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Norton 360, which if memory serves has been a stalwart of the preinstall game now installs an opt-in Cryptominer. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/01/norton-360-now-comes-wit...
Further evidence that crypto is truly a cancer on software.
Yes, on the bastion of healthy software that is...third party antivirus(!?)
More than likely, because switching to Linux also drops all the "paid pre-installed windows software" (companies paying Dell to pre-install their software) then this jump in price would give a hint as to how much Dell receives in payment for pre-installing all those windows extras.
Nowadays there's also the automated data-collection, remote telemetry and troubleshooting, "know your customer", etc.
That said, the remote lenovo stuff is a whole different level
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It’s like why alcohol free beer costs almost same in NZ - because they have to take out alcohol!
That's why I find the power of ads and marketing truly fearsome. Why buy alcohol free alcoholic beverages?
When Lithuania banned sales on Sunday after 3PM the sales of it skyrocketed. IIRC NZ grown 100% lately too. Many people choose it when they drive.
I like my 9% IPA's but when I have to drive or there's bbq party middle of the day I'll go for low alcohol ones.
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It’s like why alcohol free beer costs almost same in NZ - because they have to take out alcohol!
Alcohol-free beers have their alcohol removed through vacuum distillation - the only reason it's not more expensive than beer is probably because there is no alcohol taxation on the product.
Right now 12pack of 330ml alcohol free Heineken goes for $23 NZD while alcoholic one is $22.
I remember paying €5 ($8 NZD) for 20pack or so of cheap stuff in Netherlands.
Cost to manufacture is negligible, really. Probably smallest part when looking at bottling and distribution.
Just take advantage of the Windows-environment subsidies. Save yourself a few bucks. Buy the system with the Windows OS. Back up the OS to a USB thumb drive and store it away carefully. You may need that to reinstall Windows if you want to sell the machine off a year or two later. Wipe the hard drive completely by installing a new partition table. Install your own favorite Linux distro. Almost invariably, the Linux d…
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honestly since 20.04 ubuntu or so, nvidia works pretty well on linux (other than battery life on laptops which is still not good).
If all you need is a framebuffer, nvidia is fine. However I regularly run into 3d applications that either only run (either at all, or without significant artifacts) with nouveau or only run with the nvidia binary drivers. I reboot fairly regularly just to switch between the two.
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If all you need is a framebuffer, nvidia is fine. However I regularly run into 3d applications that either only run (either at all, or without significant artifacts) with nouveau or only run with the nvidia binary drivers. I reboot fairly regularly just to switch between the two.
huh, that hasn't been my experience at all. I don't play a ton of demanding games, but pretty much everything I have played (on 1440p monitor, RTX 2060) is capable of hitting framecaps.
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That's why I find the power of ads and marketing truly fearsome. Why buy alcohol free alcoholic beverages?
If you like the taste but don't want the negative parts, or if you don't want alcohol but want to feel "included" ( e.g. muslims, recovering alcoholics or just people who don't like getting "buzzed").
If you've made the choice to not drink, is the next logical step to buy a non-alcoholic alcoholic beverage?
Seems a bit more than silly.
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Further evidence that crypto is truly a cancer on software.
If Norton 360 installed Folding@home, would you call F@H a "cancer"? No, you wouldn't. The true cancer here is pre-installed antivirus software such as Norton.
Crypto is a cancer even when users voluntarily participate, but that's a separate discussion. It's incredibly inefficient and I distrust anyone downplaying the severity of fragmented commerce networks that individually use more energy than entire countries with millions of fungible flesh and blood humans.
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In this scenario, would Norton be taking a 15% cut?
Yes, what if they did? In fact what if they resold 100% of the F@H compute power to buyers? That argument doesn't lead where you want it to go. It's the antivirus companies that are rubbish.