Its demographic data; if the apps themselves have any access to it at all, it will be misused by advertising companies to see if they’re attracting kids (assuming people are actually truthful; i was totally 18 when i first looked at porn, trust me bro).
'Kay. They do know these things are barely capable of being networked, right?
Id be questioning what else they changed that I don’t see
Ahh, if that’s the case, i have no sympathy for fucking with a stock OS before handing it to the user. Nobody likes vendor bloatware
I feel like I’m missing something here. What do the manufacturers have to do with this, beyond perhaps including HEVC in advertising content? That’s on the GPU maker, AFAIK asus/acer practically purchase them from a catalog and build the rest around that size/shape
Edit: if its the licensing fee, that’s on the OS and/or end user, not the hardware
Confident that it is bad at everything and mocks itself for being so
My standard cycle for building is 5 years, and i just built (probably overspecced) with a 9800x3d and a 9070 XT. I’m sitting pretty for a while IMO.
My RAM kit is worth more than my GPU 🥲
IBM does not have a great track record with fascist regimes, and I don’t particularly trust US-based enterprise software to not be backdoored anymore, especially not an operating system
In an enterprise environment? Hell no. But a home server? Not like most of us are counting gigabytes of storage, and its not the worst thing to have in case your other hardware breaks
Same. Its the only thing i like about gnome, that buttery smooth three finger swipe on the touchpad to switch around. It made me actually understand how people can stand to work on a laptop without multiple monitors
Everything else about gnome to me just feels like they’re trying to abstract away basic functionality
Doubt that’ll happen for a few mor years unfortunately. I can’t imagine most of the hardware made for AI datacenters is compatible with consumer stuff :/
Yep, Samsung Knox is the feature name; does it actually prevent things or is it just “tamper evidence” for corporate devices?
One question still remains; why are all the AI buttons/icons buttholes?
For the “already done this”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
For the modern technology making it significantly easier:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSI-catcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker
TL:DR, if you’re at a protest and your signal drops to 2G, your device is being monitored and tracked. Whether or not anyone acts on that data is a whole other thing.
Its not the device cracking that’s the problem; its the “your device was identified at the protest we have labeled a riot and has been tracked to your home, which we will now raid in the middle of the night”.
Any time i see “notebook computer” i immediately picture the crappy little net-book computers, with just enough power under the hood to run internet explorer
shrug any major benefits of google branded chromium over microsoft branded chromium are a moot point to me since google curb stomped fully functional adblocking extensions.
Linux became so much less work to keep running than windows, even for gaming (if you’ve got an AMD gpu at least). I don’t play competitive gaming in any capacity so I’m not missing pretty much anything.
Depends on what they’re for. Main computer? If so, whats it replacing spec-wise?