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Super lazy on HP to design such protection to be dependent on the OS. A good realtime priority set of threads could probably keep it running hot for longer by blocking the protection program.
That protection should be part of the system firmware.
It used to be part of the CPU itself. Intels would throttle themselves down when reaching critical temperatures. Is that no longer the case?
It's there on AMD cpus, it'll shut down the cpu if you forgot your heatsink for some reason even on the AM5 cpus.
Well remember when they were making those really cheap inkjets that would only work with windows. And some companies made “win-modems” that were super cheap because they didn’t have a certain chip and instead used a windows driver.
I’m not completely positive what the incentives were on their parts, but I had thought this was history already. Seems Microsoft has to resort to this kind of shady deal to stay relevant, since their OS is a pile of toxic waste and many people are going completely microshaft free.
Also, although I have a fondness for some legacy HP products that are really nice, I would absolutely never buy a new product from them ever. I haven’t since the early 2000s.
Yeah this is awful. It will probably stop working when Microsoft releases whatever they call the next version of Windows like 8 months from now.