I wonder if Microsoft will shift direction back to consumer friendlier practices if more people keep swapping

If Microsoft needs to now compete, I’d like to see them get competitive. But it’s been like 30+ years since they needed to actually compete, and I’m not sure they remember how.

It’s weird how supply chains work, and how design changes are at the very start of a very long process that makes changing the design now a very costly, risky thing.

Um, oh fuck no.

The reams of personally-identifiable information that will leak is insane.

We’re not allowed to have Siri and Alexa listening when we’re working, lest a stray word on a phone call from the home office risks a privacy breach.

Woo! The common wealth of Intel.

Honest opinion for developers; use Qt’s QML, ts highly portable, it can run in any Linux mobile base (Ubuntu Touch, SailfishOS, and KDE use it as the UI library), best example is Amazfish, and Quickddit, you can also use any language you want, although if you want to be minimal, QML allows in-file JavaScript, but there are plenty of bindings for Qt.

Dude. Breathe. When you don’t write pauses - periods - into what you’re saying, all that comma splice can sound like the kid talking about his favourite kind of dinosaur.

Otherwise, an excellent opinion.

PCLinuxOS.

As a valid, working, systemd-free, SLSA-4-capable distro, it’s an important example of diversity and security.

I mean, maybe the baby didn’t understand the movement, so --yeet!–

Skippy is trying to save the world, you know.

If you still use microslop, you are part of the problem.

Me getting paid - and therefore eating and paying rent - requires me to use the mandated OS on the company-provided gear. It’s a great job, it has a great union retirement package that won’t leave me destitute like my folks and anyone else who went through abject poverty, and in all I accept that trade-off while working to modernize us out of M$. So maybe moderate that crusade a bit before you enter the workforce?

background services sucking up all the ram.

I love how the (mandated) Teams running on the (mandated) win11 work laptop is gobbling A GIGABYTE AND A HALF OF RAM all by itself. What the actual flapping fuck is that?

show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section

Actually, that’s fn brilliant.

The architect [that] designed Glen Frey’s mansion needs to terminate the copyright and take back ownership.

Taking back the rights doesn’t take back the units.

The arch who designed Glen Frey’s house can take back the rights to the plans, but can’t take the house itself – no more than Nickelback can demand the return of all 20 CDs sold in their lifetime even if they own the creative rights to the music on them.

The architect, though, can re-use those plans if Rick Astley wanted the identical mansion.

Knew he was a dipshit the moment he spelled “in fact” without a space.

OP’s post does not indicate that they’re violating the principle of least privilege in any way.

If I wasn’t sure whether that was a risk, I would have asked whether that’s what was going on. Oh, wait: I did, right? I used a question mark and everything.

• flatpak packages.

Yay, Gramps! I got you a supply-chain exploit! Wheee!

I’m have to get lost there so I can revive it again eventually!

Cross-posted to aneurism posting? Quick! RAISE BOTH ARMS!

is a massive ask.

No, it’s not. It’s a massive request. When you punch out and leave the car lot, be sure to use regular English.

“Oh no the Ai assholes outbid the state gov and we had to put our health and courts data on bluehost and it died in a fire and now manson is gonna go free” is how that goes.

Make sure in your planning to require state and muni govs to build and run their own DCs or we’re in for a crunch. Their habitual outsourcing is gonna suck soon.

This post only includes energy consumption because i’m too lazy to look up water consumption.

Water consumption varies based on how they’re built. Regular ones are air-cooled but that’s slightly more expensive and hits electrics a bit harder.

That’s “slightly more power and cost” vs “drinking all our water” is a hard call for some, even in Arizona.

That’s an excellent point and a worthy topic of discussion. But it’s a little extraneous to this one, and can come off as some whataboutism if discussed here. Keep that thought, and let’s talk about it if we can get a template from this that can then be applied to them.

I don’t want a single fucking dime going to the IRGC.

This isn’t a pay-out: it’s reparations for wanton destruction via sloppy bombing.

1. Keep in mind it’s not a dime they’re getting, but a dime they’re getting back.
2. Regardless of how we feel about the regime, the just decision is reparations (and a war crime tribunal) since this is about who we are and not about whom they are. Unfortunately, human rights is the baseline for interaction that extends to terrible people just like good people because they’re people.