> the other you have to buy a completely new device.

You can sell the old Macbook and recoup a lot of the original investment.

Don't most LCD screens have localised dimming of the backlight these days?

Not laptops. Local dimming zones look awful when you have a white cursor moving around, so it's mostly still just a TV-feature

Looking awful has not prevented local dimming from becoming quite common on laptops. Apple has been doing an okay job of it in the MacBook Pro for several years. Lots of Windows laptops have been very hit-or-miss about it, but at least with those you often have an OLED option. I've seen multiple Windows laptops from more than one OEM where opening a terminal window with light text on a dark background means you can easily spot a single line of text getting much dimmer toward the center of the dark window, and lighter near the perimeter where it's close to other light content. And that's for static content; as you mentioned motion can bring more problems as the backlight lags behind the LCD.

I wish they booted them up in that video. Its one thing being able to plug parts in but its another for them to all work together.

Based on my experience upgrading my FW. There's probably drivers and bios updates needed to do the transfer

Back in 2002 I took the HDD from one PC, put it in a different PC, worked just fine. The worst thing that could happen is that the other one already had another disk so I had to change /etc/fstab to say "hdb" instead of "hda" and vice versa. Didn't take long for that to get fixed by specifying UUIDs and having initramfs sort it out.

IDK why it's not working for you but this should all just work without bothering with any configuration, drivers, or whatever.

How is buying a midrange phone new a scam? Just because a second hand premium one is better value (assuming you don't place any value on being brand new). You buy it knowing full well that it isn't a premium device but most people don't need a premium device.

Are non-premium new cars a scam too?

How is it not a scam?

It is clear what you are buying

Live in a country like Ukraine where everyone uses Telegram

s/bots/undesirables/

…at the end stage.

I expect a lot of people who run adblockers on mobile, also configure their DNS or use a VPN to block ads. On Android, you can't even get an adblocker on Chrome, which is the browser most users and using.

I recently did an install of Windows 11 on a machine without TPM

To bypass the check during installation:

    Boot the laptop from your USB.

    When you see the "This PC can't run Windows 11" screen, press Shift + F10 to open a command prompt.

    Type regedit and hit Enter.

    Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Setup.

    Right-click Setup, create a new Key named LabConfig.

    Inside LabConfig, create two DWORD (32-bit) values:

        BypassTPMCheck = 1

        BypassSecureBootCheck = 1

    Close the registry and the command prompt; the installer will now let you proceed.

It's a never-ending cat-and-mouse game, and unsupported hacks like these usually aren't well-received in corporate environments. Decent stop-gap for home use, though!

Maybe the agent can ask the user clarifying questions. Even better if it could do it at the point of submission.

Blocking the domain of the video player works. For example, primis.tech you can add this to your uBO filter:

  ||primis.tech$domain=~primis.tech

Primis is one of them, but there are a few of these companies. I can't remember them all.