LG pulls some of this BS too. When I tried it a few years ago, the LG app required always-on precise location permission to function at all. The smart features on my washer and refrigerator also require them to always be connected to the Internet but those features were more limited that what Jeff describes. I was willing to allow the appliances Internet access from an isolated subnet, but there is no way I’m going to allow LG access to all of my phone’s location data just so I can run their crappy, barely functional app.

In Mexico Bosch is even more customer hostile. My Bosch water heater had to be replaced because Bosch discontinued the repair parts needed to fix it. It’s only 3 years old.

In maga’s eyes, Trump has made just about all criminal and amoral activity just fine. They think it is perfectly fine to be a felon, rapist and pedophile, to steal from charities and small businesses, and to use taxpayer’s money to line their own pockets. Trump is now their gold standard.

Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, but just like everything with the GOP, if they’re accusing others of it it’s because they’re covering for their own behavior. Holding an evil, vile human being such as Trump up and expecting others to treat him and others like him as decent, honorable human beings is indeed deranged.

Coming up: It would be better if ‘Everybody got Polio’.

Next week Trump will be at the White House promoting the new Telsa Iron Lung.

Not the case. What’s happening here is Windows is removing the ext4 partition completely, expanding the ntfs partition and writing to all of it.

Windows update did that to my <1 year old laptop. I figured it had just wiped out grub, but when it was booted from a live-usb there was no ext4 partition there at all. This has been reported many times.

Microsoft should be sued for this shit. Legal protection from destroying people’s data that is not part of Windows or in a Windows partition, whether deliberately or by negligence, is not something that can be legitimately covered by a license agreement.