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  So this is also an outright admission that we should unplug these shitheads effective immediately?

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  Don't tell the /fuckcars people that. They'll get absolutely livid and start calling you names.

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  Microtransaction-laden cell phone games very infamously oozed in and ate that entire market's lunch. It turns out for short duration video game adjacent distraction on the go, people would much rather use the device they already have with a "free" (only up front) option rather than pay for a Gameboy/DS/PSP and games to go with it. Square discovered this the hard way when they tried to release their various Final Fantasy remakes on smartphones in the early days as if they were regu...

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  The loser or one of his friends probably tattled. Most schools have policies similar to this, ostensibly to "prevent it from being brought to school" but in reality because school administrators wish they could exert control over kids' lives 100% of the time but can't, and they're salty about it.

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  This is diabolical. Thanks, I hate it.

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  ? In the Enterprise editions of Windows, you can already uninstall it. Maybe not via group policy, but you can just find it in the Apps > Installed Apps list and right click to uninstall it. On the various home user editions of Windows, this is probably not the case. (I have zero systems running those, so I can't check.) The Enterprise LTSC IoT version of Windows 10 doesn't even *come* with Copilot, nor have any updates for it thus far installed it on any of the systems I administer...

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  There are relatively few, but there are a couple. The Sceptre U515CV-UMC is probably the most well known one. It's easy to find a dumb TV in the sub 24" category, too, but that's probably not what most people are looking for and at that rate most nerds would probably just use a computer monitor instead anyway. No DisplayPort on that Sceptre, obviously.

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  Because some of the TVs themselves whinge at *you* constantly if you don't connect them to a network now.

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  RIP to the Microsoft support forums, then. Although if these get tanked in the search results that will probably be a small net benefit for society given that not a single problem has ever been successfully solved by the Microsoft support forums in the entire history of computing.

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  That IoT Enterprise watermark just gave a thousand nerds a heart attack.

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  An old joke, possibly originating from somewhere in the basement of a DuPont facility: How can you tell a chemist apart from an engineer? ... The chemist washes his hands *before* he takes a leak.