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Seriously - the options available in each drop-down might need some expansion, but the UI itself is almost perfect. It's clean, exposes the options needed for the vast majority of uses cases, and presents sensible defaults. It's the contemporary Windows settings system that's broken - not this.

I’m guessing “forever”, like influenza or the common cold.

On some (many? I don't know) modern motherboards, you can also flash without a CPU present: "BIOS Flashback: Available on some higher-end motherboards, this allows you to update without booting the PC or even having a CPU installed. You just put the BIOS update files on a Flash drive (you...

What do you plan to use the system for? Basic web/email/productivity? Graphic design? Photo editing? Software development? Games? Pretty much anything modern should handle the first few, but once you get in to heavier-weight uses you'll need more GPU and for more things than you might...

UEFI has a firmware component in addition to the code in the ESP, so a reflash is needed to be sure that the system is clean (unless there is another even lower-level persistence mechanism). Then you can boot from clean media, wipe, and reinstall. The bigger issue IMO is that if you can’t...

Could be, but other coverage with more detail includes this: “SMM is called during a computer’s early boot process from the UEFI firmware to load proprietary drivers and chipset configurations or to configure features such as power management. It is then supposed to be locked when UEFI and OS...

Serious, but it does sound like it’s being sensationalized a bit for the press. I’ve read this twice, and I don’t see any reason that a system couldn’t be cleaned by reflashing the system firmware with known-clean code and then a ground-up reinstall. You’d want to be sure not to boot from the...

Unless it was the only viable answer to “how does the developer get paid?” The mobile app model of continuous free updates was always a bad business model that leaves developers with unpalatable options.

That's...not unlikely, actually.

Damn. It really looks like a mass-production item rather than a science project, doesn't it? My car's engine looks more complex in some respects.

Time to amend the motto “Move fast and break things” to include “…on the ground.”

I know we’re not seeing the entire engine, but it is looking pretty refined. Which makes sense for the third iteration of the design.

"FTX's CEO, John J. Ray III" For those who have not been following along, it should be noted that the current CEO had absolutely nothing to do with the fraud. He was appointed following the FTX collapse in to bankruptcy and has done a fine job of recovering funds for customers.

Having followed AI off-and-on since the Prolog/Society of Mind days, I've never understood how a scaled up LLM is supposed to make the leap to AGI. Now, I'm not an AI researcher or scientist, but perhaps the answer is "it's not".

If the devices are in DEP but the MDM is down, they could all be stuck waiting on it to be fixed before they can be reprovisioned.

In other words, "Return to Nature"?

Good thing this wasn't the InTune, Google MDM, or JAMF back-end; a successful hack & mass-wipe from one of those would make ClownStrike look like a good day in the office.

This is probably true in a lot of cases. And is quite possibly the stupidest way to do it, since you pretty much guarantee that the people who quit are the ones with the talent and ambition to find something else. I really doubt that the PR hit from layoffs is worse than from a...

Got me. I'm the OP, and I didn't say anything about not being able to manage a remote or hybrid team. I said that hybrid sucks because the coordination overhead is higher. Good documentation and recordkeeping isn't optional, but it's a lot quicker and easier for a few engineers to sit down...

Honest question: You've found a way to fix the problem of poor meeting etiquette and fumbling with the controls impacting the productivity of hybrid Zoom sessions? Because I haven't, and I've been dealing with VTC since the '90s and I'm still seeing the same issues - side...