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Comment Re:The Price to Turn off Ads (Score 1) 82

Whatever. TFS, the summary, tells you how to turn it off. Nobody with an ounce of intelligence lives with ads in Windows 11.

That is until MS changes that in the next update. The setting might be moved to an obscure area or a Registry key setting. Given the history of how MS has pushed Windows 11, I think this is likely.

I have Windows 10 Pro and when Windows 11 came out, I had to opt out of an automatic upgrade once. Somewhere along the way, MS changed the behavior of Windows Update. Automatic updates used to be for security and critical updates. MS started adding "Feature Updates" that did things like install Edge as your primary browser. The only way to avoid it was to turn off automatic updates (if you had Pro).

Then MS changed the behavior of manual updates. It used to be "Check for Updates" showed you a list of available updates and allowed you to select which ones you wanted. No. "Check for Updates" now means "Install everything MS wants" without any options. Then you had to uninstall anything later (if that was possible). After stopping Windows 11 upgrade and selecting "Do not ask me again" to upgrade to 11 in a setting, the next major update removed that option. Popups and notifications every few days meant I had to use Registry settings and Group Policy to stop all the nagging. Later the nagging could only be stopped by removing programs and stopping certain services. Now there is a prominent "Upgrade to Windows 11" section when you open Windows Update.

But that wasn't enough for MS. The last minor update pushed an unavoidable popup menu on restart to upgrade to 11. And I had to decline twice and the option to decline was not obvious. "Stay on Windows 10" was on the left as tiny text (not underlined). On the right were two "buttons": Install and Restart now OR Download and Install in the background. After declining, there was another popup with the likes of "Are you sure?". Reminder: I paid for Windows Pro.

I don't put it past MS to make Ads as part of 11 by trickery of UI. Next update of 11 has 3 options: "Decline" in an obscure place and "Agree" to ads and "Read agreement and Agree" prominently displayed.

Comment Re:Blood diamonds anyone? (Score 2) 112

Color is another aspect that has upended the natural diamond market. Colorless natural diamonds were worth more unless the color was intense which was rarer. Pink diamonds were the rarest and most expensive. Diamonds with just hints of color were worth less. Lab grown diamonds are able to replicate color reliably and one main clue that a diamond might be lab grown is if the color is too intense. If the diamond was natural, most people could not afford it.

Comment Re:Blood diamonds anyone? (Score 2) 112

The point is the salesman made her diamond's flaws as a selling point. Natural diamonds with flaws are cheaper as perfect, flawless diamonds are rarer. However synthetic diamonds have fewer flaws as the process can be tightly controlled. In order to keep selling natural diamonds, they have to push the narrative that flaws make natural diamonds more attractive somehow.

Comment Re:Blood diamonds anyone? (Score 3, Insightful) 112

And which girls think it is cool that someone dug up a rock in a mine? Most of them care how diamonds look. Between lab grown and natural, there is no difference in that regard. Without lab equipment it is hard for any person just to look at a diamond and tell where it originated. The value of the diamond is currently about bragging rights; but that price is artificially controlled by DeBeers.

Comment Re:Blood diamonds anyone? (Score 2) 112

Diamonds are not as rare as the industry would like the public to believe. Cartels like DeBeers control the supply. For the purposes of jewelry, synthetic ones have less variability which makes them more attractive for manufacturing. The main drawback is the stigma. If the public sentiment shifts to not caring, then DeBeers will face a decline.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

No it's not "whoosh", that implies you told a joke which I missed the punch line of.

Whoosh means it went over your head. And it still continues to elude your understanding apparently.

. You fundamentally not understanding what hyperbole is has its own humerus merits for sure, but for a whoosh you need to be in on the joke, not part of it.

What something being COMPLETELY UNTRUE that it no longer qualifies as hyperbole do you not understand?

Plus you also don't personally own the definition of "hellscape" which, since hell doesn't exist and no one knows what it looks like anyway is pretty much by definition a term of hyperbole.

WHEN THE FUCK DID I SAY THAT I DID, PUPPY MURDERER? Now you're LYING as I NEVER said that I owned anything. He's never worked in a hellscape. But you will excuse anything he said, won't you?

Comment Re:Pretty cool that they can control it when signa (Score 1) 54

I would suspect a major part of security is through obscurity as few people know how Voyager is controlled. The second part is the large array of radio antenna to receive messages and a powerful transmitter to send messages. The last part of security is the impact. What benefit does a malicious party get from hacking Voyager. They control a telescope that is not really reporting on much these days.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

You seem confused about the difference between hyperbole and simply making shit up.

Again, WHOOOOOOOOOOOSH. He made shit up as I seriously doubt he has worked in a hellscape as a basis of comparison. I doubt he's worked at Google or Microsoft either. What he describes is what happens at MOST companies. The difference is I acknowledge everything I said was made up while you excuse his dishonesty as "hyperbole", Puppy murderer.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

If you conflate hyperbole with dishonesty, then you are so far out of bound of anything approaching normal English that it would be impossible ot have an actual discussion with you.

And you do not seem to understand when hyperbole is so extreme that it is dishonesty, dog kicker. Also I saw that you didn’t say bless you when a child sneezed. You must also be a child murderer with your displays of cruelty.

Cast in point: I pointed out hyperbole and you accused me of lying.

Woosh. It seems you don’t understand the point, child murderer. After all, anything I say is covered by hyperbole, according to you, dog kicker.

Comment Re:Welcome to the machine (Score 1) 260

People who don't understand hyperbole should be strung up in the town square, publicly eviscerated, and garlands hung of their entrails.

I prefer honesty when discussing things. Apparently you do not.

They're saying it's a shitty company, OK? Are they not allowed to say that because Thames Water is LITERALLY a shitty company? And only companies spewing actual non metaphorical shit can be shitty?

Then SAY it is a shitty company. I don't have issues with saying Google and Microsoft are terrible companies.

Also taking on some equivalent of "staving children in North Korea have it worse" is just lame. We all know that. No one's saying that google is equivalent to slave labour or some shit.

So being precise in my words offends you then. Hellscape has a meaning. Working in an office is not that meaning.

Wondering if you inveterately work from home because you appear to have forgotten how normal conversation works.

I am wondering why you would assume something about someone you know nothing about. By your logic, I must assume you kick dogs for fun based on your response. #whataboutism

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