Nah, not for me. I have only built my own PC’s since 2006. If i had a laptop (and a few surfaces) it was through work.

I know all about the OEM license thats now hardcoded on the board due to my job. Our company was buying devices with windows, essentially paying more per device, then imaging them with our image with an enterprise license…

Please, i never once paid for windows either.

Thats what i was thinking, but there is no mention on if this did happen and if it did what was compromised or allowed to happen.

Yikes… i guess i am confused though. What data was being sent through this channel? What did they get from people while it happened and why did it take 2 months past them stopping it to finally make a release? I love the app, but this sounds really bad.

It will need to be an absolute necessity once AI and robotics takes more and more jobs. This should be something thats been in the works for years now so that its in place in time, but sadly no one seems to be doing anything regarding it. Personally it should still fall on those companies to pay more if they decide to go with AI and automation so they can cover the expense of the people who no longer have jobs. If the profits are not as high due to this then maybe the push towards it won’t be so high.

Plus they are recruiting the most vulnerable people from other countries under false pretense and they end up fighting with zero training. Probably another reason why so many more are dying compared to Ukraine. North Korea also sent people to die as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan–United_States_relations

Definitely more complex. After WW2 ended we gave them hundreds of millions to rebuild everything. The relationship we had allowed Japan to become the 2nd best economic in the world with a boom from 1950s-1970s. We are still required to support them in time of need as well due to the treaty. We have been huge partners supporting each other for over 75 years now which has allowed them to be who they are today most likely. Im sure a lot of our history together has a lot to do with their current views and stance right now. Who knows what it will take for them to change that, but clearly were not there yet.

I remember doing this years ago, but the only problem I remember is they were 2 hard drives instead of 1 inside split in size to lower the cost. Idk if its different now, but if you expect 1 drive at that size that could be wrong.

Incredible, I wish this kind of response took place everywhere these things happen. Even seeing the committee resign as consequence is amazing these days when all I see anymore are people who double down and never admit to being wrong.

Man, I really see now why Bezos left her. Shes a good person. Still so crazy he left this beautiful, nice, woman for whatever it is he has now. Rich people are fucking weird.

Just think about all the people that would still be alive in the past year if not for 1 persons actions.

Not going to lie, this one hurts… seeing first hand how people at the top control the narrative is infuriating.

Thanks! That makes sense. Although it’s not really others if you ask me, its themselves. I’m sure they would argue otherwise. No accountability and it’s only getting worse.

If they are being stored on his servers then he absolutely should be, and whoever else is in charge of that company. If that was found on any regular persons pc it would be over, so why not here.

I have tried out a bunch of Linux ones last year and I will be converting over my main PC at some point this year due to all the things they have done or want to do with Windows 11. I agree it’s very hard to ignore.

Oh I know, I work in the industry as well. Our company backups alone for workstations and servers is just under 1 petabyte. This is then replicated to an offsite location which is also out disaster recovery location, and also stored in long term storage in Azure. This is just backups, sooo much money for backups haha. Thats why I am shocked that this entire company can run off of 300tb which is a lot, but nothing when you think of it being the entire business model for them.

I think the craziest thing ive seen is we have these instruments that do genome testing and sequencing and they would create like 10tb worth of data per month. Every month they got there own 10tb drive handed to them to backup their stuff on there own on top of the ones we did for them.

300tb is a lot, but its kind of crazy to think this entire company only needs 300tb storage arrays to function. I wonder how they handle things internally. I would imagine at least 1 backup server ready to go in HA. I wonder if they have multiple regions across the country that also serves up the same setup.

Im stuck with an all electric house… to expensive just to live and it has left me with no money to upgrade to cheaper options like heat pumps and solar. My monthly equal payment plan is currently $850 a month. This is with me keeping my house cold during winter where its set to 64 on average. At night I drop it to 58. Maybe one day ill be able to afford it to break this shitty cycle.

Never used cli to install windows in the 25 years I have been dealing with it. I have used dism to remove as much unnecessary crap as I can before installing it though. It only half works anyway since the next feature release reinstalls most of what you remove anyway. These days I just use Rufus to make a bookable USB since it will remove all the requirements and other things by just checking them off as options. GUI is fine after that.

By far i feel like in the last week I have seen way more of these busted attempts than any previous year. It’s kind of disturbing… you hope they got them all but the more there are the more I feel like theres probably another group that can slip by. Here is hoping I am wrong. Stay safe everyone.