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Our fix was to turn off the CPU Power Management switch in the Bios.
I just full hibernate or shutdown when going into a bag. This is as true for my work thinkpad, as it is for my personal razer as it is for our more family/general use framework 13 that is de facto my wifes computer.
We did have some tweaks as an outcome. But overall these policies have been in place for years. And since 2012R2 and later there have been multiple instances where windows updates policies wont apply in lieu of say... "maintenance windows" features being added to windows, so it ignores policies centered around deadlines etc.
Myself had a bit of a different household and those things I had to learn on my own. The lack of restrictions made me grow up a bit sooner. Neither really right or wrong. But some people dont have the best self control (even in adulthood). Ive brought that up with the WFH conversations here. Theres bias here because i would wager many are high performers and have great self control, but working with people I have noticed many adult colleagues arent that well self disciplined and putting them in the office setting does help.
This can be a double sided sword. My kid now, when he DOES get screentime will become fully engrossed it in. Especially games, and will borderline be obsessive. Which is counter to what he wants, because then we moderate it more.
I had cousins that were similar. Were so limited on things like TV, they would just get engrossed. They had TV days and no TV days and TV days were limited to a couple hours. On the whole it seemed good but they would rush to get up at 6am to watch TV and would be basically zombies. While I had relatively unfettered access (I had a TV in my room by age 10 or 11), I was able to learn to self-moderate and not be obsessive.
And thats where I will need to land with my kid. Find a way to allow him some time and to learn to self moderate. I will say Nintendo does this well. You can set a limit on the console and let them somewhat manage it themselves. (they still have to ask us to pick it up currently, but maybe we change that).
Most common failure points have been
1. Usb-c going bad on e an l series.
2. Chassis intrusion going off on t x or p series. Which will halt boot and require the user to ack
We were well into years of SSD's in laptops in the 2.5" sata format and Macbooks of the time (ie: 2012 models and even some after) were still chucking 5400 rpm spinning rust in there AND charging SSD prices for it.
It was bananas then, and they are just doing the same with a different component now.
W11 and AMD has been fun. We had to disaple CPU Power Management in Bios and disable fast reboot as systems would struggle to come out of sleep.
Multiple models had hardware issues, especially E series (which are desktop replacements for us). Many of the T series will have chassis intrusion just trigger constantly and require depot work to fix.
None of these are insurmountable but they cant be ignored. Still doesnt have me going to back to Dell's build quality and Intels heat issues. Most AMD laptops can run on power saver for 98% of our workloads and be fine.
From a privacy standpoint, W10 has seen most of the crap backported already so its a bit of a wash.
Windows 11 is a bit different and does have some wonk still. But there are things integrated that are nice. I moved to an ultrawide recently and the W11 native options for things like window sizing or taskbar management are much better and don't need 3p apps like you do on w10 with the likes of PowerToys or Taskbarx.
I still use Linux day to day and may even move there for work to be honest now that I don't do a lot of IC work in windows now.
Not only that but it seems they are relying on free advertising tool under the guise of giving someone a shirt or hat.
I too, have a frame work. Heck i was thinking about them in a consideration of our laptop fleet. BUT, im not a fan of branding shirts like that. I tend to wear them in the yard or around the house. Similarly I dont donate to calyx because they give me stickers or shirts, in fact I ususally try to decline those things.
And even today when this was done, We addressed the context of the email and I helped with 3 other things that werent on topic in 10 minutes. So it was a better use of time (and I do acknowledge plenty of meetings are totally useless, even ones I have called...)
Ill just say i dont appreciate them for their lead singer in the slightest. In fact i like them in spite of that fact.
>He's literally the most famous producer in the world. Nobody engaged him for cost-cutting purposes. :)
100% agree today. But back in 1991 he was still an up and comer of sorts, at least much less established than he is now. He is definately one that made bank and benefitted off the consolidation of radio (and was smart enough to pivot that into more modern forms of production and distribution). And i feel that is point that was being made by Beato. The clear channel consolidation and Telecommunications act paved the way for producers like this to make a killing. If they had an ear for what the masses would like, they had a platform to blow up (and rick did exactly that).
He didnt but Rick Rubin did. And Rick Rubin produced a BUNCH of bands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Rubin_production_discogra...
He 100% would fall into that "handful" of producers mentioned. Frankly Rick has been about as instrumental to the RHCP sound as some of the band members themselves, but it was Rick that was producing them from BSSM on and that is when RHCP blew up in the mainstream (George Clinton and a couple others did the earlier albums. )
Except the RHCP 2016 album the getaway, which was a Danger Mouse album. Rick came back with John for the latest 2 as well.
He actually has a pretty interesting podcast these days called broken record that started with him interviewing RHCP members (or at least that is when i picked it up).
Finally, I dont think rick was a producer manager and RHCP, at least, mostly had their own equipment short of mixers and sound boards etc. But they 100% used Ricks studio for a number of albums.
That said I DID setup a public shared album to share to a Dakboard....Its also one i share with family.
The URL is so long, from a privacy standpoint its less a concern. The facial details are already on the internet due to family sharing stuff on facebook etc. None of the photos are particularly revelealing and nothing i wouldnt care if they were on a billboard...So meh. I doubt i could be targeted to find it and anyone stumbling across it wont see anything they wouldnt see if they drove by my house and saw my kids playing in the front yard. We also dont religiously post to it, so its not like anyone is going to glean we are out of town because of something we put there.
TL:DR - meh, not much a concern on my end, despite other concerns that may border on tinfoil.
You didnt have people nearly as commonly doomscrolling on the subway on the way to work, or in the car, or in the living room around family, when the computer was restricted to a specific space/time etc.
Not that I am blaming porn. I am not. But once the screens and bandwidth became large enough, UI's easy enough to navigate etc AND the devices themselves became quite commonplace, the always online mentality became one used much less for essential communication and business and transitioned more to a cultural way of life (porn is just an easy and funny way to drive that point home).
Doom scrolling wasnt really as much of a thing until Android and iOS matured enough and gained enough acceptance that it was no longer a status symbol. Heck i cant even tell you most of the social media apps these days, much less dating, but having some conversations with my younger cousins over break, there really arent many ways to meet folks outside of some of these apps (at least to them), which is sad. Apparently something as simple as "why not just join some type of IRL hobby and meet people that way" was scoffed at.
Luckily for me, its mostly just for my own usage and Im not using Google to send anything, its for things like email alerts to my google workspace account...
For example if i proxy my connections through a VPS or VPN i will OFTEN either be outright denied access, or at best get sent to a validation step (most often they shoot the email an verification code that i have to plug in).
I will often route traffic through a linode for reasons. And sometimes use a VPN here and there (ie: mullvad). In almost all cases this will trigger anti-spam measures on sites, some so intrusive its borderline unusable (ie: Youtube and google with recpatcha).
At least that is the plan.
Others (cough google cough) are on the other end of that spectrum. I would imagine Nintendo is somewhere in the middle.
That said, i still grabbed Digital copies of games. Plan is i can put multiple switches on an account and when they are traveling (ie: not connected) my kids can play games without having to cop 2 copies of every game.
Still need to get the second switch online to test this premise though.
However they required multiple thousands to swap (iirc it was 3-5k) and the car was basically non-functional without it.
That is a very hard pass for me.
https://www.thedrive.com/tech/39065/tesla-claims-failing-tou...
https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-computer-touchscreen-r...
When I take it in for service I assume they don’t use the expensive stuff and chnage it at 5k miles.
Either way, that’s 2x a year for me. I’m probably below average driving at just shy of 15k miles/year. I think the average is around 15k though. That would be 2-3 oil changes if you did them at similar intervals.
Some companies (ie: BMW) mandate more frequent chnages and higher octane gas etc etc. I don’t use those cars. If I can’t service them myself I won’t buy it (Tesla included)
If you want the fully featured maps, guidance just pair your phone. Done. CarPlay is leagues beyond anything I have seen otherwise in an infotainment system.
And GM is removing CarPlay and android auto entirely from their head units. Under the guise of “safety”.[2]
Frankly unless consumers react strongly, I don’t see the car industry righting the ship with their anti consumer crap.
I have a 2009 Toyota. Arguably the sweet spot for features. Have a backup camera integrated into the tailgate but minimal otherwise computerized stuff. The A/C controls are the traditional 3 dial setup which is ideal for me, I can adjust it without looking down at all. I had to pull over to turn off the heat when I borrowed my in-laws F-150 for a day. I did swap the head unit for a kenwood with wireless CarPlay and integrated dashcam.
Given what I had seen from new models, I’m going to be sticking with my 09 Tacoma for a while longer at least.
Even my wife’s 2018 Honda Pilot had surging issues at low RPMs that was caused by dirty transmission fluid. Nothing that would throw an error, luckily my mechanic had just seen the same issues before. Her car has had more issues than mine honestly.
[1] https://www.thedrive.com/news/43329/toyota-made-its-key-fob-...
[2] https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/gm-confirms-its-droppin...
>We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News.
It just says his electronic devices were seized. Not that backups were included here, though it is implied.
Event still the FBI raid occured in July [1]. Backups are N-1. So he was down to nill back in July and didnt seem to act from there.
Also based on the dates in the screenshots provided, he went into grace period on the Google Drive data ALSO in July..
So I say again....its his lifes work. Its invaluable to him but its just data to anyone else. Its incumbent on him to make sure this doesnt occur some how, some way. Even on backblaze that would be 20k/year. I would be having that on multiple disks at multiple sites that I control. But that is just me.
[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/27/journalist-tells-fbi-to-...
But if its your "lifes work" i would assume the value there is more than just the cost of storage. That the person storing it would have thought about ownership and egress options a bit further out.
Like i use workspace for all sorts of stuff. But its google, they can and may just axe your account for any reason. So i have backups of all things at all times and worst case, i just move my email/drive whatever to another service along with the domain, which I own (and he appears to as well)
Im not excusing google at all. But at some point you have to take some accountability. Not having a backup plan and just trusting google or ANY company to faithfully keep your lifes work for you seems slightly....naive.