I suspect this is not for people like us (most of us anyway). This is for younger people - people who grew up with iPads and smart phones. I've never wanted a touchscreen laptop, but I have seen lots of young people who don't use computers much try to touch the screen on a computer. It isn't particularly efficient, but it is what a lot of young people expect... not having it introduces a point of friction.
The Democrats don't have the power to fix anything, the best they might be able to do is to stop things from getting worse quite as quickly.
Despite the fact that the current Republican majorities in both houses have abdicated their responsibilities - Congress has the "power of the purse". When Trump's sycophants say "we're not spending this money Congress has allocated", Congress doesn't have to just sit back and say "darn, they've thwarted us again".
Fixing some of the funding shenanigans Trump and his Muppets have been pulling can indeed make things at least somewhat better.
Reading the tea leaves, it sounded like the market for a full-size electric pickup is comprised of individuals who seemingly suffer from terminal range anxiety. So Ford is rumored to be relaunching the F-150, except on the new universal platform and also as an EREV - it's supposedly gonna have a generator on board.
I'm actually curious to see the Fathom when it comes out. I don't really need a full-size pickup, but owning a pickup would come in handy a few times a year (if you have to rent one and drive it more than 20-30 miles, you end up paying through the nose). I was originally thinking about the Lighning, but got a bit spooked by all the crap Trump's started pulling to attempt killing the EV market outright. Of course he shot himself in the foot with Iran not too long after, which seems to have changed some of these companies' minds again.
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I saw a interview with a woman who was an ex-PM of Canada.
You might as well have just said "Kim Campbell".
Because you usually need to update your MB code from the UEFI interface, you might think that is necessary to access UEFI code.
It is not.
Didn't we already see a significant vulnerability related to this within the past 12 months?
Also, it's not just Windows. Just a couple months ago I updated the firmware on a bunch of Dell boxes using fwupdmgr (on AlmaLinux 9). It's very convenient, but I (mostly) wish it wasn't actually possible... but, since it is, might as well take advantage of it.
Are they caused by simpletons who are letting AI do their jobs without any oversight?
The window is also closed if you disable PXE booting I would assume.
I'm curious as to why you'd assume that.
Well, be fair. Back doors don't come cheap!
Yup - as soon as I saw who was involved, my immediate thought was "this is great if your goal is owning a permanently backdoored laptop".
We can save some money by paying foreigners to do the work.
If it's supposed to handle heavy on-device AI tasks, why does it only have 16GB? Womp womp.
Because it's a bad look if the least-expensive version of your laptop costs $2200.
The United States is the world's largest producer of natural gas and of helium. Qatar and Russia are the other top helium producers.
In the near future, I fully expect a new Trump announcement about how we're getting a bunch of helium from Putin, and as a result we're giving Russia Most Favored Nation trading status. And maybe Zelensky's head on a platter.
Speaking as an older employee (not at Microsoft though) - I suspect it will probably work. I mean, a lot of the older employees will realize what's going on and feel hurt and/or angry, but they'll also figure "it's not an awful offer and I don't know that I have the energy for a years-long lawsuit".
Fortunately I haven't had to deal with anything close to that scale of importance, but over the past several years I have found myself in certain situations doing those mental calculations... "do I really want to put the required time and energy into fighting that?"
I saw one of these ads yesterday while watching the Seahawks absolutely destroy the Kansas City Chiefs. My only reaction was "why on earth is Firefox running a television ad?"
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