I've got an entire set of windows test VMs running unactivated for about 4 years now. We have a few at work too (we actually have keys for those but nobody has bothered putting them in).
The worst that happens is you can't set a desktop background.
tony
joined 1 year ago
On the one hand I'd kinda love a pair of glasses that told me peoples names as I'm always forgetting them, or gave me directions without having to look at the phone.
On the other hand.. humans.
Google glasses were bloody obvious though.. you looked like a poundshop borg.
Surely someone with that kind of money and need would start with a $5 wrench attack. You can buy a lot of persuasion for $20m.
All mine to is turn lights on and off.. very occasionally they might be used to find a phone, or set a reminder, but I wouldn't miss it if that went.
I wondered if I was unusual in not using the voice features much, but according to this thread it seems I'm not.
Maybe raw battery cost has reduced but installed storage is 30% more expensive than it was a couple of years ago, and it was too expensive then..
I'm definitely feeling the need for some Drinks Company(tm) products.
That's my problem too.. it promises so much, but massively undedelivers, and just ends up being a heavy weight strapped to my face when I could get a better experience by just looking at a monitor... better games too.
Manufacturers (especially Meta) are trying to sell it as if it's Ready Player 1 level immersion, and it's just not, and never can be.
It's a timing vulnerability, based on how long it takes the GPU to render the page , I think, although it's also browser specific.
But seems low risk.. at a minimum of 30 minutes to grab a username, you'd have to be sat on the same page for a while and not notice your fans ramping up..
Also, passwords seems a stretch. No (sane) site displays passwords.
That is of course the danger.. as it is it's pretty benign, allowing more people to consume podcasts in their own language. But the terms need to be clear.
But they definitely got all the cheaters :p
I think they removed that requirement recently.. I killed the upgrade prompts originally by disabling the fTPM but they've come back in the last month or so.