A movie is not software. It can’t control the device you own.

Ha you have no idea. They use new BluRay releases to distribute key revocation databases that block your BluRay drive from decrypting disks with older host keys.

Edit: I suggest starting here if you want to know more: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Blu-ray

Microsoft is being a dick. Booting from an external USB-attached SSD works fine once you work around the installer limitations.

When I did this I ended up basically partitioning the disk manually with diskpart and installing Windows manually using the command prompt. I used this blog post to guide me:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230810073949/https://decryptingtechnology.blogspot.com/2015/09/install-windows-10-on-usb-external-hard.html#!https://web.archive.org/web/20231204195111/https://decryptingtechnology.blogspot.com/2015/09/install-windows-10-on-usb-external-hard.html

But I remember I had some issue that made me start over… what the heck was it. Something like the modern Windows 10 image being larger than what the author had encountered. Ah - I think the issue was the WIM file was over 4GB and wouldn’t fit on the authors 4096 MB “Recovery Image” partition. So make that one larger (check the iso for the wim file’s size) if you plan to create a recovery partition.

Another bookmark I made at the time was this, I think it was mainly for the command listing the SKUs supported by the WIM file, but no guarantees, it’s been a while: https://gist.github.com/Alee14/e8ce6306a038902df6e7a6d667544ac9

Good luck if you decide to try!

That’s for MBR partitioned disks, where they fight over the first sector of the disk which is used as the boot sector.

Computer models starting from around 2013 should support UEFI boot. If you boot in UEFI mode you use a GPT partitioned disk with an EFI System Partition. In there Windows does not overwrite grub. In mine for example grub was in the ESP under /EFI/fedora/ and Microsoft found the ESP and put its stuff in /EFI/Microsoft.

The worst I’ve experienced is that Windows puts the Windows Boot Manager back on top of the UEFI boot order, to fix that, I wrote a comment before, that I’ll just link here, if it’s really just the order you can also just change it back in the UEFI menu.

Another bad thing is that some laptop UEFIs, especially early ones are utterly broken. They ignore your boot order, or your entries in the UEFI boot manager, sometimes they just load the fallback path defined in the UEFI spec, which is \EFI\Boot\BOOTX64.efi, but that’s the OEMs fault. I’ve seen both Fedora and Microsoft write their loader to the fallback path. I’m not sure if they clobber the other ones if it exists already, because I never boot from that path, so I wouldn’t notice.

If it was me I would have put Yokohama in the title. It’s a city of 3.7 million people. That way it would be clear story is about a mayor of national importance.

(To be clear this is towards the BBC, not OP, you just copied as you should, thanks.)

Wow 10 of them are almost half (or more). That surprises me. I knew it happens in arranged marriages, but I didn’t think it was this frequent.

For convenience, here’s the link that’s written in the footer on the picture:
https://brilliantmaps.com/consanguineous-marriage/
And the source link from there:
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/inbreeding-by-country

check-out “model extraction attacks”

The search results I’m seeing for that term point to people extracting (a clone of) the model, through interacting with the available API of an otherwise closed model. I’m not really seeing anyone interacting with a model to extract its training input data.

Is there a better search term, or do you have a more direct reference to lossless extraction of training data from model weights?

you can only run executables on the primary boot partition

lol

Have you tried asking ChatGPT or Gemini ?

lmao

Emergency thermal shut-off is a very common function in various pieces of computer hardware. And if throttling doesn’t help it should indeed shut down, rather than cause damage.

Two that I run for our little group outside the ones you mention are Space Engineers and Valheim

Edit: Space Engineers is a little annoying though, you either have to use some emulated / translated setup, (I think I saw some being cobbled together by others), or you have to run a Windows Server VM.

Yes there is also device managment for them. Our company uses Jamf. Not sure how it compares to AD group policies in power but some restrictions, settings and updates get pushed on the regular.

So much.

• Window Management, especially fullscreen
• Alt Tabbing Behaviour
• Default Keyboard Layout
• The Dock with its forced defaults (Finder leftmost, Trash rightmost etc)
• No volume control over HDMI
• Power Management (no manual hibernate, closing lid always sleeps)
• File System Support
• The reactions that auto trigger on webcam
• The Global Menu
• Unchangable limit to virtual desktops
• Default apps being hard to change in some cases (mailto: links for example)
• The weird software installation process with dragging icons to a special folder
• That I can’t temporarily disable a system management profile
• The way the BSD tools are slightly different than the GNU ones, with grep slower for certain patterns
• No Package Manager by default (unless you count the App store with forced accounts)
• Weird filesystem setup, far from FHS

I have installed various pieces of third party software to fix some of them, but still, those are things I dislike about macOS.

No, instead I’m forced to use macOS at work.

And Microsoft Teams, which is terrible, but somehow still better than Cisco Webex.

Not that many it seems… Ignoring extremely pricey ones, I could find the Lenovo ThinkVision E65 LFD for what converts to 1200 USD in a local shop. And even that is not really price competitive.

HDMI has never been an open standard (to the best of my understanding anyway). You’ve always needed to be an adopter or a member of HDMI forum to get the latest (or future) specs. So it’s not like they’ve just rejected a new idea.

Okay not publishing the spec is still the same, but something else is new nonetheless.

AMD is an adopter*, they have the spec and they implemented a driver for 2.1 intended to be open sourced in Linux. But they were still blocked from publishing it. For HDMI 1.4 that wasn’t an issue yet from what I’ve found (though it’s always hard to search for non-existence). Open source implementations of HDMI 1.4, even in hardware description languages, seem to exist.

*you can search for “ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES” here to confirm for yourself

shaped to look like a bone

I hope you mean wing otherwise that makes even less sense to me

When riding trains I look at the concrete cable canal running along the tracks thinking about whether we rent any fibers in that one or not.

I must have a weird sample then. My uncle specifically wants that because he doesn’t want to have a separate phone. So he has a Galaxy Tablet. And a colleague at work recently inquired how she would log in to the phone company website to charge the prepaid plan if she can’t get the login SMS.

MacBooks are pretty practical. ARM laptops like MacBooks have genuinely ridiculously good battery life; I was genuinely shocked the first time I used one.

Yeah agreed, have one at work. I just really dislike their software.

iPads cant even send SMS or make calls. The most gimped of tablets.

The rest of your list seems reasonable