Posts by KITT44

Your graphics card's so fat, it's got its own gravity alert

Re: ZX81

My thoughts exactly ! Nearly 45 years ago one of the first home computers had a similar problem with the weight of the RAM expansion causing it to fall off the back of the main board.

Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak

When G attempted to patch this exploit, they also Bricked some Legitimate Devices !

This is known to have happened with Chrome OS 111 roll-out, but probably other updates too !

Google makes outdated apps less accessible on Play Store

Play Protect even disables Google's own security software !

I recently got a "Play Protect" warning because a few apps that I have installed had not been accessed in the previous 3 months.

Play Protect had removed Permissions from various apps including "Find My Device" from Google ! WTF !

I checked the list of disabled apps, and at least one other was a wanted app, but how can this behaviour be helpful, disabling their own security software ?

Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans

Re: yes, yes...

You could plug in a USB optical drive.