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Technology@lemmy.world•Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardwareEnglish
18·8 days agoThey used to have agreements to make it difficult to do so. I don’t know if that’s still the case but it’s pretty awful. I think OEMs had to pay licenses for every machine shipped regardless if it had a windows license.
The other issue is that oems have a large amount of compatibility and support built up over the years for windows. They also know their customers can deal with Microsoft for “support” and ignore driver and support costs for whatever distro of Linux they were to choose.
Sure an OEM could lead the way and show everyone else the path to freedom but think of the shareholders
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Technology@lemmy.world•2027 RAM Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold outEnglish
61·11 days agoYou’re right about domestic production but I think the situation is much worse. We’ve tried to make advanced chips domestically and we can’t do it. Taiwan has had decades to perfect the resource allocation, supply chains, knowledge, and work culture to make those damn things.
It should be an executive order to make them domestically, and put up with the years of failure and low output. It’s a matter of national security to be able to create and maintain computers and other advanced tech.
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Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL that Los Angeles is expanding a program paying people not to drive. If you agree to keep you car parked at home for 5 weeks and explore other ways to get around, you can earn up to $600English
4·12 days agoThese are two separate comments.
The metro is usable.
It’s still impossible to get around LA without a car. It’s a very large spreadout city.
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Technology@lemmy.world•End of an era: T-Mobile finally closes the door on 2G for goodEnglish
3·15 days agoThey’ve been phasing it out for years.
@recursivethinking@lemmy.world did a better job of explaining it than I could have.
This isn’t redundant, it’s failure points with extra steps.
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News@lemmy.world•‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS Phone
27·21 days agoBlackBerry MDM had duress PINs. One to wipe and another to not wipe but send an alert that the silent duress pin was activated.
I actually had to set it up for one person.
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Technology@lemmy.world•US prosecutors charge Atlanta man after GrapheneOS phone wipes itself during airport searchEnglish
50·23 days agoHow does this work:
He’s not yet granted access to the US, so laws don’t apply to him.
He destroyed evidence, so laws do apply to him.
How can both of these statements exist at the same time? Why not just turn him away?
Even if they turned him away, he could get back in line with his clean phone and give them a working password.
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Technology@lemmy.world•SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They’ve LostEnglish
27·24 days agoSince this snuck into a bunch of folks index funds a whole lot of people just paid Elon musk.
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News@lemmy.world•A Study Found Asthma Improves After Switching From a Gas Stove to Electric | Gas stoves are a source of indoor air pollution. New evidence shows how much they may affect people with respiratory issues
291·26 days agoI’m a convert. Induction is so much better. Heats cast iron like you wouldn’t believe.
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You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK the Tesseract dev made a blacklist of Lemmy users that get filtered from their FrontendEnglish
40·26 days agoIt’s not anti spam at this point. No one obfuscates something that much for antispam.
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Science@lemmy.ml•Orcas filmed ramming one of the world's heaviest fish so hard it explodes, possibly for fun
7·26 days agoWhoa the vid is brutal.
Give them Linux or install win11 home unlicensed and let them deal with it.
If it’s a Dell OEM machine then there’s a license built into the bios.
Giving someone Win10 ltsc is asking for trouble.
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Fediverse@lemmy.world•Switched from reddit to lemmy because they banned my accountEnglish
28·1 month agoBro, I dated your cousin. Both of them.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.English
4·1 month agoWin95 was trash for a while. ME was always trash. OSX wasn’t great on release. Every Linux distro has had its time in the darkness.
I think 11 is going through some significant structural changes at a faster pace than before, while at the same time the natural greed of capitalism forced MS to get rid of things like large QA teams and support.
If MS were really interested they would begin open sourcing a lot of the things that don’t make them any money (calculator, clock, notepad, UI) and focus on the major items.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits a Windows 11 bug is eating up to 500GB of storage, verify if you are affected.English
3·1 month agoOutlook classic is one of the better examples of a legacy app with tons of integration capabilities that should have been overhauled years ago. The way plugins work is probably related to your issues.
The modern Outlook app is significantly more reliable but has its own quirks that are pretty painful when coming from classic.
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Technology@lemmy.world•The open-source, DRM-free Open Printer shows off a working prototypeEnglish
2·1 month agoPrint out my campsite instructions since it’s supposed to be outside of internet service.
If you’re working on a manifesto it’s a good idea to print it out so it’s easy to find.













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