Apple got in trouble because they made the processor in the phone get slower as the battery got older, not for any of these 80% battery optimization things (which they also support now, but it was added after their scandal of slowing the processors down)

They also didn’t inform the user, so there was no way an average user could know they could restore their device’s old performance with a simple battery replacement

If this is normally only used for full screen 3D, would there be a way to enable it only on fullscreen, a. la. the old unredirect full screen windows in X11?

If an attacker gets access to your system, they will be able to ensure you can’t get rid of their access

It will persist across operating system installs

However, this requires them to get access first

To expand - DirectX is a proprietary Windows solution. Any time you pick it on Linux, it will run through a translation layer

OpenGL/Vulkan are cross-platform

OpenGL is to DirectX 11 as Vulkan is to DirectX 12

Microsoft kept the same branding, but also followed in Vulkans/Metals footsteps of using lower level calls to the hardware. This makes the graphics drivers simpler, and can be way more performant because the CPU doesn’t have to do as much

I mentioned above, but it definitely tried to make absolutely sure by requiring the exact string

“Yes, do as I say!”

With punctuation and capitalization required.

They’ve even tried to add more protections after the video to make sure that’s what you meant to do

The funny part, to me, is that the command he ran was so dangerous that Pop_OS required you to type out the entire phrase

“Yes, do as I say!”

With correct punctuation, or it won’t continue

If it was just an “Okay” box or a “Y” to continue, I don’t think he’d have gotten as much flak for that one

Nearly every computer you use, including the ones people are starting to use for self-driving, can have their memory accidentally modified from cosmic rays

We try really hard to protect spaceships from them, since they’re subject to more

However, due to the law of large numbers, sometimes your computer will get random bit flips - where it should be a 0, but it’s instead a 1, or vice versa

No? If a website refuses to load because you refused tracking cookies, it’s still illegal under GDPR

The fun part is that websites that do this are illegal in the EU

They need to start flexing that 4% revenue / year fines

Idk if they’ll be any good, but I thought this was interesting as a manual car driver when I saw it.

Toyota, however, has patented a way to provide the look and feel of a manual transmission in an electric car. … The car’s torque and performance will be altered as you “shift” to provide the feel of a gas-powered vehicle.

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/features/electric-manual-transmission

I’d still switch to an EV either way once I have a way to charge it at home