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No, it's probably shit like Driver Signature Enforcement. I've been doing everything I can in order to keep my Vaio Z-Series able to avail itself of new drivers from Nvidia, but since Sony abandoned maintenance, and no one else will, the community of users that like the platform have gone through gargantuan efforts to try to get drivers working for it. Which Windows 7 now refuses to load, because they aren't blessed by Microsoft, who've officially discontinued support. Microsoft can go to hell in that regard. I didn't ask for them to backport their driver nanny onto my machine at the behest of the media industry. They broke my machine, not the other way around. I expect to be able to compute. Not be patted on the head and fed platitudes that "Oh, we can't let you do that. We have agreements to abide by which you were never considered to be a party to, yet nevertheless, will be subject to." If I have to learn to handcode UEFI assembly to un-f my machine, so be it. I could probably load Linux on it, or uninstall that update in particular, but to be frank, at this point, my quest to lobotomize Windows has become a project continued out of spite. I will not accept this kind of velvet gloved, law by corporate compact. Users deserve better. If other companies are so on their last leg they need to excise huge chunks of user agency to remain viable as businesses, that is not my concern. My machine, at a fundamental level, is mine. Not the OS vendors. We used to do what seemed like a beeter job at respecting that. Alas, those days are seemingly long gone or on the way out. |