Consider how WW2 would have looked if it was UK that executed some kind of preemptive attack on Germany
Well, UK has declared war on Germany on 1939-09-03, then done nothing for a year until Germany was done with Poland and France, then started attacking them for real. Thus, a "preemptive" attack wouldn't be a big deal...
The older I get and the longer I work in IT, the more I believe that software activation is to be avoided at all costs, especially time-limited software activation.
I've got a Framework laptop on pre-order because I'm pretty certain I really don't want Windows. I have only one Windows machine at home, on Windows 10, and I'm really not convinced that it offers me anything at all that I want. Much of my early use of that device was getting AROUND shite that I don't want, and fudging things to make them work. Windows 11 needs that x 100, from my experiences with it.
And now they have the 10 ESU stuff, which is just unnecessary, especially after they promised "no more new versions of Windows".
So I think I'm done. Again. Having previously used Slackware as my primary desktop for 10 years.
I audited the software on my primary machine and I don't think there's a single thing on there's that proprietary, needs "activation" (I "activated" my software when I clicked the download button, giving it executable permissions or via the use of credit card to purchase it in the first place, thanks) or that can't work on Linux.
I'm at that point again where I need to computer do work for me, not run off and do whatever the hell it likes. Between activation, AI, mandatory cloud accounts, "search everything" rather than just organise stuff, etc. I think I'm done again.
I have 20 years until retirement. I reckon that's a viable proposition to reach there without having to have a single Windows machine at home again.
He says, typing from a Samsung DeX session on an Android phone.
If the addition of an e-core makes your machine run like crap, use a better OS.
I made a tool "topline" that nicely visualizes this kind of scheduling. Run it on some terminal, then run various tasks somewhere. Observe the tasks moving between p-cores and e-cores.
Myself and another IT manager friend were looking at the same time for new NAS units.
We both looked at Synology. I rejected them based immediately on the first article I saw about them restricting what drives you can use. It's none of your business, Synology, just use what's presented to you and get out of the way. I ended up buying QNAP (for work) and Asustor (myself).
My friend, though, was in a procurement nightmare and the people above them hadn't done their homework and they ended up with a Synology unit and a bunch of IronWolf drives. And only when it filtered back down to my friend did they realise that it just wasn't going to work.
Cue one month of more of arguments and having spent a small fortune to then have to back the Synology and buy something else. And now Synology changes its policy? Yeah, it's too late. You already burned that bridge and cost people money (now admittedly, through their own poor research and not keeping up with industry news, but why should that be necessary?).
My friend and I were basically sworn off Synology at that point. I'd dodged that particular bullet, but he was caught right in the middle of it DESPITE hearing this about Synology and trying to warn people.
Sorry, but your profiteering indicates your STATE OF MIND, and how you view customers. Whether you "fix" it or not, that state of mind persists. This is what people don't get. You've now tainted yourself because you clearly don't care about what your customers wanted, and only realised after people swore off buying them or by literally backing units that - as far as they were concerned - weren't fit for purpose.
You need to do an awful lot more to fix that problem - by showing customers that your state of mind has changed, not just your knee-jerk reaction to getting a bunch of returned kit and lost sales. We need to know you're not just going to try something else entirely to try to recoup that loss.
It's to do with reducing wastage as much as reducing profits.
I have a bunch of chargers that came with phones - and I don't use any of them, because all my house sockets have USB-C, I have a ton of USB-C cables, my car has multiple USB-C adaptors or sockets already, etc. etc. Another brick of copper to convert to USB-C is really unnecessary.
Hell, my bathroom scales are USB-C, my kitchen scales are USB-C, etc. etc. etc.
But I have a box of "old" chargers that have never been touched because they came with the device and they're worthless to me. Even if I gave them away at a flea market or similar, nobody would take them.
The most expensive phone I've ever bought was ~$500... and I have owned about 5 phones in my life. Not one of them did I use the "official" charger for for any significant length of time (e.g. to charge them up initially, maybe, but beyond that I had battery packs, charging sockets, docking stations, car adaptors, etc.).
A USB-C cable is pennies. A USB-C charger is, what a couple of $ if you want one. Any store would start bundling them together now if you asked for one. But for the millions of people who already have a drawer full of useless or surplus wall-bricks, or who mostly charge their phone in the car, etc. they aren't bundling another $5-10 of plastic and copper with every phone they sell.
That's right.
I put a pre-order down on a Framework laptop so I don't have to use Windows 11.
You need things that are powered by BATTERIES if nuclear power (or any other type of electricity) is going to fix the climate problems.
You have posted anti-battery propaganda.
Therefore I conclude you actually don't care one bit about nuclear power and are just trying to be a nay-sayer. Good day.
I do believe "authentic" watermarks would help a lot. They will have to be locked to a lot of details about the file, you will not be able to color correct, resize, crop, or change the compression method. Probably allow cutting movies between frames however. Some one-way writing of the watermark is put into the camera, with the decoding key/result added to a database that does anything it can to insure only actual cameras are registered.
Watermarks people want to be remove can be made much harder by making the test for the watermark much more expensive, slow, and/or locked down so only authorized users can run it. Videos detected with the watermark are remembered so any similar-enough video also acts like it has the watermark, even if it has been manipulated enough to remove it. It also has to be very hard to create the watermark by anybody other than the registered creator so people can't use this to reject real videos.
Yes I think it is a requirement that the work have non-zero value. It's obvious that having a bunch of people standing around watching reduces crime, so that has non-zero value. I'm not sure what to do about the art to make sure its value is non-zero, possibly proof that people collect and keep it, or that organizations decide to display it.
Wind can be put in the sea [...] but solar can't
It seems it can (although whether it's economical to do it at scale is another question).
No different to "batteries not included".
If the world has standardised on chargers - finally! - after so long, then maybe we should just embrace that.
It was always Apple dragging their feet, and now all the Apple users have USB-C too (thanks, Europe!), there's no bad thing in everyone used a bunch of standardised chargers and having to build devices compliant with a wide range of chargers that everyone already has.
Torque is cheap.
