Curated sounds to me like "kurvated." "Kurva" means "prostitute" or "whore" in most Slavic tongues. That has it about right -- prostituted computing, where your data is stolen, mined, and prostituted to the highest bidders by entities like MS, Google, and (yes) even saintly Apple.
Better a "freetard" than a paid shill for privacy-robbing, cloudpushing firms like MS, Google, Apple, Amazon, and FB, whose entire current business models are based on data theft.
Fine by me, insider trading is the least of our problems. It offends the American sense of fair play, but is pretty harmless compared to the military-industrial complex, mass incarceration, environmental destruction, etc.
People who actually do real work need local software and storage -- they don't want to upload everything to the "clown" and be dependent on 24/7 connectivity. For pure consumers, maybe you're right.
The partition table is changed, the EFI partition might be changed, but the hard drive firmware is unlikely to be altered, considering Boot Camp works on all sorts of drives.
Yep -- this sums up the American "justice" system quite well. Except if you're the CEO of a firm selling opiates instead of a street-level crack/meth dealer. Then you get a retirement package and die in the Bahamas at age 95. Same goes for being a CEO whose company was convicted of Medicare fraud. No jail, just a cush job as governor of Florida...
To paraphrase Leona Helmsley -- "only the little people pay for their crimes in any serious way."
Food, shelter, energy tend to have a fixed cost per person per year. At the very minimum, there should be an income level (aka standard deduction) below which you pay little or no tax. Tax discretionary income, not income needed for necessities.
If the hardware is capable of running it, it should be able to run it. Maybe after removing a jumper or clicking through a disclaimer, but it should be able to run it without artificial lockdowns.
Oh, and guess what? Typing this on an Ubuntu laptop that works just fine. In fact, better than spyware-infested Windows junk. But hey, pick your poison. Just don't attempt to ram your choice of poison down my throat, thank you very much.
Encryption provides protection from government scum (whether it be US, Chinese, or Russian) doing something like taking a device checked as luggage and either slurping its contents or installing malware on it, all without the user's knowledge.
What's to stop someone from using an imported device NOT originally sold in the US in the US, thus bypassing the key escrow? Or will the US gov't need to demand keys for devices sold worldwide by US companies, since some of them MAY be used in the US? Will people in other countries be happy to give up their privacy to the whim of the US government?
Sam argument applies for China, Russia, and Zimbabwe, with regards to devices sold in the US, of course.
Until the Chinese and Russian governments demand keys to ALL Apple devices, because devices sold outside their countries MIGHT be imported and used in China or Russia.
Or the US government demands to hold keys to devices sold worldwide for the same reason. People living outside the US shouldn't be subject to the US's whims and caprices either.
They don't want PC makers selling hardware without their OS, or users being able to opt-out of their Win 10 ecosystem. i.e. stop paying for Office365, OneDrive storage, appitty-app App Store apps, etc.
I never said it was. I said that I hope there will always be more (ideally free) bare metal choices on the desktop, not just OS products from Apple, MS, and Google.
They're trying to lock down OS and app choices with abominations like Win 10S, Win RT, and locked bootloaders on ARM. They may succeed, they may not. Anyway, thank G_d for easily compromised Chinese hardware which will always give the choice, whether M$ likes it or not.
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk... there's always the option of importing unlocked hardware, I guess.
Micro$oft wants to force everyone to run Windows on bare metal via locked boot loaders, and graciously allow some people to run "approved" Linux distributions in WSL. They can't monetize user data from users who choose to opt out of Win 10 spyware.
What is the endgame here? How long before MS considers mandating locked-down bootloaders on all Win 10 machines, even Intel? After all, WSL gives users a "choice" of operating system, so they no longer "need" to boot a different OS.
No thanks to that or WSL. I'd rather run Linux over bare metal and put Windows in a nice, padded, VirtualBox cell. It gets to communicate/update/run when *I* (rarely) allow it to, not whenever the machine is on.
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Curated sounds to me like "kurvated." "Kurva" means "prostitute" or "whore" in most Slavic tongues. That has it about right -- prostituted computing, where your data is stolen, mined, and prostituted to the highest bidders by entities like MS, Google, and (yes) even saintly Apple.
Better a "freetard" than a paid shill for privacy-robbing, cloudpushing firms like MS, Google, Apple, Amazon, and FB, whose entire current business models are based on data theft.
Fine by me, insider trading is the least of our problems. It offends the American sense of fair play, but is pretty harmless compared to the military-industrial complex, mass incarceration, environmental destruction, etc.
People who actually do real work need local software and storage -- they don't want to upload everything to the "clown" and be dependent on 24/7 connectivity. For pure consumers, maybe you're right.
Rapid City is great if you can get a job there. "Cheap" areas are often cheap due to lack of opportunity.
Not if you install extfs drivers.
The partition table is changed, the EFI partition might be changed, but the hard drive firmware is unlikely to be altered, considering Boot Camp works on all sorts of drives.
Yep -- this sums up the American "justice" system quite well. Except if you're the CEO of a firm selling opiates instead of a street-level crack/meth dealer. Then you get a retirement package and die in the Bahamas at age 95. Same goes for being a CEO whose company was convicted of Medicare fraud. No jail, just a cush job as governor of Florida...
To paraphrase Leona Helmsley -- "only the little people pay for their crimes in any serious way."
Food, shelter, energy tend to have a fixed cost per person per year. At the very minimum, there should be an income level (aka standard deduction) below which you pay little or no tax. Tax discretionary income, not income needed for necessities.
JFC, REALLY!
If the hardware is capable of running it, it should be able to run it. Maybe after removing a jumper or clicking through a disclaimer, but it should be able to run it without artificial lockdowns.
Oh, and guess what? Typing this on an Ubuntu laptop that works just fine. In fact, better than spyware-infested Windows junk. But hey, pick your poison. Just don't attempt to ram your choice of poison down my throat, thank you very much.
I don't want to need Microsoft's gracious permission (via an accepted signature) to run the OS of my choice.
Encryption provides protection from government scum (whether it be US, Chinese, or Russian) doing something like taking a device checked as luggage and either slurping its contents or installing malware on it, all without the user's knowledge.
What's to stop someone from using an imported device NOT originally sold in the US in the US, thus bypassing the key escrow? Or will the US gov't need to demand keys for devices sold worldwide by US companies, since some of them MAY be used in the US? Will people in other countries be happy to give up their privacy to the whim of the US government?
Sam argument applies for China, Russia, and Zimbabwe, with regards to devices sold in the US, of course.
Until the Chinese and Russian governments demand keys to ALL Apple devices, because devices sold outside their countries MIGHT be imported and used in China or Russia.
Or the US government demands to hold keys to devices sold worldwide for the same reason. People living outside the US shouldn't be subject to the US's whims and caprices either.
Yep, a bunch of "always-on" Win 10/ARM cloud-hybrid laptops and tablets are slated for release in 2019.
Within the walled garden of Win 10. Far better to run Linux on bare metal and stick Win 10 in a padded cell.
They don't want PC makers selling hardware without their OS, or users being able to opt-out of their Win 10 ecosystem. i.e. stop paying for Office365, OneDrive storage, appitty-app App Store apps, etc.
With Mac going ARM, will the ARM MacOS be more of a walled garden like iOS. Will ARM Macs still permit Boot-Camp type dual-booting?
I never said it was. I said that I hope there will always be more (ideally free) bare metal choices on the desktop, not just OS products from Apple, MS, and Google.
They're trying to lock down OS and app choices with abominations like Win 10S, Win RT, and locked bootloaders on ARM. They may succeed, they may not. Anyway, thank G_d for easily compromised Chinese hardware which will always give the choice, whether M$ likes it or not.
Except their push is towards locked bootloaders on ARM. I mean, I hope it fails epically, but you can't deny that they're trying.
Well, some of us don't live in the EU and want to run desktop Linux not locked-down Win 10 or MacOS junk... there's always the option of importing unlocked hardware, I guess.
Micro$oft wants to force everyone to run Windows on bare metal via locked boot loaders, and graciously allow some people to run "approved" Linux distributions in WSL. They can't monetize user data from users who choose to opt out of Win 10 spyware.
What is the endgame here? How long before MS considers mandating locked-down bootloaders on all Win 10 machines, even Intel? After all, WSL gives users a "choice" of operating system, so they no longer "need" to boot a different OS.
No thanks to that or WSL. I'd rather run Linux over bare metal and put Windows in a nice, padded, VirtualBox cell. It gets to communicate/update/run when *I* (rarely) allow it to, not whenever the machine is on.
Mobiles are the new dumb terminals. The "clown" is the new mainframe. FTFY.