Now concentrate this time Dougal
This 3D-printed Wagyu beef is small, but those out there are far away...
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If it works on older hardware it should install on older hardware without jumping through hoops. Perfectly good hardware is going to end up in landfill because Windows Update is going to badger people about Windows 10 reaching EOL but is not going to offer Windows 11 as an update.
Obviously the US and UK won't give two hoots about this, maybe the EU will.
They put a load of paste in to compensate for the fact that Apple's EFI is programmed to start up fans about four seconds before total meltdown, as if they believe the noise of fans in a laptop might somehow break the illusion of perfection. Also as Apple laptops are have practically nowhere to vent heat, the fans are pretty useless anyway.
Thermal management is instead done by CPU throttling which is terrible for performance.
After following a couple of iFixit's guides I've come to the conclusion you're supposed to video everything you did and play it back backwards to see how to put it back together again, and you'll also hear a message from Satan Himself.
Why would they need to even put it to a vote, every platform has its own thoroughly-researched UI style guidelines book that leaves no room for doubt, right? Just like it did 20-30 years ago.
P.S. Those who entertain the thought of not labelling the colour buttons should be forced to fix Windows 11 bugs for the next two years.
She's obviously not ineffective enough:
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also announced on Thursday that John Edwards, New Zealand’s privacy commissioner, would succeed Elizabeth Denham as head of the Information Commissioner’s Office. It added that the role would probably be expanded “to encourage the responsible use of data to achieve economic and social goals”.
The "EU drivers paid per km" thing is an urban legend:
FACT CHECK: Are Eastern European truck drivers paid per km driven?
According to point 7, in 20 reasons why there is shortage of drivers in the UK, it's a real exchange and it must be done if you're a resident for five years in the UK or by your 45th birthday. Until then, when you're driving on your EU licence, there's no way you can prove your points to employers even though it's in the DVLA's records.
The EU is also facing an urgent driver shortage because our previously significant contribution is no longer available.
Ah, but then again, 50,000-odd* drivers from EU who came to the UK now don't, they stick within the Single Market on other routes. That itself has gone some way to alleviating the driver shortage within the EU.
* To pick one of the numbers I've seen thrown about.
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EU drivers delivering to the UK have vastly reduced cabotage rights on the return trip to make it worthwhile, so they don't come.
No EU driver will come to live and work in the UK either because pay is low, they have to navigate the Home Office visa nonsense, and they have to exchange their driver's licence for a UK one which means it's not valid for work in the EU. Why do that when EU countries are solving the low-pay problem already?
The government raised the number of hours worked per week for UK drivers giving them a de facto pay cut, unless the driver were to change over to another company with a signing on bonus. But it's not all about the money, perhaps drivers would like more of a work-life balance or to not kill someone due to falling asleep at the wheel.
As it takes time to train people and as being a HGV driver isn't particularly enjoyable, this isn't going to get fixed in the short term.
I wouldn't make any plans which depend on running Linux on an M1 Mac as Apple can just push an update which makes life more difficult than it is now or even impossible. If they wanted you to run Linux then things would be easier than they are now. Why not just support an ARM computer manufacturer who wants you as a customer?
"unlike iOS devices, Apple does not intend to lock down what OS you can use on Macs."
They already did, the bootloader will only boot partitions which look like MacOS installations.
In order for an OS to be bootable on Apple Silicon machines, it has to “look” like a real macOS installation. This means it has to be an APFS container with multiple volumes within it, containing specific directory structures and files. Until now, the simplest way of doing this was to actually install macOS a second time in a separate partition, and then replace its kernel with m1n1. This is, needless to say, a major pain in the ass, as the installation process is fairly slow. It also wastes around 70GB of disk space, which is how much you need for an upgradable macOS install. It also makes it difficult to install a specific macOS version, which is going to become a problem once we start requiring the usage of specific firmware bundles. This clearly won’t cut it for anything beyond early development.
It's not just photos, it also checks Siri and web searches and could probably be expanded to include other file types.
And what's to stop Apple running different country-by-country on-device checks depending on how they're leant on?
As the blog in the first post argues, it's probably why they're doing this in the first place, because they have a CSAM problem and were told by the US government to sort it out. Well, now they have a tool which can be turned into a Swiss Army knife should any country require it.
And all of that for IE3 which at that stage it was pretty much a port of Spyglass Mosaic with a different theme. If you're going to screw up your private life over something, it might as well be a new non-polluting energy source which saves humanity, not porting a bloody browser.
Guys like Lennart Poettering who try to standardise things get shat on instead of rightfully receiving the praise they deserve for significantly improving the base system.
LSB is standardising the base system. Poettering is not improving the base system, he's reinventing the wheel, making things more difficult to configure by using proprietary binary formats (not what you want when a system is half-hosed), and introducing new bugs and exploits while doing it.
In another story on the front page there's a story about toxicity in the Perl community.
I'm rather of the opinion that the human brain is unable to cope with social media instead of toxicity or stupidity in this community or that community, because it seems there's problems with practically any community you could name.
Google argue that apps could scan nearby Bluetooth MAC addresses and work out your location so the app must have the location permission in is manifest and you must turn on location on the phone to show you agree to this hypothetical piece of nonsense happening... and also by the strangest of coincidences you also offer up your location to every other app on your phone which wants it and Google themselves.
Chome's market share has come about because of Google's incessant marketing for more than a decade. Pushed on desktop with installers. Pushed on the search website. Pushed on YouTube by using Chrome's own standards that don't work with other non-Blink browsers. Pushed by sync. Default on Android which badgers you if you don't get a Google account. Default on school Chromebooks. And so on and so fourth. The miracle is Firefox's market share has held up so well.
From the quote you highlighted:
"With many businesses struggling it is unsurprising that they will be looking for ways to cut costs."
A huge rented office building which has to be maintained just so everyone can go there every morning and go back home every night must be known an investment, then.
The problem is Windows 3.1 was (mostly) 16-bit and only 32-bit versions of Windows have the Windows-on-Windows layer to run 16-bit software. 64-bit Windows only has a WoW layer for 32-bit software and Windows 10 is now only sold/supplied/whatever it is as 64-bit only.
Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around
I'm spinning around, move out of my way
I know you're feeling me 'cause you like it like this
I'm breaking it down, I'm not the same
I know you're feeling me 'cause you like it like this
Vic Reeves & The Wonder Stuff - Dizzy
Dizzy!
I'm so dizzy, my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool, it never ends