The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.
The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
It looks like Jerboa is forcing HTTPS. It’s using the Markwon library for parsing markdown, and a custom ForceHttpsPlugin
is installed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/blob/19be714fe08eaff6d2f616aa3da1b82df81a1d84/app/src/main/java/com/jerboa/ui/components/common/MarkdownHelper.kt#L93.
I mean technically it’s possible to have different sites on http:// and https://, since the conventional ports are different (80 and 443), but it’d be a pretty weird thing to do.
Edit: I just visited the links and the http:// one does indeed go to an xkcd-style site, while https:// has some dogecoin tracker with a broken SSL certificate.
Edit again: the SSL certificate is for dogecoinaverage.com, so I have a feeling this person just misconfigured their nginx or Apache instance.
Yet another edit: the maintainer’s Mastodon is linked on the xkcd site, which links to their GitHub, which includes the source for the Dogecoin average site: https://github.com/Two9A/dogecoin-average. Definitely just a weird misconfiguration.
The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
I gotta be honest, I’m not sure I’d be willing to trust something I set up myself with general-purpose software to handle something as important as a smoke alarm alert.
That’s the sort of thing that gets hardware dedicated to the task and doesn’t rely on me configuring everything correctly and Linux not crashing because some other unrelated process had issues.
Double tapping and holding on the second tap for granular zoom with one finger is a standard feature on Android.
The person you’re replying to is just suggesting an alternative for one-finger zoom. Pinching with two fingers still works.
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.
“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”
Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?
Well you aren’t forced to publish your PC or Steam Deck game on Steam for one.
PC vendors are still selling laptops with 4GB RAM. 16GB should absolutely be the minimum (and should have been since 2020), but it’s very much not true that anything with less than 16GB is over 8 years old.
A coin flip program could replace Wall Street “analysts”
The article links directly to HMD’s website for the phones, where the specs say they only support GSM 800 and 1900.
Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.