Curious Pineapple

Different countries, different rules. They discovered the error years ago and gave me the option of paying up and keeping the service or leaving with no cost to myself. I had bills showing all payments were made which would throw any court claim out the window. It's completely different to an errornous bank transfer, in that situation there is proof that the transfer was unintentional.

If the device won't power on, no discount. That's known. If you simply return it, you get no discount. It has to be intentionally disabled. All I said was it needs to function as far as for them to remotely fucker it, the exact requirements for that we do not know. You are stating that they can do it with faulty hardware, and I was pointing out that it is possible for them to detect faults and refuse the offer. I've not directly claimed anything, but rather offered potential methods of detecting hardware faults and deeming the device inelligable.

Are you actually Ralph?

If it were such an issue then the OS wouldn't even install without a valid key, but it does. If it were such an issue then the OS wouldn't function without a valid key, but it does. If it were such an issue then the OS wouldn't install feature updates, but it does. If it were such an issue the Microsoft would have fixed these "oversights" but they don't. Just as I was contractually obligated to pay for a phone contract, but the provider failed to setup and take payments for 12 months whilst sending me monthly bills showing the previous one as paid. I had no obligation to pay up for them 12 months of usage as the service provider had made mistakes, not me.

The updater may check for the presence of the BT module, just as it may perform checks on the amplifier to ensure the product was manufactured properly. You have no clue what they do, or how they do it, for all you know if you make a warranty claim the device could run self tests remotely. A blown speaker will have different loading on the amplifier compared to a good one, that's easy to pick up. It may check the BT module and refuse to update if it's missing or damaged. Unless you have inside knowledge of the company and how it's products were engineered, you need to stop assuming that they can't do things.

Does anyone have ideas on how the hell to get hold of a DMG or installer app for High Sierra? Can't get hold of it on an actual Mac because reasons that only the great Apple can reveal and even in a High Sierra VM, I can't download the installer image through the store, it's Catalina or nothing.

If you download a dodgy version with no EULA then you are not bound by the terms of the EULA

Can you say that with 100% certanty? Did you personnaly oversee the system development?

EPS adaptors can work too, mine also caught fire..

It needs to function as far as them being able to remotely fucker it.

If it doesn't work, you get no discount....

You won't get that much power through SATA connectors. Even if you did the PSU is really not up to the job.

Power supply likely isn't going to be able to power that card.

If people didn't persistantly try to defend bad practice and design cockups then there would be no flaps to be seen. So far I have spent about 6 hours trying to get Catalina onto a USB drive for installation.

But it's fun waching Apple people get in a flap

I ended up having to use diskutil, it only picked up a 4.1MB FAT12 partition that doesn't exist. Worked fine in Windows though, oh the joys, forgot how much of a tit it can be at times.

I guess the chipset doesn't really give a damn as it only has one CPU connected to it. It's probably up to the BIOS/UEFI to enable the QPI link and sort out setting up the dual CPU configuration and reporting that to the OS.

I said for all you know, that's 2 assumptions you've made regarding my drives. By the way, I can boot any NVMe drive using Clover, just as I'll be using it to boot Catalina on a machine without UEFI.... I never said you can't play games on a Mac, I've used the frigging things for years, and I'm building a hackintosh now. I have Steam and games installed on my iMac.... I know that the Pro exists, you are missing my point that Apple like to lock down hardware only to restrict where you can buy it from. My Power Mac has a standard AGP connector, can I put an X700 in it? Can I balls. If you could give me some hints on how to get Disk Utility to simply format a USB drive I would appreciate it

Well yeh, if the product is fatally flawed and shouldn't be used then destroying it so it can't casue damage or danger is perfectly acceptable. If it's faulty and isn't worth the expendature of returning it, then asking the customer to boop it with a hammer is fine too. If you want to renew your phone contract and your network says no renewal discount unless you turn up to a store and snap it in half over a desk, where's the "environmentally friendly" thinking in that?

Cause they can, pretty much that.

Snap your phone in half and I'll give you a good deal on a new one. Of course, you need to prove that the phone works before snapping it. If it's broken then the offer is withdrawn.

What use does being able to use your phone through the car's inbuilt display serve? Or a built in WiFi hotspot, what use does that serve?

People still believe Indians from "New York" who need to access their bank accounts to get an Amazon refund for something that's not on their account because of "hackers". They're likely targetting the older people with half farked eye sight who won't notice the difference.

Doesn't make it any less stupid, like cars with pointless features that only serve to sell a new model to feature monkeys that choose quantity over quality.

What's all the bullshit with how many cameras a phone has?