Look on the bright side…

You’ll get to experience FO5 in real life.

Maybe get more people working on ES6 instead so it can launch before we’re all dead.

Welcome to the NES/Gameboy experience.

So… this is an anime about Bobby Corwen, right?

That only works if you already own the hardware and/or the majority does NOT do that model. The moment most people jump on board, the cost of old hardware will skyrocket too.

He mocked someone for trying because he’s WAY, WAY too smart to be fooled by effort that doesn’t IMMEDIATELY magically fix everything.

People started doing it professionally when the ad money came in. Before that people did it for the love of the content, and it was lower production quality, but better content.

Don’t worry. Those normies are about to cost us the whole open web, and there’s nothing we can do to stop them.

I am so tired of “journalism” that’s just shocked Pikachuing about crap that people already know, and HAVE already known, for YEARS.

It’s either a total waste of time, or people are so thick and oblivious that they don’t know something that’s been staring them DIRECTLY In the face for AGES, and I honestly can’t decide which explanation is more depressing.

*grandpa

That BIOS feature can be disabled… now. But there’s nothing keeping a manufacturer from just not providing that functionality, and requiring only signed firmware updates. Now the machine is more or less locked down.

The fact it can be disabled now is a convenience feature based on historical availability, but that’s absolutely no guarantee it will continue to be there in the future.

You say that based on 30-40 years of companies not really knowing what they were doing, but we live in a world where hardware manufacturers ABSOLUTELY know how to make nearly unhackable, locked down hardware. Smartphones are already like this - if the manufacturer decides you don’t get to install a custom OS, unless you’re lucky enough for there to be an exploit, you don’t get to. Same goes for game consoles. That knowledge can easily be applied to these to make these, if not completely unhackable, so unstable and inconvenient as to be almost the same.

We are absolutely entering this nightmare phase.

Joke’s on them… even if they don’t pay it’s not like I valued the time I spent on it anyway.

And I certainly didn’t do a good job.

Yes, but it’s going to repeat that way FOREVER the same way the average person got slow walked hand in hand with a mobile operating system into corporate social media and app hell, taking the entire internet with them.

This, and not even ironically.

Something broken on the laptop? It’s so locked down nobody can do a damn thing about it, and even if I could I can’t spend 15 minutes of class time troubleshooting while the others are waiting, so I guess you’re just not participating today, Billy.

You can use them fine. In fact, you’ll have to on your new Android phone which has no opt out.