I have enough battery to run for a few hours during an emergency, then a generator kicks in. That's probably a better investment than just a bunch of batteries.

You're obviously talking to CoPilot.

*Chrome dev tools launched*

How are parents supposed to be involved in it when their kid goes to a school library, creates a GMail account, signs up for Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, etc...all without the parent knowing? The social media sites aren't innocent victims here. They knowingly allow children to sign up without verifying parental consent, then use and/all data they can get their hands on...and there's exactly nothing a parent can do about it at the moment, short of chaining their kid to a radiator and denying them digital devices.

Could you imagine if it was a credit card? Oops--sorry, we let your 10-year-old get a credit card and he went to the store and bought $2k worth of candy and sat outside and ate it along with his friends. Better pony up the cash or we're going to put a lien on your house.

Your 13 year old walked into an AT&T store and we signed them up for cell service and gave them a new $1k iPhone. Sorry you found out about it when the bill arrived, but you better pay up because you're responsible for the actions of your child.
You wouldn't stand for that predatory behavior. But if you're ok with it, have your kid give me a call. I'll sell him a year of "consulting services" for $150k and send you the bill.

The age of contract in the US is typically 18. It should be enforced.

That was Microsoft, not Google: https://money.cnn.com/1999/06/...

Whoosh dude. Whoosh.

I'm implying that Windows isn't safe unless the NIC and all sorts of 3rd-party drivers are disabled.

I never understood why the Windows boot process required you to go out of your way to do a 'safe' boot that disabled the NIC and disabled all the insecure drivers. They should have required you to type 'unsafe boot' in order to enable the NIC.

I guess that's why I get an email every 30-60 days from someone introducing me as their "New Dell Rep" (tm) because the old salesbro is gone. It's been this way for nearly 20 years. The turnover is astounding.

I think the worst part is...I haven't ordered a goddamned thing from Dell since I randomly decided to get some sort of tablet-like device circa 2003. That queued up the onslaught of "do you need some printer ink?" for decades.

Obviously he's poisoning his posts with misspelling for when Slashdot sells out to AI overlords.

He was obviously using AI to comment on his behalf.

If you're doing a crazy rant, you misspelled 'teh' wrong.

Same. But remember the old adage: When you work for yourself you have an asshole for a boss.

It's the best thing to come out of Microsoft in decades, and I say that knowing the pictures appear to show it completely failing to toast the bread in a circle pattern in the center.

Home Depot?

I donno...they could open source Windows and all associated applications and let the open source community re-wire it to run on top of Linux.