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The image quote in Italian "Insert your data to access the Menu. Phone"
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Sonic's complaint form has the "go back" and "submit" buttons reversed from typical so people accidentally delete their complaint and have to decide whether to fill the form out again or just forget it.
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Image caption: A Dell Optiplex "ultra small form factor" PC motherboard. In a red circle are contact pads clearly designed for an M.2 SSD slot, with the words "M.2 SLOT" below it, but no slot is soldered.
Couple things to consider:
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Intel Core CPUs natively support m.2 as it's just PCI Express with a different physical connector. There's no need to add an "M.2 controller chip" like you need for SATA, you can wire the traces directly into either the CPU socket or the chipset.
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The traces are already there. That's why the board has pads for an M.2 slot in the first place!
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The slot itself is like two cents, and these boards are assembled by a pick and place robot so there's next to no labour involved either. This isn't like "oh well you didn't buy granite counters in your mansion and now you need to rip up the whole kitchen to add them".
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They had to deliberately make two different versions of this board, one with an M.2 slot and one without. Just to fuck over the people who didn't buy an M.2 SSD from them.
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It's infamously difficult to solder a surface mount component on by hand and you risk damaging other components and completely breaking the board, this isn't like the Commodore 64 days where you could grab a handheld soldering iron and replace a chip or a add mod wire relatively easily, so the barrier is so high that yes, for most people, they can never add an M.2 SSD. Having a professional reflow in the component would be prohibitively expensive, much more than just buying the M.2 option from Dell in the first place.
BTW: The slot further up the board is for the network card. The chassis doesn't have enough space to mount a standard SSD, and it's also the wrong "key" for an SSD which will prevent you from plugging an SSD into it. https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6c2fd1d1-04eb-4765-8c5d-35a1fc9279c9.jpeg
Source: I own one of these machines, I've tried putting an SSD into it.
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More info:
Before anyone says "oh well maybe there's a genuine technical reason", it didn't have this restriction for years, and then suddenly started doing this. Also, the app communicates to Fido servers via an online API, and you're logged in to your account, whether you're on one kind of network or the other should be irrelevant because everything should be happening server side anyway.
Also, it's not just "you can't be connected to Wi-Fi", it's you can't have Wi-Fi enabled period. Even when you're not connected to a network and it's already directly connected to data, it doesn't work.
Also also, if you run of regular data but still have unlimited sessions left, you can't actually use them without first buying a data add-on, since you can't start your session on Wi-Fi and then switch to data.
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Like I actually can't think of a reason for this. In fact, why even have those buttons in the first place?
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This was in the Onedrive web client.
Assuming the worst of Microsoft (which I think is reasonable), here's my theory: They want you to install the app rather than use the web client, that way they have more access to your phone or computer. This was also seen in Firefox and I haven't bothered trying it on Chromium, so it could potentially also be similar to the "anti-Firefox" tactics that Google likes to use (maybe Microsoft too since their new Edge browser uses Chromium).
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I suspect it's also as privacy invading as Google's captcha.
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