The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
The EU giveth and the EU taketh away
Yeah, just clone AOSP, edit the source, spend hours fixing build errors, wait hours for the GSI to build, unlock your bootloader and lose all your data, flash the GSI, spend days creating shims to make vendor-specific features work properly, and finally profit. Easy.
I’m saying this having looked at the source code. You can’t hide the build number without turning off Developer Options.
The build number text is set to show if Developer Options is enabled. It doesn’t check anything else.
I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.
The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.
Ad blockers aren’t going to help with this.
The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.
That might explain why the title says “nearly”
I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.
It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.
“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”
Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?
Well you aren’t forced to publish your PC or Steam Deck game on Steam for one.
PC vendors are still selling laptops with 4GB RAM. 16GB should absolutely be the minimum (and should have been since 2020), but it’s very much not true that anything with less than 16GB is over 8 years old.
A coin flip program could replace Wall Street “analysts”
The article links directly to HMD’s website for the phones, where the specs say they only support GSM 800 and 1900.
Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.