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  • Lenovo is shit. They really aren't worth a damn anymore.

    I've had fingerprint driver issues with my expensive Lenovo Yoga, and AHCI driver issues with an expensive Lenovo ThinkPad. Support is non existent, and if you do manage to find any help through their channels, they don't help and don't care.

    My next laptop will be with Framework or some other company that doesn't try to screw me.

  • You're not wrong. And unless the controllers have some sort of TPM module in them then yeah they'll be easily bypassed.

  • Given that Xbox is a closed console, couldn't they just have rootkit anticheat by default?

    Maybe I'm stuck in the past but it still seems as if consoles still don't employ anticheats.

  • Not gonna lie, I'm a fan of the black and white modern look, and I'm not a fan of the "classic ranch home look". But I'd say the house in the first picture definitely has more of a personality to it, despite not usually liking that style. Plus, it still looked like a modern version of the classic ranch look.

  • Not to mention that the 5 seconds countdown timer is bullshit. In actuality, the timer appears after about a second of playing through the ad, then locks at 5 seconds for about a second and a half, then slowly counts down to 1 where it locks for a second and a half again, and finally gives you the option to skip the ad. I'd wager it's closer to 7 or 8 seconds per "5 second" ad.

  • I hope this isn't a "Net Neutrality, oh and we'll also spy on you for the good of humanity" bill

  • Not sure why people are downvoting you. I've been in about 2 Valorant games where I've seen people straight up get banned mid-match. It terminated the match immediately.

    On top of that, I've never seen obvious cheaters in Valorant. Go play Counter-Strike for long enough and you'll find spin bots.

    Is rootkit anti-cheat sketchy? Absolutely. Does it work really fucking well? Absolutely.

  • The fact that this guy is going to jail by January but Trump isn't even close, means something is very wrong with our justice system.

  • Intel Management Engine is also noted to be a backdoor, which is in the CPU itself.

    The Purism laptop disables IME, or at least tries to from what I understand.

    https://puri.sm/learn/intel-me/

  • I mean yeah you're not wrong. If only the Surface wasn't so absurdly overpriced for what you get.

  • From a security perspective, as long as you check the hash against Microsoft's website then it should be okay. Otherwise I'm not sure where to get Windows on ARM ISO's from.

  • The "Phone Barn" market is incoming

  • This is what I believe Google is actually trying to get carriers to do, and I suspect carriers (in some shape or form) will actually do this, just not in the way you think.

    RCS will eventually become the dominant messaging standard, however, I think they're actually working on a backwards compatibility for SMS and MMS in some capacity. In this way, phones (like the iPhone or older Android phones) will still be capable of sending and receiving SMS and MMS in typical elitist walled-garden fashion, but the carrier will receive it as an RCS message and relay it to an RCS-compatible device as an RCS message.

    In this way, group chats with four Android users and two iPhone users will still allow those Android users to benefit from RCS from each other (typing indicators, reactions, potentially some level of E2E, support for large media, etc), while the iPhones in the group chat will actually be the ones having a negative experience (no typing indicators, reactions appearing as text messages, no E2E, obnoxious green bubbles) since Apple refuses to integrate RCS into their Messaging application. Of course Apple will continue to gaslight their customers through high contrast green bubble dark patterns, and continued refusal of adopting RCS or creating iMessage for Android. As they've made clear, they don't care about giving their customers the best possible experience, and prefer to maintain market control for as long as possible.

    The #GetTheMessage ads are likely gearing up for the eventuality of this change, and the Pixel x iPhone ads are all "buddy buddy, kill them with kindness" so they can out Apple as the hostile ones when they refuse to acknowledge the existence of other smartphones either through its aggressive marketing, or through refusal to adopt open standards.

    If this were all to happen, depending on how well the RCS backwards compatibility worked and its ability to out Apple as the shut ins that they are, I could (crazy talk) foresee Apple creating a standalone iMessage app to, at the very minimum, keep Android users talking within their iMessage ecosystem.

  • I love glasses, they add style. Contacts are good but I wouldn't be a fan of having to do that every morning and night

  • They're confusing the homeless welfare queens for themselves, the bailout welfare queens.

  • And it's been proven that medication doesn't necessarily work. Over the years, medication has honestly messed me up more than it's ever helped me, in permanent ways.

  • Price of WD red HDD's about to go up too

  • Her fiance dodged a bullet