"Just a bunch of hand waving "but, but, muh freedumb," type nonsense."
This is an ugly form of mockery. I bet you can find a better way to advance the conversation.
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> Fuck the USA. I really hope they do succeed in kicking out every single last "illegal" immigrant or any visitor who doesn't meet their bigoted, white nationalist viewpoint.
Any chance you're painting all Americans with a broad brush?
Also, I'm curious if you consider every action of your country's government to represent your personal values?
AFAIK, everything that's keeping me from using Windows 10 would be stopped if I can prevent Windows from phoning home.
I've read that Windows 10 will ignore any firewall software that would prevent it from phoning home.
But does anyone know if using an external firewall is known to work? I.e., is there a reasonable set of rules that an external firewall can use to suppress:
- Unwanted update pushes.
- Unwanted snooping by Microsoft.
- Unplanned system updates.
You may be onto something.
Perhaps every time you get a robocall, run an Asterisk script that:
(1) calls a phone number that the telco *has* to monitor (their legal, HR, or investor-relations department),
(2) using a spoofed phone number, and
(3) uses a robo-script to explain to them, at great length, the problems that robocalls cause to you, and that you'd like them to please implement a solution.
My wife owns a small photography business. We've had a lot of misgivings about Windows 10, enough so that we've been thinking about switching to Macs for photo-editing. But the new Macs and MBP's are so overpriced (and memory-limited, in the case of MBP) that the the migration is less likely.
When Microsoft pushed the catastrophe it calls Windows 10, they handed Apple a golden opportunity. I would have never guess that Apple would throw it away like this.
In recent years I really haven't had to put much effort into buying / building a Linux-compatible computer. It's all pretty much just worked.
The only exceptions I can think of are: (a) needing a little 3rd-party magic to upload firmware to a USB WiFi adapter, and (b) very disappointing scanner drivers for a Brother all-in-one.