I don’t own the phone if the manufacturer controls what firmware ^low level^ software I can use on it. Preventing theft by never selling it properly in the first place!

Hope it’s public code if it’s paid with public money! Replacing it with proprietary software would be leaving one abusive relationship straight into another.

To use Windows without a Microsoft account requires tech literacy these days, I thought. I would not be suprised if users didn’t choose to sync with a MS account but it’s doing it anyway, if that’s what MS want.

“Enhance users choice”. Even if I assumed good intentions, what the hell is a chatbot going to do??

Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another person owns the copyright). If someone else controls your computer then that erodes your ownership of it.

May allow

The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.

I’d rather pay more money for a freer system but that option isn’t offered. Either I’m too niche or locking users down is more valuable than raw sales profit (or both).

I’ve not bought a console since they got internet and needed updates. Been Windows-free for a while too.

How dare users have control of their own hardware!

Maybe you’ve missed the real dumb shit getting out from various tech manufacturers. I’m not a car guy but I know enough about software and manufacturers screwing people to see that criminals and amaturers are not the real issue in regards to saftey or repair.

A Suburu car has a text pop up advert from the manufacturer on display screen, which can’t be used for normal functionallity until you click off it. Is that distracting to you? Want to bet it doesn’t ever get worse than that when the incentive is there and they’re in control? Source: 5m video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3KRfy9vQY

When I have time I’ll try to recall car specific repair issues that lead to injury. All that comes to mind is OneWheel, and the medical industry screeming death by cost.

If saftey is your concern I hope you do not blindly trust manufacturers given their history of “safety and security”. My concern is software freedom: being in control of your own computing (instead of the creator being in control). All software has bugs, but at least 3rd party software isn’t intentionally adding anti-features and spyware.

People have been able to change their own brake pads for as long as cars existed.

If someone claims feeling in a mere concept (without a body in a location)… I would find it very difficult to take seriously. But I must admit that’s just my intuition.

I see nothing special in human meat that couldn’t be be significantly replicated by electronics, software, gears, etc. Consciousness is an imergent property.

I fear that non-human, conscious creatures must fight us for those rights.

The important part is that it feels like something subjectively to be a living human. It’s easy to presume animals close to humans are like us to a degree, but all we know is what it’s like to be ourselves moment to moment. There’s no reason to deny an unalive system cannot also feel - we cannot test anything.

Welp, sucks to be a motherboard manufacturer. Always getting dragged along by other component manufacturers.

DDR6 will be about to release by the time RAM prices return to normal…

(Apple) will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its own in-app purchase system {in Japan}.

permit

The benevolence!

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Well, I was aware RAM prices fluctuate.

I’ve never been so unfortunate when buying larger RAM, or building a new system with a new DDR version.

People buying RAM: oh no, what do we do?

People buying GPUs: first time?

‘Organize your co-workers’ is not a normal thing to say as it implies you have control over them but coworkers are equal. It reads “organize your staff” in a how_do_you_do_fellow_kids.png way. "Organize with your coworkers’ may come off better but “around AI” isn’t explicit either in support or opposition to AI. So what the title means has to be inferred.

I had assumed it was more spam.