You can make this argument for literally every business, though. Which business does not have a single pool of resources and multiple clients to consume them?
The majority of factories. They get an order in and produce the product until that order is fulfilled. They don’t have to be running 24/7, it is just that that is the most profitable.
But if you stick to your “analogy”, a factory also chooses who their customers are. And if some are too demanding, they just drop them. Like the casinos.
Sheesh, talk about overreaction.
Almost all commercial software are advertising their manufacturers other stuff. Ever installed a graphics card driver? How many ads does that show for games and software that can run on the card? Steam also pushes sales by pop-up advertisements.
Google has been fined multiple times because they went much further than just advertising their own stuff.
Can you disable ads on an ad platform with a single setting? Didn’t think so.
So no, Windows 11 is not an ad platform, not even close.
Almost immediately
Not all, but more than front enders being able to do backend is my point.
If that were true, you’d have more front end devs being able to do backend instead of the other way around.
Yeah, or like having a separate screen for entering your username and one for entering your password …
I wouldn’t say it is the best hardware, but it is definitely the best bang for your buck
USB-c manages all those protocols when you plug it in.
It will always pick the best one depending on the available hardware.
It all depends on how safe you want your data to be.
Second Hard drives should be fine with enough redundancy.
I’d rather run 2 secondhand drives in Raid 1 than a single new drive.
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The strengths of Machine Learning are in the extremely complex programs.
Programs no junior dev would be able to accomplish.
So if the post can misrepresent the issue, then the commenter can do so too.
God I hate Pinterest.
Not only do they steal pictures in bad quality from other sites and write their website in such a way to always come out on top of search results, it also takes multiple seconds to close the webpage.
Does it allow you to be social and participate in conversations?
So yes.
Most people are completely fine with it.
So is it free free, or is it free* for personal use?
As in, can I as an amateur use it with all the functions enabled for an unlimited time without spending money?
Because I can with FreeCAD.
No you definitely can know.
Because if your company tells you you should use this software, you do not get a say in what software you use.
So it is either this, or nothing.
That is the thing, the software will function even with all the spyware and bloat.
Doesn’t bother a non-tech person.
Most of the annoying stuff that Linux users hate about Windows are because Windows has to cater to even the least technologically knowledgeable users.
It is why Windows updates are forced, why so many files are locked behind SYSTEM user and can’t easily be circumvented, why some settings are registry or Group Policy only, why some settings are opt out, …
Without those, their support center would blow up.
So if Linux wants to become mainstream, it will have to cater to those users as well. And Linux will slowly turn into Windows.