> We were able to watch some of the movements to Venezuela and Iran in advance of hostilities.

These were deliberately visible to show that the US is not messing around this time. A mass evacuation would never advertise in ads-b. But perhaps you could see a drop in activity as hidden planes get priority on the runway?

It does remove money from local economies. The drawdown of the British hurt my regional economy quite a bit.

That makes sense. It's like packing up a very small city of US influence abroad, just more embarrassing self-destructive petulance from Trump. He probably wants a headline that looks like he's hitting back more than anything.

Perhaps, but consider the existence of the AMD Vega GPU line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_RX_Vega_series

Yes if someone steals your laptop at the same moment Microsoft bans you you're done. What's the likelyhood of that happening?

done here meaning you've lost your data which uhhh, is currently on a drive in the hands of thieves, so what did you lose again?

I think you are confused.

The issue is about getting locked out of your own data, which can easily happen in a number of cases.

And you don't necessarily need to actually have your account banned.

Let's just say you signed up for a Microsoft account when setting up for a new PC (well, because you have to). You don't use that account anywhere else, and you forgot the password, even though you can log in via PIN or something else. Now you install Linux or just boot to a different system once. When you need to boot to Windows again, good luck.

And that's just one of the cases.

A real disaster happened to someone, although on a different platform, and the context is a bit different: https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

Is that last part even still true? When I played around with it they asked me to store a recovery pass phrase off device in case windows hello breaks

> I wonder if the largest software company on the planet (with an operating system in practically every home) can help with making that better. Seems like Apple can, weird.

If you're talking about time machine, windows has had options built in since NT.

If this is the case; then it leans even more into my point.

Let's be serious for a second and consider what's more useful based on the likelihood of these things actually happening.

You're saying it's likely to happen that a laptop thief also is capable to stealing the recovery key from Microsoft'servers?

So therefore it would be better that users lost all their data if - an update bungles the tpm trust - their laptop dies and they extract the hard drive - they try to install another OS alongside but fuck up the tpm trust along the way - they have to replace a Mainboard - they want to upgrade their pc ?

I know for a fact which has happened to me more often.

You've listed five scenarios where local recovery would help and concluded that cloud escrow is therefore necessary. The thing is every single one of those scenarios is solved by a local backup of your recovery key, not by uploading it to Microsoft's servers.

The question isn't "cloud escrow vs nothing". It's "cloud escrow vs local backup". One protects you from hardware failure. The other protects you from hardware failure whilst also making you vulnerable to data breaches, government requests, and corporate policy changes you have zero control over.

You've solved a technical problem by creating a political one. Great.

You'd have to be quite daft not to. The Bitlocker lock out screen has a qr code and a link telling you to go fetch your recovery key.

The newer amd and Intel systems are also copilot certified. After getting a new laptop last month I can say that it doesn't hurt and has some nice advantages. If you just ignore the stupid names. The NPU means your images can now get indexed by content without ruining your battery life for example, same thing with recall. Without certain hardware requirements there's no way these things could run on device.

Now MS just needs to keep working and refining these features that don't sell copilot subscriptions...

They mean the premium subscription, not channel subscriptions.

You don’t get ads with the premium subscription. Have I misunderstood the intent of this correction?

You don't get ads on YouTube with a premium sub, your activity data (views, for how long, what topics, what times of the year, of the day, so on and so forth) is still collected, and appended to your profile, the same profile that is used by AdSense to show you ads around the rest of the web.

They also own the ad slots everywhere else.