EpeeGnome

Not at all. He'd still do the evil stuff that benefits him personally, or that he does out of spite, or that he does because it riles up his supporters. Honestly, he'd probably still do some things to benefit Putin for free too, just to help out someone he admires. Still, I think he'd do less (or at least different) evil stuff if no one had been willing to buy him.

What would be notably different, I think, would be the amount of "disrespect" he puts up with from his buyers. Elon hasn't once been publicly deferential to Trump, when everyone else he's working with has to toe the line very carefully or get fired

I can't remember who it was, but I saw a comedy routine where the guy described a conversation he had with his financial advisor. The advisor asked him "What does financial stability mean to you?" The comedian, having just recently started earning real money from comedy for the first time, had never even considered such a question before and had to ponder on it for a moment. Finally he thought up an answer. "What financial stability means to me is when I'm ordering food and they ask if I want to add guacamole, I don't have to think about it, I can just say yes."

That line really stuck with me, and I have found it to be an accurate indicator of my own financial stability. Only works if you actually like guac though.

Oh yeah, I didn't mention it, but I 100% agree it's bullshit. They want to be able to track you better, and make it easier to convince you to subscribe to 360. Their bullshit keeps me employed, but I'd rather my job wasn't needed and do something different if it meant M$ was bullshit free. That'll never happen though, it would be less profitable for them.

Well of course I am. Lots of sensible folks are posting negative things about ICE online. ICE are a bunch of assholes.

Finally got a chance to watch this video. I don't know enough about how Windows works to have found the exploits they did, but I do know it well enough to understand what they did and found it hilarious. It's more practical to actually get out of S mode, but making everything run despite still being in S mode was a good laugh.

Yeah, it's technically already home version, just in a special mode, and it's trivial to switch out of if you don't mind connecting your Microsoft account to the computer. Just log into the Microsoft Store and "install" the switch out of s mode "app". It's a bit of a pain to get rid of it without adding an account, so if you want to do that, it's really easier to just do a fresh load that will automatically pick up the home edition license the laptop already has. Why not just use a disposable account just for switching laptops out of s mode? We tried doing that, but Microsoft locked the account after we'd logged it in and out of a dozen odd computers. Now we just use the customer's own account if they have one (and actually know their password), or reload Windows if they don't. You'd be amazed at the number of people buying cheapo S mode laptops and then being surprised when they can't load some other software they really need. (Or maybe you wouldn't be amazed if you've worked with the public before. Point is, a lot of people do this.)

Well, it's always pre installed on the cheapest laptops. Yeah, there are ways around it still, but it's not quite as easy as the old bypassnro.

Because it was really cheap and they didn't know the difference is the usual reason I encounter.

As long as it's not in S mode. Can't run cmd in S mode.

Yeah, bet she's feeling really loved right now.

If it's walkable, then it would be a solid giant, not a gas giant. What were they smoking?

That's my read on it too. Trying to have it both ways, and not exactly succeeding at it.