u/gregsanay

Lenovo LOQ, Linux Mint user here. That shiny Copilot key? Completely dead. Does absolutely nothing.

Microsoft made this key mandatory for OEM certification — so Lenovo had no choice. They literally removed the right Ctrl key that existed for 30 years and replaced it with a branded Microsoft button.

EU banned IE bundling in 2009. But a permanent AI logo burned into physical hardware? Crickets.

You can uninstall software. You cannot remove a key from your keyboard.

This is hardware-level vendor lock-in and nobody's talking about it.

Google's native video model, Gemini Omni, was unexpectedly exposed! Various amazing demos have gone viral. For instance, it can show a professor deriving mathematical formulas on the blackboard and edit videos with just one sentence. The smoothness has left the entire internet in awe

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I was ranting about background updates, mystery bandwidth usage, fan noise, hidden processes, and the general chaos of using Microsoft Windows on older systems... and somehow that conversation evolved into an entire fictional degree program called Bachelor of Science in System Resource Consumption Engineering (SRCE).

We ended up building a full 4-year curriculum covering subjects like Network Guzzle Engineering, Update Persistence Engineering, Driver Installation Mysticism, Telemetry Systems, Browser Resource Expansion, and Human Patience Modeling.

Honestly, some of these courses felt a little too real 😭

I was ranting about background updates, mystery bandwidth usage, fan noise, hidden processes, and the general chaos of using Microsoft Windows on older systems... and somehow that conversation evolved into an entire fictional degree program called Bachelor of Science in System Resource Consumption Engineering (SRCE).

We ended up building a full 4-year curriculum covering subjects like Network Guzzle Engineering, Update Persistence Engineering, Driver Installation Mysticism, Telemetry Systems, Browser Resource Expansion, and Human Patience Modeling.

Honestly, some of these courses felt a little too real 😭

Overtime Apple has marketed itself as a privacy minded technology company giving the assurance you don't need to worry about tracking and spying while you use your phone. But I've come to realise that it really isn't true the way it's been advertised with Safari being the selling point for this systematic marketing. In my experience, Safari as they advertise, features built-in tools to block trackers and hide IP addresses, making it a strong choice for standard user privacy, but that hasn't been my experience. One thing that contradicts these is targeted ads I often see. I know websites have ads but when it's showing ads of your recent product searches, isn't it suspicious?

We’ve all been told that what happens on our iPhone stays on our iPhone, but the reality is that Apple’s privacy marketing often feels like a clever screen for some pretty invasive habits. Even when we go into our settings and hit that “off” switch for analytics, researchers have caught the App Store quietly sending our data back to headquarters anyway. They claim this information is anonymous, yet they link it to our personal iCloud IDs, and when you add in the fact that they’ve compromised encryption for certain governments, it starts to feel like that privacy button is just a placebo, or is it my misunderstanding? If you could help to elaborate.