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Pope Francis has died

  • much better than anyone before him within the last few hundred years

    John XXIII was pretty progressive, wouldn't you think?

    • China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense

  • Looks like Australia will profit. We have a lot of lithium, and some of the others, china's been undercutting the price for a while.

    • It Certainly Looks Like Elon Musk’s ‘Legion’ of Kids Is Bigger Than Anyone Imagined

  • Gonna be a legal shitshow when he kicks off - imagine all the claims on his estate.

    • LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

  • Panasonic, or some of the European brands are good. Or you buy the largest 4K computer monitor that can afford.

    • LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions

  • They're designed and built to run 16/7 or similar. If you have TV on 16 hours a day, a commercial display is worth considering.

    No, I'm not joking - I've seen folk who turn it on at sunrise, and off at bedtime.

    • 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?

  • I've got a few computers - my daily driver is Win10, there's a media player still on 8.1 (only accesses music streams and it's not spotify, it's URLs like https://das-edge15-live365-dal02.cdnstream.com/a98345), the main pihole machine runs vanilla Debian, the backup pihole on a Raspberry Pi also running Debian, and a couple of older laptops also running Debian.

    So no, I don't plan to upgrade.

    • “Huge win:” Federal Labor unveils $2.3bn plan to slash home battery costs by 30 pct

  • Good - mine's due for replacement. Hopefully it'll also apply to off-grid scenarios.

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  • That's all well and good, what happens to your kids when they can't tick the Windows and MSOffice boxes on job applications?

    I'm not having a go at you, I'll assume you've taught your kids how to approach the new and unknown in the IT fields, but if they have limited or zero experience with Microsoft products, they'll be at a disadvantage.

    • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

  • I've still got a windows XP computer that I fire up once in a while for the LOLs. it continues to remind me that support ended in 2014, but it keeps working.

    I also have a Windows 8.1 tablet that continues to work, and receive Windows Defender updates.

    They won't disable anything, stop spreading FUD, that's Microsoft's job.

    • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

  • Microsoft will sell it as a safety thing - your essential stuff is backed up to your Microsoft account, so in the event that your computer is compromised or damaged, you can wipe and start over with your important stuff restored from your Microsoft account.

    Which is not a bad idea in itself, but the rest of the data harvesting and telemetry makes it yuck. I use pihole to block access to Microsoft telemetry servers.

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  • What, as a delimiter? Even some FOSS software uses spaces.

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  • Yes, that works, too.

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  • You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you'll have solved that problem.

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  • I put this in another thread: It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

    @echo off

    reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

    shutdown /r /t 0

    You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

    • Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account

  • It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

    @echo off

    reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

    shutdown /r /t 0

    You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

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  • Well, if I've got no way to bypass it (when setting up for customers), I'll create an account specifically for this purpose.

    And proceed to poison the hell out of any data it sends.

    Does it still let you sign in locally if you disable network interfaces in BIOS?

    • Block ADS On The Internet For Your Entire Family

  • What I like about pihole vs. dedicated ad-blockers, is that a pihole can block telemetry as well. There are lists of Microsoft and other data-gatherers you can import, and even if you can't stop the data collection, it dead-ends the attempts to upload it.

    • What the world needs now is more fossil fuels, says Trump’s energy secretary

  • Lord, we don’t any windmills

    There are windmills and turbines enough to turn

    There are panels and hydros enough to burn, enough to last, ‘til the end of time

    What the world needs now, is gas, sweet gas

    It’s the only thing that there's just too little of

    With deep apologies to Hal David

    • Alibaba doubles down on RISC-V architecture with a new secretive 'server-grade' chip that will put AMD and Intel on alert

  • What, not even an IBM POWER 10 ?

    • A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content

  • "All I said was 'that piece of halibut was good enough for luigi'"

    "BLASPHEMY"

    "Luigi, luigi, luigi"

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0