Pretty sure you can sign up with a username now for signal. No number required.

I think what I was hearing is that the CrowdStrike driver is WHQL approved, but the theory is that it’s just a shell to execute code from the updates it downloads, thus effectively bypassing the WHQL approval process.

Correct. In fact many, many companies have ASNs. Little companies all the way up to large ones. The key difference for an ISP is they allow you to route traffic through them. Almost every company that has an ASN blocks traffic from being routed through them, assuming they know how to configure that and that they have different peering points. Valve most certainly does not allow you to route through their network, they already have enough traffic just doing their own CDN stuff.

Windows Defender is actually really good for the common person. If you’re doing highly risky things then perhaps getting better software would be warranted. But if your doing low risk activates, Windows defender is pretty great.

Also, that’s not what VPNs do; you can still download ransomware through a VPN tunnel.

Let me guess, Congressional Republicans are going to hate this…

I think you’re still misunderstanding how this would work. So this battery swap setup is like the equivalent of going to the gas station. Basically, when your battery is close to being dead, you head to this place and get a fully charged battery. So it doesn’t matter that the battery is used, you just keeping swapping batteries out when you need it. Sure it would be annoying to know that when you bought the car, it came with a fresh battery that would get swapped out with an older battery, but you would have bought the car to get into the swapping system since this is mainly for folks that can’t do charging at home.

I think the battery swap is more like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNZy603as5w

No need to worry about pervious owners or anything. The system charges and maintains the bank of batteries you swap with.

WOOOW ✋😃🤚

Eh, it’s just exchanging what brain cells are used to remember what.

With Fahrenheit you need brain cells to remember that 32°F is freezing point of water. With Celsius, you need brain cells to remember that 40°C+ is super hot outside.

If I don’t own the product after purchase, the button shouldn’t say “buy/purchase” it should say “rent”.

I do like the idea of industry standard license.

My thoughts are:

• They need to limit EULAs to something like 600 words.
• Make them binding and non-changing to the product purchased, only newly purchased products can get the updated EULA.
• They should make a Ethics Policy (things like no cheating, be kind, no swearing, etc.) separate from the EULA. This Ethics policy can be updated whenever.

“I’ll show you a gateway to heaven!” punch

Preferably don’t. But if you had to, perhaps a 3d version using unreal but with the style of the box art.

Make sure the “Get the latest updates as soon as they’re available” is off. I think it’s off by default. That setting will reboot your computer no matter what as soon as the update is done installing.

How is it fiddly for Windows users?

What do you mean by that? Generate a new private/public key pair every time you setup a new TPM? Or when you boot the system or something?

You can’t do that since vulnerability is the connection between the TPM and the CPU, you need to encrypt that path.

The private key would have to stored in clear text somewhere. Potentially if you had non volatile space on cpu that to store the private key, that might work. But if you’re going to do that, might as well just use an ftpm.

Could you imagine traveling without time zones? It would be actual hell.

Normally you wake up at 1300, but then you travel to japan, you don’t know when they wake up. So maybe you ask the hotel staff or maybe people will start putting signs up “Japan wakes up at 0300”. I mean it’s cool you don’t need to change your watch or wait for your phone time to update when the plane lands, but how do you know when lunch is? When do you go to sleep? If a meeting you’re having is at 1000, is that way late in the day meeting? Or is that a super early meeting and maybe you should get to bed early the night before. You would have no clue unless you do it on the regular.

Now, you could just download an app that tells you what time it is where you’re at currently relative to what you normally use (so in Japan while they think it’s 0300, your phone says 1300) so this would make these way easier for you since all the times are just normal. Every time you move around you just tell the app where you’re at and it adjusts the time is displays annnndddd…oh wait I just re-invited time zones.