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theannotator t1_j9yox9x wrote

The current format with companies claiming 230 protections and then taking actions they shouldn’t get protected for can’t continue. Something needs to change but it’s probably not happening from the legislative branch at a federal level. The amount of things that got people throttled or banned but ended up being true in the past three years is unacceptable. You can disagree with an opinion but the platform shouldn’t be banning things that aren’t illegal and still get 230.

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Smith6612 t1_j9ynp52 wrote

They only encrypt the internal hard drive by default. Anything more requires paying for Windows Pro editions. At the point of auto encryption, it should only be a matter of them remembering the password to their Microsoft account.

That part I know can be challenging for many. They forget they even had an account!

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SanDiegoDude t1_j9ylu88 wrote

Honestly, the latest version of Ubuntu is pretty solid, had an old windows laptop SSD fail and tossed the latest version of Ubu on there to do some network server duties... but was pleasantly surprised how modern and just how much better the UI is. I'm not new to Linux either, I've got it running on a few things around the house, but mostly just CLI... Still not a "flawless" experience, since I ran into some issues with swap memory that was causing mysterious crashes when loading AI models until I spent a few hours researching and figured it out, but I could confidently hand this laptop to "non nerd" and they could use it for all their daily light computer tasks just fine. This is the first version of Linux where I really feel comfortable saying that (at least for mainstream distros, I know there's been a few "EZLinux" attempts over the years)

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