Don't suck a billionaire's dick and tell me it's a lollipop.

I explained what I was thinking in the prior comment.

So it sounds like you know specifically how they identified the user's CPU. What means was actually employed?

It's all been over since we got processors with microcode, which could have something like a TPM in them. I'm not saying all of them do or anything like that, only that any of them could.

If you really want a computer you can trust, you're going to have to get vintage about it.

Spicy take but you aren’t exactly wrong.

They're literally using false accusations as a basis to deprive a customer of something that has been paid for.

How would the court calculate the financial loss you have suffered as a result of the public hit to your reputation from this?

Kinda feels like unless your a big streamer or whatever your suing for a zero dollar payout.

No. Larry Ellison is a well known piece of shit. If you support him then fuck you too,b because you're also a piece of shit, just like everyone who voted for the orange child rapist.

You realize that even Dirty Harry is woke? At the end of the movie he realizes he went too far and throws his badge in the river.

IME it mostly works now. It's always slow and stupid and the UI is crap, but most of the features work most of the time

No, most people do not have a motherboard TPM, it's in the CPU.

Why is it always a conspiracy?

Why is it so hard to think that two people might really disagree with your constant bullshit? There isn't collusion there, just correlation - your nonsense is the common link.

This is exactly why I don't run Windows outside of a virtualized environment I can snapshot any more. Their stupid bullshit that they reapply with every update that breaks my working config has wasted so much of my time, it was faster and easier to figure out how to use IOMMU to get hardware directly into the VM and use ZFS snapshotting to instantly revert whatever stupidity they are forcing on people this week.

Next step: completely fuck off Windows for good. The last thing I use it for is gaming, and I just made a SteamOS VM using the same IOMMU technique so I can quickly flip back and forth.

Hopefully by this time next month, I don't have a single install of Windows in my house, other than my wife's work laptop. And she has an IT department for dealing with that piece of shit.

Hey, it's a "moral agreement" between a bunch of billionaires that at best can be described as amoral douchebags.

What could possibly go wrong?

Teams is not being replaces because it is crap (it is, but still), Teams is replaces because it is from Microsoft and an order from the US administration can make it non-functional for any user (with several examples now, although MS is lying about them). Hence Sharepoint and eventually Windows have to go as well. And nothing of value will have been lost.

Yes. Unfortunately the EU has officials that are total idiots too. And, who knows, maybe Microslop had a hand in generating these reviews. Would not be the first time.

And, for example, that Teams finally got an Audio-test this years or so?

But my take is these are just people that do not want to use anything new. And they are too dumb to understand what the move away from Teams is actually about. Yes, the EU has dumb officials too, sadly.