Why would you install a program like that? The name alone sounds like malware. Anyways windows has a default firewall that works good and does the job, and your router is a hardware firewall that blocks all unsolicited packets too your local network.
They stopped making them in the 90s and early 2000s when they quit making calculators. They made the absolute best RPN calculators that have ever been made, but shut down their calculator division. I prefer RPN, but I guess TI has a stranglehold on the market selling calculators without innovation for years and years. Ah well.
HP makes calculators still, actually. Can’t say I have any love for their printers but the HP Prime blows any TI equivalent out of the water, easily the best calculator I’ve ever used.
FYI HP also stopped making those. You can still buy HP calculators, but they happen to be licensed to third parties who carry on with new products of their own design under the same brand. At least in the case of the prime, Moravia managed to pull out a new firmware update since the transition, so there’s that.
Ah, interesting to know. I have a 15C and always wanted a 48g but haven’t needed a calculator in a long time. I’m glad that HP is still making good calculators. Maybe I should pick one up.
From what I remember it was when Carly Fiorina took the helm as CEO that the company turned from Quality-Driven to Marketing-Driven.
After she left it just kept being managed in 90s’ MBA style, just like a lot of companies of the time many of which eventually went bust or massivelly shrank (GE is a great example).
Well back in 90 the dot matrix printer my family had was an awesome workhorse of a printer. WE got rid of it not because it broke but they stopped making new drivers it around windows 95.
My family doesn’t print in color anymore so we just have an InkJet that works wonders. Printers do not need to have an app, they don’t need to be subscription based, or require you to buy specific ink/paper
I really wouldn’t mind the increased rates/quality scams/etc. if their library wasn’t such rubbish. There was a time when they had so much good stuff that I didn’t have time to watch it all. Now? They have a handful of good shows drowned out by Is It Cake? and other shite.
Yeah, I used to happily subscribe to Netflix because anything I could want was there. Now I use it on a family plan on occasion since it already existed, but there’s no way I’d pay for it so I could watch like 2 shows and 4 comedy specials a year, and have to find everything else somewhere else.
I was happy with YouTube and just purchased things there but recently you can’t watch beyond 480p in any browser except for Safari. So fuck that too.
I'll never forgive Microsoft for LOCKING me out of my own computer, during a recent update. I was FURIOUS. Something to do with Bitlocker or some bullshit.
Also, the whole point of the TPM (when I looked it up) was to not tell anyone, including Microsoft your decryption key. It’s so the user has ten chances to enter a short PIN or password and then it unlocks the device. That way not even Microsoft or the police can unlock the device without a tunnelling electron microscope with which to crack the TPM.
That way, you see, getting into a device is expensive and something law enforcement would not be tempted to do without an ironclad warrant and maybe a national security reason.
That Microsoft can ask TPMs to break their T makes them not T-worthy enough to be called a TPM. More like a Microsoft Obedience Chip.
TPM is meant to enforce DRM, not protect your data. They advertise it as a feature to protect users because it wouldn’t be very popular if they outright said that the whole point was so that your computer could process data without giving you access to it.
And now Google wants to use it to remove user control of browsers because users like to block ads.
You don’t have to give Microsoft the key (unless you want the “backup” option) but the OS has to have the key locally while it’s running in order to be able to read the data on the drive (and also write new data).
In typical usage The TPM holds the key, but it’s the OS that generated the key and encrypted the drive in the first place. I don’t know the technical details but the TPM recognises the OS install that programmed it and will only automatically unlock and provide the key for that. If you change it by swapping the drive or booting to a different device it remains locked and any alternative OS requires the key to be entered manually.
it happened to me, the computer had a firmware (BIOS) update and it reset the TPM holding the decryption key was wiped.
But anyway you had a backup of the decryption key, right? Right?
(The reason microsoft insists so much on having everyone login with microsoft accounts is that bitlocker encryption keys are uploaded in the cloud so you if you follow the link on the boot error message, you can unlock your drive)
(a “side effect” of this automatic encryption key upload on the cloud is that your drive is not encrypted for law enforcement)
Yeah I think so, like it ask you where you can to store the key and if you want to upload a copy or something like that it has been a while since I did setup the encryption.
That said OMG there should be a nicer way to introduce the damn key on boot… with a USB or something I had to type it so many times when I was fixing a booting issue.
On Windows 11 when you sign in with a Microsoft account and the device fully supports bitlocker, it starts encrypting the drive without any user consent or acknowledgement. It did so on my laptop
Only with a local account you’re prompted to save a backup somewhere else, and it’s picky, doesn’t let you save it on the drive that’s going to be encrypted
Idk man… maybe is a recent change or something but on my three devices I installed Win 11, I activated Bitlocker after a while, it was not activated on my install/login. So my experience is completely different it didn’t start encrypting without consent. And to be clear I have used Microsoft accounts on all of them.
On my Lenovo laptop my drive was encrypted without my consent, I was very pissed (due to a bug that wiped the tpm during a firmware update, I had 20 minutes of panic because I had no idea what was the bitlocker decryption key)
It seems to be a behaviour particular to portable devices. I’d argue encryption by default is a good thing on a device that’s more likely to be stolen (and the identity theft implications that brings) but clearly it needs to be better communicated to the end user.
I reinstalled windows 11 recently and had to manually re-encrypt the boot drive, which also prompted me to save a copy of the key. I had the option of backing up to my MS account, saving a txt file (which it refuses to let you place on any encrypted drive, even if it’s a different one to the one you’re encrypting at the time), or print it (which can be to a PDF you can save anywhere). It’s possible to access the backup options at any time after that as well. I usually take the last option, save the pdf to the same drive then copy paste the key into my password manager then delete the file.
Yes, you have to opt in.
I use a Microsoft account for my user profile, and recently reinstalled windows. I didn’t choose the account backup and so despite signing back into the same account, the encrypted partitions on my non-boot drives could only be unlocked by pasting the key in directly, there wasn’t an option to restore it.
But, if you spend your credits on the audiobooks you want, you don’t have to lose any. I did not lose the books in my library after using them and canceling my subscription and they still exist
Yeah this conversation made me just go “fuck it” and I impulse used the ten credits I have on a bunch of books so now I don’t have standing credits anymore. It’s better this way lol
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