Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.
What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?
The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don't know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.
Holy shit, formal disclosure of potentially ongoing incidents within four days? With unclear and complicated specific disclosure requirements spread across multiple legalese government documents?
My knee-jerk was "duh, of course they don't want to disclose", but there's some legitimate reason for pushback here.
Yep, basic opsec (which I'm totally not following on this account). Mix up your slang and phrasing, fake personal details, and rotate accounts to avoid any singilar one building up too much info on it.
I've been running the same heavily customized Windows box for half a decade now. Like "tore critical system components I don't need out from the install media" level of customized. A good chunk of the "modify windows for privacy" tools shit the bed because parts of what they want to flip switches on for better privacy simply aren't there on my install.
No issues with updates, nothing bricked or fucked up even with me definitively using it not as intended.
The more I progress in my tech career (roughly a decade in now) the more blatant it becomes that the overwhelming majority of issues people have with computers (especially in the modern era) are self inflicted. This is common across all OSes and Distros.
There's a WMI query that appears to simply be a way to list all installed software that actually attempts to silently run the reinstall/repair command on every one of them.
If it still works like it did in the original, putting some sliders up will move others back, but it isn't equal, so you can ping pong between the sliders that are meant to be mutually exclusive and get both to levels that they shouldn't be able to get to simultaneously.
Edit: Also, the sims with slider unlockers gets even worse than Oblivion, as the game will use the unlocked/modded sliders when it generates random townies. I love my town of goblins with half inside out faces.
It would help to know what in particular you were trying to post and where (including instance for the more generic communities like music).
Nine times out of ten when someone posts a complaint this vague it's because they know it wouldn't be received well if they were direct about it, so you're already starting off at a disadvantage here unless you edit that info into your main post.
Lastly, if you want to just post with very few rules or mods to hold you back, there's a whole massive network of imageboards for you. 4chan is back up, it didn't die from the hack a few months ago (for better or worse).
Great old ones can be very friendly. I always understood them as having motivations largely beyond human understanding.
"INSTRUMENT OF MY WILL, YOU MUST SWITCH THE HEALING POTION ON THE SHELF WITH A POISON."
Like a week later the governor's butler gets injured, dies from poison instead of being healed, the store closes and the owner is arrested, the stock goes on clearance sending ripples through the potion economy, and the new butler influences the governor's choices through subtle changes around the mansion.
Actual end result goal: Topiary in the mansion garden gets cut in such a way that it slowly dies, serving as a false portent to some other cult.
The rest is just setting up other potential threads that could be pulled by the old one.
"GO STARTLE THAT BIRD"
"BUY A BOQUET OF TULIPS FROM THE FLORIST"
"PET THE DOG"
Just small, subtle pushes to events, at leaat until things reach "endgame". Shift a few pieces of reality and cause and effect here and there, as everything aligns. Not worth rushing things when you don't necessarily experience time in a linear fashion.
Both with my daughter, but never going quite as far as swinging her around by one limb. Just flopping her over my shoulder like she's a sack of potatoes, then holding her ankles and dangling her upside down against my back. She loves it, and will actively try to climb up my chest when I'm sitting to flop over my shoulder herself sometimes.
This is just "android sticks allow sideloading apps". Nothing Amazon specific to any of this.