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This is exactly as detailed as it is when it’s properly localized
This is exactly as detailed as it is when it’s properly localized
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
I hate Admiral so much. Just be glad this site didn’t disable the bypass link.
I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.
The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.
“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”
Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?
PC vendors are still selling laptops with 4GB RAM. 16GB should absolutely be the minimum (and should have been since 2020), but it’s very much not true that anything with less than 16GB is over 8 years old.
They absolutely do send emails like this. They’ve got a monitoring service if you have a credit card with them to check for data breaches, and most credit cards and even banks I’ve seen do the same. I just got my monthly monitoring update email this morning from Discover, thankfully telling me they didn’t find anything.
A coin flip program could replace Wall Street “analysts”
The article links directly to HMD’s website for the phones, where the specs say they only support GSM 800 and 1900.
The phones in the article are 2G-only.
Isn’t this the service that was sending messages from the app to the servers over plain HTTP?
When T-Mobile moved to unlimited with the ONE plans, they gave You “unlimited” tethering at “3G speeds”, which turned out to be 0.5Mbit/s, an unusably slow speed in 2018.
The Magenta plans gave you 5GB-50GB of full-speed tethering before dropping you to “3G speeds”. The current Go5G plans are similar, with a limited amount of usable tethering data before you’re, for all practical uses, cut off.
Before the ONE plans, there technically was no hotspot usage limit, but since you had a limited amount of high-speed data, your hotspot was effectively limited to whatever your plan gave you.
All the US carriers limit hotspot usage, partly to prevent someone hooking up a computer to download 50TB of pirated movies while clogging up the bandwidth for everyone else on that tower, and (moreso) partly because they’re greedy.
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