a tricorn hat.

Apple sets new 16,000-foot iPhone drop test after 737 fuselage fail

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Re: Could have been worse

The Earth would have to roll for fall damage.

The Register's 2023 in gaming had one final boss: Baldur's Gate 3

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>> "but anyone who's played the Mass Effect trilogy will understand how disappointing it can be to have your choices rendered meaningless."

But we got to chose between red, blue AND green endings!!1111!!!oneone!!

Windows keyboards to get a Copilot key – but how quickly will users jump?

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Re: Please return PgUp, PgDn, Home, End first

>> "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.

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Re: Please return PgUp, PgDn, Home, End first

You can change that behaviour in the BIOS.

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Duct tape works too.

Here's a list of thousands of artists Midjourney's AI is ripping off, creatives claim

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Re: Piles of styles

>> "There is no such thing as a copyright on styles."

Rounded corners?

Microsoft kills off Windows app installation from the web, again

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Re: In other news...

Microsoft: We're not happy until you're not happy.

Kaspersky reveals previously unknown hardware 'feature' exploited in iPhone attacks

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Holmes

Rogue Engineer

That guy from Volkswagon and Google sure does get around.

Apple pops blue bubbles of Beeper Mini's iMessage service again

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Re: Apple is in its rights to block Beeper

>> "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.

How to deorbit the Chromebook... and repurpose it for innovators

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Re: De-orbit?

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.

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Re: De-orbit?

>> :I was hoping for a quick explanation of how to remove G**gle and install Ubuntu on one of these machines.

https://mrchromebox.tech

NASA engineers scratch heads as Voyager 1 starts spouting cosmic gibberish

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Re: Have they tried

I use "give it a kick in the guts". Works for computers, and belligerent users.

Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights

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Re: According to Musk, fraud is protected under the 1st Amendment

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

Epic decision sees jury find Google's Play store is illegal monopoly

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Re: Where Could This Go?

>> " 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.

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Re: Breaking up is hard to do x

> "So I would argue that Google didn't "start" it, except in a branding sense."

See: The Cupertino Method

HP TV ads claim its printers are 'made to be less hated'

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Re: H What?

Try getting some small, wide rubber bands, put those around the rollers, and make sure they're a tight fit. Worth a shot.

Microsoft confirms Smart App issue renaming everyone's printers to HP

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Trollface

Menu -> Settings -> Paper Handling -> A4/Letter Override needs to be switched on.

Don't blame the equipment because nobody could RTFM.

Swedish Tesla strike goes international as Norwegian and Danish unions join in

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Re: I'm actually on Musk's side on this

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.

Chromebooks are problematic for profits and planet, says Lenovo exec

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Re: Bad for the environment?

Not that difficult.

https://mrchromebox.tech/

I've gone along and done dozens, as well as Chromeboxes.

X's legal eagles swoop on Media Matters over antisemitic content row

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Re: Dog, you are blinded by your biases

>> " 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.

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Re: uninformed

>> "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.

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Re: uninformed

>> " 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.

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Re: Bullshaite

>> "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.