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ares35 , 4 months ago to Memes in Just for backup

snooze.. snooze.. snooze.. snooze... snooze...

alarm clock gives in. shuts it down until tomorrow.

but my flip phone, i have to open and push the correct button to shut off an alarm. that's enough to wake me up enough to piss me off. so i guess it 'works'.

ares35 , 4 months ago to Memes in The printer at work requires a FW upgrade in order to continue communicating telemetry to the mothership

enterprise device management and reporting unknown quantities of data back to hp are two different things.

ares35 , 4 months ago to Memes in The printer at work requires a FW upgrade in order to continue communicating telemetry to the mothership

most** hp printers don't ship with the hard-core third-party ink/toner block. that's in the firmware updates.

never update the firmware of an hp printer if you use, or think you might want to use some day, third-party consumables or refills.

if you 'subscribe' to ink, you're fucked, as that service requires automatic firmware updates be enabled.

**some do now, those should be labeled as such on the box--'must use hp ink for life of printer' or some bullshit.

ares35 , 4 months ago to Technology in FCC bans AI-generated voices in robocalls that can deceive voters

iirc, they are banned... to cell phones, with very limited exceptions.

but that relies on honest callers, and sufficient resources being available to adequately enforce.

ares35 , 4 months ago to Technology in MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

amazon's local showrooms.. err, i mean bestbuy locations across the u.s., accepts many things for recycling--at no charge. including cell phones, desktops, laptops, all-in-ones, and printers. details here

ares35 , 4 months ago to Privacy in Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

i have a flipper, there are no 'apps'. i don't even text on it.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Privacy in Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream

i never willingly gave them anything, and never had an account, but i'm sure they have a ton of data anyway despite always using ad and tracker blockers everywhere, and never having a device with their apps.. just from mentions and tags on peoples' pages and what they can assemble from that and other data they get their mitts on.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

they keep moving that shit around, too. seems like i'm always finding some new crevice they've hidden some setting they don't want you to know about.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

windows costs money, per device. microsoft places limits, pretty strict ones, on how far oems can go wrt customizations of the oobe, the ui/ux, and other shit. valve didn't chose linux because of anything other than it was the only reasonable choice for what they wanted to produce.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

if you built a $2000 desktop and didn't specifically go out and source old parts... it's got one, most likely, you've just chosen to not enable it. intel and amd cpu have them built-in and motherboards and their bios support those. they don't need headers for a module or a discrete tpm chip on the board.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Memes in A $9 investment

in 1990, $8-10 a carton; nowadays it's barely worth the short drive there--they price them 'just under' regular retail price here.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web

services like this rely upon the data harvesters and brokers to honor removal requests. honest ones would. but there's tons of them that aren't legit, so it's like using a straw to empty lake superior.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

i just set up a new one the 'right' (according to microsoft) way; allowing it on the network and to link to msa right off the bat, during oobe. sure you 'installed' the office (had 365 on that msa)--it was already there, you just 'activated' it. you also messed-up the document libraries, relocating three to onedrive, even though no pc on the msa has ever even had onedrive turned on in the first place. you also linked the edge browser to msa, even though the user has never, ever used edge for anything (user has been using firefox, exclusively, forever).

there were full screen ads more cloud space and for xbox whatever-the-fuck-that-was during 'first boot'.

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

that's probably the case with the majority of those still using win10 outside of 'enterprise' (corporate managed) environments. those upgrade 'offers' are quite effective at tricking people into the 'upgrade'

ares35 , 5 months ago to Technology in Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users

you can now set taskbar to ungrouped (unless full) now in win11, as of one of the recent monthly updates. still can't move the taskbar to the left side (my preference on wide screen displays), though.