Why would absolutely anyone on this sub install Home? Microsoft themselves make a multi-edition .iso available on their website. And funnily enough now, Microsoft supports the hosting of massgravel. Should it take as many steps as it does two make a local account? No, but it’s literally two extra clicks.

Very much doesn’t my guy.

This is why I make students install a copy of Windows without the use of a mouse.

Loved his book Ghost in the Wires. Sad day in the computing world.

And two years from now it’ll be Lenovos and HPs shitting the bed. Four years Dells and Lenovos. It’s all cyclic. Always has been.

The same Lenovo that couldn’t keep their internal web pages from being public accessible that then allowed the shimming of every other manufacturer’s Chromebooks? Fuck Lenovo.

They’re gonna charge you whatever you’re willing to pay. They don’t run T1 anymore and are just squeezing the blood from the stone before they rip it down and toss it out.

There is no countering that argument. It points to an absolute failing of empathy. Rah, rah Godwin’s law incoming. If you can’t understand “First they came for…” and realize that it doesn’t just stop or start at ethnicity and instead applies to literally everything and anything you care about them it’s gonna take a serious remediative effort to correct that worldview.

It’ll be nice to see who’s immediately on the take, followed by learning those who will swallow it to the hilt.

I hope Gen Z does better than those before them and gets actively involved in such a way we can start abandoning this wack ass two party nonsense.

I honestly think it was in response to EPB. I noticed EPB advertising 10 Gig and then weeks later noticed Comcast advertising 10G.

Checking EPB’s site they claim to be the first 10 Gig residential provider in the U.S. and I don’t doubt it. It’s on their back alone Chattanooga got deemed Gig city. Which I might add suddenly meant that Comcast began offering near (and later actual and higher) 1 Gbps speeds not on business accounts.

I don’t think it’s intent is to confuse people with 5G. It’s that they finally have actual competition.

https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/10-gig/

EPB in Chattanooga announced the rollout of 10 Gbps service. Within a time span best measured in weeks I start seeing Billboards and Ads for Comcast’s own 10G network.

This is exactly how Comcast’s 1 Gig rolled out for my area. EPB announced 1 Gbps to residential and whaddya know? Comcast now offers 800 Mpbs followed later by 1000 and 1200.

I had someone come to me and ask why they were struggling to upload videos to YouTube despite having a slew of expensive gaming and recording equipment. I had to tell them their only option was to hope that Comcast actually honors their advertised up speed for their business lines and to pay for that.

Theoretical limit is actually 70 Gbps which is even more laughable.

Honestly this article is for the less tech savvy, which I doubt much, if any, of the current Lemmy user base qualify as. It’s not a horrible one as far as that goes.

The slippery slope is only a fallacy when you’re making leaps. To go from enacting exorbitant API fees to removal of old Reddit is a logical step so doesn’t make for a fallacy. Intent also plays a part for the same reason. If you can prove that enacting exorbitant API fees was for the purpose of restricting user access then limiting number of posts for users not logged in is a logical step. Slippery slope gets a bad rap but it can be a valid point and not a fallacy when done properly.

I get your fear, but how is this any different (it’s actually much cheaper) than the rentals of old?

I’m sorry, who’s surprised the company notorious for tracking employee bathroom breaks is actively monitoring their employees?

Amazon is the absolute scum of the earth when it comes to how they demand and expect productivity from their workers. Being harassed because you took 10 minutes to shit in a 10 hour shift that wasn’t your break or lunch is an every day occurrence.

I think you’re right. They then quickly learned that it’s in their best interest to have a sealed system. Makes it cheaper to obtain higher IP ratings. Sells more devices. It obviously did nothing that hurt sales. Samsung is making an IP68 rated device with replaceable battery and still takes SD cards right now. It’s only $600 to boot making it handedly cheaper than flagships. So why isn’t it what everyone’s pointing at in these threads? Cause the majority of people, even in these very threads, aren’t buying it. These are not the factors that decided buying a phone. Otherwise removable batteries, SD cards and 3.5mm jacks would still be ubiquitous, but here we are.

Between Minisforum and Beelink putting out NUC-likes with AMD, Intel just can’t compete. I’m biased in favor of team red to begin with, but you just cannot tell me an Intel NUC provides better per dollar value than the above’s offerings. I’ve used NUCs, I like NUCs, but why pay more for less when there exist alternatives?