I think the EDPB would have a field day if that was the case.

Pretty sure the new Call of Duty games work like that.

While I very much dislike that too, it’s very easy to opt out. Just use Windows Pro, Enterprise, or education.

The entire point of recall is that it’s running locally. That’s why only a very very very small subset of all Windows 11 PCs support it. Only “copilot+” pc supports it which are PCs with very specific processors with AI processing. Most notably the new Snapdragon arm PCs.

Well, half a billion is still a lot of money so it’s great that the union got it so they can spend it on something useful. Half a billion USD is the entire yearly revenue of some fairly large companies in Sweden.

And the fine is not intended to bankrupt Apple, it’s intended to punish them and as a show of force. If Apple still refuses to comply or even pay the fine, the fines would obviously escalate and the max fine on this offence is very very high.

Also remember that the EU generally only cares what they do inside the EU, they care about how it affects EU citizens. So it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to issue brutally high fines based on yearly global revenue yet.

But why, some say, the Switch? Why did they choose this as their goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 98 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?

They choose to go to mod a Switch. They choose to mod a Switch in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…

Yes, I think that’s the point. They just wanted to play PS3 games, they would probably just buy a PS3 for cheap and be done with it.

But this person obviously thought it was more interesting to mod a switch to do it and I fully agree.

This person is the same type of person that makes DOOM run inside a PDF, or something else weird.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Thunderbird is only a mail client. Don’t forget to actually move from gmail if you want to degoogle.

Maybe someone just forgot to run copy running-config startup-config lol

Well obviously. A severe violation of anything is considered worse by pretty much anyone.

I assume they mean that you can use your own domain with their email server.

I.e point your MX records to them.

Of course you always could use your own domain in their email client. It would be a pretty shitty email client otherwise.

They are investigating those issues though so I assume they intend to fix them.

I would be extremely surprised if every single game just worked on the first try.

What’s the Weissman score?

Aren’t the students provided computers?

Here students usually get provided computers and then MS accounts are no problem since they just have to logon with their domain account.

So what? Some people just want to make stuff that helps other people.

A more open license is a way to accomplish that.

IMO it’s weird to complain that someone makes their thing even more open source.

Sounds good to me.

I actually prefer the MIT license too. It’s more open.

You have drives packaged like other stuff with a colourfull box with marketing and all that? All the drives I have ever bought in store or online were shipped or handed over to me like I described above.

SSDs and external hard drives usually have some kinds of retail box here, but I don’t think HDDs usually do. Granted, I have never bought the normal consumer tier drives, like Seagate baracuda or WD Blue so maybe that’s why. For personal use in my PC, I usually stick with Seagate Ironwolf or WD Red.

Don’t HDDs usually come just in antistatic bags?

All the drives I ever purchased came in just a plain box with packing materials and the drive in some antistatic bag. So I assume the retailer gets big loads of disks from the manufacturer/reseller and unpacks them and then ships them individually and thus packs them on demand.

Didn’t jailbreaking pretty much die because apple made it really hard?

I get what you are saying, and Windows is absolutely frustrating at times but so is Linux and especially MacOS.

I’m no developer but I do really get that Windows isn’t the best suited OS for some development work, but calling it barely usable in general is just ridiculous.

It’s certainly not impossible to troubleshoot either. You just need to learn it, like how you have to learn any OS.

I won’t argue that it isn’t rubbish, that’s fair enough. There is a lot of bullshit with Windows and Microsoft

The main reason Linux clients are largly missing in most IT environments is that managing it on a scale comparable to Windows clients is hard. Afaik there isn’t a great way to push out configuration, policies, certificates. And making it all be seamless.

Unmanaged windows clients might be quite bad, but together with stuff like active directory it just works really well for authentication and is part of a good ecosystem that in general just works. The various admin tools for Active Directory are quite annoying to use since they haven’t been developed in years and are missing obvious features. Fortunately you can just use Powershell.

I really really wish Linux were better in these enterprise aspects, I wish we could pivot more to Linux for all users or at least for those that don’t need specialized software like CAD. There is a large possibility that the majority of our users would riot if we did that though.

For the record I personally like Linux a lot and would absolutely run exclusively Linux if windows wasn’t my work. I will probably get my home pc on Linux someday, but I haven’t yet because it’s simply just so much easier for me to fix Windows when it breaks compared to fixing Linux which always turns into a huge rabbit hole for me. It’s also just in general annoying to switch OS since I have TBs of data on it.