I was trying to fix my mom's computer by re-flashing the bios since her Lenovo Yoga 710-11isk laptop had been infected at the hardware level. However the update failed and now the device won't turn on at all.
I have already opened it and looked for the BIOS chip but the only one I could find lo...
No. Keeping the site fast (using CDNs with no cookies and long expiry times) for 99% of users far outweighs the importance of appeasing 1% of extremely persnickety users.
Graceful degradation only goes so far, and once you're at the point of appeasing people who don't want to run JavaScript code...
Well, I find it not very polite simply throwing some labels at user that are actually concerned about the overwhelming and omnipresent influence of some huge companies on our society - making billions in the process of extracting very deep and fine-grained profiles during simple "all-day-use".
It's a bit more in-depth than just being "persnickety" you know
Additional scripts also in general pose a potential additional security trade-off, so I try to keep them to an absolute minimum
I understand it's a very common and convenient practise in web development, to use 3rd-party frameworks like that.
But it comes at a price, which is being paid by the users, not the implementors.
Also, some of those libraries are packed with features, which are more in advantage of the said companies, above both implementors and users
So, basically, nobody at SO or SE cares, is that correct?
That's what I extract from the provided link above
Well, if my feedback input to SE hadn't been blocked be the very same Google scripts I mentioned, I could have used that channel, which was not possible
And I'm sure there's a plethora of nice dedicated chat groups for all kinds of stuff, but this was about missing general usability from my point of view, so I wouldn't know where to post it instead
Unless, there actually is a Tech Support chat
But obviously, the only choice I get for "Tech Support" here is this very same general chat room: https://chat.stackexchange.com/
Author is being hostile towards the community and has suggested once they get an answer they will simply delete their question: superuser.com/questions/1494924/…
I was trying to fix my mom's computer by re-flashing the bios since her Lenovo Yoga 710-11isk laptop had been infected at the hardware level. However the update failed and now the device won't turn on at all.
I have already opened it and looked for the BIOS chip but the only one I could find lo...
