no surprise. people are using phones more, and tablets/chromebooks, too, to a lesser extent. there’s a lot of folks here that only use their phones now.
all sorts of reasons why people are dumping their windows pc… but microsoft has yet to come up with a good reason why they should keep them or upgrade. none. not a single one.
that is true. normal sliced american cheese melts better than cheddar or other real cheese.
the cheap individually-wrapped ‘singles’ melt even easier… like velveeta does.
i don’t deep dive into it enough to be a ‘nerd’, but i’ve been using some form or another since the early days of slack and debian.
even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason.
bios probably defaulted to using a storage mode (like ‘raid’ or intel’s rst) that requires ‘f6’ drivers loaded during windows setup. solution would have been to either find those drivers or switch bios to ‘normal’ ahci mode.
‘work’ just replaced ‘school’. same restrictions usually apply, just with the “i’m an adult” modifier that lets you deviate with some degree of risk to your paycheck.
and only two bucks a pound at kwik trip right now, too
so, you’re logged in, have a purchase history that includes clothing, and azn is trying to make a sizing recommendation?
and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.
$65 for 4tb? they’re almost certainly fake crap. just got done giving someone the bad news on some similarly-priced sd and ssd they bought off ebay.
https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm will verify real capacity in seconds.
real-life clickwrap.
‘kindly recite the full text of the terms of service before i choose whether push the button or punch your face’
captive portal detection, certificate status verification, and iirc server settings updates. yes. none of them are ‘absolutely required’ but they do exist to improve the reliability and secure operation of the program–and none are secret nasty spying telemetry. just turn those particular settings off as desired.
i nuked my post history and haven’t logged-in to ‘that site’ in about two years. there is one sub i lurk in occasionally that hasn’t gained any traction on the lemmy equivalent. that’s it other than the (relatively infrequent) pointer to a post from a web search for which no other alternative was listed.
the only way that fucking idiot should get one is if he jumped into a wood chipper and amid the global celebration, a sustainable peace broke out.
more like the garden of weeds is spreading out of control. they want passkeys and oauth so they can become the third-party gatekeeper for everything.
the want them tied to bio because your fingertip or face are harder to share with others, harder to fake, easier to track multiple accounts with, and are tied to real people and identities that can be linked with other data their databases all to make their data and targeted adverts more profitable.
they’re just doing their job. protecting the interests of big business and the wealthy.
of course they did. free insider trading tips was one of the free gifts with purchase of a president.
ok, then…
i have a huge trade deficit with walmart.
i buy way more from them than they do from me ($1200-1500 a year vs $0); just like the u.s. buys more from many countries than those countries buy from the u.s.
like the leaky diaper’s new tariffsimport tax, i should charge myself a ridiculously high extra tax on purchases from walmart until they buy $1200-1500 a year of some mythical product from me to even out the ‘unfair’ imbalance?
yea. that’ll work.
your brain likes people who are pleasant and interact with you, and whose company you enjoy.
she’s the only one you have right now that could be considered a ‘friend’?
your subconscious is craving the social connections, and the one you have makes you happy.
scary as it may sound, i think you need a few more people like that in your life–and to be a person like that for others.
best thing is to never hook 'em up to the internet. provided the manufacturers don’t all start requiring internet to ‘set up’ a tv.
next best thing would be a revert of firmware or a full ‘reset’ of settings; if possible. to return it to an ‘out of box’ state–then above, never connect it to the internet.
replacing a cheap streaming device is a hell of a lot cheaper than replacing the tv once the software gets obsoleted for whatever reason.
my coworker (and boss, technically) just casually mentioned that her inlaws ‘updated’ their tvs when they were visting over the holidays. i cringed so fucking hard because i have the same model, just smaller–so i know what happens.
they had just recently hooked-up wireline internet and could actually stream stuff now… so i had just given them a new streaming stick to use instead of connecting their now 3 year old tv to the wifi.
pretty much sums it all up right there.