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That won't work. Windows won't let you finish the installation process unless you connect to the internet so you can't get the PC to a point where you could install the drivers.


The official solution[1] is to slipstream network drivers onto the Windows image before installation.

The official solution for non-technical users is to buy a PC with Windows preinstalled.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufactu...


No need to slipstream. Just copy the drivers to install media (hopefully a writable media such as an USB pen) Latest Windows 11 has an option to select the folder with the drivers of it can't detect a WiFi device and there is no ethernet card.

That being said, I installed Windows 10 on Framework 12 by mistake and SHIFT+F10, "explorer", right-click on INF and "Install" also worked.

But on latest Windows 11 installer such witchery is not needed.


Really?

When did this come up?

I know tons of people who run Windows unactivated. The key difference is there's a watermark. Otherwise, it seems to work fine.


The problem is not activation, it's the login requirement.


Personalization options like wallpaper and color settings are disabled until activation, though I'm sure there are workarounds.


Unless they have fixed it you used to be able to change stuff really quickly after install before it locked it down due to activation.


Hopefully it settles down soon. DDR4 prices are climbing now as well since more people are sticking with it.

I'd love to build a new desktop soon but I couldn't justify the cost and am instead building out a used desktop that's still on ddr4 / lga1151.


Holy ram prices man!

I just checked how much the 64 Gb ddr4 in my desktop would cost now... it starts at 2.5 times what i paid in 2022.

Sorry AMD, I would maybe like a new desktop but not now.


Congrats! Seeing an old version of MC makes me nostalgic.


My sample size is small but the usual reason I hear from non-technical individuals is that they want the best camera possible.


You can make lithophanes with 3d prints. I don't know about anyone else but that's what I thought this post would be about.


Typically ICE cars will offer variants of the "same" motor with different cams or pistons or even cylinder heads for the higher hp models alongside that better tune though.


Car phones weren't common place and were typically only available in some higher end luxury cars. I wouldn't exactly call that lots of cars.


A minority of cars yes, but so many cars - even luxury cars were made that it still amounts to a lot of cars.


> It's your phone that you bought from Apple with full knowledge of the restrictions beforehand. If you wanted a phone with more freedom you could have bought another device and voted with your wallet, but you didn't.

This is an unfair argument. No consumer can be expected to do hours of research on every purchase they make and understand the implications of everything. Manufacturers can say almost anything they want as "marketing" and can/do change the terms at anytime they wish.

> Software limitations are not exclusive to Apple. They're everywhere. For instance, manufacturers intentionally kneecap CPUs/GPUs so they can sell the same chips from the same wafer at different price points. Why aren't they targeted too? You bought the whole chip but you don't get to use it.

Yes and motherboard manufacturers have also offered BIOS options to bypass those kneecaps. I remember having fun unlocking the fourth core on my AMD Athlon II x3 455 and getting the "whole chip".

It's not quite the same scenario though. Some of those CPUs/GPUs have hardware issues such as an unstable core and the company is making the best of it by selling them as lesser models instead of trashing them.


> No consumer can be expected to do hours of research on every purchase they make and understand the implications of everything.

And yet you expect them to do that research for EVERY APP someone on the phone tells them to install?! That is how scammers walked my grandma through installing a fake banking app on her android phone, and stole all her money. Luckily iOS stops that!


>Luckily iOS stops that!

So you're just ignoring how the app store regularly has outright scam apps in it like : https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...

Apple's limitations demonstrably are not protective.


I'm not the one blaming consumers here.

Sorry to hear about your Grandmother but just because someone has an Iphone doesn't mean the scammers will give up. They'll just pick another attack vector.


So far, they give up when they hear that it is not an android. I'll take it.


> And yet you expect them to do that research for EVERY APP someone on the phone tells them to install?!

No, we're expecting people who don't want to do that research to only install from an official, vetted source, like the Apple App Store.

> That is how scammers walked my grandma through installing a fake banking app on her android phone, and stole all her money.

That genuinely sucks, but I don't think keeping people from fully owning their devices is the answer to that problem.

Put another way, if this is your position, then you should also support the idea of Apple also locking down macOS so it will only run apps installed through the Mac App Store. And Microsoft should do something similar with Windows. But I sincerely hope you wouldn't support that... that's just absurd.

The funny thing is that directing people to malicious websites is generally a lot easier than getting them to sideload a malicious app. If Android were to suddenly start disallowing sideloading, I'm sure the people who tricked your grandmother would have based their scam on a malicious website instead. If she trusted some rando on the phone to download and install a malicious app, I'm sure she would have been tricked by that same rando directing her to a malicious website.

But I guess we can just ban web browsers too, right?


Semi-agree. I've had 2 mx525s fail within ~6 months of purchase but I've also had a mx anywhere 2s that I bought used and got 3 years of usage out of it before I had to replace the switches.

I wouldn't buy a cheap mouse from them again.


Three years is below what should be considered acceptable, let alone impressive. I got a bit over ten years of really heavy use out of a dirt-cheap Genius mouse ($3-4) before it had to be replaced, and not because of the switches but because of the physical wear of the case.


I've used a G203 ($20) daily for 4 years and it works like new.


A desktop app for analyzing Node.js heap dumps. I've had to hunt down some for work and I feel like the tooling could be improved.


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