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epic_null t1_j9zdcg4 wrote
Reply to comment by Exshot32 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
I'm not saying don't make it available - just have the user turn it on at some point. Then if customers make a bad decision, at least then they'll have made a bad decision and understand why there's now a bigger problem.
epic_null t1_j9yz4em wrote
Reply to comment by Smith6612 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
Hard drive encryption is GREAT for business who have an IT team. (Even just one guy who knows to back up that password.)
But for consumers? That shit shouldn't be on by default. The user has no clue what the risks of it are, and no warning that there are even risks to account for.
epic_null t1_j9yp7yh wrote
Reply to comment by epic_null in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
Oh yeah and because of pins, the chances of forgetting your windows account is HIGHER.
Because you aren't USING it.
epic_null t1_j9yp4rv wrote
Reply to comment by Smith6612 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
The internal hard drive is what I have popped out of the system and put into a case for data recovery.
And if you can't decrypt an external without a pro account, that makes the problem WORSE not BETTER.
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Reply to comment by papetrov99 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
What part of the look do you dislike? There are different UIs, and gaming has gotten better (not 100%, but better)
epic_null t1_j9yklm9 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
I would change from any to most. There are a few that won't run and a few that are really broken.
Still, I can see real effort on Steam's part.
epic_null t1_j9ykc5b wrote
Reply to comment by wellmaybe_ in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
I primary Linux and try not to complain about my work machine because I understand it is the company's, not mine but dw I have complaints.
epic_null t1_j9yk3x9 wrote
Reply to comment by Smith6612 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
Oh no Oh no
Oh no no no no no
Consumers should not have that by default do you understand how many hard drives my family has had to access via external readers this is a bad bad idea so much data is gonna get lost
epic_null t1_j9r2ly0 wrote
Reply to comment by asdaaaaaaaa in Samsung Bixby will clone a user's voice to answer phone calls by Stiven_Crysis
I think I was calling about my retirement fund when I was enrolled and had to explicitly be removed from it
epic_null t1_j995mek wrote
Reply to comment by 0x6835 in Meta announces paid blue verification tick on Facebook and Instagram: Details by northmania
... They missed the hype train a while ago. Tumblr's over here making them all rainbow and letting people send them to each-other.
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Reply to comment by Agitated_Ad6191 in Meta ends support for original Quest headset after less than 4 years by Abscess2
I mostly hear you, however... I think it matters whether "ending support" means "no further advancements including bugfixes" or "your device is bricked".
Because you MUST sign in to Facebook to use the hardware (a fact I hate on its own), I expect this to be more of a "bricked" situation.
epic_null t1_j1ncvcc wrote
Reply to comment by Arpeggiatewithme in A unionized gaming industry? ZeniMax employees hope to be the inspiration. by Sorin61
Yes police unions can work like that... But I feel like the police union works that way because most police are that way. The union doesn't just get that way, the way the union is needs to be supported by its members. Most game studio developers are not gonna be happy with a system that works that way.
It also has the disadvantage of being the only union that all police are part of.
I would rather point to the USPS union for an example of a union with massive problems, and given how often I read "Grieve it" on that subreddit, I'd say the union has a very different set of issues.
epic_null t1_j1ky8rk wrote
Reply to comment by cock-fan in A unionized gaming industry? ZeniMax employees hope to be the inspiration. by Sorin61
... Where do you get your information about how unions work?
epic_null t1_j1kjlsm wrote
Reply to comment by cock-fan in A unionized gaming industry? ZeniMax employees hope to be the inspiration. by Sorin61
That wasn't sarcasm. Development isn't just about the hours worked - creative freedom and the state of the developer make a HUGE difference in code quality.
A unionized game dev workforce could bring the devs closer to the design and marketing process and help to allow game companies to utilize the reasons these devs went into game development in the first place. It could also give them the tools to push back against monetization models that make the game unfun.
epic_null t1_j1dxkxv wrote
I bet unionization will have a massive positive impact on game quality!
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Reply to comment by goldfaux in Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61
... okay a virtual stack tool would be neat. Like don't make me run the code to try to reproduce it, start building the state backwards and let me start to see what it would take to get there.
That sounds less like AI though and more like a comprehensive carefully built tool.
epic_null t1_j14aaor wrote
Reply to comment by Flam1ng1cecream in Study finds AI assistants help developers produce code that's more likely to be buggy / Computer scientists from Stanford University have found that programmers who accept help from AI tools like Github Copilot produce less secure code than those who fly solo. by Sorin61
Sometimes code is gonna smell.
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Reply to comment by sykot1c in Microsoft has launched a website to explain its Activision Blizzard acquisition by Zepanda66
As long as Steam pushes to use primarily libraries that other distros can get (meaning avoiding proprietary packages), I'm good with that.
Those who have never used linux are always worried about which distro to support (completely missing that usually supporting any means the community can usually port really easily)
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Reply to comment by sykot1c in Microsoft has launched a website to explain its Activision Blizzard acquisition by Zepanda66
Steam OS may be a contributor, but so is Steam taking over the DRM mess and convincing developers to use wine-compatible DRM systems while also conveniently rolling out Steam Play (Wine, but with some additional setup).
Seriously, the ability to launch a wine-based game straight from my normal launcher is a GAME CHANGER.
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Reply to comment by Smith6612 in Windows 10 users are being offered a Windows 11 upgrade despite not meeting the requirements by GOR098
There are benefits, no doubt, but personal experience tells me that the risk for a personal computer is more heavily leaning towards anything else happening, with the drive being the only recoverable bit. (This is reflected in how I choose and manage my machine, but may not be reflected in how people in higher theft areas choose and manage their machines. For obvious reasons.)