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  1. Jim S.

    looks like GT Media has left the satellite receiver business

    Something's fishy. The old forum at GTMEDIA Forum - Index page states that their website is GTMEDIA Official | Imaging & Multimedia Products, and there are no FTA receivers there, just a satellite meter and an ATSC receiver (since when does China sell ATSC receivers?) and of course their other...
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    looks like GT Media has left the satellite receiver business

    Sometime in the past few weeks, all mention of receivers has been removed from not just their website, but the support forum too.
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    National Association of Broadcasters FCC Filing

    Someone needs to grow a pair, do their duty to the citizens of this country, and tell the sports industry where they can stick their entitlement complex. If I was in charge, I'd go nuclear -- I'd rule that anything that's a fair contest rather than scripted entertainment wasn't even...
  4. Jim S.

    Guide differences

    There is a fundamental difference: you weren't forced to upgrade then.
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    Discovery Turbo

    I thought the channel was going to shut down.
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    Comcast running fiber?

    They could just be adding more nodes. You can get a lot of data over coax, if you keep the runs short and the number of amplifiers to a minimum.
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    Tesla Pi Phone

    They use the word "rumors" a lot. Has anyone actually heard these rumors, and if so, are they from credible sources?
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    Guide differences

    The industry should be going the way the USERS want, not some arbitrary thing they imagined. This new guide, as I said before, is OBJECTIVELY stupid. Who wanted less lines on screen?
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    Yeah I knew it was their official position, but it used to be as simple as just not connecting to the internet until everything was set up. I'll probably just set up an account, I'm not interested in having a hacked-up Windows installation, I had enough trouble with that back when I was...
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    But a Microsoft account is now required for an official install, isn't it?
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    I thought that WSL was mainly for running servers, I didn't think it offered a GUI. I also thought that it was only available in Pro or whatever they call it, not Home. (I may be conflating this last point with whatever they call their virtual machine system -- or does WSL2 [I think not the...
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    I haven't upgraded to 11 yet, was thinking about doing it this weekend. I was assuming that there would be the option at upgrade time to encrypt or not. But as WhiteBeard said, maybe it won't even be available if Secure Boot isn't selected? (I'm assuming I can do the upgrade without turning...
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    I agree. Windows 11, however, also supposedly defaults to full-disk encryption. I'll never enable that, because how the hell are you supposed to recover your disk if it gets corrupted, plus it'll be incompatible with Linux. But just last week I saw someone in the Microsoft forum on the...
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    Windows 10/11 Download

    Since it's financial software, they're probably just swallowing the corporatist dogma that anyone not running the latest patches is inevitably going to get compromised. Of course they never defend their assertion logically. Most people are running behind some sort of NAT box, even if it...
  15. Jim S.

    two annoying "Post Thread" behaviors

    The first one has been going on for quite some time: even if I'm in a forum or subforum when clicking the Post Thread button, it asks me what forum I want to post in. Wouldn't it make more sense to assume I wanted to post in the forum I'm reading? The second one just happened tonight, and...
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