I’ve beeen a Synology user for a long time, but their practices have become more and more anti consumer as time has gone on. To go from DSM 6 to DSM 7 I was meant to buy all my security station license again. I downgraded again, it was painful.

This is only electric car market share.

US scientists works in the same way.

Doing that will probably make it near impossible to get serviced, though.

The wording of the headline would be different if it were trying to convey that.

I think it’s a slightly different connotation. “China scientists” infers scientists residing in China while not presuming their ethnicity, while “Chinese scientists” implies their ethnicity but not their location.

EU governments are probably the only path to mainstream adoption for desktop Linux. If they all did it and invested in the features they needed, it could provide a valid option for mainstream office use.

How will you make the UV lights for your tanning station? /s

Interesting. I thought that since I completely wiped the disk and removed all bitlocker that it would be an issue. Didn’t think there would be some other place to store the CD key.

Been here more than 20 years and my whole department does it. The computers are unusable otherwise. If I were sitting in an office it wouldn’t be possible, but they have a BYOD policy which allows for this kind of use.

Yes fortunately I had the bios password, so I was able to manage it. I work remotely. To IT it just looks like the machine vanished. They haven’t asked me about it.

https://rufus.ie/en/

This was also on my work machine. I had to use some utilities to extract my windows key and change some stuff in the bios to disable bitlocker, so it was not a small job but it’s increased my productivity a lot.

I installed with a local windows 11 account using Rufus and I have no ads. Also went back to old taskbar using StartAllBack. It’s just a good old windows box again. Really works nicely.

At least we have something to be happy about in this hellscape.

There’s usually a dip around Black Friday but yeah PS5 is a way better value overall if you are patient.

At the end of the day, the future is written by human beings, and unless we have a collective vision of where we are trying to go, the darker forces among us will take control and do as they wish with us.

Despite him being a tech bro and everything, I do think we need more shows like Star Trek these days to show us what a functional future with technology could look like. I think the only examples we see any more in popular culture are dystopian, and I think we are starting to believe that those are the only possible outcomes of the path we are on. Even Star Trek these days is pretty dark.

We need to again try to imagine a world in which the better half of humanity succeeds.

I guess each leg qualifies as its own jean?

Yeah they are throroughly vetted and work well, competitively priced. I’ve never seen a reason to switch.

What it should be at that price is a VR steam deck that you can optionally connect to your PC.