Could be something as simple as computers just being screwy sometimes. Or something as unlikely but still precedented as a bit-flip caused by an excited electron causing something important to actually be affected.

Question is, are they running the 9x branch or the NT branch?

But what about forcing the computer to do something via bootable ASM?

Doesn’t hurt that Microsoft’s official answer to “what if my computer doesn’t meet the required specs to run Windows 11 or later” is literally “switch to Linux”.

It’s always big data, isn’t it?

A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there’s no need to identify specific people by face.

To be fair, if Metaverse did integrate something like this they would definitely record telemetry data “for development purposes”.

Pretty sure if they’re a wolf that sometimes turns into a man, they’d be a wolfwere.

He who keeps the old akindle, and adds new knowledge, is fit to be a teacher an inventor.

They hacked a nuclear lab to ask for what would be genetics research… facepalm

Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.

More like “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people they regularly interact with don’t want to move, and because herd mentality”

It’s the same reason why people tolerate YouTube’s bullshit. The audience won’t switch to a platform without content, and the content creators won’t switch to a platform without an audience.

I’m not saying it wouldn’t be an issue, ideally this kind of stuff should be banned whether there’s a workaround or not, because the average user is still going to have to deal with. My point is that, well, if you build a 10 foot wall, someone’s going to make a 12 foot ladder to get over it.

The system relies on an encryption key stored on the device, right? That’s actually a really stupid idea if you don’t want people breaking that encryption. Someone’s eventually going to figure out how to access that. Even the Nintendo Switch, previously notorious for being a completely airtight system, has been jailbroken.

So, in other words, I’ve been halucinating the fact that these services work perfectly fine on my Omnirom-patched OnePlus 7 Pro?

Except you’re not forced to use the Play store if you’re using a non-Google fork of Android. So unless they’re locking out the entire OS if it doesn’t authenticate (which, if they do, that runs afoul of interoperability protections), you can still install APKs directly.

Also, if it’s at the silicon level, that’s not even in the OS, that’s in the device and Google is going to have to bet on device manufacturers (particularly Samsung, due to their market share) playing along. If Samsung in particular decides that Google is going too far (and they could, they have their own reputation to worry about and they’re also going to want to have control over the devices they make - control that Google could potentially deny them as they continue to tighten their grip), that’s game over. Google could try to push their own hardware but Samsung has too much market dominance in the mobile device hardware sector for Google to challenge like that.

The solution is the same, though. Chances are non-Google Android forks aren’t going to implement this, just like how Chromium-based browsers that aren’t Chrome (or Edge) ended up implementing solutions for the depreciation of webRequest in Chromium’s implementation of MV3. So if Google does do this, just unlock your device’s bootloader and flash Omnirom or another Android fork onto it.

Small brain: Wearing a fursuit for trick-or-treating

Large brain: Wearing a costume with your fursuit for trick-or-treating

Galaxy brain: Wearing a costume based around your fursuit for trick-or-treating. (For example, wearing a Starfleet uniform with a feline partial suit for a Caitian Starfleet officer).

So, what they’re basically doing is loading straight from long-term storage into each core’s memory cache, and just running a crapton of cores? That’s actually a pretty good idea provided your long-term storage access speed is fast enough.

Depends on the dragon. I know a lot of metallics from D&D are willing to share or trade. One of the chromatics as well, though said chromatic hoards jokes, novelty items, comedians and prank gear.

In the case of dragons, those are synonymous.

When a dragon decides to hoard knowledge rather than wealth.