Ah it’s a laptop, I thought it was a desktop motherboard. That is strange, on a laptop I wouldn’t expect people to have to mess with the BIOS at all to make VR work, that’s usually a desktop thing to make sure rebar is enabled and stuff.
They most likely sent you a new board which happens to have an older BIOS on it. I don’t think they try to upgrade them at all, they pick a boxed new board from the warehouse and ship it to you. You can probably just upgrade it again, there’s no way this one’s newer. Also I guess double-check you got the same model of board back, that could also explain the old BIOS.
RMA’d an MSI board for which they released a BIOS update specifically for the bug I encountered which can get the system completely unbootable even with a CMOS reset, and it didn’t even come with the updated BIOS either. I imagine they expect it’ll eventually get updated through Windows.
For me the reason I want a non-smart TV is the software is complete shit and even a Raspberry Pi runs smoother, and I can replace or upgrade the Pi when it becomes too old to be useful instead of the whole TV.
Those will all become dumb TVs over time, and then you’re stuck using the crappy software to get to your HDMI input through all the lag even though the software is literally useless.
At least old TVs had ugly as hell but snappy and responsive menus. No waiting 5+ seconds between button presses because the home screen is lagging loading all those ads.
I caved in and got one anyway and I regret it. Manufactured e-waste. The amount of times I have to reboot the damn thing because even my HDMI input starts glitching out is plainly ridiculous.
It’s open-source, people will strip it right out if it happens.
If it’s client side then pedos will just strip it out and keep on going. It’s a giant waste of time.
That could also make them okay with those existing, since they’ll now play ads. Third party clients wouldn’t be such a threat anymore to their bottomline, and people can get the privacy benefits of going through those proxies.
Not really. They can precompute those and inject it in an MP4 file so long as the settings match and it’s inserted right before an i-frame so that it doesn’t corrupt b-frames. They already reencode everything with their preferred settings, so they only need to encode the ads for those same settings they already do. Just needs to be spliced seamlessly.
But YouTube uses DASH anyway, it’s like HLS, the stream is served in individual small chunks so it’s even easier because they just need to add chunks of ads where they can add mismatched video formats, for the same reason it’s able to seamlessly adjust the quality without any audio glitches.
Ad blockers will find a way.
Lemmy updates are a little touchy and buggy, can’t blame them for taking their time. It’s only been out for like a week. They have to load a backup on another server and test it out to see if there’s any issues with the upgrade and how long it’ll take. They have to plan downtime and set aside enough time to do it, handle any issues and a potential rollback.
No, if you win you should be compensated for your legal fees because the idea is you weren’t in the wrong and therefore shouldn’t have had to sue, or shouldn’t have been sued. So the loser pays the fees, because they shouldn’t have sued, or they should have settled before it became a lawsuit that they lost.
If you’re big you can’t drown smaller companies, and if you’re small and you’re likely to win, you can go after the big companies for your dues because they’ll have to compensate you for the legal fees so it doesn’t bankrupt you.
In the US legal fees aren’t considered, you have to countersue if you want the legal fees back AFAIK. Not a lawyer.
They’re australians, so loser pays the other’s legal fees.
Maybe there’d be less frivolous lawsuits in the US if it worked the same, it makes it so you can’t just sue someone to make them go bankrupt.
Those are typically explicitly allowed through for various reasons. They want people to pay, but they also don’t want to stop Google/Bing and others from indexing it, and also archive sites. Which is why often people go through archive sites to bypass the paywalls, those can get a clean copy of the article and redistribute it.
It’s not a big problem enough that they’re probably deeming the loophole acceptable as most people still end up paying for it.
Because Google doesn’t have its own AI, and other Android manufacturers aren’t also embedding OpenAI wherever they can in modern phones like Samsung.
That’s super nice for rooted and custom ROM users where RCS doesn’t work.
So basically, he wants his salary to be Twitter’s purchase price and some change. That seems totally reasonable as compensation.
owned outright copy
It’s not piracy if you bought the software and own a permanent license to it.
I could understand refusing to repair it but come on at least send it back.
It also doesn’t ship with ISP backdoors or ISP remote management crap that can be a big attack vector. Just about every ISP router I’ve looked at has some hardcoded super admin password or secret unauthenticated paths to access hidden settings.
Custom firmware ships with plain web UI and/or SSH only from the LAN side (or even specific VLAN), so right off the start there isn’t a whole lot of potentially exploitable surface. And the community actually cares.
OpenWRT uses Lua for its web UI. The interpreter can be really small which works well for tiny embedded devices with mere megabytes of storage, and it’s much safer than writing a web GUI entirely in C.
They do at least for Ubuntu. One local to each AWS region even, not just one. Bandwidth is expensive, it’s all in their interest to have as much locally as possible than go out for mirrors. That definitely looks like something broke.
Those could very well be a bad batch of AMIs and now that they’ve all been spun up as instances there’s no taking it back short of emailing customers and politely asking them to fix the mirrors.
Or people are just following online guides and adding that particular repo copy pasting the mirror line which goes to the public mirrors.
Because humans don’t also take inspiration from other’s work they’ve heard and unconsciously repeat part of other songs they’ve heard before, possibly decades ago. Never happens. Never. Humans don’t profit from books they’ve read and apply to their career. Humans don’t profit from watching other humans do the thing and then learn to do it themselves.
All AI does is do the same thing but at ridiculous scale and ridiculous speeds. We shouldn’t hold progress because capitalism dictates that we shouldn’t put people out of jobs. We need to prepare for the future where there is no jobs and AI replaced all of them.