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This has actually been an improvement for enterprise support with Windows 11 Pro. Before, there was no way to dump out of the forced Microsoft account login or creation without ensuring that the NIC was disabled or by invoking the script. You were basically required to use an unattended...

Revolt is very similar to Discord; virtually a clone as far as the desktop UI goes. I have yet to try the mobile client, but it ought to be analogous as well. Matrix is better described as an API. There are various UIs for it, including Discord-like ones. But you need to supply (or purchase...

I primarily use the desktop version, and I can't remember the last ad or quest or whatever other than the occasional Nitro promotion... And I just click past them all. Once in the server(s) I normally hang out in, I've seen nada for ads so far. ...Other than unwanted pings from other servers...

You have the assurance that what you develop on the machine is yours -- not getting scraped for training somebody else's project. It seems like anything the major AI players offer to the public is as much free training for their backend with your projects as it is any service to you. And, you...

The root of the problem is that you really aren't buying anything other than the licensed, restricted right to listen to the file for as long as they (Audible or whomever) allow. The current state of copyright is already overreaching. Putting EULAs into the mix makes things even worse. When it...

I'll drink to that!

Way back when Windows 7 introduced the "Windows Experience Index" score system and tried to promote it as a metric for gaming performance, I've always said that Microsoft was headed in the right direction to make "Xbox" into a console/PC agnostic platform for gaming. Games should be designed to...

I have to wonder how many other IoT devices are running on similarly borrowed time. Also, yet another case of how certs can be a double-edged sword.

I have concerns that such education won't last...

(Headline) This is what it looks like when parasitic worms directly invade your brain

The laptop screen that unfolds vertically into a portrait-style mode is uncomfortable to look at on multiple levels. It's just unnatural to see a laptop that tall; probably because we humans have our eyes side-by-side for horizontal, panoramic vision. An over-tall display is fundamentally just...

Any tracing of the command and control source(s) yet? With the recent US administration policy decision to roll over and let Russian cyberattacks slide, I have my guesses...

My experience in hardware has borne out that you get what you pay for with cheap toner cartridges. New cartridges from reputable manufacturers? Usually OK, although density/color calibration might not be as good or reliable as OEM. Remanufactured used cartridges? Be careful who you buy from...

Historically, protest in France tends to begin with setting things on fire. If not satisfied it proceeds to large violent mobs, more fires, and occasional targeted murdering. From there, it's onward to the guillotines...

Part of what went off the track with the Foxconn plant in Wisconsin had to do with how much water it was going to have to pump out of Lake Michigan, plus how much wastewater it would have had to treat and dump (and still not necessarily be allowed to send back into the ground or lake) -- It was...

Porn. Lots and lots of low-effort AI-generated porn. At least for people who aren't picky about the number of fingers on the subject. (Or other appendages, for that matter. Heck, that might be a new genre and profit center...)

It's been postulated before that long-term space habitats will need some sort of herbarium facility -- often because plants are useful for cleaning a portion of the air, and humans need edible green vegetables for their health; so why not figure out how to grow some useful, edible plants in a...

Given the outrageous price, I would much rather have preferred they went with a set of proper analog dials in the place of the tachometer (in the matching typeface of the speedometer) and perhaps with an LCD (or better, LED) display for the range countdown. Likewise, quilted upholstery has no...

This really is more about maximizing thermal coupling for cooling in order to increase the opportunistic boosting of the x3D chip. They're largely hitting their OC max out of the factory. I'm sure you can get away with absolutely silly overclocking under liquid nitrogen, but for more normal use...

"Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to pick up a piece of paper..."