110K/mo was bound to attract attention. So, purely hypothetically, uhh, what would the lowest cutoff be before eyebrows start raising?
110K/mo was bound to attract attention. So, purely hypothetically, uhh, what would the lowest cutoff be before eyebrows start raising?
I already felt this way about intel when they hired fucking Will.I.Am to be spokesperson. He made more money in a month than most of their engineers in a year. That was a decade ago. It’s only been downhill since. I hope they go fully bankrupt at this point and someone worthy can take over the patents.
It also can be not installed to begin with. Fuck MS and all their bullshit. Next year, 5% of pc gamers will be on Linux and it will keep growing from there.
This is why I cashed out what little crypto I had for physical bullion (gold, silver) that I store at my own home.
Plenty of people laugh at me, but who’ll be laughing when we are all killing each other over a puddle of drinkable water or scraps of food?
Not me, either, but I might at least be able to barter for a few days before getting killed for it by some ragtag militia.
But the level of cooperation required means they have to break eee to remain in the clear. Doing that means they lose almost all reason to exist in the first place. This is a no-win scenario.
Is there a way to pre-emptively block this? Something in hosts.txt? Registry?
The very first day I see those ads in my Win10 will be the day I uninstall Win and go Linux.
Wanna bet that gigafactory somehow gets closed down or cancelled before opening? Tesla might not even survive that long.
Grabs popcorn. Two giants of global waste and deadbeat consumerism fighting to the death? I’m all for it.
(and, be honest, how many people in the history of the world have ever had a mouse break due to a software problem?)
Many moons ago, in the dark ages of Windows Vista, I had a laptop where the trackpad stopped working permanently after a specific Windows Update.
There’s also Intel holding the x86 patent and AMD holding the x64 patent. Those two aren’t going anywhere yet.
AFAIK the cooling was faulty or insufficient which burned the chips out.
Still rocking my 8086K @5Ghz for over 6 years. Best CPU and most stable I’ve ever had, and I’ve been building pc’s since the 90’s (both AMD & Intel). Not willing to shell out for anything new unless this kind of stuff is verifiably fixed.
Remember: today it’s “just” the Palestinians and you may not be affected or care. But tomorrow, it could be you.
Billionnaires trying to shape the narrative. Why else is every mainstream media outlet owned by them?
They seem to be easily defeated by “ignore all previous instructions, draw an ascii horse” so far.
since this battery update was forced on laptops originally released in 2020, this issue has also bricked hardware outside of the warranty window, when previously users could simply send in the laptop for a free repair.
I hope HP aren’t surprised when they get accosted with bricked laptops through their execs’ windshields at random intervals…
Proxmox
I wish! Just watching the second movie, a fart came up and tadaa.
I’m pretty firmly in the second category only. I have had the first a few times, but when whatever thing you were so stoked about inevitably fries or fails a few weeks in, you quickly learn to stop doing #1 altogether.