I don’t know what point you’re making. Just because it’s not a laptop doesn’t mean many companies out there have some $200 limit on computers.

Piefed.social was too, on my end

No specific policy was mentioned. I certainly think Microsoft should be subject to many, many more laws than they are currently, and I wouldn’t mind if they were prevented from circumventing user preference repeatedly. But you don’t even believe that this insanely well known thing happens and that sort of prevents a further conversation anyhow, so yes, cool chat.

There’s a plethora of settings that Microsoft reverts on updates. That’s well known.

No business will pay more than a couple hundred for a PC.

This definitely isn’t true. Every company I’ve worked for has provided fairly expensive laptops. Really curious where you got the idea that businesses are universally so cheap they’d end up spending more long term because they bought absolute trash computers.

Until 6 months from now when they turn it on by default, forcing you to apply a registry hack to disable it after every update from now on.

But that’s only if Microsoft decides to continue consistent behavior going on for decades. Yeah, you’re right. Totally nothing to worry about.

In the sense that it can be, sure. Seems like we used to have some things that no one would question, politics being not a factor. There are less of those now.

Yeah, you already told me you’re a fanboy who would reject evidence, so I’m not surprised

Are you actually standing up for a neo Nazi?

You’re very unique. Never heard that one before. Also, I promise, this REALLY bothers me. So you know, keep jerkin it to that idea

Keep on writing words like they mean anything

I couldn’t give a shit less what you think

I did, twice

You’re the only user catching downvotes

Is it brand loyalty if you just always prefer to know that you’re going to spend $100 less and get comparable performance? That’s my only reason for supporting AMD the way I do. If things change then so will my opinion.

I think that is literally the time between desktop upgrades for me. I was more into Mac laptops then, but I’ve learned better since.

Disagree to all.

Reading what is on a computer screen is beyond 117.9% of the population

Then I guess there would have been no problem there, since you have to read the screen and then type or copy/paste an explicit statement that is essentially impossible to miss. This was not “warning blah blah blah. OK/Cancel” that could be glossed over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc

Also, why are people defending the scumbag for any reason? He was caught manipulating benchmarks after getting paid by a hardware company (forget which company, easy to Google this)

He’s been advocating for and promoting Linux gaming for years now

I haven’t seen any evidence of that.

I don’t agree at all that the average user would read that warning and proceed. I have seen many people freeze up and cancel upon seeing messages nowhere near that level just because they didn’t understand. That was maybe the scariest warning I’ve seen. It explicitly said it probably would break the system. I always find it odd when people act like it’s normal behavior to proceed in that situation.