What Are You Doing Right Now
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So anyone who purchased a Remix Mini, if you do the recent update it will remove all google apps and the Play Store. If you want the Play Store back, you have to side load it and then reinstall all of your apps. If you skip this update, you won't get any more updates.
Trying to debate whether I want to update or not.
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Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..
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Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..
You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD
Why Lenovo? .. I mean besides "it was a good price"
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just ordered me a Lenovo Thinkpad P70 with 64GB of ram, 512GB SSD and a 1TB HDD
Why Lenovo? .. I mean besides "it was a good price"
They make good workstation computers.. Not sure why you assume the decision was made based on price.
Very few left in the mobile workstation market. Dell laptops suck anymore bad quality control. HP no longer has a good selection etc.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..
You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.
Yep.
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I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Scaling sucks on the NodeBB Internal images..
You mean the auto scaling for the avatars? Yes it does. It does not say it anywhere, but I found after testing that you need a square image for best results.
Yep.
Just discovered a new feature.
Clicking on a person's avatar no longer goes straight to their profile page.
Clicking on this
results in this
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and the big green button is to follow.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and the big green button is to follow.
And the Heart icon makes it slightly creepy.. ..
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
and the big green button is to follow.
And the Heart icon makes it slightly creepy.. ..
just a bit.
also, you can delete your follow on post in that other thread. I deleted my reply.
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Told a Buffalo LinkStation Duo to reset itself a few hours ago. That apparently also wipes the drives in some fashion. When I started, we had 1300 minutes (22 hours) to go.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Told a Buffalo LinkStation Duo to reset itself a few hours ago. That apparently also wipes the drives in some fashion. When I started, we had 1300 minutes (22 hours) to go.
I used to have a Terastation at home.. Yep reset doesn't just clear the config it wipes the drives I believe it does the 3 pass DOD short wipe, but I couldn't confirm.
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.
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@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.
It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.
It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed
It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/
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@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.
It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed
It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/
I don't know what that says but it did not load drivers it loaded some software and it can easily be disabled.. Most sources on these things over play them for click bait..
Everyone forgets the roll Microsoft played as well. There's a reason they are now dropping secure boot (because that's what allows WBPT)
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@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@johnhooks said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Jason said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I mean, why lenovo with their antics as of the past year.
I would never consider a Lenovo product again because of they way they've acted.
And Dell, HP, ASUS and others have had their fair share too.. Don't use the OEM image and your fine.
The one issue they had would still load their drivers even if you image. It was loaded from the BIOS. However, I still have one I use as a Linux workstation.
It wasn't loaded via the BIOS, sure if you used the drivers from Lenovo for your image you still get it but not if go direct to Intel nvidia etc. plus Windows 8/10 does pretty good at downloading straight from the vendors on its own. If you're referring to LSE that wasn't any maililcous code, just auto installers and it can be disabled/removed
It used WPBT to load the drivers from the BIOS.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/lenovo-rootkit-ensured-its-software-could-not-be-deleted/
I don't know what that says but it did not load drivers it loaded some software and it can easily be disabled.. Most sources on these things over play them for click bait..
Everyone forgets the roll Microsoft played as well. There's a reason they are now dropping secure boot (because that's what a
llows WBPT)I agree 100% that WBPT is terrible.
Here's a quote from Ars http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?p=29497693&sid=ddf3e32512932172454de515091db014#p29497693
Before booting windows 7 or 8, the bios checks if C:\Windows\system32\autochk.exe is the Lenovo one or the original Microsoft one. If it is not the lenovo one, it moves it to C:\Windows\system32\0409\zz_sec\autobin.exe, and then writes it's own autochk.exe. During boot, the Lenovo autochk.exe writes a LenovoUpdate.exe and a LenovoCheck.exe file to the system32 directory, and sets up a services to run one of them when an internet connection is established.
I was thinking I read at one point that it added a network driver for some reason, but maybe I'm mistaken (not superfish but different).
The only way to get rid of it at the time was by manually flashing the BIOS.
They've since put out an update that fixed it.
