The main reasons Microsoft and forcing Windows 11 on people are;
Will someone please pop this AI-bubble so CoPilot, Apple Intelligence and Gemini can just go away!? We don’t want any of it!
Just waiting for the “libertarian” government to use eminent domain to confiscate and gift the land to Musk…
The thing is that these reports (and training material and industry analysis) is Deloitte’s bread-and-butter.
If they have begun outsourcing their product to an LLM, and believe that the new is comparable to the product they previously provided, they are admitting that everything they have ever produced is garage and no one should be paying them anything.
Advanced Data Protection does require all iCloud Ecosystem devices to be current.
Not every person can afford the latest and greatest.
I’m gonna play devils advocate here (and probably be monstrously downvoted);
ICEBlock stored the location data of all its users on Apples iCloud Servers. This the perfect target for ICE; a complete database of locations of every person who doesn’t want ICE to know where they are.
One assumption is that that Apple realised how tempting this data is to the current demonstrative administration and purged it before ICE could get their civil-liberty-abusing mitts on it.
Our local Street Racing in the 1970s also included an entrant provided by the Local Police. They also provided road closures and crowd control and usually won, reinforcing the idea that if you took part in illegal street racing, you were likely to get caught.
There has been a huge crackdown on Street Racing in the last 50 years and we no longer locally manufacture Muscle Cars.
The former Street Racers have turned to 4WDing and have been tearing up 4WD tracks and Firebreaks since.
This makes it difficult for Hikers, Horseriders, Mountain Bikers, campers and recreational touring 4WDers, as well as park rangers and firefighters.
I remember that he (or someone pretending to be him) was in an and for Sensodyne toothpaste.
The problem is that the Grifter-in-Chief will continue playing all the different splinter-hate-groups off each other for profit and so a lot of damage to social cohesion in the process.
The ”F” is silent. It is pronounced “Kaka”
Our most recent house is in a very exclusive neighbourhood so we decided to wash the fence with (grey) coloured fence wash, rather than our go-to motor oil. This is the first boundary fence in our family that is rotting out.
You may still be infected with their “anti-cheat” RootKit, even if you installed from the Steam Store.
Time to nuke Windows and reinstall.
Headline should be “EA gamers computers infected with “anticheat” RootKit to be converted into largest BotNet on planet.”
It does have its use case, especially since Things are so bloody expensive nowadays.
When a replacement car key costs $2000, some people may chose to pay $50 for a keyring that makes it easy to find them when the lose them down the back of the sofa, regardless of the privacy implications.
That said, I have never had to search for the two items I have an AirTag attached to; although an AirTag in my wallet would be handy.
We had a bit of stockpile of used motor oil. We used it to treat redgum sleepers to make a deck at the back of my brothers place.
The parts of the deck treated with motor oil are still pristine and intact. The parts treated with linseed oil discoloured. The untreated parts of the deck splintered and rotted.
One of our local councils tried to ban home oil changes.
If you weren’t in an industrial zone, you weren’t allowed to perform any work on your car whatsoever, we had one tech who received a fine because he helped a friend change a tyre in his own driveway.
There were protests at the next council meeting, the councillors demanded a police escort from the building and the new bylaws were reverted.
Insert “2025 year of Linux Desktop” meme.
Honestly though, the only thing keeping gamers on Windows are the requirement of these Rootkits and inertia.
I admit that that is a pretty big assumption, but I do have faith in the people.
It may be misplaced faith.
The only way out is;
I let my Phone (and CarPlay) map my route for me; but I do like throwing a spanner in its workings by deliberately taking a wrong turn to explore.
Previously, I would do the same, but then I would have to pull over and spend 15 minutes browsing the Street Directly trying to figure out where I was before I was able to continue my journey.
Having a frictionless (and relatively) safe way of exploring has empowered me.
Won’t these religious nut bags just Rapture already.
We don’t want them on this planet.