Lol, I’m not saying you don’t know what you’re doing, but it’s not usually that difficult. I install windows all the time and it’s on a multitude of devices. It’s all, or at least mostly what you’re familiar with. I don’t have driver issues, or key problems, I don’t setup their online accounts or agree to any of that stuff.

I’m not saying its perfect nor defending Microsoft, but you saying how bad it is doesn’t make it so, it makes you sound incompetent on the subject.

And unless you opt for all default settings, the last time I helped someone with the setup and they setup an Outlook email, they received 2 emails within the first 5 minutes, a welcome and a get to know the new windows BS… So, you sound like you’re exaggerating is all.

As Mr Krabs would say, “it’s not stealing, it’s borrowing. You can borrow anything you’d like as long as you give it back”

So I’ll just “give back” all my copies I have obtained, before I die!

No doubt

Lenovo does this too

What does he care, his wealth shot up from 5b to 11b since retaking office

So basically any silent gen through older Xers fear losing their power, so in a final attempt to take what they can and fuck everybody else, this is why the world is shitty! Got it.

As a Millennial, I’d like to get ahead of this shitstorm and run for president. I will only take money from citizens, no PACs or businesses that aren’t proper non-profits with actual good intentions… No shell corps or bribery.

That’s probably why they’re doing it, now there will be a drop in sales, bc, like using IE to download chrome back in the day, people are buying Pixels to load GOS. Now Scroogle is saying no. Their loss!

Right! They don’t make the tax, the gov does, so that’s nothing to do with service, but of course they’re going to guilt people into giving more.

Just use the liquid screen protectors. Served my old curved phone well for 4 years. My One+ has one as well just bc they work well and are cheap!

I’m running LineageOS on a One+ and it’s really good. I get close to 4-5 day usage with regular use just because ask the bullshit isn’t running in the background from Screwgle

It’s not necessarily a nonprofit. https://www.surveyandballotsystems.com/blog/mutual-insurance/who-elects-the-governing-body-of-a-mutual-insurance-company/

Oh for sure! I agree! But I do the following, mostly automated through settings, to either poison the data or avoid them from getting it at all.

I use Fake Traveler to spoof location sometimes. I sometimes do this while shopping for various travel things that are affected by region… If you catch my drift.

https://f-droid.org/packages/cl.coders.faketraveler

But if you’re not running multiple tabs, or in private tab view, and you’re not allowing most or any cookies, then they’re going to have a harder time following what you do and where you go.

1. Use a solid VPN
2. Use Firefox derivative (Waterfox and Libre Wolf, feel free to use multiple to separate tracking)
3. Use pivate tab mode
4. Use Privacy Badger (EFF)
5. Use Port Authority (highly rated port scan blocker to block network port scanning from LexisNexis)
6. Close unused tabs
7. Clear cache and cookies on exit
8. Disable unused network stuff (WiFi and/or data, GPS, BT, NFC, anything that’s not required that could be used for location scanning)
9. On Android 15+ iirc, disabled mic and/or camera permissions until necessary. Most people don’t talk on the phone anymore so it’s rare you need the mic (unblock for camera)

I’ve switched our company from Duo (Cisco acquired) to Keeper. I feel it’s more trustworthy.

Having a unique fingerprint I swear is just a way to scare people into compliance. Unique doesn’t always mean known. Sure, it’s unique that they can’t track you so well. Oh no…

I feel if 1 out of 200 people had this unique fingerprint, it’d be hard to distinguish who’s actually who. No distinct way to really differentiate with such little data being allowed to be gathered.

Thanks for pointing this out! Were getting around $250 back!! 😎

Let me chime in as I’ve previously worked in insurance for several years. I was licensed in a few States across all major lines (fire/property=home, casualty =auto, life, and health)

The point of a “MUTUAL” auto insurance company is its "owned by its shareholders/policyholders, and therefore controlled by policyholders. Any “profits” are paid back in the form of dividends. Aka overpayment in a sense. If they do a rate hike, it’ll probably result in more dividends the following year. Think of it like an escrow account. You base premiums on anticipated costs of business, claims, staff, legal, errors and omissions, etc. You might go above and beyond by a small percentage to make sure you’re covered for anything unexpected.

I’ll give you an example: COVID hit in 2020, and with less drivers on the road with petiole working remotely, we saw rate drops of 15% or more. On the flip side, 2022-2024 especially, with the struggle and shortage of auto parts, labor shortages, rise in vehicle thefts with Hyundai/KIA, etc, costs of policies went up by quite a bit to cover components doubling or tripling, labor prices for repair shops going up, and rental car companies raising rates, plus customers staying in rental cars for longer terms as shops were backed up. As these mutual companies ran deficits for the unforeseen costs, prices went up 1-2x a year to cover losses. Anytime a MUTUAL company makes too much, it repairs policyholders the profits as a dividend.

Now, state farm specifically has 2 auto insurance ends. State farm mutual automobile insurance and then there’s state farm fire (home/dwelling) and casualty (auto).

For any auto insurance company, be it state farm, GEICO, farmers, Allstate, etc, the Mutual companies are the better rate, better discount company if you qualify with low/no claims, no tickets, no gaps in policy coverages, etc. It’s a preferred tier meaning low risk. It’s the ones that are typically advertised to save you a bunch of money.

For the standard (non mutual) companies, that’s including anyone with a few claims, tickets, lapse or gaps in coverages, late payments, etc. Anything higher risk, aka higher premiums.

**It does pay to shop around ** occasionally, as there’s no benefit for loyalty. There’s no cost to shop around, but as companies always pull up to date info, If you’re claims drop off, tickets are the past, have consistent coverage for the past 12 months, you could qualify for a better rate. IF you care about loyalty, then what you do is still shop around at least 3 quotes, and if your quotes are much lower, request your current company “rerate” you. Aka pull current data. They’ll see you’ve shopped and your data is likely more favorable and you could see a drop in premiums. If not, that’s a sign to leave. I wouldn’t shop more than every 12-18 months as it looks unfavorable to you.

Very likely. She got around.

Thankfully, for work, we stayed ahead of the RAMpocalypse by replacing many older PCs that weren’t going to fully support 11 over 10. However, this year alone I’ve replaced only a couple devices and tried to save money by buying my own RAM to upgrade laptops, etc, and I might as well function with no budget, bc idk how else I’ll function.

I also chuckle and die inside at the and time while companies are pushing browser clients vs local install apps. I get it helps with version control and updates, but, its no less taxing with 50 browser tabs open vs a few application windows.

Windows 7= 1GB minimum, 2GB recommended (though I think that was x86/32-bit) so we’ll call it 2/4GB for x64/64-bit)

Windows 11= 16GB minimum with 32GB to function. It’s so ridiculous!!!

Even windows 8 or 8.1 was super debloated as they tried to slim down Windows to work on tablets that were ~2GB RAM. Bring that back at this point.