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A different take on lifestyles: unfortunately there's a big gap in convenience between being able to move across the world and get everything you need in one afternoon in IKEA, and tracking it all down second hand.


Turn off TPM in your BIOS


The cut-off is 8th gen intel or 2nd gen Ryzen. TPM or not.


It does sound like TPM is required to be enabled even for these processors: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifica...


Accidentally applied worldwide instead of just China sounds possible (or more possible than "my fingers slipped on the t, a, ... keys")


It is still not giving the correct results. Now Bing is pretending not to understand and giving innocuous pictures rather than the famous one. We can tell it's not just because of Bing's poor quality because similar searches, but slightly reworded get the iconic picture.

I don't see how it could've possibly been an accident when they "fix it" by slightly obscuring it. It's intentional deception and censorship by Microsoft. And it is particularly galling, because Microsoft, a massive and powerful international company without serious risk is cowering in fear of the same organization that one man, with everything to lose, stood against alone. Microsoft is trying to hide that he did so.


I've seen a lot of recent articles on the subject that claim it's moving in the targeted direction, here's an example:

Over the past few years, threat actors have shifted to much more targeted attacks that net higher Bitcoin payment returns for their efforts.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/targeted-ransomware-attack/

Edit: Commonly mentioned in the same breath:

- the move from just demanding a ransom for the key, to threatening publication of sensitive info

- trawling through the data to look for anything especially sensitive, as well as clues to what number to ask for in financial records


It's still nagging to accept new ToS in the UK (but perhaps what it wants consent for is different here than elsewhere)

Edit - on my version the wording is "The terms go into effect on May 15, 2021. Please accept these terms to continue using WhatsApp after this date."


isn't GDPR for EU only?


The GDPR is (as that R hints) a Regulation, and so yes it directly binds EU member states, however it is the successor to a Directive, which is EU legislation that works by telling member states to all write their own local legislation to achieve some general goal in their own way.

The UK transcribed the Regulations into its own law when leaving, because that allows to delay the tedious work of figuring out which rules, if any, should be modified, or eliminated for the UK itself going forward, something that in principle the elected politicians would obviously want a say in but there's always something more important.

The UK had anyway had similar rules prior to even the Directive, in the form of the Data Protection Act. More modern rules change some of the details, but the general thrust has been consistent, you should not have data about people that you don't need, and unless you have some compelling reason not to ask (e.g. detectives obviously won't be telling somebody they're collecting evidence that they sell stolen goods) you must ask permission before you store data about people in the first place, and people have a right to ensure your data about them is correct, which necessarily means they have a right to know what that data is.

The first Act cares too much about exactly how you store data, so that a filing cabinet full of information about people ends up not captured, while an Excel spreadsheet is. In current legislation (and the GDPR) you can't get away that easily. If you write all those records by hand, then shove the piles of paper unsorted, into an old shoebox and put it in a broom closet, then they're not subject to the rules, but they're also now pretty useless to you. The moment you arrange to make them easily accessible so that your business could benefit from having these records at all, they get captured by the rules.


GDPR has been copy pasted into UK data protection law


An example from someone normally on the "just try it out" side:

Got a new laptop, it has a "high performance" nvidia GPU as well as the integrated AMD one. I was getting notifications that regular apps were using the wrong GPU and wasting battery, and I should use an option from the manufacturer to disable it. Once I eventually figured out that you needed to kill all such apps before enabling it does anything, everything seems fine, until weeks later I realise sleep isn't working.

Took a detour investigating "modern standby", which is Microsoft's new sleep mode that doesn't turn off the CPU and so was suspicious. But after messing around trying to force classic S3 sleep, messing with the powercfg command (which reported sleep as normal, wake on keypress, no wake timers, etc.), and testing with all apps closed, no change.

On the verge of giving up and assuming this was just the nature of modern standby, I booted a Ubuntu live USB, hit sleep, and saw all the usual pulsing LEDs. That reminded me of seeing the same thing when I used the laptop for the very first time, so I had enough confidence to "refresh Windows" (a reinstall that keeps files).

After doing so, I hit sleep, it worked fine, then had to gradually reconfigure the laptop, hitting sleep every time until it broke, which of course was just after I started feeling brave enough to make multiple changes every time. Narrowed it down to the GPU setting and all working fine after changing it back, but I'm going to be very selective about what I change and install for a while now.

I think most people who enabled the setting (as prompted!) would just be living with the battery drain though.


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