Basically just a concurrence, though I regard ISIS as kind of a lesser Taliban that never had a real chance against Iran. However, it was the threats of ISIS and similar nuts that helped suck Iran into Iraq after Dubya started whacking the hornet's nest with his short stick.
I really can't understand the mindsets of the various lunatic fringes that support Trump. Almost all of them seem so self-contradictory that it's hard not to dismiss them as insane. Religious nuts who defend religious morality and Trump in the same sentence? Authoritarians who enslave themselves to a foolish puppet? A friend recently recommended the author John Hart on the grounds that he might give me some insight into the thinking of some of Trump's supporters, but the book I picked has such enormous plot holes that it's exhausting my highly trained abilities to suspend my disbelief...
You mean "in good faith" there, but otherwise an interesting comment. I'd stop short of giving it an insightful mod if I ever saw a mod point to give...
Kind of disappointed no one could think of any jokes. Or maybe there are some and they just didn't get the funny mod? I certainly can't think of any joke on this topic, so I can't think of any keywords to search for in quest of the funny side of the topic.
Hear, hear, especially as regards Dubya. Actually I'm almost shocked by the amount of insight I've seen in the so-modded comments I've seen so far.
You didn't mention one important aspect, however. The reason for this mess and the real driver of Iran's increasing power is Dubya's mess in Iraq, brought to you by the very same fools who have produced today's fiasco. The power vacuum they created in Iraq had to be filled in some way. The only problem is whether to describe it as "irresistible" or "inevitable", but the bottom line is that the winners of Dubya's wars were Iran in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. On America's tab--which is still open and bleeding.
Actually, I can only think of one way this deal could have been saved from #PresidentTweety's stupidity. Putin could have saved it. All he had to do was promise to return the uranium to Iran. Yeah, stupid, but the kind of stupidity that #FatNixon and his #BolshevikRepublicans could understand.
My prediction is that Putin is going to seize this opportunity to join (or even form) and anti-American alliance. He's going to pitch it as a purely economic subversion of Trump's insanity, but of course his long-term goals are political.
If that's wrong, it's probably because Putin has already made too much money under the table. Because his secret fortune is completely hidden, Putin has complete freedom to speculate on both sides of the game. I even think he has an AI model of Trump that is so accurate Putin knows just what Trump will do and when, and he can use that kind of information to play games like shorting the shares in his own companies.
I feel like we have some underlying areas of agreement, but we are having trouble finding them. I do think you are misleading yourself to some degree about how you filter your input and manage your time. The main area of agreement seems to involve the value of "an online persona", but right now I think you are confused about how much you and I values ours in contrast to how little the trolls and sock puppets don't value theirs.
Does it make sense to worry about problems unless solutions, or at least approaches that might lead towards solutions, are included in the worrying? I can definitely see solutions using EPR, which would help me see how to respond most effectively to you in such a discussion as this.
Actually, the main aspect of your reputation that I am interested in is whether you are the kind of person who could cause positive changes to happen. If so, then it could be worth pursing the topic farther. If not, then we're just amusing ourselves at best but more likely just wasting time.
The snark is likely the result of "in order to improve the user experience" and "a fresh, clean new look" becoming such dreaded phrases.
Are you talking to me? That was my original reaction to your comment.
Upon reflection, I think you basically ignored what I wrote and substituted your pet axe so you could grind upon it. I could actually agree with you that some snark is justified in the specific cases you referred to, but I was referring to a much broader malaise. I even thought my reference was sufficiently clear. As your comment stands, it appears to be additional evidence and I am not surprised.
Short response, basically an ACK. Longer response to the more polite question in the other branch of this thread.
I am primarily enthusiastic for using my time as well as possible, but I also prefer to spend time with nice people. These days "nice people" mostly means old friends, but I also want to be open to new ideas from sincere people I don't know. In contrast I am unenthusiastic about wasting time with trolls, even the time to recognize that they are trolls when their own trollish reputations could precede them.
Neutral enough question, though not exactly enthusiastic. Not knowing what aspects you are actually asking about, I'm basically forced to guess, and not knowing about your reputation I'm only going to give brief elevator responses. Perhaps you merit more, but I have no way to know that.
The goals matter. The Chinese are primarily concerned with controlling the flow of information and with stifling the news they don't like.
The goals of EPR would be to encourage positive reactions and to tilt the scales of reputation in favor of several positive dimensions. The easiest example is actually the negative side of the true dimension, where the person making the negative report should have the extra burden of proving the lie (but with provisions for appeal that won't fit in the elevator). Next floor...
Imagine a second icon next to the avator (or a EPR link next to the user ID). That link would take you to the EPR summary and the links to the actual data. Next floor.
Remember the primary motivation of the new Chinese reputation system is social control, and the motivation of existing reputation systems is linked to profit, but EPR should be linked to such objectives as saving time and becoming a better person by finding other good people to pay attention to.
(1) Mostly stop showing news sources that I've already assessed as sources of worthless sludge and fake news.
(2) Fewer intrusions on my attention for no real reason.
(3) Fewer updates. Should be a user default, and in my case I think I'd prefer to set it for twice a day.
Several other thoughts, but the snark on Slashdot has reached such a tiresome level... I wonder if that's related to the evidently low interest in the story?
Well the Chinese have started up the Social Credit System. You'll love it.
My initial impression is that you saw a headline on the idea. I actually read a couple of articles on it and could critique it in detail, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to go there on the basis of your bit of fluff.
And foolish people will recommend fake or stupid news. I'm much less concerned about the sincere fanatics as the paid propagandists and professional trolls. As it exists now, Facebook is their perfect tool. Not just for propagating the BS but for dividing and conquering the opposition.
Solution time? I feel like I'm wasting the keystrokes since the same solution applied to a recent story and elicited no detectable interest. (ACs don't count and I don't see their comments.) However I think EPR (Earned Public Reputation) would be a strong solution approach. You can think of it as karma on steroids, but the basic insight is that positive interactions (in various dimensions) should earn reputation that is then (among other uses) reflected in the news sources you choose to recommend. In a contrasting example, if you tell (or propagate) a lie and someone is willing to take a bit of time to prove it, then your reputation should go down and your further comments should be seen in that light.
Actually, mostly not seen. The real reason I want EPR is to focus my time on reading comments from people who are demonstrably nicer or better informed or even funnier than I am. The other people would be invisible for me, if'n I had my druthers.
There's some secret reply, eh? Sorry, AC, I'm NOT interested in wasting time investigating. Your claim of AC status is equivalent to a claim of ZERO EPR and my hypothetical visibility setting for EPR would be higher than the positive default.
It could be worse. The "hidden comment" could be an accredited comment that has already been modded into invisibility. In that case the local reputation would be overwhelmingly negative (except for the even more remote possibility of troll attack).
Rather sad if the secret reply actually had a constructive solution, eh? I would have liked to have seen it in that unlikely case. Much more likely it was just a bit of snark.
Yes, it's important to look at the problems, but if there is no solution, is there really a problem? There seems to be a lot of confusion these days about reality, ugly reality, and bothersome realities that certain people refuse to believe in. (Even worse when gaslighting Level-3 liars exploit the will to believe...)
So is there any solution to this malicious app problem? I think the best solution approach would involve exposing the financial models of the apps, with secure commentary provided by financial experts. In minimalist other words, if we knew where the money was coming from, then we would have a much better chance of avoiding the scams. By the way, the same basic approach would help with malicious smartphone apps.
On today's Slashdot the only response will probably be a pile of snark, but let me suggest a few solutions there, too. You snarksters could stop and think a minute. You could ask for clarifications of parts that you don't understand. Even better if you could offer a better suggestion or three.
On the one hand, I feel like dragging in a couple more solutions, such as EPR or the news-reputation as a multidimensional metric, but on the other hand today's Slashdot doesn't feel so motivating.
Not sure if I have any such responsibility as the source of the original story, but I have read most of the comments (that were visible with my settings), and found many of them interesting and thought-provoking, though not as informative as I had hoped. The first comments did scare me a bit since it was certainly not my attention to trigger another OS war, but those branches faded out quietly and quickly enough. I do wish I'd had some mod points for some of the better comments, but all I can actually do is say thanks for your thoughts and the efforts y'all took to express and share them here.
Rather thoughtless and rude ad hominem and vacuous tripe. While I generally disapprove of negative mods, maybe I'd make an exception in cases such as this. If Slashdot supported EPR in a proper way, the effort to damage the reputation might be justified, though it would probably be unneeded as the identity would have already rendered itself invisible.
But if you [4931623] have nothing to say, why don't you just say nothing?
Another interesting comment I wish that I could reward with a mod point (at least). Gives me some pause about one of the pending machines... (That and my network constraints.)
Thanks for the useful list and again I wish I had a mod point to give you. Hmm... Maybe Slashdot could "reward" submissions with a couple of mod points?
Mostly interesting items, but reminded me I need to make another attempt to figure out what that Cortana thing is. Been ignoring it for a while now, but maybe it's relevant for something.
I didn't have any overwrite of GRUB on that machine (an oldish Toshiba). However I didn't have that problem with any of the recent updates of Windows. Pretty sure that machine was a multi-booter even under Windows 7 many years ago. (I only have three multi-booters now, and most of my machines are single OS boxen. All of them are getting increasingly old and decrepit, but it seems all my new machines are smartphones these days...)
Hear, hear! Another case of wishing that I sometimes had a mod point to give you.
Longer reaction in my comment about my initial feedback to Microsoft. I even think you would agree with me that more speed and more privacy would not be bad. (Security was the second item on my three-item list.)
Good summary and I wish I had a mod point to give you.
I think the broader problem is corporate cancerism. Capitalism is deader than communism and socialism remains a pipe dream. What we have now is worship of profit: "There is no gawd but profit, and Apple is gawd's #1 prophet." Microsoft used to be #1, but nowadays not so much. Any OS driven by profit maximization is trying to solve a fake problem, because there is NO solution to the "problem" of "needing" an infinitely large profit.
In terms of solutions, I think we need alternatives driven by cost-recovery. Fat chance. As usual, ADSaUPR, atAJG.
I think you're playing with a troll of the AC stripe, though it's possible he did put his name on it and just got negatively modded into invisibility. You didn't sufficiently pique my curiosity to get me to click on Parent, so I'll never know.
What I do know is that Slashdot could be improved to be a better tool for positive interactions. I even think that EPR (Earned Public Reputation) could be an approach to help. Call it karma on steroids? Basically there should be a more symmetric and stronger relationship between public behaviors (like posting comments) and public reputation (to assess who is worth paying attention to).
Much more could be (and has been) said, but ADSAuPR, atAJG.
When I see stuff like this I feel that there's no point in "upgrading" from Windows 7.
Seems to be the best place to comment on my initial feedback to Microsoft. In summary, I said that NONE of the featured new features interested me at all. What I actually WANT from EVERY upgrade is faster, more secure, and better protection of my private information. I have not yet detected ANY evidence that any of my REAL desires is being addressed by this upgrade.
So far I would say that the new version is mostly slower, I feel LESS secure with this PIN thing, and I feel no better about entrusting so much of my personal information to Microsoft's tender clutches. (Even worse that Facebook seems to be positively profiting and benefiting from the recent disclosures of abuse of personal information. But surely you've noticed the stock market is sick, sick, sick...)
The editor added comments about a couple of the new features that MS is touting. I'm NOT interested, and I'm well positioned to detect any interest if I had it. Not the slightest tickle of "Gee, I've been wanting to do that for years." I have a LONG list of things I wish the OS could help me with, and I have even revealed most of those things, sometimes directly to the corporate cancer in question, and yet... My rooms for improvement remain mostly vacant.
I wish there were more mentions of that browser hang... Chrome in your case, but I just had a second hard hang with this machine. Pretty sure both of mine were with Firefox.
The first crash requiring power off is mentioned as part of the original story at the top, but I thought it was a network problem and now I'm inclined to suspect it was actually a Firefox crash that just coincidentally happened at that time. The second was a few minutes ago as I attempted to respond to this story... No idea of what the triggers are, but...
That does remind me how Microsoft tried to shove Edge down my throat again when I first booted the supposedly upgraded machines. I'm sure that MS carefully tested Edge to make sure it doesn't hard-freeze the machines, at least not to the same degree. I did have to nuke Edge once from the task manager, but at least I didn't have to kill the power.
No, Mr Microsoft people, I do NOT want to use your Edge. (Rude adjective removed. At this point the generic-sounding term "Edge" has enough rudeness of its own.) So back to the feedback topic, but where to write it?
Pretty sure the nag screen you are talking about is part of the new security system. You may have better visibility on what is going on there if you come at it from the security settings, though I went in from the shield icon accessed from the task bar.
Now you have me wondering about the face ID thing, since neither of my machines asked me about it. Least not that I noticed. I did set up the PINs, but consider that less secure than before. Just another nuisance to be remembered and another link in the long chain of security nuisances. I don't know where the weak link is, but of course I'm not looking to crack into my own systems.
NOT impressed with the PIN idea, though one of the things it does is create a "shortcut" for unlocking the display. The obvious problem is PIN number fatigue and collapse, as in people who start reusing PINs because they have too many of them or who start writing them down in insufficiently secure places to keep track.
Just another layer of security confusion that I didn't need, but a black-hat hacker is always happy to see another layer of security. The longer the chain, the more likely there's a weak link to be found and broken...
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Basically just a concurrence, though I regard ISIS as kind of a lesser Taliban that never had a real chance against Iran. However, it was the threats of ISIS and similar nuts that helped suck Iran into Iraq after Dubya started whacking the hornet's nest with his short stick.
I really can't understand the mindsets of the various lunatic fringes that support Trump. Almost all of them seem so self-contradictory that it's hard not to dismiss them as insane. Religious nuts who defend religious morality and Trump in the same sentence? Authoritarians who enslave themselves to a foolish puppet? A friend recently recommended the author John Hart on the grounds that he might give me some insight into the thinking of some of Trump's supporters, but the book I picked has such enormous plot holes that it's exhausting my highly trained abilities to suspend my disbelief...
You mean "in good faith" there, but otherwise an interesting comment. I'd stop short of giving it an insightful mod if I ever saw a mod point to give...
Kind of disappointed no one could think of any jokes. Or maybe there are some and they just didn't get the funny mod? I certainly can't think of any joke on this topic, so I can't think of any keywords to search for in quest of the funny side of the topic.
Hear, hear, especially as regards Dubya. Actually I'm almost shocked by the amount of insight I've seen in the so-modded comments I've seen so far.
You didn't mention one important aspect, however. The reason for this mess and the real driver of Iran's increasing power is Dubya's mess in Iraq, brought to you by the very same fools who have produced today's fiasco. The power vacuum they created in Iraq had to be filled in some way. The only problem is whether to describe it as "irresistible" or "inevitable", but the bottom line is that the winners of Dubya's wars were Iran in Iraq and the Taliban in Afghanistan. On America's tab--which is still open and bleeding.
Actually, I can only think of one way this deal could have been saved from #PresidentTweety's stupidity. Putin could have saved it. All he had to do was promise to return the uranium to Iran. Yeah, stupid, but the kind of stupidity that #FatNixon and his #BolshevikRepublicans could understand.
My prediction is that Putin is going to seize this opportunity to join (or even form) and anti-American alliance. He's going to pitch it as a purely economic subversion of Trump's insanity, but of course his long-term goals are political.
If that's wrong, it's probably because Putin has already made too much money under the table. Because his secret fortune is completely hidden, Putin has complete freedom to speculate on both sides of the game. I even think he has an AI model of Trump that is so accurate Putin knows just what Trump will do and when, and he can use that kind of information to play games like shorting the shares in his own companies.
You've yet to say anything relevant. Are you some sort of troll?
I feel like we have some underlying areas of agreement, but we are having trouble finding them. I do think you are misleading yourself to some degree about how you filter your input and manage your time. The main area of agreement seems to involve the value of "an online persona", but right now I think you are confused about how much you and I values ours in contrast to how little the trolls and sock puppets don't value theirs.
Does it make sense to worry about problems unless solutions, or at least approaches that might lead towards solutions, are included in the worrying? I can definitely see solutions using EPR, which would help me see how to respond most effectively to you in such a discussion as this.
Actually, the main aspect of your reputation that I am interested in is whether you are the kind of person who could cause positive changes to happen. If so, then it could be worth pursing the topic farther. If not, then we're just amusing ourselves at best but more likely just wasting time.
The snark is likely the result of "in order to improve the user experience" and "a fresh, clean new look" becoming such dreaded phrases.
Are you talking to me? That was my original reaction to your comment.
Upon reflection, I think you basically ignored what I wrote and substituted your pet axe so you could grind upon it. I could actually agree with you that some snark is justified in the specific cases you referred to, but I was referring to a much broader malaise. I even thought my reference was sufficiently clear. As your comment stands, it appears to be additional evidence and I am not surprised.
Short response, basically an ACK. Longer response to the more polite question in the other branch of this thread.
I am primarily enthusiastic for using my time as well as possible, but I also prefer to spend time with nice people. These days "nice people" mostly means old friends, but I also want to be open to new ideas from sincere people I don't know. In contrast I am unenthusiastic about wasting time with trolls, even the time to recognize that they are trolls when their own trollish reputations could precede them.
Neutral enough question, though not exactly enthusiastic. Not knowing what aspects you are actually asking about, I'm basically forced to guess, and not knowing about your reputation I'm only going to give brief elevator responses. Perhaps you merit more, but I have no way to know that.
The goals matter. The Chinese are primarily concerned with controlling the flow of information and with stifling the news they don't like.
The goals of EPR would be to encourage positive reactions and to tilt the scales of reputation in favor of several positive dimensions. The easiest example is actually the negative side of the true dimension, where the person making the negative report should have the extra burden of proving the lie (but with provisions for appeal that won't fit in the elevator). Next floor...
Imagine a second icon next to the avator (or a EPR link next to the user ID). That link would take you to the EPR summary and the links to the actual data. Next floor.
Remember the primary motivation of the new Chinese reputation system is social control, and the motivation of existing reputation systems is linked to profit, but EPR should be linked to such objectives as saving time and becoming a better person by finding other good people to pay attention to.
How do I want thee less? Let me count the ways:
(1) Mostly stop showing news sources that I've already assessed as sources of worthless sludge and fake news.
(2) Fewer intrusions on my attention for no real reason.
(3) Fewer updates. Should be a user default, and in my case I think I'd prefer to set it for twice a day.
Several other thoughts, but the snark on Slashdot has reached such a tiresome level... I wonder if that's related to the evidently low interest in the story?
Well the Chinese have started up the Social Credit System. You'll love it.
My initial impression is that you saw a headline on the idea. I actually read a couple of articles on it and could critique it in detail, but there doesn't seem to be any reason to go there on the basis of your bit of fluff.
And foolish people will recommend fake or stupid news. I'm much less concerned about the sincere fanatics as the paid propagandists and professional trolls. As it exists now, Facebook is their perfect tool. Not just for propagating the BS but for dividing and conquering the opposition.
Solution time? I feel like I'm wasting the keystrokes since the same solution applied to a recent story and elicited no detectable interest. (ACs don't count and I don't see their comments.) However I think EPR (Earned Public Reputation) would be a strong solution approach. You can think of it as karma on steroids, but the basic insight is that positive interactions (in various dimensions) should earn reputation that is then (among other uses) reflected in the news sources you choose to recommend. In a contrasting example, if you tell (or propagate) a lie and someone is willing to take a bit of time to prove it, then your reputation should go down and your further comments should be seen in that light.
Actually, mostly not seen. The real reason I want EPR is to focus my time on reading comments from people who are demonstrably nicer or better informed or even funnier than I am. The other people would be invisible for me, if'n I had my druthers.
There's some secret reply, eh? Sorry, AC, I'm NOT interested in wasting time investigating. Your claim of AC status is equivalent to a claim of ZERO EPR and my hypothetical visibility setting for EPR would be higher than the positive default.
It could be worse. The "hidden comment" could be an accredited comment that has already been modded into invisibility. In that case the local reputation would be overwhelmingly negative (except for the even more remote possibility of troll attack).
Rather sad if the secret reply actually had a constructive solution, eh? I would have liked to have seen it in that unlikely case. Much more likely it was just a bit of snark.
Yes, it's important to look at the problems, but if there is no solution, is there really a problem? There seems to be a lot of confusion these days about reality, ugly reality, and bothersome realities that certain people refuse to believe in. (Even worse when gaslighting Level-3 liars exploit the will to believe...)
So is there any solution to this malicious app problem? I think the best solution approach would involve exposing the financial models of the apps, with secure commentary provided by financial experts. In minimalist other words, if we knew where the money was coming from, then we would have a much better chance of avoiding the scams. By the way, the same basic approach would help with malicious smartphone apps.
On today's Slashdot the only response will probably be a pile of snark, but let me suggest a few solutions there, too. You snarksters could stop and think a minute. You could ask for clarifications of parts that you don't understand. Even better if you could offer a better suggestion or three.
On the one hand, I feel like dragging in a couple more solutions, such as EPR or the news-reputation as a multidimensional metric, but on the other hand today's Slashdot doesn't feel so motivating.
Not sure if I have any such responsibility as the source of the original story, but I have read most of the comments (that were visible with my settings), and found many of them interesting and thought-provoking, though not as informative as I had hoped. The first comments did scare me a bit since it was certainly not my attention to trigger another OS war, but those branches faded out quietly and quickly enough. I do wish I'd had some mod points for some of the better comments, but all I can actually do is say thanks for your thoughts and the efforts y'all took to express and share them here.
Rather thoughtless and rude ad hominem and vacuous tripe. While I generally disapprove of negative mods, maybe I'd make an exception in cases such as this. If Slashdot supported EPR in a proper way, the effort to damage the reputation might be justified, though it would probably be unneeded as the identity would have already rendered itself invisible.
But if you [4931623] have nothing to say, why don't you just say nothing?
Another interesting comment I wish that I could reward with a mod point (at least). Gives me some pause about one of the pending machines... (That and my network constraints.)
Thanks for the useful list and again I wish I had a mod point to give you. Hmm... Maybe Slashdot could "reward" submissions with a couple of mod points?
Mostly interesting items, but reminded me I need to make another attempt to figure out what that Cortana thing is. Been ignoring it for a while now, but maybe it's relevant for something.
I didn't have any overwrite of GRUB on that machine (an oldish Toshiba). However I didn't have that problem with any of the recent updates of Windows. Pretty sure that machine was a multi-booter even under Windows 7 many years ago. (I only have three multi-booters now, and most of my machines are single OS boxen. All of them are getting increasingly old and decrepit, but it seems all my new machines are smartphones these days...)
Hear, hear! Another case of wishing that I sometimes had a mod point to give you.
Longer reaction in my comment about my initial feedback to Microsoft. I even think you would agree with me that more speed and more privacy would not be bad. (Security was the second item on my three-item list.)
Good summary and I wish I had a mod point to give you.
I think the broader problem is corporate cancerism. Capitalism is deader than communism and socialism remains a pipe dream. What we have now is worship of profit: "There is no gawd but profit, and Apple is gawd's #1 prophet." Microsoft used to be #1, but nowadays not so much. Any OS driven by profit maximization is trying to solve a fake problem, because there is NO solution to the "problem" of "needing" an infinitely large profit.
In terms of solutions, I think we need alternatives driven by cost-recovery. Fat chance. As usual, ADSaUPR, atAJG.
I think you're playing with a troll of the AC stripe, though it's possible he did put his name on it and just got negatively modded into invisibility. You didn't sufficiently pique my curiosity to get me to click on Parent, so I'll never know.
What I do know is that Slashdot could be improved to be a better tool for positive interactions. I even think that EPR (Earned Public Reputation) could be an approach to help. Call it karma on steroids? Basically there should be a more symmetric and stronger relationship between public behaviors (like posting comments) and public reputation (to assess who is worth paying attention to).
Much more could be (and has been) said, but ADSAuPR, atAJG.
When I see stuff like this I feel that there's no point in "upgrading" from Windows 7.
Seems to be the best place to comment on my initial feedback to Microsoft. In summary, I said that NONE of the featured new features interested me at all. What I actually WANT from EVERY upgrade is faster, more secure, and better protection of my private information. I have not yet detected ANY evidence that any of my REAL desires is being addressed by this upgrade.
So far I would say that the new version is mostly slower, I feel LESS secure with this PIN thing, and I feel no better about entrusting so much of my personal information to Microsoft's tender clutches. (Even worse that Facebook seems to be positively profiting and benefiting from the recent disclosures of abuse of personal information. But surely you've noticed the stock market is sick, sick, sick...)
The editor added comments about a couple of the new features that MS is touting. I'm NOT interested, and I'm well positioned to detect any interest if I had it. Not the slightest tickle of "Gee, I've been wanting to do that for years." I have a LONG list of things I wish the OS could help me with, and I have even revealed most of those things, sometimes directly to the corporate cancer in question, and yet... My rooms for improvement remain mostly vacant.
I wish there were more mentions of that browser hang... Chrome in your case, but I just had a second hard hang with this machine. Pretty sure both of mine were with Firefox.
The first crash requiring power off is mentioned as part of the original story at the top, but I thought it was a network problem and now I'm inclined to suspect it was actually a Firefox crash that just coincidentally happened at that time. The second was a few minutes ago as I attempted to respond to this story... No idea of what the triggers are, but...
That does remind me how Microsoft tried to shove Edge down my throat again when I first booted the supposedly upgraded machines. I'm sure that MS carefully tested Edge to make sure it doesn't hard-freeze the machines, at least not to the same degree. I did have to nuke Edge once from the task manager, but at least I didn't have to kill the power.
No, Mr Microsoft people, I do NOT want to use your Edge. (Rude adjective removed. At this point the generic-sounding term "Edge" has enough rudeness of its own.) So back to the feedback topic, but where to write it?
Pretty sure the nag screen you are talking about is part of the new security system. You may have better visibility on what is going on there if you come at it from the security settings, though I went in from the shield icon accessed from the task bar.
Now you have me wondering about the face ID thing, since neither of my machines asked me about it. Least not that I noticed. I did set up the PINs, but consider that less secure than before. Just another nuisance to be remembered and another link in the long chain of security nuisances. I don't know where the weak link is, but of course I'm not looking to crack into my own systems.
NOT impressed with the PIN idea, though one of the things it does is create a "shortcut" for unlocking the display. The obvious problem is PIN number fatigue and collapse, as in people who start reusing PINs because they have too many of them or who start writing them down in insufficiently secure places to keep track.
Just another layer of security confusion that I didn't need, but a black-hat hacker is always happy to see another layer of security. The longer the chain, the more likely there's a weak link to be found and broken...