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How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?

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Re: How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?

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I believe they hit http://captive.apple.com now (and that's what I use).

Whenever I access a public Wi-Fi with login / captive portal, and the portal doesn’t show up immediately, I enter captive.apple.com in Safari to trigger it! Works every time (iPhone)

I use example.com :) Less typing.

Re: How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?

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The pursuit of profit, purely for the sake of profit and no other goal, is malicious.

What? No it isn't, and profit has nothing to do with why this particular decision by Microsoft was.

If one's sole driving concern is making money, a whole lot of evil becomes possible. The other side of profit is power - those with more capital become more powerful. That's the reason Microsoft made this decision. They don't want the average person being able to easily make a local account, they'd much rather force everyone to register an account with them in order to even use their computer. It's just one further notch down the slippery slope of the end of private ownership and personal rights. A small notch, certainly. But it's a small notch in their overall endgame of putting general-purpose computing "back in the bottle" so to speak.

Certain powers in this world want there to be less regulation for the moneymakers in this world. Centralized wealth has been a cancer on humanity for millennia, and we're nowhere near putting the proper amount of shackles on capitalism.

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Does workstation edition have the same dumb properties as LTSC such as "Visual Studio won't install because reasons" or any other restrictions?

Not that I know of. But it won't install on "normal" PCs, it requires "workstation-level" CPUs. If you install it on a regular PC, it will just revert to regular win 11 pro. I don't know if this changed with the 22h2 upgrade, but it's the behavior I'd noticed before.

That’s not the case at all, and never was. I remember when Microsoft gave out free upgrade licenses for Windows 10 Workstation when it first came out, and it’s just an upgrade.

The weird CPU spec thing is that Microsoft doesn’t let you sell a high end desktop computer with “regular” Windows Pro, and requires instead that it comes with Workstation. But you can either version on any grade of CPU as long as it runs Windows in the first place

Re: How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?

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I'd love to know how Apple decides if a Wifi network is usable or not. For some reason my home network is flagged as a "Mobile" network and people connected to it can't update to the latest version of iOS etc. Is it because I've also created a Mobile Hotspot with the same SSID on a spare mobile phone I have, so my family can use their iPads out and about without having to connect to a new Wifi network? (i.e. I just w…

> Is it because I've also created a Mobile Hotspot with the same SSID on a spare mobile phone I have If that spare mobile phone is an iphone, probably yes.

No it's a cheap Android.

Re: How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?

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I'd love to know how Apple decides if a Wifi network is usable or not. For some reason my home network is flagged as a "Mobile" network and people connected to it can't update to the latest version of iOS etc. Is it because I've also created a Mobile Hotspot with the same SSID on a spare mobile phone I have, so my family can use their iPads out and about without having to connect to a new Wifi network? (i.e. I just w…

It's probably because of the hotspot with the same SSID. You should be able to set wifi network priority so "home network" is first but if not available it automatically goes to "phone network".

The way I've fixed it is to reset the Network Settings on the iPad. Brutal, but it works. I hate that this stuff is hidden with no way to change it.
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