What exactly is your argument? Why would a computer only be able to run Windows?

Secure Boot doesn’t restrict anyone to only windows. Even if we play with the idea that it’s impossible to disable it. You can still install some Linux distributions.

Anything can support secure boot, the question is, are the keys included in the BIOS so it can run that particular OS without loading extra keys?

I don’t even understand what you’re trying to say… You don’t need keys in BIOS to install either Windows, or Linux. The only purpose for the BIOS key is for users to be able to just boot up their new computer that they bought factory new WITH their OS of choice without having to go through extra steps of verifying your OS license.

But you don’t NEED a key in BIOS. You can still buy a key separately to set up Windows. Same goes with paid versions of Linux distributions, such as Red Hat.

YSK, that’s not what it says or means…

Enterprises use a lot, and I do mean A LOT of custom software. Either developed in house or by others. They absolutely care.

What Microsoft does within their own OS, as the “S” version you’re talking about. That’s a non issue given you can just flash the drive and install whatever OS you want.

As for the concern that you’d somehow be unable to install another OS. Due to Secure Boot. I personally have never come across a computer that I’ve had full BIOS access to that didn’t allow disabling secure boot. Though some have been more cooperative than others. But maybe I’m just lucky.

But I’m also pretty sure there are linux distributions that support Secure Boot.

Secure Boot for what it’s intended to do, is a pretty good feature. Which is to stop unauthorized software from running before initiating your OS

It’s not going to happen.

Motherboard manufacturers are not going to start making Windows only BIOS.

Microsofts target audience isn’t the private user. It’s companies. The money they make selling their OS to private persons are table scraps compared to their enterprise licenses. Any such initiative would fuck over every single enterprise customer.

It depends on the context, don’t you think?

I don’t think anyone will assume you started the fire just because you’re sorry someone had to evacuate.

But let’s say you’re out in public, there’s people all over, you bump into someone, or someone bumps into you, you’re not sure, but either way, they fall down and injure themselves. Thanks to this, you can say “I’m sorry” without having a lawyer argue that you accepted guilt for the incident just because you said you’re sorry.

Well, no one has ever accused the Daniah of having a spine.

If that’s how you feel, that’s how you feel. But I personally doubt Reddit as a company have lost out. They still have all the data. And they still have a massive user-base. I’m sure Spez is suffering real bad with his hundreds of millions…

Good for whom?

There’s been loads of times where I’ve looked everywhere for a solution, finally finding it on google page 10+ in an obscure reddit thread with like 10 votes and 4 comments where someone had found a weird, illogical solution to your exact problem, that actually worked.

It’s a shame it went to shit. The real losers are us, we lost a lot of knowledge.

Eh. I would wager they just don’t want to. Which is fine. But lots of people rather than saying they don’t want. Say they don’t know how. As an excuse.

Because you’re capable of following a set of instructions and when there’s something you don’t fully understand you try to look it up knowing you have the world’s combined knowledge at your fingertips.

Darmok and Jalad, on the ocean.

The ones with the thin metal band that your hair always get caught in?

I remember the sound being worth the pain. Good looking too.

You see it as dismissive. Low effort reply, like they couldn’t be bothered. It’s not inviting continued conversation so you see it as someone telling you to stop talking to them.

If I were to guess. In your eyes. They might as well have replied with “cool story bro”.

Which is now forever a sarcastic term and no one regardless of what you say, will believe that you actually found their story cool.

It’s not the thumbs up in itself that is seen as rude, but the short dismissive affirmative.

Someone that sees it as rude would feel like they put effort into their message and expect some kind of effort back in the reply,

the single emoji response can also make it seem like you didn’t even care to read it, and just say replied with something to make them shut up.

You report it stolen to the police. You report it stolen to your home insurance (if you have one). Then you get a new phone and move on with your life.

People talk about theft protection settings. They’re good to have. But they’re most likely not gonna get you your phone back.

Spectator.co.uk so mainstream its the first time I even hear about them.

What you linked is an opinion piece by an anonymous “author” with no sources or anything to back up any claim.

You’ll have to do better than that. Let’s not forget which one of us is a proven liar in this discussion. We all have the history to prove it

Your description of events doesn’t match reality. You just make up whatever sounds good and then tell people they’re the ones who need to prove you wrong.

Just like you made up that Zelenaky had canceled elections. I had to quote and link you the actual law, thrice, because you couldn’t comprehend what was written.

So much for your “knowledge”

Cute little mimic game you got going. Truly playing the part of a child.

The people have the power to elect governments. And the people have the power to oust governments. That is Democracy at display.

You’ve categorically been willfully ignorant and proven wrong throughout this entire discussion. Your meager attempts at insulting me over and over won’t change anything, and only exposes you for the manchild you are.

Article 19 has not been amended once since the document was released on the internet in 2015.

I’m sure you are aware of who the president of Ukraine was in 2015.

But like I said at the very start. Don’t let the facts get in the way of your propaganda.

I think maybe I wrote too much text for you to read. Let us look at what Article 19 says again.

In martial law, the following are prohibited: amending the Constitution of Ukraine; amending the Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea; holding elections of the President of Ukraine, as well as elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and local self-government bodies;

Wait. Let’s zoom in on that.

In martial law, the following are prohibited:

holding elections of the President of Ukraine

What was it you said again?

i see your reading comprehension is poor. It says nothing about elections being suspended.

You’re right. It doesnt say anything about them being suspended. It says they’re prohibited. Maybe you’d know that if you actually managed to read the words.

Something something reading comprehension?