The messages might be end-to-end encrypted but what about the meta data?
They might not have GPS coordinates but WiFi hot spots names have long been geo-located by the tech giants (its more power effient and works for devices without GPS).
They cant read the messages but they should be able to tell where they are going.
And If they can link the identity of a target to a whatsapp account there is a very good chance that account is talking to other potential targets.
If your goal is to target an individual and anyone they are talking to for assassination, a missile can delete a house associated with that WiFi name. Meta data and some open source intelegance is all you need.
The point of the film is to show how horrible war is in a context Americans can relate to. If they made a more realistic alliance, down some sort of real life right / left politics the message would be lost and it would be held up as some sort of propaganda film by one side of politics with the other side using it to justify why they're correct.
So, yes the "alliance between the California and Texas" is a very deliberate choice.
I use a bred knife to slice cheese off a block every day.
Line it up and push down, one hand on handel the other on the spine at the top.
It works better than any other knife to slice cheese blocks.
This post makes it sounds like I am committing a war crime.
I palayed half life Alex on the Vive when it came out on popos. That said I tried to play it again about 18month later and it was broken; would launch but not load properly. Beat saber has worked for me very consistently, mods are hard to get going but it's possible.
Not sure that's 100% true anymore. It's not uncommon for people to go years without interacting with a windows PC, most will just use their mobile instead. When I say interacting I am not talking about using a self check at a grocery store running an app in kiosk mode, I mean startup, shutdown, update, install apps and use them.
I friend asked me for a laptop last year and had not used one for 8 years since his previous job. Even then his previous job was as a traidy and he only used it for generating invoices. I am sure their would be an app/service for that now.
Windows is in decline mainly because desktop and laptops are irrelevant for large swaths of the general population.
Provided the OS does not get in the way of what people are trying to accomplish (mainly accessing the web browser) it does not matter anymore.
Most people normal people now days need a web browser and LibreOffice (or google docs variant). Pair that with Bazzite or other "ready to go" OS that comes pre installed with multimedia codecs, navidia drivers, a mobile like app store, a mobile like DE and it can be that simple.
+1 bazzite as well. It comes with waydroid for android apps, its Linux (so WSL covered), it does have a gaming focus, it has various Virtualization tools (toolbox, box-buddy) but you can get other options depending on what you actually want.
Don't like it you can rebase to one of the other ostree based images from uBlue or fedora with about one command and a reboot.
Sorry to hear that. My 1080 works just fine and I use it daily, but that's using the legacy navidia drivers. I assumed the newer cards with the newer driver would be in a better state.
What card do you have?
I cheeted, I used my partners Win11 desktop, installed the XBox accessorys app, update completed in about 4 minutes.
I have had success with windows based firmware update tools using wine in the past; with a lot of troubleahooting. Her PC is 2 meters from me and it was done in 4 mintes.... Yes I feel dirty, but it's a one-off firmware update. Pick your battles.
I am Australian. Yes, "suggested apps" masquerading as installed apps. Most if them shitty micro transaction games and adobe software.
This is not preloaded software, I used to fresh install Windows on all my systems to get rid of that crud.
I always wondered why they draw black holes like they do in that the accretion looks like it's drawn in two planes. I would have thought it would have looked a bit more like a saturns rings?
Or is it exactly like saturns rings but we see the whole ring bent round the top because a black hole bends the light around so we can see it?
Or is it something else entirely that they are trying to depict here?
Very true. Just want to point out the message is irrelevant for this purpose.