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Whatsapp doesn't encrypt metadata though, which is a massive security vulnerability. There's absolutely no excuse to be using whatsapp.

There are a lot more kinds of encryption in transit than HTTPS, Signal is absolutely not using HTTPS as the protocol to protect your messages in transit. That said, yes, the British proposal is wrong - as I said in my post. But if you're going to criticize them without understanding the proposal, you hurt the effort to counter the it.

Lol, this is just blatantly, stupidly false, the internet wouldn't exist in its current form without search engines making websites easily findable and accessible, you obviously weren't around back in the day before search engines became a big thing, you had to hear of websites by basically word of mouth. I'd love to see you create something that can catalog billions of websites and deliver search results about them in fractions of a second, websites like Google are kind of amazing when you consider how much data they have to store about these websites and how quickly it's delivered. Most of these websites would get zero traction or visits if it weren't for websites like Google, sure Google exist to show other websites and they make money from placing ads on the pages that link to other websites and Google sometimes sucks with their decision making, but it cannot be understated how important Google was to the development of the internet as we know it today. Lots of people wouldn't even be able to use the internet without sites like Google, lots of old people barely even know what an address bar is, they just Google the websites they want to visit.

Google steals content and puts ads on it to make money off the content creators

Whilst the OS, itself, might remain as a one-time payment, the number of in-built components may start to switch to a subscription service - over time.

Microsoft will follow the money.

What is the ownership % for Android tablets vs iPad I wonder? I sort of just assumed Android tablets were no longer a thing. Do they run android still or is it ChromeOS?

MS has banked on home piracy since the days of Gates.

Guy himself admitted somewhere that he much preferred people pirate MS software for home use vs adopt alternatives.

Because doing so allowed MS to argue that companies didn't need to train new employees in using MS products, because they were already used to them from home.

Yes you are missing something. Original content is copyright protected so they should be paying anyway.

> BitLocker would enable for free.

Now that is one massive Chekhov's footgun.

Are they copying Twitter and selling the furniture?

Then you're probably using Bing.

Yep, it’s absurd. It’s stuck at the bottom. I keep mine on the left on my separate screens.

Very true as well

You can't change the task bar location? Eww wtf. I always have my Taskbar on the left hand side as I have another monitor on the right side.

No TPM can go fuck its corporate overlord bullshit. DO NOT turn my PC into a cell phone.

They already aren't. Soo many office jobs require excel and directory management and the sort and a lot of people fresh out of school are completely clueless. They grow up with chrome books and phones where everything is locked down. They get into the office and have zero idea how to even do the basic operations on windows.

The musical ones can stay.

Probably because it’s extremely expensive too

Does telegram have the same level of encryption?

This is a lie, if it comes down to implement it or get banned from the UK they’ll go for the first option undoubtedly

First I hear of this.

The AI devs I've talked to sure were off the rails. In a good way

Just depressed memelords, yet with hope for the world

When I learned my i7 CPU wasn’t supported I eventually gave up all together and bought a Mac Mini M2 pro several months later. I’m done with windows and really enjoying the one apple ecosystem vibe already having an iPhone iPad etc.

Yes, but they require an OS to work, I don't think they'll do that to the OS because too many people would probably ditch both the OS and the sub services that run on it.

Edit: think inkjet cartridges... the printers were cheap because they made money on the ink.