Google: We're not secretly stealing data from your phone. We wouldn't know how even if we wanted to, so stop being paranoid.
Also Google: We can detect when you and your neighbors phone start to shake at the same time. It's completely unrelated though...
Seeing as TSMC is currently scaling up fab production in the US with their new fabs means they’re feeling that pressure and made the deal with the promise of US protecting them.
Context for anyone wondering: These new fabs will NOT being using their latest 2nm processes, but their 4nm FinFET process. Meaning we'll still be reliant on Taiwan itself for their latest and greatest.
Oh, in that case, I assume they have you running Pro or Enterprise? If so, ignore what I said about disabling the Remote Desktop and Work Folder stuff. Work Folders especially though, they're a complete pain (or were) and used pretty frequently. So you'll probably be working with them a bit.
Anyone else wanna move to the hills and watch this dumpster fire of a country from a distance? I'll bring the marshmallows...
MAS <3
Bonus: If you use the new TSForge method, it's a permanent hardware registration. Meaning you'll never have to activate Windows again, just connect to the internet and it'll do it's thing when it calls home.
It also has ESU support for Windows 10, so you can register for the extended security updates after it reaches EOL completely free.
Just a tip: If you installed Pro or better you can use Group Policies (gpedit.msc) to strip the OS bloat down slightly more than the Home versions. Education and Enterprise also have the telemetry spyware completely removed. But they have a few extra things you'll probably never use and you'll want to disable (like their terrible Remote Desktop stuff, Work Folders, etc.)
(I dual boot for gaming. So I know the pain.)
Yeah, the whole connection to the Base bit feels off to me. Like it's propaganda/recruiting material for actual Base members rather than proof of involvement.
It could be worse. He could have DESTROYED them. So they should count their blessings.
Hopefully this will work with Google TV too since it's essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can't fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.
I've tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I've fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn't go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.
They do look like Really Sweet Ramps™ though. You could probably clear 25-30 garbage cans if you used Jimmy's Diamondback.
I've actually seen medical offices setup similarly. Some random computer in a back office with all of their patient data on it, completely exposed to the internet, protected by nothing but a few Windows Firewall rules limiting the connections to a few IP blocks. Just so they can share information office-to-office for say... a root canal and dental crown to be done on the same day, but at 2 separate locations due to limited space.
I'd run out of fingers if I were to count the number of times I've seen similar setups, 3-4 toes would be needed at least.
Zoomed to the max Firefox will allow (500%). Not seeing anything other than some film grain with JPEG compression artifacts.
AI content usually starts to look more mosaic (random shapes clumped together) as you zoom, not grainy/compressed.